Students love the excitement
of live chamber music!

Whether it’s a school band or choir, Orff group, recorder ensemble, or private lessons, children learn through music! There are many reasons to bring the young people in your life to an MCO event — they won’t hear anything like this anywhere else.

Help them create a cultural and musical framework for themselves. Show them where their music studies can lead — they can become an audience member, composer, conductor, musician, board member, donor, educator or CD purchaser. Have fun sharing music with them and with other avid music fans.

School visits — the MCO comes to you

We enthusiastically support the wonderful work being done in the Frontier School Division fiddling program! A roaming troupe of MCO string players offers workshops and mini-concerts in schools throughout the province and in the Seven Oaks School Division.

Open dress rehearsals — you come to the MCO!

Bring your school group to our home at Westminster United Church for a special 50-minute open dress rehearsal. Learn about the work that goes into presenting a professional orchestral performance. Watch musicians and conductor rehearse and be the first to hear what audiences will hear that night! Tickets $5.25, including GST. Click here for order form. Available dates:

10 am, September 15 / Marc-André Hamelin performs works by Haydn and Mozart — ideal for junior and senior high school students

10 am, October 19 / Fabio Zanon performs guitar concertos by Hétu and Villa Lobos — ideal for students at junior and senior high school levels

10 am, January 12 / 15-year-old pianist Jan Lisiecki performs Chopin — suitable for all ages

10 am, February 22 / Scott Yoo conducts the MCO strings — suitable for all ages

10 am, April 13 / Boreality is a new choral work by Sid Robinovitch — suitable for all ages

10 am, May 18 / Tracy Dahl sings The Owl and the Pussycat; Karl Stobbe performs Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending — for all ages

MCO Pizza Club

Come at 6 pm for pizza and information on the music you’re about to hear at the concert. Space is limited, so register early by phone: call the MCO office at 783-7377 at least two days before the concert to purchase tickets and book your spot in pizza club. Pizza is free with your concert tickets; parents, grandparents, teachers and children welcome! Concerts begin at 7:30 pm.Dates:

October 19 / Guitar virtuoso Fabio Zanon with Odaline de la Martinez conducting; guitar concertos by Villa Lobos and Hétu

November 24 / Canadian tenor, Adam Luther, performing Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge; Anne Manson conducts

January 12 / Canadian child prodigy Jan Lisiecki performs Chopin’s Piano concerto no. 1 under the direction of Roy Goodman

February 22 / Scott Yoo conducts the MCO strings in works by Jeffery Cotton, John Adams and Brahms

March 29 / Isabel Bayrakdarian sings a new work inspired by medieval Spain — written by her husband, Serouj Kradjian

April 13 / Scott Yoo conducts Boreality, a Bach violin concerto (he plays double duty as soloist) & Mendelssohn Sinfonia no. 11

Note: special pre-concert programs may be designed
for large groups with advance notice. Call 783-7377 for info
on any of the above activities. Space is limited — don’t delay!

The MCO Education Program is funded by The Canada Council for the Arts,
the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council and made possible by generous
support from The Winnipeg Foundation, the BMO Bank of Montreal Volunteer Fund, Sun Life,
Assiniboine Credit Union, HED Insurance, Manitoba Hydro, TD Canada Trust, the Musicians
Performance Trust Fund, the Canadian Bridge Federation, the Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation,
the Rita Menzies Endowment Fund for Arts Education, the Burns Family Foundation,
the Blennerhassett Family Foundation and the Richardson Foundation.

 

 

Anne Manson / Music Director and Conductor

MCO's 2010/11 season is sponsored by The Great-West Life Assurance Company.
Support has been received from Media sponsors The Winnipeg Free Press, CBC Radio One 990,
CBC Radio 2 98.3, Espace musique 89,9 and Golden West Radio. Heartstrings gala sponsor:
Mann Financial Assurance Limited. Sponsor of open dress rehearsals: Canadian Bridge Federation.
Arts Accessibility Program: Sun Life Financial.

© 2010 Manitoba Chamber Orchestra