Coming Up Next in April
Symphonie Fantastique
Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Key City Theatre
20 14th Av. N., Cranbrook Buy On-line
Saturday, April 21st, 2024 at 2:00 pm PDT
Kootenay River Theatre Buy On-line
Kootenay River Secondary School, Creston
We celebrate Conductor Jeff Faragher's 10th year with Symphony of the Kootenays with a cello concerto and the work he has wanted to perform for many years - Berlioz's remarkable Symphonie Fantastique.
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Hector Berlioz was, in many ways, the prototypical tortured artist that exemplified the romantic era. His Symphonie Fantastique tells a story of an obsessed artist and is filled with dramatic and macabre events. The music stunned its first audiences in 1830 and remains a virtuosic showpiece for orchestras today. More info
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Coming in July 2024
In July 2024 our ever popular Symphony on the Mountain moves to the valley with two back to back concerts at Invermere and St. Eugene Golf Resort & Casino. Symphony in the Valley - Harmony Rising features both the familiar along with a few new surprises. Special guest artists Numa Ka'kin Drummers with join the symphony at St. Eugene. Tickets are now available.
Invermere - Columbia Valley Centre
Saturday, July 6th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
Tickets: $50 Adults / $22 Students
St. Eugene Golf Resort & Casino
Sunday, July 7th, 2024 @ 2:30 pm
Tickets: $50 Adults / $22 Students
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SOTK's 2023-2024 Season Overview
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Decade Celebration
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2023-2024 marks ten years of the leadership of Jeff Faragher as music director of the Symphony of the Kootenays. The past decade of music has featured performances of great masterpieces, invigorating popular programs, and a variety of unusual and Canadian music for our audiences. Our programs this season celebrate the partnership between our players and conductor and look forward to future achievements.
Four Seasons Recomposed: Vivaldi/Richter
Max Richter is one of the most popular composers working today, writing music both for the concert hall and for TV and films. His piece “On the Nature of Daylight” was filmed by the SOTK in 2021 and was also recently featured on the hit Canadian TV series “The Last of Us.”
In 2012 Richter created a work for strings inspired by Vivaldi's famous The Four Seasons. Richter has taken ideas and bits of this baroque era masterwork and recomposed them into a modern rhythmic, and compelling new creation. As the seasons turn here in Cranbrook, our programs will feature these new musical seasons.
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Symphony Soloists
Audiences will have the opportunity this season to take in a variety of guests performing alongside our symphony players. We start by continuing our tradition of featuring members of the orchestra with Principal bassoonist Jonathan Gresl performaning Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in October. We will collaborate with Sun Valley Song and feature local soloists to present Christmas selections from Messiah for our holiday season program. Mount Baker's Vocal Jazz will join us in February. We honour Jeff Faragher’s instrument, the cello, featuring a solo turn by his student Garron Stuart (pictured).
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