As the professional orchestra of
AlbertaAlberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south....
's creative capital city, the
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presents over 85 concerts a year of symphonic music in all genres, from classical to country. The ESO is composed of 56 professional musicians who perform 42 weeks per season, and play an active role in the musical life of
EdmontonEdmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies...
and elsewhere as performers, teachers and recording artists. Currently in its 58th season, the ESO also performs as the orchestra for
Edmonton OperaThe Edmonton Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Edmonton, Alberta, it performs in the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. The opera was founded in 1963 as the Edmonton Professional Opera Association. The name was latter shortened to the current name in 1966. It was born out of its...
and
Alberta BalletThe Alberta Ballet is located in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta. It is Canada’s third largest dance company. Alberta Ballet has developed a distinctive repertoire and performance quality that has brought it to the forefront of national and international stages.- Creation :The Alberta Ballet was...
productions, and its concerts and recordings are regularly heard across Canada on
CBC Radio TwoCBC Radio 2 is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Previously concentrating on classical music and jazz, during 2007 and 2008 the network transitioned towards a new "adult music" format with a variety of genres, with the previously-dominant classical genre...
.
History
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra was initially formed as Edmonton's community orchestra and gave its first concert on November 14, 1920. The orchestra suspended operations in 1932, but was revived in 1952, when it was incorporated as a registered not-for-profit organization (the Edmonton Symphony Society), and gave its first performance on November 30, 1952. It made the transition to a fully professional orchestra in 1971. Today the ESO's budget is over $8 million. It is deficit-free, and its players are the highest paid Canadian orchestral musicians west of
TorontoToronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...
.
Music Directors, Concertmasters, and current artistic leadership
Music Directors and Conductors
- William Eddins
William Eddins is an American pianist and conductor. He is the Music Director of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.Eddins started playing piano at age 5 after his parents purchased a piano at a garage sale...
2005 to date
- Lucas Waldin (Resident Conductor) 2009 to date
- Petar Dundjerski 2006-2008 (Assistant Conductor in Residence)
- Kazuyoshi Akiyama
is a Japanese conductor.-Biography:Born into a musical family, he studied piano at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, but was fascinated by the conducting activities of a fellow student, Seiji Ozawa. He decided to study conducting with Hideo Saito...
2004-2005 (Principal Guest Conductor)
- Franz-Paul Decker
Franz-Paul Decker is a German-Canadian conductor.Decker was born in Cologne Germany where he studied at the Hochschule für Musik with Philip Jarnach and Eugen Papst...
2003-2004 (Principal Guest Conductor)
- Grzegorz Nowak
Grzegorz Nowak is a Polish conductor. He has served as music director of the Polish National Opera, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Radio Orchestra in Kaiserslautern in Germany), and Sinfonia Helvetica and festival Musique & Amitié in Switzerland.- Biography :Grzegorz Nowak is the of the...
1994-2002
- David Hoyt
David Hoyt is a Canadian horn player and conductor.He studied piano , French horn , and conducting .In 1975, while a student at the University of Alberta, he became Principal Horn of the Edmonton Symphony...
1985-2002 (Resident Conductor), 2002-2003 (Artistic Director)
- Uri Mayer
Uri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
1981-1994
- Yuval Zaliouk
Yuval Zaliouk is an Israeli-American conductor.Born into a musical family, he was educated at the Haifa Academy of Music where he studied piano, trombone and percussion. He subsequently received a law degree from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem...
1980-1981 (Interim Principal Conductor)
- Peter McCoppin
Peter McCoppin is a Canadian conductor and organist.He studied conducting with Erich Leinsdorf, Lovro von Matičič, and Hans Swarowsky, and taught conducting at the Cleveland Institute of Music ....
1978-1979 (Assistant Conductor), 1979-1980 (Resident Conductor)
- Pierre Hétu
Pierre Hétu was a Canadian conductor and pianist.Hertu was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied in Paris with Marcel Ciampi and Edouard Lindenberg , and in 1961, following studies with Sergiu Celibidache, he won the Concours International des Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre in Besançon...
1973-1979 (Artistic Director), 1979-1980 (Principal Guest Conductor)
- Lawrence Leonard
Lawrence Leonard was a British conductor, cellist, composer, teacher and writer.Leonard received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music and the École Normale de Musique de Paris...
1968-1973
- Brian Priestman
Brian Priestman is a British conductor and music educator.Priestman studied at the University of Birmingham and the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Belgium....
1964-1968
- Tom Rolston
Tom Rolston is a Canadian violinist and conductor.After early studies with Douglas Stewart, Roman Totenberg and David Martin, Rolston was a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra . He was concertmaster and and Associate Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra...
1960-1964 (Associate Conductor)
- Lee Hepner
Lee Hepner was a teacher and orchestral conductor....
1952-1960
Concertmasters
- Martin Riseley
Martin Riseley is a Canadian violinist and concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.Riseley began violin studies at age 6, and gave his first solo concert at age 10. He studied with Carl Pini, Dorothy DeLay, and Felix Galimir...
