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2009/2010 Concert Season

Son of Chamber Symphony

Co-presented with
Vancouver 2010
Cultural Olympiad

Vancouver 2010

It's Chamber Symphony night in Canada with TPE's third outing as part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad – a virtuosic spectacular in three periods.

  1. Arnold Schoenberg’s compact and sharply chiseled Chamber Symphony Op. 9 for 15 solo instruments, one of the masterpieces of the early twentieth century.

  2. The BC premiere of Pulitzer-prize winning American composer John Adams’ exhilarating newly completed Son of Chamber Symphony—“riveting and full of surprises” Los Angeles Times

  3. The world premiere of a new Chamber Concerto written for the occasion by one of Canada’s most innovative and inventive composers—John Oliver. Follow the composer's blog as he writes the music.

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