CMC Prairie Region

WNMF 2019: Bramwell Tovey conducts John Adams
2019-01-26 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Edmonton) | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1C3, Canada
Winnipeg New Music Festival 2019: Saturday subscribers take in the opening night of the festival with Bramwell Tovey conducting John Adams’ Harmonielehre – the work that first opened the festival in 1991.

SSO 18/19: Ravel Piano Concerto
2019-01-26 19:30 - 21:30 | TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre, 35 – 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 0C8, Canada
A concert that plans to jazz up your January: Milhaud’s jazz-infused take on the creation of the world is a perfect pairing for Ravel’s incredible piano concerto. Regina Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Gordon Gerrard makes his SSO debut.
Saskatoon’s own Godwin Friesen returns to the SSO as winner of the Shurniak Concerto Competition. His playing is laced with energy and precision that will bring the Ravel to life.
The evening is rounded out by two Canadian pieces, Glenn Buhr’s Winter Poems and Malcolm Forsyth’s Atayoskewin.

ESO 18/19: Ravel, Shostakovich & Stravinsky
2019-01-12 20:00 - 22:00, 2019-01-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square NW, Edmonton, AB, T5J 4X8, Canada
A tribute to a pair of WWI veterans and a experimentation with neo-baroque techniques are sure to make this an unforgettable performance. The ESO moves perfectly from reverence to mischief in this outstanding musical display.

SSO 18/19: Merry Christmas, Stephen Leacock
2018-11-24 19:30 - 21:30, 2018-11-23 19:30 - 21:30 | TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre, 35 – 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 0C8, Canada
Chamber opera by Neil Wiesensel
A co-production with Saskatoon Opera
Known for his gentle satire on small town life, Stephen Leacock wrote the short story “Merry Christmas” as his own cry against the horrors of World War I and the inescapable robbing of innocence that war brings. Leacock is visited by two spirits over the course of one night. These otherworldly visitations will lead to a transformation including one that empowers the author to use his writing as a tool for peace.
This collaboration marks the first official co-production of the SSO and Saskatoon Opera.

SSO 18/19: We Will Remember
2018-11-10 19:30 - 21:30 | TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre, 35 – 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 0C8, Canada
To mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the SSO is exploring the music of solider composers and two great works written in response to the war.
Each movement of Ravel’s timless Le tombeau de Couperin is dedicated to a friend he lost in war, many of whom were friends and collaborators before the war began. Canadian John Burge captures the enduring poetry of Dr. John McCrae’s In Flanders Field in a moving piece for string orchestra.
Renowned cellist Stéphane Tétreault makes his first Saskatchewan performance with Elgar’s passionate Cello Concerto. The piece has become somewhat of a calling card for the young Quebec cellist who’s won acclaim for his performances of it around the globe.

ESO 18/19: Beethoven's First Piano Concerto
2018-11-03 20:00 | Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square NW, Edmonton, AB, T5J 4X8, Canada
Beethoven’s career-making concerto is matched by Vaughan Williams’ unconventional, yet beautiful elegy to the dead of The Great War. Hatzis’ evocative work was inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

ESO 18/19: Mozart & Bruckner
2018-09-29 20:00 - 22:00, 2018-09-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square NW, Edmonton, AB, T5J 4X8, Canada
Mozart’s final concerto, Bruckner’s final symphony—works inspired by the unexpected and the divine. James Campbell, our clarinet soloist is from Leduc—a dear friend of the ESO.

CPO 18/19: Worlds Collide
2018-09-29 19:30 - 21:30, 2018-09-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Jack Singer Concert Hall, 205 8 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 0K9, Canada
Proclaimed the “Father of Symphonies,” Joseph Haydn changed the course of history with his mastery of orchestral writing — power, drama, and élan which we hear in this, his final symphony. It pairs evocatively with JUNO nominated composers Larysa Kuzmenko’s Behold the Night and Vincent Ho’s highly anticipated The Sandman’s Domain: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra — two enchanting works that journey into the realm of magic!

SSO 18/19: Rachmaninoff Romance
2018-09-22 19:30 - 21:30 | TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre, 35 – 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 0C8, Canada
SSO opens its 2018/2019 season with two of the greatest pieces of music ever written! At the tender age of 19, Tony Yike Yang has already garnered himself an international reputation for being one of the next great piano virtuosos. A Laureate of the International Chopin Competition, Yang brings his technical prowess and innate sense of romanticism to Rachmaninoff’s incredible second Piano Concerto. His sunniest symphony of all, Brahms’ lovable 2nd Symphony is a true masterpiece and the continuation of our Brahms Cycle.
Canadian Dinuk Wijeratne’s musical explosion Yatre opens the season with an explosion of orchestral colour!

SSO 18/19: Forecasting the Canadian Wind
2018-09-15 20:00 - 22:00, 2018-09-14 20:00 - 22:00 | TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre, 35 – 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 0C8, Canada
Our Canada: Forecasting the Canadian Wind spans the nation and beyond in the creation and presentation of new works by five Canadian composers in collaboration with five Canadian wind quintets who are partnered with five international wind quintets, thereby initiating a worldwide network of wind chamber musicians to push the boundaries of the repertoire for this ensemble of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn.
Five Canadian wind quintets are each paired with a composer—Fifth Wind (Halifax, NS) with Emily Doolittle (Nova Scotia/Scotland); Choros (Montreal, QC) with Carmen Braden (Northwest Territories); Blythwood Winds (Toronto, ON) with Daniel Janke (Yukon Territory); Mistral 5 (Saskatoon, SK) with Cris Derksen (Northern Alberta/Ontario); and Ventos (Vancouver, BC) with Cameron Wilson (Vancouver, BC)—in this innovative pan-Canadian project.
The compositions are being developed over the course of seven months, November 2017 to May 2018. The development process includes simultaneous week-long workshops, each quintet with their composer. The quintets will document the workshops in order to share them with one another, allowing all five quintets access to the five composers, saving both time and costs in a true cross-Canada collaboration. The five quintets then have five months to rehearse all five new compositions.
