May 2023 – An Evening with tenor Gregory Kunde at the Orpheum, Vancouver
Join Heather as she performs with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra at the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver.
North Star Performing Arts Management presents: Ten Year Anniversary Gala Concert, featuring world renowned tenor, Gregory Kunde, with conductor Leslie Dala, soprano Katie Wang and members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
Heather Walker is a professional horn player, a core member of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Use the Alexander Technique to improve posture, reduce tension, and to live with more ease of movement and lightness of being. For more information about the technique, please contact Heather at 250-716-3464.
May 2023 – Beethoven’s Epic Ninth Symphony in Kamloops
Join Heather Walker as she performs on French horn with the Kamloops Symphony: https://www.kamloopssymphony.com/
Beethoven’s ODE TO JOY
Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13, 2023, 7:30 pm
Sagebrush Theatre
1300 9th Avenue, Kamloops
Monumental. Epic. Profound. There is no shortage of words to describe the exquisite tour de force that is Beethoven’s beloved final symphony.
FEATURING
Kamloops Symphony Orchestra
Dina Gilbert, conductor
Suzanne Taffot, soprano
Stephanie Tritchew, mezzo soprano
Dillon Parmer, tenor
Alan Corbishley, baritone
KSO Chorus, Tomas Bijok chorusmaster
PROGRAMME
Violet Archer: Poem for Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 “Ode To Joy”
The approximate duration of the concert is 90 minutes without an intermission
Heather Walker is a professional horn player, a long-time performer with the Kamloops Symphony, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Use the Alexander Technique to improve posture, reduce tension, and to live with more ease of movement and lightness of being. For more information about the technique, please contact Heather at 250-716-3464.
April/May 2023 – Vancouver Opera, Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman”
Join Heather as she performs horn as a core member of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. WAGNER | THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
Sat Apr 29 | 7:30PM
Thurs May 4 | 7:30PM
Sun May 7 | 2:00PM
Based on a European maritime legend, The Flying Dutchman tells the haunting story of a sailor and his daughter who encounter a ghost during a storm on the sea. The Dutchman, who has been condemned to wander for eternity, is searching for a bride to finally bring him peace. This tragic tale of love and sacrifice is the composer’s first masterpiece and features magnificent orchestration of Wagnerian proportions. This will be a new production for Vancouver Opera. More information at https://www.vancouveropera.ca/whats-on/flying-dutchman/
In addition to being a professional horn player, Heather is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. If you would like to learn to use your body with more ease and efficiency, try the Alexander Technique!
March 2023 – Thorgy and the Thorchestra with Kamloops Symphony
THORGY & THE THORCHESTRA
Thursday March 30 and Friday, March 31, 2023, 8:00 pm
Sagebrush Theatre
1300 9th Avenune, Kamloops
Please note the start time of 8:00 pm for this concert.
Come through for a one-of kind, fierce and fabulous theatrical orchestra experience featuring legendary RuPaul’s Drag Race All Star, Thorgy Thor. Featuring a variety of hits, some traditional, and some not so much. She’ll sing. She’ll play. She’ll slay. Trust us, you won’t want to Sashay Away from this.
FEATURING
Dina Gilbert, conductor
Thorgy Thor, multi-instrumentalist & drag performer
Rachel Casponi, soprano
Heather Walker is a professional horn player, a long-time performer with the Kamloops Symphony, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Use the Alexander Technique to improve posture, reduce tension, and to live with more ease of movement and lightness of being. For more information about the technique, please contact Heather at 250-716-3464.
March 2023 – An evening with Sarah Slean and the Kamloops Symphony
AN EVENING WITH SARAH SLEAN
Friday, March 10 and Saturday March 11, 2023, 7:30 pm
Sagebrush Theatre
1300 9th Avenue, Kamloops
A musical celebration of International Women’ Day. Canadian songstress Sarah Slean joins the KSO for a genre-bending evening of her original music, songs by the legendary Joni Mitchell, and other surprises.
FEATURING
Dina Gilbert, conductor
Sarah Slean, vocalist & pianist
Heather Walker is a professional horn player, a long-time performer with the Kamloops Symphony, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Use the Alexander Technique to improve posture, reduce tension, and to live with more ease of movement and lightness of being. For more information about the technique, please contact Heather at 250-716-3464.
February 2023 – Vancouver Island Symphony: Winter Song: Beethoven and more
WINTER SONG – Vancouver Island Symphony
Nanaimo: Port Theatre, Feb. 11, 7:30 PM
Courtenay: Sid Williams Theatre, Feb. 12, 2:00 PM
What a magnificent musical ride as we travel 200 years of music with Chants d’Auvergne – a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France by Canteloube (1923) to Faure’s Pelléas et Mélisande (1898) to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony (1813) – a work he conducted and the audience demanded an encore of the famous “Allegretto” second movement. Then we skip forward 100 years to a premiere by Jennifer Butler with text by Tina Biello and performed by Marion Newman.
