NSYO Season Concert Schedule 2010-2011
All concerts at 7:00 pm, except where noted.
Dinuk Wijeratne, Music Director and Conductor
(all shows except joint concert)
Summer Concerts 2010
Eric Mathis - Trombone Soloist
& Tim Labor - Featured Composer
Eric Mathis will be perform Rota's Trombone Concerto alongside the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra at our two summer concerts in Halifax and Truro, and Tim Labor will premiere his work Blomidon: Tone Poem with Sound Design!
Friday, August 27, 2010
7:00 PM
St. Andrew’s United Church
6036 Coburg Rd.
Halifax, NS
Saturday, August 28, 2010
7:00 PM
First United Church
711 Prince St.
Truro, NS
Copland Fanfare for a Common Man
Copland Rodeo
Gounod Petite Symphonie for Winds
Tim Labor Blomidon: Tone Poem for Orchestra and Sound Design (special commission)
Rota Trombone Concerto
Regular Season Concerts
October special program with Prismatic
Dunn Theatre, Halifax: week of October 10
Evan Mounce - 2010/11 Concerto Winner
Evan will be performing Milhaud's Scaramouche for Alto Saxophone, and Cohen's Concertino for Soprano Saxophone at our November concerts in Lunenburg and Halifax.
Click here to read his biography!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, NS
(presented by the St. Cecilia's Concert Society)
Sunday, November 14, 2010
St. Andrew's United Church, Halifax, NS
Wijeratne Special Commission - Solea Di Diomira
Brahms and Dvorak Selection of Hungarian and Slavonic Dances
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Milhaud Scaramouche
Cohen Concertino for Soprano Saxophone
Gala Pops Concert, Sunday, December 5, 2010
World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax
Latin Dance Party, collaboration with Los Primos and Jeff Goodspeed with special guests The Halifax Salseros Dancers and area high school students.
SNS/NSYO Joint Concert, February 20, 2011
2011 Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax 7:30 pm
Bernhard Gueller, SNS Music Director and Conductor
Celeste Williams, guest artist and NSYO alumnus
Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in Eb
Mahler Symphony No. 5
April Season Finales
Wolfville: Denton Hall, Acadia University April 16, 2011
Halifax: St. Andrew's United Church April 17
David Jalbert, special guest piano soloist
Borodin Overture to Prince Igor
Haydn Symphony No. 103
Rachmaninov Concerto for Piano and orchestra No. 3
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