1994 to date
- John Lowry 2002-2003 (Interim)
- James Keene 1972-1994
- Charles Dobias 1970-1972
- Marguerite Marzantowicz 1960-1964 (Interim), 1964-1970
- Tom Rolston
Tom Rolston is a Canadian violinist and conductor.After early studies with Douglas Stewart, Roman Totenberg and David Martin, Rolston was a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra . He was concertmaster and and Associate Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra...
1958-1964
- Walter Holowach 1957-1958 (Interim)
- Alexander Nicol 1952-1957
Current artistic leadership
- William Eddins
William Eddins is an American pianist and conductor. He is the Music Director of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.Eddins started playing piano at age 5 after his parents purchased a piano at a garage sale...
was appointed Music Director in January 2005 and made his debut as Music Director in June of that year. Prior to his appointment in Edmonton he spent ten years working with Daniel BarenboimDaniel Barenboim is an Argentinian-born pianist and conductor. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, and Spain. He also holds a passport issued by the Palestinian Authority. Barenboim first came to prominence as a pianist but is now perhaps better known as a conductor...
, most recently as Resident Conductor of the Chicago Symphony OrchestraThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1891, the Symphony makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival...
.
- Martin Riseley
Martin Riseley is a Canadian violinist and concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.Riseley began violin studies at age 6, and gave his first solo concert at age 10. He studied with Carl Pini, Dorothy DeLay, and Felix Galimir...
has been the orchestra's concertmasterThe concertmaster/mistress, is the leader of the first violin section of an orchestra. In the UK, the term commonly used is leader...
since August 1994.
- Lucas Waldin has been the orchestra's Resident Conductor since August 2009.
Performing venue
In September 1997, the ESO and the Edmonton Concert Hall Foundation successfully completed a two-decade, $45 million capital campaign and moved from the
Northern Alberta Jubilee AuditoriumThe Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium is a four million cubic foot performing arts, culture and community facility located in Edmonton, Alberta.- General Information & History :...
(the orchestra's principal performing venue since 1957) into its new concert hall, the acoustically superb, 1716 seat
Francis Winspear Centre for MusicThe Francis Winspear Centre for Music is a performing arts centre located in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Built in 1997, it is the home of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. The center is named after Dr. Francis G. Winspear, who donated $6 million to the construction of the facility - the...
. The inaugural gala, at which the ESO performed Mahler's
Symphony of a Thousand with the
Calgary Philharmonic OrchestraThe Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra, based in Calgary, Alberta. The orchestra gives the majority of its performances in the Jack Singer Concert Hall of the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts...
, took place on September 13, 1997.
Community commitment, programming and tours, special concerts
Community commitment The ESO is committed to serving its entire community, through eclectic programming choices and innovative education and outreach activities. Each season, almost 30,000 students experience the orchestra's music at the Winspear Centre. The
Young Composers Project, with local composers as mentors, allows select high school students to compose orchestral works and hear them in performance. The orchestra's annual outdoor
Symphony Under the Sky Festival is a popular destination for Edmontonians on
Labour DayLabour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers...
weekend.
Programming and tours
The ESO's history and the varied nature of its programming reflect its imaginative commitment to its community.
- In 1972, the Procol Harum
Procol Harum are a British rock band, formed in the 1960s, who contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock...
album Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony OrchestraProcol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, by the UK band Procol Harum, was released in 1972; it was recorded at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 18 November 1971. It is the band's best selling album, certified Gold by the RIAA...
(right) and its hit single Conquistador became the first orchestral recording to achieve international platinum sales. The recording has recently been reissued as a compact discA Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982...
.
- In 1985, the ESO premiered Malcolm Forsyth
Malcolm Forsyth, CM is a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....
's Atayoskewin at the opening of Shell CanadaShell Canada Limited is the subsidiary of Dutch-based Royal Dutch Shell and one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies. Exploration and production of oil, natural gas and sulphur is a major part of its business, as well as the marketing of gasoline and related products through the company's...
's Scotford Refinery.
- In 1980, to celebrate Alberta
Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south....
's 75th anniversary, the orchestra toured the province.
- In 1986, the ESO performed at Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The city is bounded by English Bay, Burrard Inlet, the Fraser River, the city of Burnaby, and the University Endowment Lands. Vancouver is named after Captain George Vancouver, a...
's Expo 86The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo '86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from May 2 until October 13, 1986. The fair, the theme of which was "Transportation and Communication: World in Motion - World in Touch", coincided with...
.
- In 1992, a televised ESO performance with k.d. lang
k.d. lang OC is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials.Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances...
conducted by Tommy BanksThomas Benjamin "Tommy" Banks, OC, AOE is a Canadian pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, television personality and Senator....
received a Gemini AwardThe Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada...
for Best Television Variety Performance.
