VSO at the Annex
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For the 2019-2020 season, Maestro Tausk and the musicians invited three of our favourite composers to guest curate the Annex Series.
| COMPOSER RESIDENCIES
ENDOWED BY MARNIE CARTER:
NICOLE LIZÉE: JANUARY 12 SAMY MOUSSA: MARCH 22 MARCUS GODDARD: MAY 17 |
January 12, 2020
CARTE BLANCHE: NICOLE LIZÉE
Called a “brilliant musical scientist,” JUNO-nominated composer Nicole Lizée creates new music from an eclectic mix of influences. She is fascinated by the glitches made by outmoded and well-worn technology and captures these glitches, notates them and integrates them into live performance.
March 22, 2020
CARTE BLANCHE: SAMY MOUSSA
Composer and conductor Samy Moussa has collaborated regularly with a number of orchestras and ensembles, among them the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
May 17, 2020
CARTE BLANCHE: MARCUS GODDARD
Marcus Goddard is an award-winning composer and internationally respected trumpet player whose music has touched the hearts of audiences around the world. His catalogue of over fifty works includes ten pieces for large orchestra, many frequently performed chamber works, and a large body of innovative work for solo instruments and electronics.