The West Coast Symphony welcomes you to it's 2011 - 2012 Season

Mark your calendars for an exciting season of classical music, showcasing outstanding local soloists.  You'll enjoy works by your favourite composers and perhaps discover a few new ones. 

We begin in October with an all Mahler program.  Under the baton of Maestro Bujar Llapaj, the orchestra will present Symphony #1 (the Titan) and the hauntingly beautiful Songs of a Wayfarer, sung by Vancouver soprano Madeline Lucy Smith.

The November program is designed to entice the youthful audience.  Whether you are nine or ninety, you will be captivated by performances of Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky, Prokofiev's delightful Peter & the Wolf and the ever popular Symphony #5 of Beethoven. The wonderful singer, performer Eric Hominick will delight as the narrator of Peter & the Wolf.

In December principal players of the orchestra will be featured in music of Vivaldi and Mozart. The colourful Concerto for 2 Trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi  is a wonderful pendant piece to Mozart's beautifully crafted composition, the Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet horn & bassoon. Both pieces showcase the depth and breadth the featured instruments bring to the symphonic ensemble.

The February program brings one of the great choral masterpieces to Christ Church Cathedral.  The Willan Choir and combined choirs from Vancouver Community College join the orchestra to present the Mass in Ab of Franz Schubert, the so called "Missa Solemnis" under the baton of Maestro Llapaj.  The program opens with Johannes Brahms' masterpiece, the Variations on a Theme of Haydn.

Maestro Yariv Aloni returns to guest conduct the orchestra for the March program with music that will give rise to a range of emotion from the hypnotic Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughn Williams,  the highly exciting and exhilirating Dances of Galanta by Zoltan Kodaly, and the youthful Symphony #1 (Spring)of Robert Schumann.

A special performance (one only) of the poignant and powerful Requiem Mass in D minor, K.626 of Mozart will also be presented in March with the Amabilis Singers. The orchestra and choir wil be under the direction of Amabilis Singers' Artistic Director, Ramona Luengen.

in April, the orchestra will feature the beautiful, lyrical coloratura voice of Marisa Gaetanne in the exquisite Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss.  Sibelius' Symphony #6, which the composer himself described as reminding him of "the scent of the first snow,"  will complete the program

The final concert of the 2011 - 2012 season will feature the gifted young violinist, Dominic Woo in the Scottish Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra by Max Bruch.  This concert, and the season, ends with Antonin Dvorak's Symphony #9 (New World) which remains as fresh, accessible and evocative as when it was composed at the end of the 19th century.

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