The Sudbury Symphony Orchestra promises an evening of musical storytelling Oct. 14 as its 47th season continues.
The guest conductor for the 7:30 pm performance at Fraser Auditorium at Laurentian University is William Rowson.
“Conductor William Rowson is hailed as one of Canada’s most compelling and versatile young artists,” SSO said in a news release. “He has worked with orchestras across Canada and currently serves as music director of the Stratford Symphony Orchestra and is on faculty at the Vancouver Symphony School of Music.”
The show will begins with an opening fanfare written by Rowson himself for Canada’s 150th birthday, which was premiered in 2017 by the Toronto Symphony.
“You will also have the opportunity to hear Brahms’ ‘Academic Festival Overture’ and a suite of delightful stories in music from ‘Peer Gynt’ by Grieg. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, a classical favourite.”
Besides conducting, Rowson is also an active composer, SSO said, whose original works and orchestral arrangements have been performed by orchestras and ensembles throughout Canada, the US and Europe, and have been broadcast in over 20 countries.
His recent work, “Short Variations on Waves”. was featured on the 2021 Juno Award-winning album “Mosaïque” by the Ensemble Made in Canada. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Toronto, he lives in Vancouver with his wife, Yvanna, and their two daughters.
Tickets are available through the STC box office, by calling 705-674-8381, at the door, or online here.
