About The Concert
We celebrate our first Composer in Residence John Estacio, whose colourful and cinematic sonorities have electrified Edmonton Symphony audiences for over 30 years. The concert will include a movement from John’s Trumpet Concerto (co-commissioned by a consortium of 19 Canadian orchestras), a dazzling string quartet written for the Banff International String Quartet Competition, a short song cycle and an operatic aria sung by baritone Brett Polegato, and Avé, his most recent work for orchestra. Don’t miss this fantastic evening of music, conducted by our Resident Conductor Cosette Justo Valdés.
This concert will include an intermission.
New Music: A postcard from the 21st Century
Program to Include
ESTACIO
The Harvesters (3rd movement of A Farmer’s Symphony) (1994)
ESO commission
ESO commission
Triton’s Trumpet (1st movement of the Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra) (2017)
ESO co-commission
ESO co-commission
“Away and Awake” (song cycle for baritone, piano, and violin; words by John Murrell) (2001)
Test Run for String Quartet (2001)
“A tooth in my pocket” (from the opera Ours; words by Robert Chafe) (2016)
ESO premiere
ESO premiere
Avé (2025)
ESO premiere
ESO premiere
Program subject to change.
Featured Artists
Cosette Justo Valdés, Conductor
John Estacio, Curator & Host
Brett Polegato, Baritone
Robin Doyon, ESO Trumpet
Philip Manning, ESO Violin
Sarah Ho, Piano
Garneau String Quartet:
Robert Uchida, Violin
Laura Veeze, Violin
Keith Hamm, Viola
Julie Hereish, Cello
