Manitoba Live Music Event

About

Artists:
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra;
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Julian Pellicano, conductor
Eyvind Kang, vocalist
Jessika Kenney, vocalist
Anthony Niiganii, Native American flute
Prairie Voices, Vic Pankratz, directorRepertoire:
Miguel del Aguila (US) The Fall of Cuzco
Glenn Branca (US) Symphony No. 14 First Movement
Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney (CAN/US) Concealed Unity
Canadian Music Centre’s Emerging Composers Prize-winning work:
Roydon Tse Three Musings – a triptych for chamber orchestra
Mychael Danna (CAN) The Ice Storm

Glenn Branca has composed 13 symphonies, six for electric guitars, three for harmonic series instruments, three for orchestra and one, No. 13, for 100 guitars. The first movement of No. 14 was commissioned and premiered by David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony. Winnipeg composers Mychael Danna (Academy Award-winning composer of the score for Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi”), Eyvind Kang (“a sublimely ritualistic pan-cultural work” New York Times), and Venetian Snares (“Canada’s break core genius” Time Out London) have been making major inroads internationally over a number of years. For the first time their music is performed tonight in their hometown, something that is long overdue.

Also being performed is Three Musings – a triptych for chamber orchestra, written by Royden Tse, the winner of the Canadian Music Centre’s Emerging Composers Prize. The piece is a set of three miniatures entitled “Lullaby”, “Scherzo”, and “Lament”. The piece received its world premiere with the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra as the inaugural winner of their National Student Composers Competition in 2010.  It was subsequently read by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in the 2011 Jean Coulthard Readings and by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as part of their 2013 New Creations Festival.