- In 1994, the orchestra undertook a five-city tour (the "Northern Lights Tour") of northern Alberta, the Yukon
Yukon , or The Yukon, is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River, Yukon meaning "Great River" in Gwich’in....
and the Northwest TerritoriesThe Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada....
.
- In 1996, the ESO became the first Canadian orchestra to play on a First Nations
First Nations is a term of ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada, who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 600 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread all across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia...
Reserve.
Special concerts
Special concerts drawing sold-out houses have featured, among others,
k.d. langk.d. lang OC is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials.Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances...
in 1985,
Tom Cochrane and Red RiderRed Rider was a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While the band achieved great success in Canada, the band never had a song in the Top 40 in the United States....
in 1989,
The Arrogant WormsThe Arrogant Worms are a Canadian musical comedy trio that parodies many musical genres. They are well known for their humorous on-stage banter in addition to their music.-History:...
in 2002, Corb Lund in 2005,
Paul BrandtDr. Paul Rennee Belobersycky is a Canadian country music artist, known professionally as Paul Brandt. Growing up in Airdrie, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break...
in 2006,
Video Games LiveVideo Games Live is a concert series created and produced by industry veterans and video game composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall. The concerts consist of segments of video game music performed by a live orchestra with video footage and synchronized lighting and effects, as well as several...
in 2007,
Nikki YanofskyNikki Yanofsky , is a young jazz-pop singer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, at various events alongside well-known artists such as Oliver Jones, Wyclef Jean, Celine Dion, James Birch and performing the national anthems for the Montreal...
in 2008, and
Ian TysonIan Dawson Tyson CM, AOE is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for his song "Four Strong Winds".-Career:...
on the 100th anniversary of the Province of Alberta on September 1, 2005. In December 2005, the orchestra returned to the
Northern Alberta Jubilee AuditoriumThe Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium is a four million cubic foot performing arts, culture and community facility located in Edmonton, Alberta.- General Information & History :...
to present two sold-out
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
concerts with Christian singer/pianist
Michael W. SmithMichael W. Smith is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian Music, and he has achieved considerable success in the mainstream music industry as well...
. The orchestra continues this tradition of working with musicians from a variety of musical genres.
Composers in residence
John EstacioJohn Estacio is a contemporary Canadian composer.Raised in the farming community of the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Estacio took piano and accordion lessons, and played church organ every Sunday...
was the ESO's first Composer in Residence (1992-1999). He produced nine major works for the orchestra during his residency:
- The Twins and the Monster (2001)
- The Brass Ring (1999)
- Frenergy (1998)
- Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello (1997)
- Wondrous Light (1997)
- Borealis (1997)
- Victims of Us All (1996)
- A Farmer's Symphony (1994)
- Alegria (1994)
Allan GillilandAllan Gilliland is a contemporary Canadian composer.Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies from Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the University of Alberta...
, the ESO's second Composer in Residence (2000-2004) also composed nine major works for the orchestra, as well as a colorful new orchestration of Canada's
national anthemA national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.- History :Anthems rose to prominence...
. Prior to his residency, Gilliland had been commissioned to write two works for the ESO. Following his residency, he was commissioned to write a jazz-flavoured rhapsody for piano and orchestra.
- Dreaming of the Masters II (Rhapsody GEB) (2008) (co-commission with CBC
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Société Radio-Canada...
)
- Above the Fold (2004)
- Calixa Lavallée
Calixa Lavallée, , born Calixte Lavallée, was a Quebecois musician who composed the music for the Canadian national anthem "O Canada".He was born at Verchères, Quebec...
O CanadaO Canada is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the Honourable Théodore Robitaille, for the 1880 St. Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony. Calixa Lavallée wrote the music, which was a setting of a patriotic poem composed by the poet and...
(new orchestration) (2004)
- Dreaming of the Masters I (2003)
- Gaol's Ruadh Ròs – A Celtic Concerto for Two Harps (2003)
- Always Be True (2002)
- Violin Concerto (2002)
- A Wild Symphonic Ride (2002)
- Loch na Beiste (2001)
- On the Shoulders of Giants (2001)
- Shadows and Light (2000)
- Winspear Fanfare (1997)
- Trumpet Concerto (1994)
Canadian commissions
The ESO has a long tradition of commissioning and performing works by Canadian – and particularly Albertan – composers. On April 29, 2005 the ESO presented a highly acclaimed concert of music by five contemporary Alberta composers – Alan Gordon Bell,
John EstacioJohn Estacio is a contemporary Canadian composer.Raised in the farming community of the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Estacio took piano and accordion lessons, and played church organ every Sunday...
,
Malcolm ForsythMalcolm Forsyth, CM is a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....
,
Allan GillilandAllan Gilliland is a contemporary Canadian composer.Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies from Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the University of Alberta...
and Jeffrey McCune – in Southam Hall at
OttawaOttawa is the capital of Canada and a municipality within the Province of Ontario. Located in the Ottawa Valley in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, the city lies on the southern banks of the Ottawa River, a major waterway forming the local boundary between the Provinces of Ontario and...
