Island Chamber Winds presents: A Spring Breeze

Join us on Saturday March 1 in Victoria for another unique chamber music concert featuring conductor Ben Litzcke and local professional wind musicians from Victoria and Pender. This program spans over two centuries from the early 1800s to the present day. Let us take you on a whirlwind tour of old and new sounds!

Most of the music is cheerful and optimistic such as Nancy Galbraith's beautiful Dos Danzas Latinas Igor Bázlik's folk-like Four Pieces for Wind Octet and Svend Schultz's fun and irreverent Divertimento. We explore some heavier subject matter in Yunfei Li's Five Elements a meditation on the state of imbalance in the world through the lens of ancient Chinese philosophy. A few shorter pieces round out this varied program including Canadian composer Eleanor Daley's In Remembrance arranged especially for us by Victoria local Scott MacInnes.

We are grateful to the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service Thrifty Foods Hillside Mall Wildwood Health & Performance Long & McQuade and Ptarmigan Arts for their support of this concert series.

WHEN

Saturday March 1

7:00 pm

WHERE

Baumann Centre 925 Balmoral Rd Victoria BC V8W 2L5

COST

Adults $30 Youth 18+under free

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PROGRAM

Franz Krommer: Octet Partita Op. 57 movement III

Svend Schultz: Divertimento

Nancy Galbraith: Dos Danzas Latinas

Eleanor Daley (arr. MacInnes): In Remembrance

Yunfei Li: Five Elements

Igor Bázlik: Four Pieces for Wind Octet

Derek Bourgeois (ad. Brand): Serenade

MUSICIANS

Ben Litzcke conductor

Michelle Feng oboe

Andrew Montgomery oboe

Erin Onyschtschuk clarinet

Luke Ongman clarinet

Sam McNally horn

Jean Poynter horn

Jenny Gunter bassoon

Liz Gowen bassoon

Host or Publisher Island Chamber Winds