Kevin Chen Plays Beethoven's Emperor
ESO Classics

Kevin Chen Plays Beethoven's Emperor

Conducted by Mario Venzago
Sunday, March 24, 2024 ● 2:00 PM
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Calgary’s rising star Kevin Chen, winner of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (2021) and the Concours de Genève (2022), returns to the Winspear stage to play Beethoven’s thrilling and popular “Emperor” Piano Concerto. Rossini's light-hearted overture from The Barber of Seville is a playful ray of musical sunshine and the perfect prelude to a comedy.

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Program to Include

ROSSINI The Barber of Seville: Overture
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
WEBER Invitation to the Dance
SIBELIUS Valse triste
ROSSINI William Tell: Pas-de-six
STRAUSS Annen Polka
STRAUSS Pizzicato Polka
OFFENBACH Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture

Program subject to change.

This concert will include an intermission.

Featured Artists

Mario Venzago, Conductor
Kevin Chen, Piano

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Land Acknowledgement

The Winspear Centre and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra would like to acknowledge that we are on Treaty 6 Territory, a traditional meeting ground, gathering place, and traveling route for many Indigenous Peoples. We honour and recognize the rich artistic, cultural, and musical traditions of the Cree, Nakota Sioux, Metis, Dene, Saulteaux, and the many more Indigenous communities that call this land we share, home.

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