2011-12 Friday Masters

2011-12 Friday Masters

The music at the foundation of the orchestral repertoire, the music of the titans, the heart and soul of classical music.

Stay after the show for Afterthoughts, our popular and casual post-concert reception where you can meet the conductors and soloists, and gain insight into the performance.

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  • Friday, September 30, 2011, 7:30 pm
  • Mozart & Beethoven
  • Since making her ESO debut in 2005, Karen Gomyo has been invited back to delight ESO audiences four more times, each to enthusiastic acclaim. She performs the mighty Beethoven Violin Concerto, while Mozart’s intricate and melodic “Jupiter” Symphony is also featured. Composer in Residence Robert Rival’s orchestral overture Scherzo will complete the program.
  • Friday, November 11, 2011, 7:30 pm
  • Jens Lindemann at the Masters
  • Three Edmonton favourites come together in a rewarding and diverse program. Venerable Edmonton composer Malcolm Forsyth’s choral work A Ballad of Canada will receive its ESO premiere with the renowned voices of Richard Eaton Singers. Edmonton-raised Jens Lindemann returns, presenting a world premiere for trumpet and orchestra written for him by British composer Peter Meechan.
  • Friday, January 27, 2012, 7:30 pm
  • Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto
  • Two classical masterpieces made popular in film will be performed under the direction of Gregory Vajda. Celebrated Georgian pianist Alexander Korsantia makes his ESO debut with Rachmaninoff‘s fiercely demanding Third Piano Concerto – made memorable in the movie Shine. The Adagietto movement from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is a poignant and moving work, used in the film Death in Venice.
  • Friday, February 24, 2012, 7:30 pm
  • Glorious Voices
  • Young soprano Jeanine De Bique has already garnered an impressive array of prizes and acclaim. She makes her ESO debut singing the solo roles in Mendelssohn’s beautiful setting of Psalm 42, and in Poulenc’s famous Gloria. Four of Edmonton’s finest choirs are also part of this night of vocal splendour.
  • Friday, March 9, 2012, 7:30 pm
  • Copland's Clarinet Concerto
  • Allan Gilliland wrote his jazz-inspired concerto Dreaming of the Masters I as both a homage to great clarinet players of the past, and as a showcase for Leduc-born clarinet virtuoso James Campbell. Leonard Bernstein’s Fancy Free was a breathtaking Jerome Robbins ballet that inspired the acclaimed musical On the Town. Its vivacious score is matched with two works by Bernstein’s friend and legendary American composer Aaron Copland. James Campbell presents Copland’s famous Clarinet Concerto, while his Music for the Theater is also featured.
  • Friday, May 4, 2012, 7:30 pm
  • Dreaming of Carnegie
  • In a unique night, the ESO presents the same program they will take to the stage of New York’s acclaimed Carnegie Hall with several outstanding soloists who hail from Edmonton. John Estacio’s Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello was written for the ESO’s inaugural performance at the Winspear Centre in 1997. Allan Gilliland’s Dreaming of the Masters III was composed for Edmonton’s celebrated trumpet virtuoso Jens Lindemann. The ESO’s new Composer in Residence Robert Rival will also write a new work for this memorable concert.