Friday, May 10 8:00PM
Saturday, May 11 8:00PM
Sunday, May 10 2:00PM
Centennial Concert Hall
The Mozart, Schubert and Bruckner clips are available with the kind permission of the members of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Special Guests: Evgeny Guryev / conductor — Stanley Wold conductor / Finnish traditional folk musicians — PJ Buchan / Tenor
Old, new, funny, macho, magic, tragic, patriotic — choral music is in the blood of the peoples of the Baltic and Scandinavian regions. This concert offers a unique window on this world as Artistic Director Yuri Klaz teams up with two guest conductors who also have expertise in Northern European music: Russian Evgeny Guryev, Petrozavodsk State Conservatory; and Norwegian- American Stanley Wold, Professor of Choral Music, University of Minnesota, Duluth. Repertoire will run the gamut from Sibelius and Grieg to Pärt. For added variety, Finnish musicians Diane Jarvi (Jarvenpa) and Ralph Tuttila from Duluth will perform folk songs and play early folk instruments called the kantele and jouhikko.