GUEST CONDUCTOR: Cosette Justo Valdés (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CANDIDATE)
GUEST ARTIST: Marion Newman MEZZO-SOPRANO
Joseph CANTELOUBE : Chants d’Auvergne (Songs from the Auvergne)
Series 5 (#2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Jennifer BUTLER: New Work for Mezzo-Soprano and Strings (VIS commission)
Gabriel FAURÉ : Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 Suite
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 7, op. 92, A major
GUEST CONDUCTOR
Cosette Justo Valdés
(ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CANDIDATE)
GUEST ARTIST
Marion Newman
MEZZO-SOPRANO
Heather Walker is a professional horn player and a core member of the Vancouver Island Symphony. When not performing music, she also teaches the Alexander Technique, a system of re-education that allows us to re-train our movement patterns for efficiency and ease.
February 2023 – Kamloops Symphony: Sibelius, Murphy, Mozart’s Dark Side
MOZART’S DARK SIDE
Saturday, February 4, 2023, 7:30 pm, Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops
Sunday, February 5, 2023, 2:30 pm, The Nexus at First, Salmon Arm
Canadian pianist Maxim Bernard returns to Kamloops to join us for a journey through the darker side of classical music. Kelly-Marie Murphy’s In The Time of Our Disbelieving is a powerful reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sibelius’ dark & menacing incidental music sets the scene for the tragic love triangle of Pelléas and Mélisande, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor is a beautifully melancholic work, bringing the darker side of his creativity to the surface.
Heather Walker is a professional horn player, a long-time performer with the Kamloops Symphony, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Use the Alexander Technique to improve posture, reduce tension, and to live with more ease of movement and lightness of being. For more information about the technique, please contact Heather at 250-716-3464.
January 2023 – VISO Family Show with Al Simmons
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2023
3:00 PM @ The Port Theatre
The Einstein of Entertainers
Al Simmons
CONDUCTOR: Scott MacInnes
He’s a musician! He’s an inventor! He’s a nut! The Einstein of entertainers, wizard of one-liners and lightning bolt of lunacy. His astounding gadgets, preposterous songs, impeccable comic timing and kooky take on classic vaudeville have thrilled and entertained fans of all ages for 54 years. Juno Award winner Al Simmons is a creative genius whose highly original performances of profound wackiness and of off-the-wall inventions have taken the arts of Music and Comedy to unparalleled heights of hilarity. Young or old, you cannot fail to appreciate this man’s frenetic stage antics and mind-boggling lovableness.
“A tour-de-force of ingenious, charming silliness.”
Globe and Mail
Heather Walker is a professional horn player and a core member of the Vancouver Island Symphony. She is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Anyone can use the Alexander Technique to learn to move with more freedom and ease, have better posture, reduce pain, and recuperate from stress and undue wear & tear. She teaches the Alexander Technique in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. For more information about the Alexander Technique, please contact Heather at heather@soundbeingstudio.com.
January 2023 – Island Symphony APPASSIONATO at the Port Theatre
Appassionato best describes this programme starting with Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite. We showcase the music of two female composers from different eras with Ariel Barnes returning to perform Invisible Distance by Dorothy Chang, a beautiful piece commissioned by the VIS in 2015 and Overture in C Major by Fanny Mendelssohn. And to make it a family affair – we perform Fanny’s brother, Felix Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony.
GUEST CONDUCTOR: Jonathan Girard
GUEST ARTIST: Ariel Barnes CELLO
Concert Programme
Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel) : Overture in C
Igor STRAVINKSY : Pulcinella Suite
Dorothy CHANG : Invisible Distance (2015)
Spheres
In the Slow Time of Stars
In Darkness
Felix MENDELSSOHN : Symphony No. 4 Op. 90 “Italian”
PORT THEATRE, Nanaimo, JAN 21, 2023
PRE-CONCERT TALK 6:30 PM, CONCERT 7:30 PM
SID WILLIAMS THEATRE, Courtenay, JAN 22, 2023
CONCERT 2:00 PM
Heather Walker is a professional horn player and a core member of the Vancouver Island Symphony. When not performing music, she also teaches the Alexander Technique, a system of re-education that allows us to re-train our movement patterns for efficiency and ease.
December 2022 – KSO Christmas
Join the Kamloops Symphony for our annual celebration of the Festive Season, with a lively programme that will delight the whole family. Get into the holiday spirit with the KSO Chorus, harp soloist Naomi Cloutier and a selection of festive hits.
FEATURING
Antonio Delgado, guest conductor
Naomi Cloutier, harp
KSO Chorus, Tomas Bijok chorus master
PROGRAMME
Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker
George Frideric Handel: Excerpts from The Messiah
Saturday, December 17, 2022, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm and Sunday, December 18, 2022, 2:00 pm
Sagebrush Theatre, 1300 9th Avenue, Kamloops
Heather Walker is a professional horn player, a long-time performer with the Kamloops Symphony, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Use the Alexander Technique to improve posture, reduce tension, and to live with more ease of movement and lightness of being. For more information about the technique, please contact Heather at 250-716-3464.