The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Central Canada Tour runs from May 1st to May 4th, with the orchestra performing in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City.
The tour will showcase the orchestra in concerts conducted by Music Director Bramwell Tovey, and featuring Canadian pianist Avan Yu, who will also perform with the VSO at the Orpheum the weekend before the tour, in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver and Beltone Symphony Sundays series. This tour marks the second major tour for the VSO in the 2008/2009 Season, following the extraordinary success of the Asia-Pacific Tour in October of 2008.
The Central Canada Tour is planned around an invitation from the National Arts Centre in Ottawa as part of their BC Scene, a celebration of the arts and cultural scene in British Columbia. In Montreal and Ottawa, the orchestra will perform Debussy’s Prelude a l’apres midi d’un faune; Jeffrey Ryan’s The Linearity of Light; Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (performed by Avan Yu); Stravinsky’s Petrouchka.
In Toronto and Quebec City, the orchestra will perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 in the second half of the program, replacing the Stravinsky work.
“Tours are important to symphony orchestras for a variety of reasons,” said Vancouver Symphony Orchestra President & CEO Jeff Alexander. “They bring significant attention to the home country, province and city; they assist in establishing long-lasting business relationships in each tour country for tour sponsors and funders; they raise the artistic level and capacity of the orchestra, and of course the national and international profile of the orchestra as well. We are delighted to be able to plan these tours, and look forward to an exciting series of concerts for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on the national stage.”
The Vancouver Symphony is grateful to the following funding agencies and corporate sponsors for their support of this tour:
- Department of Canadian Heritage
- Canada Council for the Arts
- British Columbia Arts Council
- Province of British Columbia
- Industrial Alliance
- Air Canada -- www.vancouversymphony.ca
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