RMSO 2018-19 Season Brochure

March 22-23, 2019
Artist Biographies
Celebration
of Spring
Cameron Wong discovered the oboe in 2013 after trialling
nearly every band instrument available in his junior high band
and finally deciding on the enigmatic instrument with a
mouthpiece of grass. For six years, he has studied under the
tutelage of David Sussman, Assistant Principal Oboe and
Principal English Horn of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.
He is a graduate of the Mount Royal Advanced Performance
Program and a member of the University of Calgary Orchestra.
Cameron has had the wonderful opportunity to work with
internationally recognized pedagogues and orchestral oboists,
such as Joe Robinson, Linda Strommen, Elaine Douvas, and
Louise Pellerin.
Cameron Wong
Oboe
Nansee Hughes
Coloratura Soprano
Carlos Foggin
Conductor
Reinhold Glière
Richard Strauss
Johann Strauss Jr.
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Coloratura Soprano
Concerto for Oboe & Small Orchestra
Frühlingstimmen - Voices of Spring
Symphony #1 - 'Spring' Symphony
As an oboist, Cameron has received extensive recognition
both locally and nationally. He is the winner of the 2015
Kensington Sinfonia Concerto Competition and has performed
as a soloist with the Kensington Sinfonia.
He has won first prize at the Canadian Music Competition twice at the 2016 and 2017 National
Finals. In 2018, he was a soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra as a finalist in the
2018 U of C Concerto Competition, and in addition, represented Calgary at the Alberta Music
Festival in Provincial National Woodwinds. Outside of music, Cameron is currently working
towards a Bachelor of Science at the University of Calgary, and is deeply interested in the
health sciences.
"It truly was a brilliant concert. Thank you for bringing
classical music played by a symphony to Rural Alberta."
Okotoks
Anthea Naylor (Nanton, AB)
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 7:30pm
Okotoks United Church
43 Riverside Drive, Okotoks, AB
Lyric coloratura Nansee Hughes has performed the
roles of Lillian in McCune &Cavanagh's Y2K Black Death
Oratorio with Pop Goes the Opera (2018), Giuliettain
Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Opera NUOVA
(2016), Atalanta in Handel's Serse (2010) and the Dew
Fairy in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (2009) with
the University of Alberta Opera Workshop, and the
young lover in Mercury Opera’s production of Il Tabarro
(2009). As a concert soloist, Ms Hughes was soprano
soloist in performance of Mozart's Laudate Dominum
(St. Anthony's Parish), Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (Schola
Cantorum Women's Chorus), and performances of
Messiah (Grande Prairie Regional College & McDougal
United Church). Nansee has also performed for the
Edmonton Polish Culture Society's Gala welcoming the
Polish Ambassador to Canada, Andrzej Kurnicki.
Nansee was a participant in the Centre for Operatic Studies in Italy. In 2014, Nansee was
selected as a participant in the Music Conference Alberta’s Ben Heppner Masterclass.
Rockyview
Saturday, March 23, 2019 - 7:30pm
Polaris Centre for the Performing Arts
#8 - 261051 Wagon Wheel View
Rocky View County, AB
Nansee has been the recipient of a Winspear Fund scholarship, a scholarship to attend Opera
NUOVA, scholarship to attend the Centre for Operatic Studies in Italy (COSI), the Ancient &
Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Scholarship for voice, the Diane Thorssen Award, and
received the Beryl Barnes Memorial Graduate Award.
Nansee received both her MMus and BMus from the University of Alberta.
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