{"id":9934,"date":"2013-02-20T21:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T02:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2013-02-20T21:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T02:49:51","slug":"kitchener-waterloo-symphony-gets-british-piano-star-benjamin-grosvenor-ahead-of-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/02\/20\/kitchener-waterloo-symphony-gets-british-piano-star-benjamin-grosvenor-ahead-of-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony gets British piano star Benjamin Grosvenor ahead of Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor makes his Ontario d\u00e9but in Kitchener-Waterloo next season (Laurie Lewis photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, which has been enjoying a new life under music director Edwin Outwater, has announced its 2013-14 season, which includes the debut of British piano sensation Benjamin Grosvenor on Feb. 14 and 15, 2014.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old pianist who has captured the hearts of audiences and critics elsewhere still doesn’t have a Toronto concert booked, as far as I know.<\/p>\n

Grosvenor will perform Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns’ sparkly Piano Concerto No. 2<\/em>, which is also rarely heard in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony presents about 70 concerts every season compared to slightly more than 100 for the Toronto Symphony.<\/p>\n

Although the orchestra programs the same slate of standard Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky concerts, leavened by forays into pops and family repertoire, it has also had good success with a series it calls Intersections, which is more adventurous.<\/p>\n

According to the 2013-14, one of these Intersections concerts, a best-of- compilation of the last five years, will travel to Toronto’s Koerner Hall next season.<\/p>\n

Toronto conductor Eric Paetkau returns as a guest in Kitchener-Waterloo next season, as well, to direct a baroque-classical programme on Oct. 9, 11 and 12.<\/p>\n

I love the fact that the Kitchener-Waterloo orchestra proudly presents baroque music on its modern instruments.<\/p>\n

One of the highlights of this series of concerts is an April, 2014, anniversary programme that very cleverly pairs Jean-Philippe Rameau’s suite from Dardanus<\/em> with Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonietta<\/em>, a symphony by C.P.E Bach, a violin concerto by Leclair and the Suite Fran\u00e7aise<\/em> by Francis Poulenc.<\/p>\n

This kind of programming is wild by Toronto standards, and promises a lot of musical fun.<\/p>\n

Another Kitchener-only concert that might make a Torontonian envious is a presentation of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms<\/em> with the Grand Philharmonic Choir and countertenor Scott Belluz on May 4, 2014.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard people say that Toronto is close to Kitchener-Waterloo but Kitchener-Waterloo is far from Toronto. This kind of season does a lot to relieve the inequality.<\/p>\n

You can find the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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