Toronto Symphony Orchestra 2011-2012 Season

Concerts & Tickets

2011.2012 Season

Orion

  • Wed. Mar. 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM
    Roy Thomson Hall
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Peter Eötvös, Conductor
Peter Eötvös,
Conductor

Two imaginative works by Festival curator Peter Eötvös highlight the final concert. The brand-new Cello Concerto Grosso puts the TSO's Principal Cello, Joseph Johnson, in the spotlight. Guest artist Jörg Widmann performs the solo part in his own composition: Elegy for Clarinet and Orchestra.

Intermission Chat in the lobby on March 7

PRE: At 7:15 enjoy The New Orford String Quartet featuring principal players of the Toronto and Montreal Symphonies playing Canadian works by Ana Sokolovic and Jacques Hétu.

POST: Internationally acclaimed jazz trumpeter Brownman Ali with the Brownman Akoustic Quintet will take the audience on a journey through Miles Davis' earliest musical lineage.

*Peter Eötvös’s Cello Concerto Grosso is a co-commission of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zürich, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Peter Oundjian, conductor and host
  • Peter Eötvös, conductor
  • Jörg Widmann, clarinet
  • Joseph Johnson, cello
Vivier: Orion View Notes  
Peter Eötvös: Cello Concerto Grosso (TSO Co-Commission*/North American Première) View Notes  
Jörg Widmann: Elegy for Clarinet and Orchestra View Notes  
Peter Eötvös: zeroPoints View Notes  

These performances are part of the following series


*Jointly commissioned by Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle Zürich, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.