Love Letters to Alberta
ESO New Music

Love Letters to Alberta

Curated by Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Friday, February 20, 2026 8:00 PM
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* Subject to availability. Service charges not included. Discount will appear in the cart. Offer not available in lowest price level. Limit of 8 tickets per concert per household. This offer cannot be combined with other discounts or offers. This offer is only available for the following concerts: Mozart & Stravinsky: Tradition to Innovation, Forbidden Love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky & Wagner, Love Letters to Alberta, Leading Ladies of Broadway, Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, and Carmina Burana. Offer ends December 23, 2025, at 11:59 PM (MT).

Special offer
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A pair of tickets to any New Music concertRegular price: up to $84

* Subject to availability. Discount will appear in the cart. Offer excludes Price Level 3. Service charges not included. Limit of 8 tickets per concert per household. This offer cannot be combined with other discounts or offers. This offer is only available for the following concerts: Love Letters to Alberta and The Forest Reclaims the Land. Offer ends December 23, 2025, at 11:59 PM (MT).

About The Concert

Join us for an affectionate salute to composers who call Alberta home. Enjoy a unique variety of orchestral styles by three generations of contemporary creators. You'll experience world premieres by local student Annika Schoenhardt and Cree composer Cris Derksen, alongside music inspired by lunar tides (Estacio), contemporary multitasking (Fung), the Great Lakes (Toews), and sunlight dancing through ice crystals (Bell). Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts this special concert of music by friends and neighbours.

This concert will not include an intermission.

Program

JOHN ESTACIO
Moontides
ESO Premiere
ZOSHA DI CASTRI
Pentimento
ALLAN GORDON BELL
Sundogs Reel
ESO Premiere
JOEL TOEWS
Sleeping Giant
ESO Premiere
CRIS DERKSEN
Amiskkwacîwâskahikan
World Premiere
ANNIKA SCHOENHARDT
For the Star Chasers
World Premiere (Young Composers Project)
VIVIAN FUNG
Earworms
ESO Premiere

Program subject to change.

Featured Artists

Robert Uchida, ESO Violin
Rafael Hoekman, ESO Cello

100 - New Music Series Description

About New Music

Our New Music Series offers a captivating and thought-provoking concert experience, showcasing groundbreaking compositions from living composers. These performances feature innovative works that span from cutting-edge to lush neo-romanticism to hypnotic minimalism – music that reflects the ideas and emotions of today’s generation. Expertly curated, these concerts offer a rare opportunity to hear new compositions performed live, long before these emerging composers become a household name. Don’t miss this engaging, one-of-a-kind experience – your chance to discover the next Mozart!