SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Marc-André Hamelin * Rich Aucoin Giora Schmidt * Meaghan Smith Buck 65 * Mozart’s Requiem Bach’s Christmas Oratorio SUBSCRIBE NOW Vivaldi’s Four Seasons AND SAVE UP TO 35% Holst’s The Planets BUY 10 CONCERTS – it’s like getting 2 FREE! & much more! BUY 6 CONCERTS – it’s like getting 1 FREE! SUBSCRIBE BY SERIES or choose your favourites in a U-Pick! FIRST-TIME SUBSCRIBER? Get your second U-Pick half price! 902.494.3820 or symphonynovascotia.ca SEE YOU THIS SEASON! For tickets call 902.494.3820 or visit symphonynovascotia.ca SEASON 2015 / 16 * 1 2015 / 16 Symphony Nova Scotia is your symphony, and we’re proud to play the great and glorious music of our ancestors, our CONCERT families, and our communities – from classical to Celtic, SEASON baroque to big band, and everything in between. Come join us! Welcome to our new season, headlined by violinist Giora Schmidt! 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U-PICK 6: choose your favourite 6 concerts Bernhard Gueller • Music Director GOOD VALUE – SAVE +10% U-PICK 4: choose your top 4 concerts FIRST-TIME SUBSCRIBER? Buy one U-Pick package and get your second for half price! * BENEFITS INCLUDE: * Guaranteed reserved seating There’s so much incredible music to * Free ticket exchanges hear this season, and we can’t wait * Free Open Rehearsal voucher to share it with you. I look forward * 10% discount on extra tickets all year long to seeing you at a concert soon! * Free e-program prior to concerts * Complimentary coat check at concerts Martin MacDonald • * And much more! Former Resident Conductor (2008-2011) and Associate Conductor (2013-2016) FOR MORE INFORMATION: page 22 or symphonynovascotia.ca 2 * SEASON 2015 / 16 SEE YOU THIS SEASON! For tickets call 902.494.3820 or visit symphonynovascotia.ca SEE YOU THIS SEASON! For tickets call 902.494.3820 or visit symphonynovascotia.ca SEASON 2015 / 16 * 3 Under Maestro Bernhard Gueller, our orchestra teams up with internationally acclaimed guest artists to perform some of the greatest music ever written. Venue: the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax Giora Schmidt Andrea Ludwig Louis-Philippe Marsolais André Laplante SPECTACULAR SIBELIUS MASTERPIECES BY MOZART’S REQUIEM MAESTRO GUELLER'S MAGNIFICENT MOZART ANDRÉ LAPLANTE WITH GIORA SCHMIDT BEETHOVEN & RAVEL Series concert: BELOVED SCHUBERT 7:30PM • THUR. JAN. 28, 2016 PERFORMS TCHAIKOVSKY 7:30PM • THUR. OCT. 15, 2015 7:30PM • THUR. OCT. 29, 2015 7:30PM • WED. NOV. 11, 2015 * 7:30PM • THUR. JAN. 14, 2016 Alderney Encore: 7:30PM • THUR. FEB. 18, 2016 Alderney Encore: 7:30PM • THUR. NOV. 12, 2015 2:00PM • SUN. JAN. 31, 2016 2:00PM • SUN. OCT. 18, 2015 German virtuoso pianist Franz Schubert has been André Laplante is one of Leonie Rettig is “an extremely It’s a work of astonishing called the greatest song- Symphony Nova Scotia once Canada’s great piano virtuosos – Sibelius’ Violin Concerto is a talented, wonderful player,” beauty and depth, writer who ever lived, with again salutes the world’s most a multi-award-winning, magnificent showpiece, full says Maestro Gueller, with an heartbreaking in its grief, an unparalleled gift for iconic composer! Experience the internationally acclaimed “tour of dizzying excitement and “overwhelming sonic aura” breathtaking in its grandeur, beautiful melodies and rich full range of Mozart’s incredible de force” who ranks “among technical fireworks. And Giora and a “golden sound” (Der and ominous in its mystery. emotional depth. In this genius with three extraordinary the master pianists” (The Schmidt is a star virtuoso Teckbote). Leonie makes her Symphony Nova Scotia concert, Maestro Gueller works, beginning with the Globe and Mail). Now, André violinist, whose previous Canadian debut with Ravel’s remembers the fallen with has hand-picked a stunning energetic Symphony no. 34. Then, makes his first-ever Symphony sold-out appearances with breathtaking Piano Concerto in Mozart’s last, unfinished work – variety of Schubert’s most virtuoso hornist Louis-Philippe