Five different ICE groups will perform a wide variety of classical music pieces.
Jung Tsai, the accomplished 2nd Associate Concertmaster of the KW Symphony, will perform 20th Century violin works. Franz Waxman’s virtuoso violin showpiece will be featured, entitled Carmen Fantasie. Other pieces include a work by eminent Canadian composer Elizabeth Raum, called Les Ombres.
Using songs of Gilles Binchois and John Bedyngham, with their associated parody Masses — and new adaptations of poetry by Christine de Pizan — this program tells a late-medieval transition story, which is also a story of the progress of love, both sacred and profane.
Every two years, orchestra@uwaterloo holds a Concerto and Aria Competition that is open to University of Waterloo students and recent graduates, and is judged by a panel of professional musicians. Winners perform as soloists with the orchestra in a public concert. Both singers and instrumentalists are welcome to enter. The Finalists concert will be held at 5pm on February 4th, 2023.
Poland Parables, music by Carol Ann Weaver, is a set of pieces based on text by Canadian Mennonite writer Connie Braun who recounted difficult, impossible, and heart-rending stories from her own family members during WWII, Poland — stories of displacement, trauma, loss, and hardship.
Arab & Iraqi Classical music performed by the Maqamat Orchestra
Joy Lapps Project, a steelpan led ensemble exploring Afro and Latin-Caribbean Jazz, with a hint of R&B and soul. Joy will share repertoire from her most recent release Girl In The Yard and also explore new arrangements of a few covers we know and love.
Written by Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf is a "symphonic fairy tale for children". The narrator tells a children's story, while the musicians illustrate it by using different instruments to represents each character in the story.
Dvorak's Cello Concerto with soloist Robert Choi, and Tchaikovsky Symphony n. 6 are on the programme this term.
Come and join the University Choir as they explore themes of being together through repertoire by Schütz, Mendelssohn, Saindon, Runestad, and Pasek & Paul.