Join Heather for upcoming concerts:
Vancouver Island Symphony
London Majesty: Discover the majesty of London with music by Haydn, Delius, Britten, and Beethoven. Saturday, November 16th, 2013, 7:30pm. Port Theatre, Nanaimo.
www.vancouverislandsymphony.com
Heather Walker will be performing with Kamloops Symphony Orchestra –
A Splendid Adventure- Friday, May 10, 2013
Berlioz describes Harold’s adventures in Italy and the orchestra provides a musical excursion to Leningrad. Now that’s a trip!
Véronique Saucier, Viola
Berlioz, Harold in Italy
Shostakovich, Symphony #1
The West Isle Winds performs concerts for the Health Arts Society in Victoria, May 15, 16, 17, 2013. For more information: www.healtharts.org
“Romantic Trios for Spring”
Reinecke Trio for horn, clarinet, piano, and other pieces including Opera arias, Brahms, Franz Strauss, etc.
The West Isle Winds
The West Isle Winds is a group of three professional classical musicians based in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, B.C. The trio merges music for clarinet, horn, and piano to present a varied and interesting program of chamber music. Heather Walker, Susanne Bullock, and Donna Falconer have each had careers performing with numerous orchestras, opera companies, chamber music groups, and other ensembles throughout British Columbia and abroad. Heather and Susanne performed many years together in symphony orchestras, and Donna and Susanne previously performed chamber music as a duo, but it wasn’t until 2012 that the three came together to form a trio. In the coming year the West Isle Winds will be performing concerts in Victoria for the Health Arts Society, and at the Chemainus Classical Concert Series. They are very pleased to be performing for the congregation of Trinity United Church Nanaimo.
Birds of a Feather- Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra in Concert
Saturday, April 20, 2013, 7:30 pm
GUEST ARTIST Paolo Bortolussi, Flute
Rautavaara — Cantus Arcticus
(Concerto for Birds and Orchestra)
Jocelyn Morlock — Ornithomancy (World premiere)
Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”), op. 68
Listen to the fascinating and mystical sounds of Arctic birds, then soar with the world premiere of Ornithomancy, commissioned by the VIS and performed by Paolo Bortolussi. Celebrate all nature with Beethoven’s phenomenal and perfect season finale, The Pastoral Symphony. “No man loves the country more,” wrote Beethoven in his diary; and in his score—the sounds of birds!
https://vancouverislandsymphony.com/index.php?p=2_7
Season subscriptions and packages available
Call The Port Theatre Ticket Centre 250.754.8550
Single concert tickets range from $18 (student) to $84
The West Isle Winds – Classical Chamber Music in Nanaimo, 2013
The West Isle Winds is a group of three professional classical musicians based in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, B.C. The trio merges music for clarinet, horn, and piano to present a varied and interesting program of chamber music. Heather Walker, Susanne Bullock, and Donna Falconer have each had careers performing with numerous orchestras, opera companies, chamber music groups, and other ensembles throughout British Columbia and abroad.
The West Isle Winds have concerts planned in 2013 and 2014 with the Health Arts Society, the Vancouver Island Chamber Music Festival, the Chemainus Concert Series, and more! Please contact Heather Walker for more information about the group, or to book a concert.
White Rock Concerts
White Rock Baptist Church 140th St. and 16th Ave.
Friday, March 8, 2013
The Winter Winds – 5 to 8
The Ad Mare Quintet with Roger Cole, Cris Inguanti, and Ingrid Chiang
A dynamic and varied program with a wind quintet, a sextet, a septet and an octet.
For more information: https://whiterockconcerts.com/
Unfortunately the Vancouver Island Chamber Music Festival scheduled for February 22nd and 23rd, 2013 has been postponed. Presented by the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music, this festival was to present multiple performers over three days at the Nanaimo Centre Stage, 25 Victoria Rd. The festival will be re-scheduled for October of 2013. Thanks for your interest!
For future chamber music, look for wind trio music by the West Isle Winds: Heather Walker, horn, Susanne Bullock, clarinet, and Donna Falconer, piano. Music by Reinecke, Frans Strauss, and others.
Join the Vancouver Island Symphony and Ken Lavigne as he embraces the audience with best loved songs of all time and his stories of life on the road as a performer.
Saturday, February 9th – Qualicum Beach, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 10th – Nanaimo, Port Theatre, 2pm.
For more information: https://vancouverislandsymphony.com
Back by VERY popular demand, the Vancouver Island Symphony will perform Mayhem in the Museum of Music on Friday, January 18, 2013 at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo.
Considered to be one of Pierre Simard’s best written Educational Programs, Mayhem in the Museum of Music focuses heavily on the orchestra itself, and its process of growing over the centuries from strings only to full-fledged symphony.
Students will enjoy hearing the different sections of the orchestra as the ghost composer’s come to help Jimmy, George Friedrich Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Jean Sibelius to name a few.
Be sure to book your tickets early for Mayhem in the Museum of Music. Two performances ONLY at The Port Theatre in Nanaimo.