's
National Arts CentreThe National Arts Centre is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal...
as part of the
Alberta Scene festival.
Works commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra include:
- Louis Applebaum
Louis Applebaum, CC, O.Ont was a Canadian composer, administrator, and conductor.He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He composed music for numerous films. He was nominated for an academy award for his score of the 1945 film, The Story of G.I. Joe. He was Executive Director of the Ontario Arts Council...
Concertante / Prelude / Incantation / Sinfonia / Evocations for Two Pianos and Orchestra
- Alan Gordon Bell Symphonies of Hidden Fire
- Patrick Cardy Trobadores
- George Fiala Overtura Buffa
- Malcolm Forsyth
Malcolm Forsyth, CM is a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....
Symphony No. 2 '... A Host of Nomads... / Requiem for the Victims in a Wartorn World / Siyajabula! We Rejoice!
- Allan Gilliland
Allan Gilliland is a contemporary Canadian composer.Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies from Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the University of Alberta...
Dreaming of the Masters II (joint commission with CBC)
- Stewart Grant Symphony ("Et in Terra…")
- Jacques Hétu
Jacques Hétu OC is a Canadian composer.-Awards and recognition:Hétu was nominated for a 1989 Juno Award in the Best Classical Composition category....
Concerto for Organ
- Gary Kulesha Dreams
- Yuri Laniuk Palimpsesty
- Raymond Luedeke Tales of the Netsilik (joint commission with five other Canadian orchestras)
- Rod McKuen
Rod McKuen is a bestselling American poet, composer, and singer, instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s.-Biography:...
The Ballad of Distances - Symphonic Suite, Opus 40
- François Morel Neumes d'espace et reliefs
- Jeffrey McCune Aquamarine / Dance Suite / Overture Sauvage
- John McPherson Walk in Beauty
- Cha Ka Nin Memento Mori
- Laurie Radford a tangle in the throat
- Manus Sasonkin Musica post prandia
- Robert Turner Shades of Autumn
Commercial Discography and Videography
Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony OrchestraProcol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, by the UK band Procol Harum, was released in 1972; it was recorded at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 18 November 1971. It is the band's best selling album, certified Gold by the RIAA...
(Procol HarumProcol Harum are a British rock band, formed in the 1960s, who contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock...
, Da Camera Singers, Lawrence LeonardLawrence Leonard was a British conductor, cellist, composer, teacher and writer.Leonard received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music and the École Normale de Musique de Paris...
conductor, 1972)
Conquistador
/ Whaling Stories
/ A Salty DogA Salty Dog is an album by the Rock band Procol Harum, released in June 1969. Having an ostensibly nautical theme, as indicated by its cover, interspersed with straight rock, blues and pop items A Salty Dog showed a slight change of direction from its predecessors, being thematically less obscure...
/ All This and More
/ In Held 'Twas In I
/ Luskus Delph
Music by Haydn, Debussy, Wirén
(Boris BrottBoris Brott, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker.Born in Montreal, the son of violinist and composer Alexander Brott and cellist Lotte Brott, and brother of cellist Denis Brott....
1 and John AvisonJohn Avison, CM was a Canadian conductor and pianist.From 1938 to 1980, he was the founding conductor of the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra ....
2 conductors, 1973)
- Haydn
Symphony No. 99The Symphony No. 99 in E-flat major is the seventh of the so-called twelve London Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. The symphony was completed in 1793. Although not the most frequently performed of his London Symphonies, no...
1 / Debussy Petit suite: En bateau
2 / WirénDag Ivar Wirén was a Swedish composer. Wirén studied at the Stockholm conservatory from 1926-1931, and in 1932 won the state stipend. He used the award money to continue his studies in Paris, where he remained for until 1934...
March
2
McKuenRod McKuen is a bestselling American poet, composer, and singer, instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s.-Biography:...
The Ballad Of Distances: Symphonic Suite, Opus 40
(Tommy BanksThomas Benjamin "Tommy" Banks, OC, AOE is a Canadian pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, television personality and Senator....
conductor, 1973)
Scarlet and Gold / L'Escarlet et L'Or - Alberta R.C.M.P. Century Celebrations, 1874-1974
(Tommy BanksThomas Benjamin "Tommy" Banks, OC, AOE is a Canadian pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, television personality and Senator....
conductor, 1974)
Dere Overture
/ Rebellion
/ Tribute to the
R.C.M.P.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body...
Music by Wolf, Purcell, Adaskin, Warlock
(Pierre HétuPierre Hétu was a Canadian conductor and pianist.Hertu was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied in Paris with Marcel Ciampi and Edouard Lindenberg , and in 1961, following studies with Sergiu Celibidache, he won the Concours International des Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre in Besançon...
conductor, 1975)
- Wolf
Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
Italian SerenadeThe Italian Serenade is a piece of music written by Hugo Wolf in 1887. It was written originally for string quartet and named simply Serenade in G major. By April 1890, he was referring to it in his letters as "Italian Serenade". In 1892, he arranged it for string orchestra. It is one of his...
