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Showing versatility as well as amazing talent, Karen Gomyo makes a second appearance at our festival, joining Bob Bernhardt and the ESO at our perennially popular movie night for some of the many memorable scores by the great John Williams. Music from such films as Superman, Schindler’s List, Star Wars, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone will be heard.

Tickets for grass seating will be available at the Hawrelak Park on-site box office beginning at 5pm.

Adult Reserved $29 / Grass $20
Child Reserved $13 / Grass free

Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

Come to Hawrelak Park early for our Family BBQ

Nothing beats a picnic in the park! Join ESO musicians as they host a family BBQ, serving up tasty burgers and refreshing beverages. Snack on both for only $5. All proceeds to support the ESO's Education programs. The BBQ will run from approximately 4 pm - 5:30 pm, beginning after the Celtic Spirit concert.

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra thanks its generous sponsors!

Green Power	Media	Vehicles	50/50 Draw

Program Info

Artist Bios

Bob Bernhardt, conductor

Bob Bernhardt is the second Music Director in the history of the combined Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, and is currently in his 15th season with the company. Mr. Bernhardt also holds the additional title of Principal Pops Conductor of the Louisville Orchestra, where he is currently in his 27th season. He began his professional career there in 1981 as Assistant Conductor, and has worked with the Orchestra every year since. He was the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic (1995-98), Music Director and Conductor of the Tucson Symphony (1987-95), Principal Guest Conductor of Kentucky Opera (1991-96), and Music Director of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra (1985-1987). His vast symphonic repertoire covers most of the standard canon and his commitment to the music of our time is significant.

He has guest conducted the Detroit, St. Louis, Seattle, Phoenix, Nashville, Colorado, Pacific and Iceland Symphony Orchestras among others, and has been a frequent guest with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Tucson Symphony, and the Boston Pops. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1978. In addition to his work with the CSO, he has conducted the Opera Companies of Nashville and Birmingham. He has also conducted the Louisville Ballet, the North Carolina Ballet, the Jacksonville Ballet and the Lonestar Ballet. Born in Rochester, NY, Robert Bernhardt holds a Master's Degree with Honors from the University of Southern California School of Music where he studied with Daniel Lewis. He was a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Union (NY) College, where he was an Academic All-American Baseball Player.

Since making his ESO debut in May 2006, Robert Bernhardt has become a favourite guest conductor of both the orchestra and its audience. The 2010 Symphony Under the Sky is the fifth consecutive edition of the festival led by Mr. Bernhardt. In the 2010-2011 ESO performance season, he will return to Edmonton to conduct holiday programs including Glad Tidings – A Lightly Classical Christmas and Christmas Pops.

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Karen Gomyo, violin

Recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2008, Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo first caught public attention just one week after her fifteenth birthday when she won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. She became the youngest artist ever to be presented in the Young Concert Artists Series, as recipient of the Summis Auspiciis Prize, and has ever since been heard as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Toronto Symphony, as well the symphonies of Utah, Winnipeg, the City of Birmingham, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre national de Lille, and the Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico.

In September 2008, Ms. Gomyo had the honor of being asked to perform a solo Bach movement at the First Symposium for the Victims of Terrorism held at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. Her second recording project, an eclectic program of recital repertoire with Kremerata Baltica’s pianist, Andrius Zlabys, was released in autumn 2009 on Palette Records. Born in Tokyo to a Japanese painter and French professor of philosophy, Ms. Gomyo was raised in Montréal. At age five she had already begun performing in public. She was one of ten children chosen to play in a master class in Chicago given by the late Dorothy DeLay, and was promptly taken under the pedagogue’s wing to study on full scholarship at Juilliard. After Miss DeLay’s passing, Ms. Gomyo continued her studies with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University, and with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she graduated in May 2007 with an Artist Diploma, the school’s highest honour.

Ms. Gomyo plays the “Ex Foulis” Stradivarius of 1703 that was bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.  She last appeared with the ESO in February 2010.

Festival Info

Parking

Park your vehicle for only $5 at the U of A’s Stadium Car Park (116 St & 89 Ave), and ride Hybrid ETS buses for FREE directly to Hawrelak Park! Parking is very limited at Hawrelak Park and not guaranteed. Free, supervised bike racks will also be available at Hawrelak Park, courtesy of the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society.

On-site Box Office

Food & Drink

Food vendors will be located in the Heritage Amphitheatre and the Winspear Concession stand will offer snacks, hot and cold drinks, wine & beer.

Symphony Under the Sky Online

We’ll be blogging, tweeting, and posting updates to our Facebook page all weekend – and you can do the same using the free Wi-Fi at the Amphitheatre.

Twitter: @edmsymphony (festival hashtag is #yegsuts)
Facebook: facebook.com/edmontonsymphony
Blog: EdmontonSymphony.com/blog

You can also submit your favourite pictures from your experiences at our festival to our photo contest! Complete rules and guidelines will be posted on our website.

Weather

In case of inclement weather, festival concerts will take place at the Winspear Centre. If at all possible, all performances will remain at Hawrelak Park. The decision about whether to change venues will be made 3 hours prior to the performance. Venue change information will be announced on 105.9 Shine FM, posted on the front page of this website, and noted at (780) 428-1414 and 1-800-563-5081.

Festival Supporters

Thank you to our festival supporters The City of Edmonton through the Edmonton Arts Council, The REALTORS® Association of Edmonton, AM 930 The Light, 105.9 Shine FM, Lexus, Bullfrog Power, Trailblazer RV, General Metals Recycling, Shanked Computer Recycling, General Dynamics and Canadian Western Bank.

Multimedia

Conductor Bob Bernhardt shares highlights of Symphony Under the Sky: