NMF 7 - Amplify, Multiply, Remix, and Redefine… Oh My!

Friday, February 12, 2010 • 8:00 p.m

Centennial Concert Hall
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Pre-Concert Discussion • 7:10 p.m
Pre-Concert Performance • 7:30 p.m

For our closing gala concert, we present several major musical events! Come hear Brett Dean’s innovative Pastoral Symphony, a work that combines recorded sounds of birds with live orchestra. Then take a journey into the “unstructured sources of our beings” in Steven Stucky’s Radical Light. Tim Brady pushes the boundaries of classical concert music as he brings together four solo electric guitarists and an ensemble of over 20 guitarists on stage with the WSO to perform his Amplify, Multiply, Remix, and Redefine; a piece written in homage to Les Paul, inventor of the electric guitar. Closing off this year’s Festival is John Psathas’ show-stopping, adrenaline-filled piano & percussion concerto, View From Olympus, featuring critically acclaimed soloists Jenny Lin (piano) and Aiyun Huang (percussion).

Artists:

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Tim Brady, guitar
Jenny Lin, piano
Aiyun Huang, percussion
David Larocque
Tim Cummings
Greg Lowe
Alan Nagelberg
Guitar ensemble from the Louis Riel School Division, coordinated by Randall Haley

Program:

Tim Brady (CAN): Amplify, Multiply, Remix, and Redefine for solo electric guitar, guitar choir and orchestra* World premiere

INTERMISSION

Steven Stucky (USA):  Radical Light
John Psathas (NZ): View From Olympus for piano, percussion and orchestra - North American premiere

Special thanks to Godin Guitars for supplying their instruments for tonight’s concert
*Commissioned by Canada Council of the Arts