Nova Scotia appearance with Symphony Nova Scotia earned G, a fantastically colourful work the immensely powerful popular orchestrated Marsolais takes on the delightfully Tchaikovsky’s sensational him critical accolades and famed for its brilliant melodies Requiem. Full of fire, terror, songs – including two humorous and notoriously Piano Concerto. By turns enthusiastic standing ovations. and heartbreaking slow move- tenderness, and lament, the brand-new orchestrations difficult Fourth Horn Concerto. grandiose, tender, graceful, Now, on the 150th anniversary ment. Then, the orchestra Requiem is one of the world’s from established Canadian And for the grand finale, we’ll and explosive, this masterwork of Sibelius’ birth, Giora makes performs Beethoven’s Second most moving works, and the composers – and paired hear one of the master’s last remains one of the best- a triumphant return to perform Symphony, brimming with final magnum opus from them with Webern’s works, and also one of his known and best-loved piano one of the most spectacular energy and temperament. the most beloved composer crystalline Five Movements greatest – the dark, brooding, concertos ever written. violin works of all time. of all time. and Schubert’s frolicking, and intensely passionate Featuring: Bernhard Gueller, conductor exuberant Symphony no. 3. Symphony no. 40. Featuring: Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor Featuring: Bernhard Gueller, conductor Leonie Rettig, piano Featuring: André Laplante, piano Giora Schmidt, violin Chan Ka Nin: Ecstasy Jean-Philippe Tremblay, conductor Featuring: Bernhard Gueller, conductor Featuring: Bernhard Gueller, conductor Alexander Borodin: In the Steppes Sibelius: Lemminkäinen’s Return Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Nathalie Paulin, soprano Andrea Ludwig, soprano Louis-Philippe Marsolais, horn of Central Asia Sibelius: Violin Concerto Beethoven: Symphony no. 2 Anita Krause, alto Adam Luther, tenor Webern: Five Movements Mozart: Symphony no. 34 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 Sibelius: Symphony no. 1 Nathaniel Watson, baritone for String Orchestra, op. 5 Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 4 Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1919) The Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus, Schubert: Lieder, orchestrated by: Mozart: Symphony no. 40 RImsky-Korsakov: Skaza (Fairy Tale) "He soared, he dazzled, he ripped with the Halifax Camerata Singers Kati Agócs the double-stops from the strings John Estacio: Such Sweet Sorrow Hector Berlioz ALDERNEY ENCORES in handfuls, and rippled through Haydn: Symphony no. 44 Brian Current Alderney Encores are at Dartmouth’s the scale passages with a tone of (Trauer-Symphonie) Max Reger Alderney Landing Theatre, and are silvered lightning." ~ The Chronicle Mozart: Requiem Anton Webern only available through TicketPro. Herald, after Giora Schmidt’s 2010 Schubert: Symphony no. 3 For more details, please see pg. 22. performance with the orchestra “The Requiem is the most sublime piano work in this genre. Those who don’t know it will be stunned by the Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Leonie Rettig, conductor grandeur of the music; those who do will feel afresh the profundity CELEBRITY CLASSICS of the music.” Maestro Gueller ~ Full series: 10 concerts $520.00 $496.00 $400.00 $240.00 SAVE +20% Add-on tickets $58.50 $55.80 $45.00 $27.00 SAVE +10% REPEAT OH CANADA! PLEASE NOTE! Single tickets $65 - 70 $62 - 67 $50 - 55 $30.00 PERFORMANCES Proud to perform great This concert takes place So nice we play it twice! Canadian music, eh! on Remembrance Day. Free pre-concert chats: 6:45PM in the Sculpture Court, just outside the auditorium. 4 * SEASON 2015 / 16 SEE YOU THIS SEASON! For tickets call 902.494.3820 or visit symphonynovascotia.ca SEE YOU THIS SEASON! For tickets call 902.494.3820 or visit symphonynovascotia.ca SEASON 2015 / 16 * 5 Marc-André Hamelin Yi-Jia Susanne Hou Shauna Rolston Allyson McHardy Shostakovich ENGLISH FESTIVAL: ENGLISH FESTIVAL: