SUNDAY, SEP 30, 2012, 2:30 – 4:30PMLocation The Winspear Centre
4 Sir Winston Churchill Square
City / Town Edmonton
Event Venue Winspear Centre
Description Alberta Culture Days
Event Category Concerts / Performances
Cost Free
PurchaseTickets Free tickets can be reserved
at the Winspear Box Office at
780.428.1414
Contact Name Pro Coro Canada
Contact Phone 780.420.2147
Contact Email thechoir@procoro.ab.ca
Link winspearcentre.com …
Pro Coro Canada, a professional chamber choir resident in Edmonton, is pleased to present its first concert of the season in the Francis Winspear Centre for Music at 2:30 PM on Sunday, September 30, 2012. Making his conductor’s debut this concert is Michael Zaugg, the newly appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Pro Coro Canada. Michael is known for his ability to create an environment where choristers give their best. He chooses repertoire that will both challenge the musicians and delight the audience.
The Sept. 30 concert, entitled Once Upon a Time, takes texts from Hans Christian Andersen’s stories and fairy tales that have been set to music, ranging from Orlando Gibbons’ 16th-century “Cries of London” through Latvian composer Ugis Praulins’ contemporary “The Nightingale” in its North American premiere. This latter piece, as well as Grieg’s classic “Morning Mood” (from the Peer Gynt Suite), will be accompanied on solo recorder by Matthias Maute. Since winning first prize in the renowned Early Music Competition in Bruges (Belgium) in 1990, he has been the featured recorder soloist at Boston’s Early Music Festival (2003 and 2005), and made his debut at New York’s Lincoln Centre in December 2008. In this concert, another highly anticipated work will be Rain and Rush and Rosebush by Danish composer Bo Holten — the piece which inspired Michael to become a conductor.
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