FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11   8:00 PM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12   8:00 PM
WSO-IN-BRANDON: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13   3:00 PM

Beethoven: Egmont: Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Michael Kim, piano

(Michael Kim) “It was incredibly exciting and exhilarating, and beautifully balanced.” – The Herald, Glasgow

All-Beethoven means timeless masterpieces! Especially when you hear Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, its famous opening four notes signaling all that is thrilling and inspiring in classical symphonic music and humanity.

In Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, the soloist’s commanding role recalls the composer himself. Shaking his fist at the heavens while seeing the light of the human spirit, there is no more compelling way to enter the mind of his genius than in hearing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in the companion key of C minor.

Soloist Michael Kim is the recipient of a multitude of awards, including the grand prize of the Canadian Music Competition and the CBC National Radio Competition for Young Performers. He was also silver medallist at the Scottish International Competition in Glasgow, and a prize winner in the Leeds and Ivo Pogorelich International Piano Competitions.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

MASTERWORKS C: Pre-Concert Chat hosted by music director Alexander Mickelthwate or guest conductors on the Piano Nobile Level at 7:15 pm.

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March 6  3:00 pm

“Her masterful rendering was rich with virtuosic, seemingly endless phrases crafted to perfection, with wonderful fluidity and great feeling.”
- Winnipeg Free Press

WSO concertmaster for more than 20 years, Gwen Hoebig performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. One of Canada’s outstanding violinists, Gwen was recently recognized at the Canadian Music Centre’s 50th anniversary for her exemplary commitment to the performance of the music of Canadian composers.

Composed for the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1943, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra is a 20th century orchestral classic. A response to the rapidly increasingly technical skills that American orchestras were achieving after WWI, the work showcases the orchestra and all its sections as soloists, both alone and in groups.

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Gwen Hoebig, violin

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

PRE -CONCERT CHAT: Come and enjoy the inside stories about our soloists, symphony musicians, composers and conductors of these fabulous concerts  at 2:15 pm.

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January 23  3:00 pm

“This gifted musician (Yuri Hooker) was technically precise while pouring his heart and soul into his performance.”
- Winnipeg Free Press

Acclaimed Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto appears in his WSO debut. Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony is one of the most entertaining orchestral works by a French composer and one of the most popular in all music.

We start the program with Silvestre Revueltas’ Redes, the first of his ten Mexican film scores. WSO principal cellist Yuri Hooker performs David Scott’s Cello Concerto. An avid chamber musician with exceptionally diverse interests, Yuri Hooker has premiered many pieces and continues an adventurous enthusiasm for cello music of today.

Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Yuri Hooker, cello

Revueltas: Redes: Suite
David Scott: Cello Concerto
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Organ Symphony)

PRE -CONCERT CHAT: Come and enjoy the inside stories about our soloists, symphony musicians, composers and conductors of these fabulous concerts  at 2:15 pm.

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November 14  3:00 pm

“Mandeal is tall and elegant, his movements are graceful, conveying a fluidity and immediacy with the players.”
- The Independent

Romanian conductor Cristian Mandeal conducts the WSO in this program of Mozart and Richard Strauss.

WSO principal oboist Bede Hanley performs Strauss’ Oboe Concerto, written during the last years of Strauss’ life. Bede, a native of Saskatoon, came to the
WSO in 2009 after having been the principal oboist of the Auckland Philharmonic.

Profoundly spiritual, brilliantly constructed and memorably themed, Mozart’s 40th Symphony is unlike anything he ever wrote.

Cristian Mandeal, conductor
Bede Hanley, oboe

Schubert: Overture in D major (In the Italian Style)
Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D major
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 55

PRE -CONCERT CHAT: Come and enjoy the inside stories about our soloists, symphony musicians, composers and conductors of these fabulous concerts  at 2:15 pm.

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