National Arts Centre Orchestra Western Canada Tour, Oct. 24-Nov. 12
Canada’Äôs National Arts Centre Orchestra led by Music Director Pinchas Zukerman embarks on Western Canada Tour, Oct. 24 to Nov. 12, 2008, including over 130 educational events
The Western Canada Tour 2008 will see the National Arts Centre Orchestra performing concerts led by Pinchas Zukerman in Vancouver (Oct. 25 and 27 at 8 p.m.), Victoria (Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.), Calgary (Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.), Regina (Nov. 8 at 8 p.m.), Saskatoon (Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m.) and Winnipeg (Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.). Guest conductor James Judd will lead concerts in
The NAC is donating the performances of the artists and the NAC Orchestra in
The National Arts Centre Foundation gratefully acknowledges support for the Western Canada Tour from Presenting Partner EnCana, Signature Education Partner Agrium, and the NAC Friends and Trailblazers.
A distinguishing feature of any National Arts Centre Orchestra tour is educational outreach to children and youth. These outreach activities are opportunities for Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, guest artists and musicians of the Orchestra to step off the stage and into schools and classrooms to teach, encourage and inspire students, and to leave a real and lasting imprint.
The education events on the Western Canada Tour will include instrumental masterclasses for advanced students led by Pinchas Zukerman, Jon Kimura Parker and musicians of the NAC Orchestra; student open rehearsals with the NAC Orchestra; instrumental clinics in high schools; school concert-demonstrations by NAC Musician in the Schools ensembles in French immersion schools and by teaching musicians with the NAC’Äôs Music Alive Program (formerly Music Ambassador Programme) in Alberta and Saskatchewan; sectional rehearsals with youth and community orchestras; composition lectures/masterclasses and pre- and intermission-concert chats with NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie; and pre-concert lobby performances by local youth choirs and instrumental ensembles. An additional special project is Music Connections - Winnipeg, a 9-week in-school program that integrates Aboriginal and Western cultural traditions and culminates with a live performance by up to 90 participating students with a brass octet from the NAC Orchestra on November 12 at 1 p.m. (location to be determined). Over 50 partners are engaged in helping to present these outreach activities.
In addition, the five participants in the NAC Orchestra’Äôs 2008-09
NAC educational resources to be distributed on the Western Canada Tour consist of the ’ÄúVivaldi and the Four Seasons’Äù Teacher Resource Kit, the ’ÄúLet’Äôs Go Mozart’Äù Teacher Resource Kit, and the ’ÄúIntroducing Beethoven’Äù student newspaper guides. Schools involved in the student matinees on tour, the ’ÄúMusic Connections ’Äì
The Western Canada Tour website to be found at NACOtour.ca will include a tour blog, audio clips, a photo gallery, and more.
Pinchas Zukerman said: ’ÄúIt is wonderful to be traveling again to the West Coast with the NAC Orchestra. As Music Director, one of my favourite aspects of going on tour is the pleasure of performing for other communities and giving them a feel for what we do at home. We also look forward to our many educational activities which not only utilize the excellent players in our orchestra, but also our Artist-in-Residence Jon Kimura Parker, and NAC Award Composer, Alexina Louie. We hope the communities we meet enjoy these concerts and activities, and that we will see them again in
’ÄúThe National Arts Centre belongs to all Canadians... and it’Äôs extremely important to us that we make a real contribution to communities across the country,’Äù said Peter Herrndorf, NAC President and CEO. ’ÄúNAC Orchestra performance and education tours provide opportunities for Canadians to hear our musicians in concert halls and in classrooms, while enriching our collaborations with Canadian artists, educators and partners on a national level.’Äù
CONCERT REPERTOIRE
The National Arts Centre Orchestra will perform Alexina Louie’Äôs Infinite Sky with Birds at every public concert. Vancouver-born Alexina Louie, one of
STUDENT MATINEES ’Äì ’ÄúBRAVO BEETHOVEN!’Äù
The NAC Orchestra will again bring its highly successful recipe for interactive Student Matinees on tour to
MUSIC CONNECTIONS -
Music Connections is a 9-week project involving up to 90 Grade 3 to 6 students from two inner-city Winnipeg schools ’Äì Mulvey and Dufferin Schools ’Äì that began on September 11, 2008 and culminates in a final ’Äúshared’Äù performance with a brass octet from the NAC Orchestra on November 12 during which the children will perform and sing, and present creative responses to Vivaldi’Äôs Four Seasons through dance, drama, music, visual arts and media. The partners involved are the NAC Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre of the
Teaching artists working with the students include Richard Dubˆ© of Saskatoon who taught them how to assemble, decorate and play the Native American flute; singer/songwriter and storyteller Joseph Naytowhow, of the Woodland Cree Nation from Sturgeon Lake SK, who helped prepare the children to sing his composition ’ÄúOne People’Äù in English and in Cree; and Lacey Eagle, a young opera singer from Flin Flon MB. Beyond the 9-week project, the three local
MUSIC ALIVE PROGRAM
The NAC will launch the second phase of its highly successful Music Alive Program (formerly titled Music Ambassador Programme) in
RICHARD LI YOUNG ARTIST
Included in the outreach on the
CONCERT TOUR SCHEDULE
Oct. 25 and 27 at 8 p.m.: Programme 1 (two nights)
Includes a 7:05 p.m. pre-concert talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie
Oct. 28 at 8 p.m.: Programme 2
Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by District 57 Tapestry Singers and a post-concert Q & A with guest conductor James Judd and soloist Jon Kimura Parker
Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.: Programme 2
Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Whitehorse Suzuki Strings.
Oct. 30 at 10 a.m.: Student Matinee
Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.: Programme 3
Victoria, BC ’Äì Royal Theatre, a Gala fundraiser for the Victoria Symphony and the NAC Orchestra presented by Eric Charman
Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by Viva Choirs and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie
Nov. 2 at 8 p.m.: Programme 2
Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Kamloops Thompson Honour Choir.
Nov. 4 at 1:15 p.m.: Student Matinee
Nov. 5 at 10:30 a.m.: Student Matinee
Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.: Programme 4 (Finale combined with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra)
Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Arioso Choir of the Mount Royal College Conservatory and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie
Nov. 8 at 8 p.m.: Programme 4
Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie
Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m.: Programme 5
Includes a 6:45 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by the Saskatoon Strings and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie
Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.: Programme 4
Includes a 7:15 p.m. pre-concert lobby performance by St. James-Assiniboia Children’Äôs Choir and an intermission talk by NAC Award Composer Alexina Louie.
REPERTOIRE
Programme 1
LOUIE: Infinite Sky With Birds
MOZART: Concerto for Violin No. 3
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
Programme 2
LOUIE: Infinite Sky with Birds
MOZART: Symphony No. 41
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4
Programme 3
LOUIE : Infinite Sky with Birds
MOZART: Concerto for Violin No. 3
MOZART: Symphony No. 41
Programme 4
LOUIE: Infinite Sky with Birds
TCHAIKOVSKY: Concerto for Piano No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
Programme 5
LOUIE : Infinite Sky with Birds
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman has for four decades been recognized internationally as one of the world’Äôs greatest string players. His discography contains over 100 titles, and has earned him 21 Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards. Since his appointment as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 1998, he has taken an interest in virtually every aspect of
Touring is an important part of the mandate of the National Arts Centre Orchestra which has visited, in its 39-year history, 112 cities in
Jon Kimura Parker
The extraordinary career of internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jon Kimura Parker has taken him from Carnegie Hall and
Jon Kimura Parker has a long history with the National Arts Centre Orchestra including a 1998 tour in
Alexina Louie
One of the most frequently performed Canadian classical composers, Vancouver-born Alexina Louie is a two-time Juno Award-winner of international renown. She has been widely commissioned and performed by
Alexina Louie is one of three recipients of the National Arts Centre Composers Awards ($75,000 each) through which she has written three compositions for the NACO and collaborated on a number of educational and outreach programs. She was Lead Composer of the NAC Summer Music Institute’Äôs Young Composers Programme in 2005 and accompanied the Orchestra on its BC Tour in 2004.
James Judd
Considered one of the pre-eminent interpreters of English orchestral music, British-born conductor James Judd is Music Director Emeritus of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, former Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lille in France and former Music Director of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra where he spent 14 groundbreaking years including its first tour of the major concert halls of Europe. He has amassed an extensive collection of recordings on the
James Judd made his National Arts Centre Orchestra debut in May 2002 and has returned regularly since. He has led major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic; conducted in the Salzburg Mozarteum and
Boris Brott
Boris Brott is one of the most internationally recognized Canadian conductors. He enjoys an international career as guest conductor, educator, motivational speaker and cultural ambassador. In May 2004, he was named to the newly created position of Principal Youth and Family Conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, where for over 20 years he has regularly been conducting student matinees and concerts for young people. On tour, he has led the Orchestra in student matinees in the
Mr. Brott is founding Conductor and Music Director of the New West Symphony in
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