2011.2012 Season
Orion
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 |
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| Peter Eötvös: Cello Concerto Grosso (TSO Co-Commission*/North American Première) |
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| Jörg Widmann: Elegy for Clarinet and Orchestra |
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| Peter Eötvös: zeroPoints |
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*Jointly commissioned by Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle Zürich, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.