/ PurcellHenry Purcell , was an English Baroque composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music.-Early life and career:...
The Married Beau Suite
(Arr. HolstGustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London,...
) / AdaskinMurray Adaskin, OC was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. After playing violin with a band, he studied composition and became the director of the Music department of the University of Saskatchewan...
Diversion for orchestra (an entertainment)
/ WarlockPeter Warlock was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine , an Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic. Although he used his own name when writing as a music critic, he composed under the pseudonym "Peter Warlock" and is now better known by this name.- Life :Philip Heseltine was born in London and...
Six Italian Dances
Music by Ibert, Françaix, Rameau
(Pierre HétuPierre Hétu was a Canadian conductor and pianist.Hertu was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied in Paris with Marcel Ciampi and Edouard Lindenberg , and in 1961, following studies with Sergiu Celibidache, he won the Concours International des Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre in Besançon...
conductor, 1976)
- Ibert
Jacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer of classical music.- Life and importance :He studied under Paul Vidal at the Paris Conservatoire and won the Prix de Rome in 1919 for his cantata Le poète et la fée. From 1937 he was director of the French Academy in Rome, and from 1955 to 1957...
Suite symphonique: "Paris"
/ FrançaixJean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.-Life:...
Sérénade
/ RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era...
Les fêtes d'HébéLes fêtes d'Hébé is an opéra-ballet in a prologue and three entrées, composed in 1739 by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The libretto was written by Antoine Gautier de Montdorge and others...
Orchestral Suites of the British Isles
(Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1983)
- Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song SuiteWritten in 1923, the English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's most famous works for military band. The piece has also been arranged for full orchestra and brass band by Vaughan Williams' student Gordon Jacob. The suite consists of three movements: March,...
/ WarlockPeter Warlock was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine , an Anglo-Welsh composer and music critic. Although he used his own name when writing as a music critic, he composed under the pseudonym "Peter Warlock" and is now better known by this name.- Life :Philip Heseltine was born in London and...
Capriol SuiteThe Capriol Suite is a set of dances composed in October 1926 by Peter Warlock. According to the composer, it was based on tunes in Thoinot Arbeau's Orchésographie, a manual of Renaissance dances...
/ HartySir Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conductor and accompanist.Harty was born in Hillsborough, Ireland, the fourth of ten children of church organist William Michael Harty and his wife, Annie Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph Hamilton Richards, a soldier from Bray...
A
John FieldJohn Field was an Irish composer and pianist. He is best known for being the first composer to write nocturnes in the modern sense of the term.-Biography:...
Suite
Great Tenor Arias
(Ermanno Mauro tenor, Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1984)
- Bizet
"La fleur que tu m’avais jetée" (
CarmenCarmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
)
/ Massenet "O Souverain, ô juge, ô père!" (
Le CidLe Cid is a tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille and published in 1636. It is based on the legend of El Cid.The play followed Corneille's first true tragedy, Médée, produced in 1635. An enormous popular success, Corneille's Le Cid was the subject of a heated polemic over the norms of dramatic...
)
/ Puccini "Che gelida manina" (
La bohèmeLa bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world première performance of La bohème was in Turin on February 1, 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young Arturo...
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/ Leoncavallo "Recitar!...
Vesti la giubbaVesti la Giubba is a famous tenor aria performed as part of the opera Pagliacci, written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo, and first performed in 1892...
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PagliacciPagliacci is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe...
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/ Verdi "Niun mi tema" (
OtelloOtello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887...
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/ Gounod "Ah! lêve-toi, soleil" (
Roméo et JulietteRoméo et Juliette is an opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare...
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/ Massenet "Pourquoi me réveiller?" (
WertherWerther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....
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/ Puccini "
E lucevan le stelle E lucevan le stelle is the romanza of Mario Cavaradossi in the 3rd act of Tosca, the opera composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa...
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ToscaTosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca. The work premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14 1900. It is one of the world's most popular operas, a hit with audiences...
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/ Puccini "
Nessun dormaNessun dorma is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, and is one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera. It is sung by Calaf, il principe ignoto , who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot...
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TurandotTurandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text...
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/ GiordanoUmberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.He was born in Foggia in Puglia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples...
"Un dì all'azzuro spazio", also known as "L'improvviso" (
Andrea ChénierAndrea Chénier is an opera in four acts by the verismo composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, André Chénier , who was executed during the French Revolution....
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/ Verdi "Ma se m'è forza perderti" (
Un ballo in mascheraUn ballo in maschera , is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. The opera's first production was at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, 17 February 1859....
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/ Verdi "Ah si, ben mio...
Di quella piraDi quella pira is a popular tenor aria sung by Manrico in Act 3, Scene 2 of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Il trovatore.-Setting:...
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Il trovatoreIl trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez....
