UVic Chorus & Orchestra: 50th Anniversary Gala Concert

Event Description

The UVic School of Music welcomes Timothy Vernon as guest conductor on the special occasion of its 50th anniversary. Founding artistic director of Pacific Opera Victoria, Maestro Vernon has earned the admiration of audiences and fashioned POV into one of the city’s true cultural treasures. Maestro Vernon will conduct the UVic Chorus & Orchestra in G. F. Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, and Beethoven’s Coriolanus Overture. Faculty pianist Arthur Rowe and trumpeter Merrie Klazek will join the Orchestra in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 for Strings and Trumpet. Cake reception to follow!