Manitoba Live Music Event

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New Music Tomorrow – Canada

Two new concertos by Israeli-born Avner Dorman and Sri Lankan-born Canadian Dinuk Wijeratne each scored for a rarely heard solo instrument, Wijeratne’s for tabla and Dorman’s for mandolin. Also heard will be Orion by Claude Vivier, whom many consider the greatest composer Canada ever produced. The piece for full orchestra developed out of his formative trip through Asia a few years before his murder in Paris in 1983. Métis composer Eliot Britton will present a world premiere commission for orchestra and electronics, and WSO Composer-in-Residence Harry Stafylakis will present a world premiere for orchestra.

WORKS

Michael Ducharme X-1 for Symphony Orchestra WORLD PREMIERECanadian Music Centre Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition Winning Work
Claude Vivier Orion
Avner Dorman Mandolin Concerto
Harry Stafylakis Never the Same River WORLD PREMIERE
Eliot Britton Heirloom Bison Culture WORLD PREMIERE
Dinuk Wijeratne Tabla Concerto

Canons, Circles
Folk Song: ‘White in the moon, the long road lies that leads me from my love’
Garland of Gems

ARTISTS

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Dinuk Wijeratne, conductor
Julian Pellicano, conductor
Dylan McKinstry, mandolin
Ed Hanley, tabla
Eliot Britton, electronics

PRE-CONCERT PANEL
Latent Histories and Ghosts of Winnipeg
6:15PM | Piano Nobile

Frank Albo, presenter
Serena Keshavjee, presenter
Christian Cassidy, presenter
Sotirios Kotoulas, host

PRE-CONCERT PERFORMANCE
7:00PM | Piano Nobile

Laura Gow: Morgues and Meows
Dan Peasgood, countertenor
Natalie Dawe, cello
Brendan Thompson, percussion
Mel Braun, conductor
Nick Urquhart, director

POST-CONCERT PANEL
Piano Nobile

Harry Stafylakis, composer
Dinuk Wijeratne, composer
Eliot Britton, composer
Dylan McKinstry, mandolin
Ed Hanley, tabla
Alexander Mickelthwate, host
Matthew Patton, host

POST-CONCERT RECEPTION
Piano Nobile

Tony Neustaedter, DJ
Joel Friesen, DJ