Violist

The VSO Chamber players is pleased to present a collection of four pieces by three of the great composers of the twentieth century. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano is a surprisingly charming collection of simple popular music – arrangements of ballet suites, an animated cartoon, and the film “The Gadfly”. Benjamin Britten’s Second String Quartet was written to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell,  a composer Britten revered above all others. Our third offering is a wonderful string sextet written by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. The work was composed in under a week, and yet won first prize in a composition competition. The composer refused to collect his reward for several weeks, believing his friends were merely playing a trick on him by insisting he had won. The final work on the programme brings all eight VSO musicians together for Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for String Octet. Shostakovich completed the work at only nineteen years old, and proclaimed the scherzo movement to be “the very best thing I have written” (Laurel Faye, “Shostakovich, A Life”). Audiences will undoubtedly be transported by this exquisite collection of some of the most beautiful and varied chamber music of the twentieth century.

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April Chamber Players

VSO School Of Music

The musicians of the VSO are thrilled to be back to playing the series they curate, the VSO Chamber Players! It’s a joy to share this music in the intimate and acoustically-brilliant Pyatt Hall for four concert programs, each with an evening and matinee option.

Our February concert opens with Jocelyn Morlock’s Bird in the Tangled Sky, an early example of Jocelyn Morlock’s love of birds, and one of the first pieces to launch her international career.  Mozart’s operatic and visionary Flute Quartet in A Major then leads to the great Canadian Claude Vivier’s haunting and colouristic quartet, Paramirabo.

Emilie Grimes

Violist

Events

Past events

18 - 21 Apr, 2024

April Chamber Players · Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

21 - 25 Feb, 2024

February Chamber Players · Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Viola in Two Pieces for String Octet by Shostakovich

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Viola in String Quartet No. 2 by Britten

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Viola in 8 Pieces for Clarinet by Bruch

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Viola in String Sextet by Martinů

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

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