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Sounds of Spring (Revisited!)
Featuring

Nick Ross on Trumpet & Violin
November 26 & 27, 2022

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To hear an excerpt from Mozart's Violin Concerto click HERE
This fall the Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra presents Sounds of Spring (Revisited!), an engaging and eclectic program of Baroque, Classical and Modern works.  The NCO features multi-talented guest artist, Nick Ross, a native of Ottawa, who studied both violin and trumpet at the University of Ottawa.  Since recently moving to Nanaimo, he maintains a busy teaching studio, performs regularly with the Vancouver Island Symphony and is Music Director of the Nanaimo Youth Orchestra.   Nick has had extensive experience playing in Canadian orchestras in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. He will play the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K.211; and will solo in Alan Hovhaness’ Prayer of St. Gregory, for trumpet and strings.

The program starts with Concerto in A, Opus 9, No. 11 by Charles Avison (1709-1770), an English Baroque composer reputed to have a strong sense of melody in his works.  Then, Nocturne in B Major by Anton Dvořak, published in 1883, adapted from the slow movement of an earlier string quartet.  The first half finishes with the Mozart Concerto and violinist, Nick Ross.  This concerto is from 1775 when the 19-year old Mozart composed 5 violin concertos for the Archbishop’s court orchestra in Salzburg.

The 2nd half opens with a beautifully meditative homage to St. Gregory (The Illuminator) who, at the beginning of the 4th Century, brought Christianity to Armenia.  Prayer for St. Gregory was composed in the mid-1940’s by American, Alan Hovhaness (1911- 2000).  To finish, the NCO will play Suite for Strings, by Czech composer, Leoš Janacek (1854 – 1928).  This Suite has 6 movements and bears influences of Janacek’s native Moravian folk tunes.

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To hear The Prayer of St. Gregory for Trumpet click HERE

Saturday, November 26, 2022
   Nanaimo Concert 
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 
                     4235 Departure Bay Road       
MAP      
TIME: 2:30 pm
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Sunday, November 27, 2022
Ladysmith Concert
St. Mary's Parish
1135 Fourth Avenue     MAP
TIME: 2:30 pm
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TICKETS
Early Bird Tickets available online until Nov 7
  Information and online tickets here

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  • Concerts & Tickets
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    • March 2023 Concert
    • Tickets Mar 11 & 12 2023
    • Past Performances >
      • June 2022
      • 2019-20 Season >
        • November 2019
        • NCO and Malaspina Choir
      • 2018-19 Season >
        • November/December 2018
        • March/April 2019
        • June 2019
        • August 30, 2019
      • 2017-18 Season >
        • November 2017
        • March 2018
        • June 2018
      • Summer 2017
      • June 3 & 4, 2017
      • Mar 11 & 12, 2017
      • Nov 26 & 27, 2016
      • Opera! 2016 Oct 22, 23
      • June 4 and 5, 2016
      • March 19 and 20, 2016
      • Nov 28 and Dec 6, 2015
      • Opera! Oct. 24 and 25, 2015
  • Concerto Competition
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    • Contact List
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