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Great Verdi Arias
(Louis QuilicoLouis Quilico, CC was a Canadian baritone, known as "Mr Rigoletto."- Biography :Louis Quilico was one of the leading baritone singers of his time. During his 45 year long career Quilico shared performing credits with opera's greatest stars. He was an ideal interpreter of the great Italian and...
baritone, Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1984)
"E sogno o realtà?" (
FalstaffFalstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy...
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/ "Morir! tremenda cosa...Urna fatale de mio destino" (
La forza del destinoLa forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro, o La fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
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/ "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" (
RigolettoRigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...
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/ "Vanne! la tua meta già vedo...Credo in un Dio crude!"
OtelloOtello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887...
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/ "Perfidi!...Pietà, rispetto, amore" (
MacbethMacbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name...
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/ "Tutto è deserto...Il Balen del suo soriso" (
Il trovatoreIl trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez....
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/ "Di Provenza il mar, il suol" (
La traviataLa traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848. The title "La traviata" means literally The Woman Who Strayed, or perhaps more figuratively, The...
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/ "Alzati! là tuo figlio...Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima" (
Un ballo in mascheraUn ballo in maschera , is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. The opera's first production was at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, 17 February 1859....
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Music by Forsyth and Freedman
(Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1985)
- Freedman
Harry Freedman was a Canadian composer, musician and educator. In 1984, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.-External links:** *...
Oiseaux exotiques
/ ForsythMalcolm Forsyth, CM is a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....
Atayoskewin
(Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
: Best Classical Composition)
Canadian and Russian Overtures
(Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1986)
- Forsyth
Malcolm Forsyth, CM is a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....
Jubilee Overture
/ Godfrey Ridout Fall Fair
/ MorawetzOskar Morawetz, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian composer.Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou in Czechoslovakia. He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeover of his country in 1938, studied in Vienna and Paris, always staying one step ahead of the invading Nazis...
Overture to a Fairy Tale
/ Shostakovich Festive Overture, Opus 96
/ BorodinBorodin , or Borodina is a Russian last name and may refer to:*Alexander Borodin , Russian composer and chemist*Alexander Parfeniyevich Borodin, Russian scientist in the field of rail transport...
Prince IgorPrince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Polovtsian tribes in 1185...
: Overture
/ Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon: Overture
/ Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
Fiala The Kurelek Suite
(Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1987)
Harp Concertos
(Gianetta Baril harp, Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1987)
- Ginastera
Harp Concerto, Opus 25
/ MorawetzOskar Morawetz, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian composer.Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou in Czechoslovakia. He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeover of his country in 1938, studied in Vienna and Paris, always staying one step ahead of the invading Nazis...
Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra
(Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
: Best Classical Composition)
Great Orchestral Marches
(Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1988)
- Fučík
Julius Ernst Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands.Fučík spent most of his life as the leader of military brass bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 300 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name...
Entrance of the Gladiators"Entrance of the Gladiators" or "Entry of the Gladiators" is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius Fučík...
/ AlfordKenneth Joseph Alford is a pseudonym taken by Major Fredrick Joseph Ricketts. As a composer he is best known for his marches, the most famous of which being Colonel Bogey. British officers of his day were not encouraged to pursue interests outside the Services so, as a Lieutenant, he published...
Colonel Bogey
/ Sousa-Surname:Sousa is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. Sosa is the Castilian equivalent. It was originally a toponym. Sometimes the spelling is Souza...
Stars and Stripes Forever
/ Elgar Pomp & Circumstance No. 4The Pomp and Circumstance Marches , Op. 39 are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar....
/ FarnonRobert Joseph Farnon was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player.-Life:Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was commissioned as a captain in the Canadian Army and became the conductor/arranger of the Canadian Band of the allied expeditionary force sent overseas during...
State Occasion
/ Papineau-CoutureJean Papineau-Couture, CC, GOQ was a Canadian composer and academic.Born in Montreal, as a child he studied piano with his mother. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in 1937. He then attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he received a Bachelor of...
Marche de Guillaument
/ Beethoven Turkish MarchLudwig van Beethoven's Turkish March is a widely recognized classical march theme.The theme, bearing a certain Turkish quality, was first used in his Op. 76 piano variations of 1809, "6 Variations on an Original Theme." It's interesting to note that Op. 76 appeared two years before Op...
(from The Ruins of AthensThe Ruins of Athens , Opus 113, is a set of incidental music written in 1811 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The music was written to accompany the play of the same name by August von Kotzebue, for the dedication of a new theatre at Pest....
) / Schubert Marche Militaire
/ StraussJohann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty...
Radetzky MarchRadetzky March, Op. 228 is a march composed by Johann Strauss Sr. in 1848. It was dedicated to the Austrian Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, and became quite a popular march among soldiers....
/ WillanHealey Willan, CC was a Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano. He is best known for his religious music.He was born in Balham, London and in his early career ...
Centennial March
/ DelibesDelibes may refer to:People with surname Delibes:* Léo Delibes , French composer* Miguel Delibes , Spanish novelist...
