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Sinfonietta, Trinity College of Music - Saturday 20 February at 7:30 PM
NIC PENDLEBURY conductor
RIVKA GOLANI viola
OMAR EBRAHIM narrator
JOHN HEIGHWAY narrator
LINDA HIRST narrator
ALAN BELL Bear Child
TCM STUDENT New Commission
SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals
GIORGI JANIASHVILI New Commission
WALTON Façade
Trinity explores works for ensemble and spoken word, with two of the best-known examples juxtaposed with student responses and the moving, Bear Child by Canadian composer Alan Bell, which explores the life of frontiersman Jerry Potts.
FREE | PRE-CONCERT TALKS | 6pm - 7.20pm
We are delighted to be able to present a series of four pre-concert talks this evening. Given by Canadian academics and the composer of one of the pieces performed this evening, the running order is as follows:
6.00pm Tanya Harnett – Navigating through Canadian Colonization into a Post-Colonial ideology: an Artist’s Family’s Journey
With a strong footing in the heritage of her family’s past, Harnett explores themes of what it means to be a First Nations Canadian artist
6.20pm Brian Black – The Life & Times of Jerry Potts
Brian Black talks about the Canadian frontiersman and inspiration for Bear Child
6.40pm Fred Stenson
A talk from the Alberta-based writer
7.00pm Allan Bell
The composer discusses his piece, Bear Child, receiving its European premiere tonight
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£8 (£5 concessions)
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