November 10, 2004
Ottawa (Canada) -- The National Arts Centre is delighted to announce that the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO), will perform in Ottawa at Alberta Scene April 28 to May 10, 2005, sponsored by Enbridge.
"We are thrilled that the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra will be performing in the National Capital region," said Heather Moore, Alberta Scene Producer and Executive Director, "Audiences will be treated to music that is truly Albertan from composition to performance."
"Enbridge has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with the Edmonton Symphony. We are particularly delighted to support their participation in what will no doubt be a tremendous performance in the nation's capital," said Bonnie DuPont, Group Vice President, Corporate Resources, Enbridge Inc.
"Our program on April 29th will consist entirely of works by contemporary Alberta composers - Allan Gordon Bell, John Estacio, Malcolm Forsyth, Allan Gilliland and Jeffrey McCune. The ESO is proud of its long history of commissioning, programming and championing the works of Canadian composers, and we're pleased that we can showcase this aspect of our work in the nation's capital. This program is full of brilliant, scintillating music. It includes Forsyth's Juno Award winning Atayoskewin, as well as Estacio's Bootlegger's Tarantella, which can be heard on our recently released CBC recording," said Elaine Calder, CEO Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Winspear Centre.
On the afternoon of April 29, 2005 the Orchestra will perform The Twins and the Monster, the Estacio work for young people commissioned by the ESO as a Millennium project and first presented in Edmonton in 2001. That evening, the concert will include works by Allan Gordon Bell, Malcolm Forsyth and Jeffrey McCune, as well as by John Estacio and Allan Gilliland, two former composers-in-residence.
ESO concertmaster Martin Riseley will perform two movements of the concerto written for him by Gilliland, which premiered in Edmonton in June 2002. Leduc native James Campbell will be the other featured soloist, performing the clarinet concerto Dreaming of the Masters, also by Gilliland, which premiered at the ESO in September 2003. Campbell has subsequently performed the piece with the Boston Pops in concerts earlier this year.
The Alberta Scene will be the second in a series of biennial regional festivals produced and hosted by the National Arts Centre that showcase the best in Canadian arts and entertainment from coast to coast.
Alberta Scene will take place in the nation's capital from April 28 to May 10, 2005, Alberta's Centennial year. In the spring of 2005, the Alberta Scene will showcase more than 600 Alberta artists in 95 events, over 13 days, in 19 venues across the nation's capital. Alberta artists will perform on a national stage, be introduced to new audiences and meet with more than 80 presenters and impresarios from across Canada, the United States and Europe. Pop, jazz, rock, country, folk, blues, hip hop, classical music, Aboriginal and world arts, theatre, dance, literary and visual arts, Franco-Albertan arts, culinary arts...all of these and more will highlight the diversity and dynamism of contemporary Alberta.
Alberta Scene is presented by EPCOR, supported by Major Sponsors TSX Venture Exchange and The Banff Centre, Performance Sponsor Enbridge, Performance Sponsor CIBC, Sponsors Holiday Inn and Galaxie. Media sponsors include CBC Radio-Canada, the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, LeDroit, the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald. Alberta Scene is grateful for support from the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Canada Council for the Arts and Western Economic Diversification Canada.
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Media Information:
Nadine Lunt
Communications Advisor
National Arts Centre
(613) 947-7000 ext 560
nlunt@nac-cna.ca