Wednesday, February 1, 2012 • 7:30 p.m

Centennial Concert Hall
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Pre-Concert Discussion • 6:40 p.m
Pre-Concert Performance • 7:00 p.m

We bring you a very special evening of music by members of Iceland’s own composer collective – the Bedroom Community. We open with the highly anticipated performance of Credo, composed by Kjartan Sveinsson (of Sigur Rós), featuring Prairie Voices and our WSO Strings. Nico Muhly joins us for the Canadian premiere his new WSO co-commissioned work, So Far So Good. Distinguished guest artist Shauna Rolston returns to the stage to present the North American premiere of Daniel Bjarnason’s enthralling piece for cello and orchestra, Bow to String. Finally, we present the North American premiere of Valgeir Sigurðsson’s Dreamland, a new orchestral work based on his soundtrack to the prize-winning documentary of the same name.

Artists:

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Prairie Voices; Vic Pankratz, director
Shauna Rolston, cello

Program:

Kjartan Sveinsson (IS): Credo (Canadian premiere)
Nico Muhly (USA): So Far So Good (Canadian premiere)*
Daníel Bjarnason (IS): Bow to String: For Cello & Orchestra (North American premiere)
Valgeir Sigurðsson (IS): Dreamland (North American premiere)

*Commissioned by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra