Join us on Saturday March 1 in Victoria for another unique chamber music concert featuring conductor Ben Litzcke and local professional wind musicians from Victoria and Pender. This program spans over two centuries from the early 1800s to the present day. Let us take you on a whirlwind tour of old and new sounds!
Most of the music is cheerful and optimistic such as Nancy Galbraith's beautiful Dos Danzas Latinas Igor Bázlik's folk-like Four Pieces for Wind Octet and Svend Schultz's fun and irreverent Divertimento. We explore some heavier subject matter in Yunfei Li's Five Elements a meditation on the state of imbalance in the world through the lens of ancient Chinese philosophy. A few shorter pieces round out this varied program including Canadian composer Eleanor Daley's In Remembrance arranged especially for us by Victoria local Scott MacInnes.
We are grateful to the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service Thrifty Foods Hillside Mall Wildwood Health & Performance Long & McQuade and Ptarmigan Arts for their support of this concert series.
WHEN
Saturday March 1
7:00 pm
WHERE
Baumann Centre 925 Balmoral Rd Victoria BC V8W 2L5
COST
Adults $30 Youth 18+under free
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PROGRAM
Franz Krommer: Octet Partita Op. 57 movement III
Svend Schultz: Divertimento
Nancy Galbraith: Dos Danzas Latinas
Eleanor Daley (arr. MacInnes): In Remembrance
Yunfei Li: Five Elements
Igor Bázlik: Four Pieces for Wind Octet
Derek Bourgeois (ad. Brand): Serenade
MUSICIANS
Ben Litzcke conductor
Michelle Feng oboe
Andrew Montgomery oboe
Erin Onyschtschuk clarinet
Luke Ongman clarinet
Sam McNally horn
Jean Poynter horn
Jenny Gunter bassoon
Liz Gowen bassoon
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Baumann Centre, 925 Balmoral Rd, Victoria, Canada
