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Esprit Orchestra, Toronto’s new music specialists, has introduced the small print of the ensemble’s forty first live performance season. 5 live shows will happen between October 2023 and April 2024 at Koerner Corridor.
Founding Music Director and Conductor Alex Pauk, C.M. has curated a season of Canadian and North American premieres, programming that includes a nod to iconic composers together with a brand new co-commissioned work.
Right here’s a have a look at the small print.
October 15: X Marks The Spot
This imaginative programme takes a sonic journey via the universe, starting with the ocean depths.
- Anna Meredith‘s Nautilus was impressed by a stroll alongside a Scottish seaside. As an digital piece, it was typically utilized in movie and TV soundtracks in chaotic scenes. Esprit presents the Canadian premiere of a brand new orchestral association.
- R. Murray Schafter’s Dream Rainbow Dream Thunder was one of many first items recorded by Esprit Orchestra.
- György Ligeti’s Atmosphères was utilized in 2001: A Area Odyssey in scenes depicting the darkness of area.
- Two works by Iannis Xenakis will probably be carried out, Pour les Baleines (For the Whales), a protest of the remedy of whales for string orchestra, and Jonchaies (the place the place rushes develop), composed for 109 musicians.
November 30: Circle Maps
The centrepiece of the programme is the Canadian Premiere of Circle Map within the reminiscence of the late composer Kaija Saariaho. The work for big orchestra and electronics relies on a setting of a textual content by the Persian poet Rumi.
- Slovenian composer Vito Žuraj’s In Api-danza macabra (Macabre Bee Dance of Dying) riffs on the vitality of the enduring Flight of the Bumblebee, however with a contemporary edge that acknowledges looming bee extinction.
- Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s Millefleur creates a sonic backyard of musical flowers.
- Concerto for Harp and Orchestra was composed for harpist Erica Goodman by Esprit Music Director Alex Pauk to showcase Goodman’s virtuosity.
- Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s Postludium will probably be carried out by pianist Kevin Ahfat in his debut look with Esprit.
January 24: 三/ THREE
The North American premiere of a brand new work by Unsuk Chin, co-commissioned by Esprit Orchestra together with Bayerische Staatsorchester (DE), Orchestre de Paris (FR), Sao Paulo State Symphony (BR), and Tongyeong Pageant (KR), is a spotlight of the programme.
- Unsuk Chin’s Operascope is a brand new work for orchestra that attracts on the historical past of opera from Verdi to Berg. Esprit has carried out and premiered lots of Chin’s work over its historical past.
- Vancouver-based Rita Ueda was the winner of the 2022 Azrieli Music Prize Fee for New Canadian Music. Her piece Birds Calling…From the Canada in You, for shō, sheng/suona and orchestra surrounds the viewers in Canadian hen calls, Chinese language and Japanese solo devices. Naomi Sato performs the Shō, and Zhongxi Wu will play Sheng/Suona.
- Misato Mochizuki’s Nigredo is knowledgeable by Jungian psychology, and impressed by Robert Schumann — each his greatness and psychological decline.
March 28: VIOLINISSIMO II
This live performance is a reprise of the favored programme from final season celebrating the violin concerto.
- Violinist Aaron Schwebel performs Max Richter’s Recomposed 4 Seasons in its entirety.
- Violinist Mark Fewer performs the virtuosic Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by György Ligeti, that includes unconventional tuning, ocarinas, slide whistles and recorders.
- Toronto-based Wesley Shen performs György Ligeti’s Continuum, a bit the composer wrote for solo harpsichord in 1968.
April 25: Sonic Universe
The season finale focuses on two main works from iconic composers, every based mostly in activate the music of earlier composers.
- Mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabo reprises the function of Clara Schumann in R. Murray Schafer’s monodrama, Adieu Robert Schumann. The composer’s ultimate days spring to mind via snippets from Clara’s diaries and fragments of his works, together with Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön, written on the time of his earliest hallucinations.
- American composer John Adams’ Harmonielehre is called after Arnold Schoenberg’s guide on musical concord. Adam’s postmodern take attracts from late romanticism and impressionism in creating a brand new sound.
Tickets for the 2023/24 season are go on sale September 5 [HERE].
*Be aware: This text has been amended so as to add the date when tickets go on sale.
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