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BRAMWELL TOVEY Isabel Bayrakdarian CONCERT PROGRAM MASTERWOR KS DIAMON D / OR PH EUM TH EATR E, 8PM saturday & monday, december 3, 5 JON KIMURA PARKER Bramwell Tovey conductor ◆ Isabel Bayrakdarian soprano ◗ ◆ Hugh Russell baritone ◆ Vancouver Bach Choir Edward Top Masquerade ◗ Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer Intermission ◆ Brahms A German Requiem, Op. 45 PRE-CONCERT TALKS free to ticketholders at 7:05pm. Visit the Symphony Gift Shop for CD selections 38 allegro
Bramwell Tovey conductor GRAMMY ® Award winning conductor Bramwell Tovey is acknowledged around the world for his artistic vision and depth, and his warm, charismatic personality. Tovey’s career as a conductor is uniquely enhanced by his extensive work as a composer and pianist, lending him a remarkable musical perspective. His tenures as music director with the Vancouver Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras and as Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl have been characterized by his expertise in operatic, choral, British and contemporary repertoire. Mr. Tovey, who is entering his twelfth season as Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony, celebrated his 100th concert this past July as a guest conductor of the New Philharmonic. He is founding host and conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. In 2008, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics co-commissioned him to write a new work, Urban Runway, which has been played across Canada, the US and in Australia. He was awarded the Best Canadian Classical Composition Juno ® Award in 2003 for his Requiem for a Charred Skull. An esteemed guest conductor, Mr. Tovey has worked with orchestras in the United States and Europe including the City of Birmingham, London Philharmonic, London Symphony and Frankfurt Radio orchestras. In North America, Mr. Tovey has made guest appearances with the orchestras of Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Seattle and Montreal as well as ongoing performances with Toronto, where his trumpet concerto, Songs of the Paradise Saloon commissioned by the TSO, received its premiere in December of 2009 as a preview of his first full-length opera The Inventor which was commissioned and premiered by Calgary Opera in January 2011. During the summer of 2011 he debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood and made a return visit to the Philadelphia Orchestra, this time in their summer series in Saratoga, NY. This season he will guest conduct the Melbourne, Western Australia (Perth) and Sydney Symphony orchestras in Australia. Tovey has been awarded honourary degrees, including a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music in London, honourary Doctorates of Law from the universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba, and Kwantlen University College, as well as a Royal Conservatory of Music Fellowship in Toronto. He is a member of the Order of Manitoba. In 1999, he received the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Artistic Direction, a Canadian prize awarded to artists for outstanding contributions in the performing arts. Isabel Bayrakdarian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian burst onto the international opera scene after winning first prize in the 2000 Operalia competition founded by Plácido Domingo. Since then she has performed in many of the world’s major opera houses, recital stages and concert halls. She is admired as much for her stunning stage presence as for her exceptional musicality, and she has followed a career path completely her own. Ms. Bayrakdarian sings on the Grammy ® award-winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, and her voice can also be heard in the multiple award-winning Canadian film Ararat. She has been honoured with four Juno ® awards, Canada’s highest recording prize, most recently for her CD Mozart arie & duetti with fellow Canadians Russell Braun and Michael Schade. Expanding her vast discography, Ms. Bayrkdarian was a guest soloist with the Canadian band Delerium on their 2007 Grammy ® nominated dance remix Angelicus. Born in Lebanon of proud Armenian heritage and now a citizen of Canada, Ms. Bayrakdarian moved with her family to Toronto as a teenager. Her earliest singing experience was at church, which remains – along with her family – the central focus of her life. She holds an honours degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. allegro 39
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