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Pro Musica presents Sonic Boom Festival 2022 Featuring Valerie Whitney
Vancouver Pro Musica is excited to present a special hybrid Sonic Boom Festival of exciting new works by BC’s finest composers, performed by some of BC’s finest musicians from March 11 – 13, 2022, both in person and online. This years’ festival is powerful, innovative, and expansive with over 34 composers premiering their works.
The matinee features French Horn artist Valerie Whitney performing 5 pieces with works by young talents. Henry From, an award-winning 17-year-old composer, violinist, and pianist, has composed Improvisation, by creating a sense of spontaneity with metrical and rhythmic shifts. Another young talent is 14-year-old Judah Williams whose work Fragments for solo horn in F is a series of musical episodes based on various themes. The work experiments with the vast range and extensive textures that can be achieved on the French horn. Also included are Kehao Cai’s Marching in the City Center at Night where he uses augmentation, inversion and retrograde to create variety, Craig Day’s Eagle and Réjean Marois, Prelude & Dances both works for solo horn. The full program also has mixed ensembles which include new works by Adam Junk, Toccata, Ben Ledochowski, The Land of Broken Pots, Mark Marinic, Aurea, and Wylie Ferguson, Danger of the Fortunate Seven.
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