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Alexander Weimann; Rodney Sharman
A two concert collaboration with the Vancouver Symphony’s New Music Festival
New Music for Old Instruments is a series. Click here for details on January 28th’s performance.
Contemporary compositions written for baroque instruments
Co-Curated by Composer Rodney Sharman and PBO Music Director Alexander Weimann. Performers include: Camille Hesketh soprano, Vicki Boeckman recorder, Soile Stratkauskas flute, Chloe Meyers violin, Beiliang Zhu gamba/cello
Alexander Weimann Harpsichord
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Programme
*Christopher Reiche (b. 1983) – An Overture for Joy (2014) – fl, violin, cello, harpsichord – 8’
Markus Zahnhausen (b. 1965) – 2 movements from Winterbilder (1989-91) – recorder – 4′
Murray Adaskin (b. 1906) – Two Pieces for Solo Viola da Gamba (1972) – viola da gamba – 9′
Louis Andriessen (b. 1939) – Ende (1981) – recorder – 2’
György Ligeti (1923-2006) – Continuum (1968) – harpsichord solo – 5′
Moritz Eggert (b. 1965) – Ausser Atem (Breathless) (1995) – recorder – 7’
*Linda Catlin Smith (b. 1957) – Grey Broken (1982) – soprano, flute, harpsichord – 11′
INTERMISSION
*Anonymous (Music from New France, early 18th century) – Motet a voix seule au St Sacrement – 5′ (soprano alone)
*Peter Hannan (b. 1953) – Trinkets of Little Value (1986, rev. 2016) – soprano, flute, recorder, violin, gamba, harpsichord – 20′
*Canadian composer
Programme Notes
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Alexander Weimann
The internationally renowned keyboard artist Alexander Weimann has spent his life enveloped by the therapeutic power and beauty of making music. Alex grew up in Munich. At age three he became fascinated by the intense magic of the church organ. He started piano at six, formal organ lessons at 12 and harpsichord at university (along with theatre theory, medieval Latin and jazz piano.) He is in huge demand as a director, soloist and chamber player, traveling the world with leading North American and European ensembles. He is Artistic Director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver and teaches at the University of British Columbia where he directs the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme.
Alex has appeared on more than 100 recordings, including the Juno-award-winning album “Prima Donna” with Karina Gauvin and Arion Baroque orchestra. His latest album series “The Art of Improvisation” (Volume 1: A Prayer for Peace; Volume 2: Ad libitum; and Volume 3: Caravan Variations, released on Redshift, 2024) unites his passions for both baroque music and improvisation on organ, harpsichord, and piano.
Rodney Sharman
Rodney Sharman lives in Vancouver, BC. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Victoria Symphony, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In addition to concert music, Rodney Sharman writes music for cabaret, opera and dance. He works regularly with choreographer James Kudelka, for whom he has written scores for Oregon Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet and Coleman Lemieux & Co. (Toronto). Sharman was awarded First Prize in the 1984 CBC Competition for Young Composers and the 1990 Kranichsteiner Prize in Music, Darmstadt, Germany.
His score for the music-dance-theatre piece, From The House Of Mirth, won the 2013 Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding sound design/composition (choreography by James Kudelka, text by Alex Poch Goldin after Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth). He was a 2014 Djerassi Artist-in-Residence, Woodside, California.
