8:00pm Concert
7:15pm Pre-Concert Chat

Adventure and discovery come with premiering new works. Along with the new pieces by Llugdar, Scime, and Rea, Evangelista’s Accelerando, being premiered by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in November 2016, is also new. Nancarrow, famous for complex player piano pieces not playable by humans, is represented by an orchestral gem that can be performed by Esprit’s excellent musicians. Llugdar, composing as though she is inside sound, aims at expression through complex textures, many contrasts and extremes in the same piece. Scime’s piece is a new panel of a triptyque for Esprit.

featuring

Alex Pauk Conductor

Programme

José Evangelista (Canada)
Accelerando (2016)

Analia Llugdar (Canada)
El canto del viento (2017)**

Conlon Nancarrow (Mexico/U.S.A.)
Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra (1985)*

John Rea (Canada)
Survivance (2017)***

Adam Scime (Canada)
Surfacing (2017)**

*Canadian Premiere

Artists and repertoire subject to change without notice.

Concert Sponsor

The Max Clarkson Family Foundation

Llugdar and Scime world premieres commissioned by Esprit with generous support from

The Koerner Foundation