Cortège de Bacchus
/ Tchaikovsky Jurisprudence March
/ BakerMichael Conway Baker is a Canadian composer resident in North Vancouver, British Columbia....
March (Evocations, Movement II)
/ AdaskinMurray Adaskin, OC was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. After playing violin with a band, he studied composition and became the director of the Music department of the University of Saskatchewan...
March No. 2
/ HalvorsenJohan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life...
Triumphal Entry of the Boyars
/ Grieg March of the Dwarfs (from Lyric Suite, Opus 54)
/ HerbertVictor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway. He was prominent among the tin pan alley composers and later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and...
March of the Toys (from
Babes in ToylandBabes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough , which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a Christmas-themed musical extravaganza...
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/ RodgersRichard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
March of the Siamese Children (from The King & I)
/ WilliamsJohn Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars, Superman, Home Alone, the first three Harry Potter movies and all but two of Steven...
The Imperial March"The Imperial March " is a musical theme present in the Star Wars franchise. It was composed by John Williams for the film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...
(from The Empire Strikes Back)
Works for
CelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra...
and Orchestra
(Shauna RolstonShauna Rolston is a Canadian cellist. Rolston was born in Edmonton, Alberta.Rolston was a cello prodigy when young and attended the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland at fourteen, where she studied with Pierre Fournier, and later at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh where she also studied...
cello, Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1989)
- Morawetz
Oskar Morawetz, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian composer.Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou in Czechoslovakia. He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeover of his country in 1938, studied in Vienna and Paris, always staying one step ahead of the invading Nazis...
Memorial to Martin Luther King
/ BruchMax Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he received his...
Kol Nidrei, Opus 47
/ FauréFaure is a French family name and may refer to:People:* Edgar Faure, French politician* Émile Alphonse Faure, lead battery pioneer* Cédric Fauré, French football striker* Félix Faure, 19th century French president* Gabriel Fauré, French composer...
Élégie for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 24
/ DvořákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. His works include operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music...
Silent Woods, Opus 68 No. 5
/ BlissSir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was a British composer.-Birth, education and WWI:Born to an American father and English mother, Bliss attended Bilton Grange Preparatory School and Rugby before entering Cambridge University...
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
The Symphony SessionsThe Symphony Sessions was a live album released in 1989 by Tom Cochrane and Red Rider. It was the band's seventh and final album.The album was recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta....
(Tom CochraneTom Cochrane, OC Canadian musician and humanitarian, best known for his hit songs "Life Is a Highway", "Lunatic Fringe", "White Hot", "Boy Inside the Man", "Big League" and "I Wish You Well". Cochrane fronted the Canadian rock band Red Rider and has won seven Juno Awards...
, Red RiderRed Rider was a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While the band achieved great success in Canada, the band never had a song in the Top 40 in the United States....
, George Blondheim conductor, 1989)
Light in the Tunnel
/ Human Race
/ Can’t Turn Back
/ Napoleon Sheds His Skin
/ White Hot
/ Big League
/ Calling America
/ Avenue "A"
/ Bird on a Wire
/ Boy Inside the Man
/ Lunatic Fringe
/ Good Times
/ The Next Life
Music by Britten and Willan
(Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1993)
- Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, violist and pianist.-Life:...
Canadian Carnival, Opus 19
/ Britten Peter GrimesPeter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough...
: Four Sea Interludes, Opus 33a
/ WillanHealey Willan, CC was a Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano. He is best known for his religious music.He was born in Balham, London and in his early career ...
Symphony No. 2 in C minor
Russian Sketches
(Uri MayerUri Mayer is a Canadian violist and conductor.Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv...
conductor, 1997)
- Ippolitov-Ivanov
Caucasian SketchesCaucasian Sketches is a pair of orchestral suites written in 1894 and 1896 by the Russian composer Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov. The Caucasian Sketches is the most often performed of his compositions and can be heard frequently on classical radio stations. The final movement of the...
, Opus 10
/ Tchaikovsky Eugene OneginEugene Onegin, Op. 24, is an opera in 3 acts , by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest, and is based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.Eugene Onegin is a well-known example of lyric opera; the libretto very...
, Opus 24: Polonaise
/ Tchaikovsky The Sleeping BeautyThe Sleeping Beauty is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890. The music was by Pyotr Tchaikovsky . The score was completed in 1889, and is the second of his three ballets. The original scenario was conceived by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, and is based on Charles Perrault's La...
, Opus 66: Waltz
/ Shostakovich The Age of Gold: Suite, Opus 22aThe Suite from The Age of Gold by Dmitri Shostakovich is a suite extracted from his unsuccessful 1930 ballet, The Age of Gold. It has four movements:#Introduction #Adagio#Polka #Danse...
: Polka
/ BorodinBorodin , or Borodina is a Russian last name and may refer to:*Alexander Borodin , Russian composer and chemist*Alexander Parfeniyevich Borodin, Russian scientist in the field of rail transport...
