Join Heather as she performs with the Vancouver Island Symphony on April 5th, 2014.

NANAIMO Home – Home sweet home! In a fun-filled evening, Nanaimo audience members get to pick the music that they will hear for this performance by voting from a selection of popular classical works such as “The Blue Danube Waltz,” “Pomp and Circumstance,” “William Tell Overture,” Pachelbel’s “Canon,” Bach’s “Air on the G String,” and many more! Concertmaster Calvin Dyck, performs the world premiere of a VIS-commissioned violin concerto composed by Emily Doolittle.

More information: Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra

Port Theatre, Saturday April 5th, 2014, 7:30pm

https://www.vancouverislandsymphony.com

Heather complements her professional musical performances with teaching the Alexander Technique on central Vancouver Island.  The Alexander Technique is a method for improved posture, efficient movement, and reduction of body tension & strain.  Whether you are a musician, dancer, teacher, office worker, or have any other focus, you can learn to move with ease and freedom through learning the Alexander Technique either in private sessions or a workshop.

Join Heather as she performs in the following shows:

Fiddler on the Roof – Musical at Brentwood College School

There are musicals that speak to all times and generations about human values, the individual, family and society. This affectionately humorous portrait of life in a Jewish village in Tsarist Russia centers on Teyve, a milkman-philosopher who finds his values challenged by his daughters’ insistence on following their hearts rather than the dictates of tradition. Meanwhile, more sinister changes are on the horizon-ones that challenge the community’s very existence.

Performances February 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and March 1 at 7:30pm.  For more information: https://tgb.brentwood.bc.ca/

Brentwood College School is a co-educational university preparatory school for students in grades 9 through 12, founded in 1923.  Address: 2735 Mount Baker Road, Mill Bay, BC

Heather complements her professional musical performances with teaching the Alexander Technique on central Vancouver Island.  The Alexander Technique is a method for improved posture, efficient movement, and reduction of body tension & strain.  Whether you are a musician, dancer, teacher, office worker, or have any other focus, you can learn to move with ease and freedom through learning the Alexander Technique.

Vancouver Island Symphony announces 

NEW Grade 4 Education Program! 

An all new Education Program and Show “My Symphony”– This year the Vancouver Island Symphony’s Outreach and Education is launching a four-part integrated music education program in partnership with three school districts (# 68, 71 and 72, Aspengrove, Ecole Océane & Nanaimo Christian Schoo) on the Island. On February 13^th 2014, for the first time ever, ALL Grade 4 students from these districts will be attending the Symphony. In addition, the Vancouver Island Symphony will be sending a musician to perform at each school (SD68) prior to students attending the new education show called My Symphony.

“My Symphony will be introducing the musical instruments of the orchestra in a fun way to the students,” says Patricial Plumley, VIS Grade 5 Choir Conductor. “It features some of Rick Scott’s favourite music. Rick has eight award-winning children’s albums and several nominations for Juno Awards. Composer-director Nico Rhodes is doing the arrangements, Pierre Simard will be conducting the orchestra, and the Vancouver Island Symphony Grade 5 Choir will be singing along with Rick.”

Heather complements her professional musical performances with teaching the Alexander Technique throughout central Vancouver Island.  The Alexander Technique is a method for improved posture, efficient movement, and reduction of body tension & strain.  Through private sessions or workshops, with a general or specific focus, you can learn to move with ease and freedom through learning the Alexander Technique

Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra

https://nanaimochamberorchestra.com/performances

Horns of Plenty       

Saturday, November 23rd, 7:30 pm at Brechin United Church , Nanaimo

Sunday, November 24th at St. Edmund’s Anglican Church, Parksville

Definitely a concert not to be missed!  How fortunate the Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra is to have, as soloists, two distinguished horn players to bring the music of Telemann and Leopold Mozart to life.  Andrew Clark (Principal Horn)and Heather Walker are both with the Vancouver Island Symphony; Andrew having recently re-located to our West Coast from England where he had played with world-class ensembles such as The Academy of Ancient Music and the Amsterdam Baroque orchestra.   The NCO, directed by Karl Rainer, will perform a truly wonderful program, “Horns of Plenty” that covers a large palette of repertoire for strings.  Georg Philipp Telemann’s Concerto in E-Flat Major and Leopold Mozart’s Concerto for Two Horns in E-Flat will feature our two soloists.  The musical colours extend through Robert Volkmann’s Baroque Serenade No. 1, the very Russian Theme and Variations by Aleksandr Glasunov, and two contrasting English works; An English Suite by Hubert Parry and Charterhouse Suite by Vaughan Williams.