The Vancouver Island Symphony presentsParis - Romance
Guest Artist: Alexandre Da Costa, Violin
Conductor: Pierre Simard
Saturday, October 26, 7:30 p.m.
Port Theatre, Nanaimo
Tickets: 250-754-8550 www.porttheatre.com
Paris – Romance and Alexandre Da Costa
Come to Paris, city of romance, on Saturday, October 26, as Alexandre
Da Costa, international violinist, joins the Vancouver Island Symphony as they
embark upon their 19th season Passport
to Great Entertainment, a symphonic journey to some of the most beautiful
cities in the world.
The renowned Pierre Simard conducts the dedicated and
talented professional musicians of Vancouver Island’s virtuosic orchestra in a
program of exquisite, refined and romantic French music – with the gentlest of
intimacy and the fieriest of passion. This first concert of the season is also
the first of the VI Symphony’s Timeless
Treasures classical series designed for the connoisseur and the novice
giving it a casual ‘first go’. Says Simard, “Our Timeless Treasures series displays both the familiar and the
unexpected, famous masterworks, compelling orchestral gems, and jaw-dropping
soloists.”
The music: True
to his word, Simard will raise his baton poignantly as the audience sits in
silent anticipation of the opening bars of music for a brand new season. A
single gesture and so begins Gabriel Fauré’s very familiar, haunting and melodic Pavane (made popular by artists like
Barbra Streisand and Jethro Tull, and many a movie and TV show). Jean Sibelius’
passionate, dreamy and spine-tingling Violin
Concerto in D minor is played with delicacy and passion by Da Costa, Juno
Award winning violinist and a magnificent artist. Then, like dancing slowly,
sensuously and rhythmically along the banks of the River Seine, the orchestra
performs Maurice Ravel’s tender and nostalgic Pavane pour une infante défunte followed by Georges Bizet’s joyful and
frolicsome Symphony in C Major.
Alexandre Da Costa:
Young, dynamic, (drop-dead gorgeous) and intense, Da Costa is known musically for
his sensuality, irreproachable technique, sensitivity and temperament. He was
born in Montreal in 1979 to an artistic family, in a household filled with
music, and started playing the violin and piano at a very young age. By age
nine he was hailed as a musical prodigy and began performing with professional orchestras.
So began his illustrious career of over a thousand concerts and recitals
throughout North America, Mexico, Europe, United Kingdom and Asia. Da Costa has
recorded live performances for the BBC, CBC and radio in Germany, Spain,
Austria, USA and Japan and has 12 CDs. In 2012 he received the Juno Award for “Classical
Album of the Year”. Now he comes to Nanaimo to thrill the audience with his soaring,
passionate, sensitive and powerful violin for Sibelius challenging concerto in
which the virtuosic parts are like flashes of lightning in the clouds - quick
and brilliant!
Tickets: Season
and individual concert tickets are available by calling the Port Theatre Ticket
Centre at 250-754-8550. For more information about the music and composers come
to the Pre-and Post-concert talks.
For information about the VI Symphony visit:
www.vancouverislandsymphony.com Keeping Music LIVE!
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