In the Steppes of Central Asia
/ Rimsky-Korsakov The Golden CockerelThe Golden Cockerel is an opera in three acts by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky and is based on Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem The Tale of the Golden Cockerel...
: Suite
Electra Rising: Music of
Malcolm ForsythMalcolm Forsyth, CM is a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....
(William Street saxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841...
, Amanda Forsyth celloThe cello is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra...
, Grzegorz NowakGrzegorz Nowak is a Polish conductor. He has served as music director of the Polish National Opera, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Radio Orchestra in Kaiserslautern in Germany), and Sinfonia Helvetica and festival Musique & Amitié in Switzerland.- Biography :Grzegorz Nowak is the of the...
conductor, 1998)
Valley of a Thousand Hills
/ Tre Vie
/ Electra Rising
(Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
: Best Classical Composition)
Music by Smetana and Janáček
(Grzegorz NowakGrzegorz Nowak is a Polish conductor. He has served as music director of the Polish National Opera, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Radio Orchestra in Kaiserslautern in Germany), and Sinfonia Helvetica and festival Musique & Amitié in Switzerland.- Biography :Grzegorz Nowak is the of the...
conductor, 1999)
- Smetana
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
Má vlastMá vlast is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana...
(original 1875 version) / Janáček Moravian Dances
P.J. PerryPaul John Perry Guloien is a jazz saxophonist from Edmonton, Alberta. He has won one Juno award as a solo artist, and one for his work with The Rob McConnell Tentet....
and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
(P.J. PerryPaul John Perry Guloien is a jazz saxophonist from Edmonton, Alberta. He has won one Juno award as a solo artist, and one for his work with The Rob McConnell Tentet....
, saxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841...
, David HoytDavid Hoyt is a Canadian horn player and conductor.He studied piano , French horn , and conducting .In 1975, while a student at the University of Alberta, he became Principal Horn of the Edmonton Symphony...
conductor, 1999)
Django
/ Charlie ParkerCharles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker, with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, is often considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians...
Medley
/ Bossa NovaBossa Nova may refer to:*Bossa nova, a style of music*Bossa Nova , a dance form associated with the music*Bossa Nova - album by John Pizzarelli*Bossanova, an album by the rock band the Pixies...
Medley
/ They Kept Bach's Head Alive
/ Ballad Medley
/ Hand In Hand
/ Harlem Nocturne
/ The Old Castle
/ Strike Up The Band
Semi-ConductedSemi-Conducted is a live album by the Canadian comedy music group The Arrogant Worms, recorded on January 22, 2002, and backed by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. It was released the following year...
(CD) / Three Worms and an OrchestraThree Worms and an Orchestra is a DVD of a performance of the Canadian comedy music group The Arrogant Worms with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. It includes their most popular songs performed live, as well as two music videos....
(DVD)
(The Arrogant WormsThe Arrogant Worms are a Canadian musical comedy trio that parodies many musical genres. They are well known for their humorous on-stage banter in addition to their music.-History:...
David HoytDavid Hoyt is a Canadian horn player and conductor.He studied piano , French horn , and conducting .In 1975, while a student at the University of Alberta, he became Principal Horn of the Edmonton Symphony...
conductor, 2003)
Overture
/ Big Fat Road Manager
/ Canada's Really Big
/ Rocks and Trees
/ Log In to You
/ I am Cow
/ Last Saskatchewan Pirate
/ Gaelic Song
/ Me Like Hockey
/ Carrot Juice is Murder
/ Dangerous
/ Billy the Theme Park Shark
/ Celine DionCéline Marie Claudette Dion , CC, OQ is a Canadian singer, occasional songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to...
/ We are the Beaver
Frenergy: The Music of
John EstacioJohn Estacio is a contemporary Canadian composer.Raised in the farming community of the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Estacio took piano and accordion lessons, and played church organ every Sunday...
(Mario BernardiMario Bernardi, CC is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He has conducted 75 different operas and over 450 other works with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.-Early years:...
conductor, 2004)
Frenergy
/ A Farmer's Symphony
/ Bootlegger's Tarantella
/ Such Sweet Sorrow
/ Solaris
/ Borealis
/ Wondrous Light
Steve BellSteve Bell is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is among the best-known Christian musicians in Canada and is an accomplished songwriter and record producer. Steve has an extensive catalogue of songs including "Deep Calls to Deep", "Eventide" and...
in concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
(DVD)
(Steve BellSteve Bell is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is among the best-known Christian musicians in Canada and is an accomplished songwriter and record producer. Steve has an extensive catalogue of songs including "Deep Calls to Deep", "Eventide" and...
, vocalist, Rei Hotoda conductor, 2008)
Here By the Water
/ Deep Calls to Deep
/ Waiting for Aidan
/ Burning Ember
/ Lord of the Starfields
/ Even So
/ Wellspring
/ Holy Lord
External links
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Orchestra Spotlight: The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at Polyphonic.org