PROGRAM In the month of International Women’s Day, we present a concert to celebrate women musicians. Programmed by Calgary’s prominent flutists, the afternoon concert will feature Canadian and American female composers who have shaped and enriched the contemporary music landscape: Jean Coultard, Catherine McMichael, Rachel Laurin, Colleen Athparia, and Amanda Harberg. The program will also [...]
Quiet, Slow, Boring: a farcical title for a show full of excitement, new commissions and beloved repertoire. Mark Limacher’s new composition ‘Some Kind of Variations’ will be premiered along with the Chinese Ensemble Gai Lan performing a new work by Roydon Tse. Balancing out the show will be the delightful Octet by Medelssohn, a peak [...]
New Romantics is a string nonet concert celebrating the love each of us has for treasured places or experiences, a love that burns as brightly in our memories as the connections we feel to the people who have shaped us. We are honoured to be premiering Lai's "Unsung Legacy," a concerto for Chinese flute and [...]