Event Category: Orpheum Series

VAM Symphony Orchestra: Scheherazade

Class Description: Tickets $15 general, $10 student/senior at vamso.ca In a concert that explores the pathos of love and loss, the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra invites you to join them in their first concert of the new year. Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod contains the famous chord of unresolved dissonance, perhaps foreshadowing the fate of the opera’s characters. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade spins a series of musical tales in a symphonic suite based on the famous Arabic fairytale, “The Thousand and One Nights”. In an annual showcase of young and emergent talent, this concert will feature the winner of VAM’s 2022 Kay Meek Competition. VAM's Orchestral Training Program is supported by: Adrienne S. Chan The Edith Lando Charitable Foundation The R & J Stern Family Foundation Vancouver Civic Theatres The City of Vancouver

VAM Symphony Orchestra: The Four Seasons and The Nutcracker with Caitlin Wong, violin

Class Description: Tickets $15 general, $10 student/senior at vamso.ca Join the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra (VAMSO) in their winter concert with two perennial favourites of the season. Let The Nutcracker Suite whisk you away to a faraway land, filled with musical delights and indulgences. VAMSO Concertmaster Caitlin Wong takes the spotlight in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, filled with musical images of harvest celebrations, thunderous storms, frozen landscapes, and festive pastoral dancing. VAM's Orchestral Training Program is supported by: Adrienne S. Chan The Edith Lando Charitable Foundation The R & J Stern Family Foundation Vancouver Civic Theatres The City of Vancouver

VAM Symphony Orchestra: Brahms with Ian Parker, piano

Class Description: Tickets $15 general, $10 student/senior at vamso.ca The Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra’s (VAMSO) season opening concert begins with Wagner’s Die Meistersinger: Prelude, the lighthearted and fun introduction to his comic opera. To follow is Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8, a piece that does not shy away from dramatic passages while celebrating the joys and beauty of life. In a rousing conclusion, VAMSO Principal Conductor and VAM Distinguished Faculty Artist Ian Parker adopts a dual conductor-soloist role in Brahms’ much-loved Piano Concerto No. 1. VAM's Orchestral Training Program is supported by: Adrienne S. Chan The Edith Lando Charitable Foundation The R & J Stern Family Foundation Vancouver Civic Theatres The City of Vancouver