Manitoba Live Music Event

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Get your eclectic on

Guest con­ductor Judith Yan will have her hands full with Michael Nyby (bari­tone), Xiao-Nan Wang (Chinese fl ute) and the var­ied rep­er­toire for this excit­ing con­cert of mostly new music.

Win­nipeg­gers first: com­poser Jim His­cott penned the refl ect­ive Far Heav­ens with musical col­lab­or­ator Xiao-Nan Wang in mind (afi­cion­ados will remem­ber our 2009 per­form­ance of Xiao-Nan Wang’s Camel Train in the Desert, arranged then by Hiscott.

Then there’s Five ener­a­tions — one house, a piece which com­poser Julian Grant was inspired to write after receiv­ing a gift of a but­ter­fly harp (yangqin) while liv­ing in Beijing. The yangqin led to a guzheng, then a piano led to the strings, which is where we come in!

An oper­atic ele­ment is intro­duced when bari­tone Michael Nyby sings 200 Dreams from Cap­tiv­ity, com­posed by Amer­ican com­poser Scott Wheeler. Wheeler, based in Boston, spe­cial­izes in vocal
and dra­matic music.

Judith Yan can handle eclectic

Judith Yan is cur­rently the Artistic Dir­ector of Guelph Sym­phony Orches­tra and the Music Dir­ector and Prin­cipal Con­ductor of Opera on the Avalon. She has been a staff con­ductor for the San Fran­cisco Opera, the Cana­dian Opera Com­pany and the National Ballet.

“The evening’s prin­cipal hero was con­ductor Judith Yan, who led this daunt­ing score with aston­ish­ing pre­ci­sion and flu­ency …” (Joshua Kos­man, San Fran­cisco Chron­icle).

Tick­ets are $28 for adults, $26 for seni­ors and $8 for stu­dents, includ­ing GST, atMcNally Robin­son, the West End Cul­tural Centre (586 Ellice at Sherbrook), Organic Planet (877 West­min­ster Ave) or MCO’s Tick­et­line (204.783.7377).