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4 / SOJOURN
7.30pm, Thursday, November 21
Crescent Arts Centre (525 Wardlaw Ave)
Anne Manson, conductor;  David Braid, piano; Mark Fewer, violin

After stays in Hollywood, Armenia, and everywhere in between, Braid arrives triumphantly to MCO’s stages with rock-star composers Reich, Lizée, Montgomery, and Dessner.

Steve Reich
Clapping Music

Nicole Lizée
Another Living Soul

Steve Reich
Triple Quartet

Jessie Montgomery
Strum

David Braid
Joya concerto

Bryce Dessner
Aheym

Program subject to change.

David Braid 

David Braid is “one of his country's true renaissance men” (Ottawa Sun). The composer, improviser, and pianist is a ten-time JUNO nominee and four-time recipient. To single out a few more accomplishments: his chamber music album, FLOW, is “an exceptional work” (Los Angeles Examiner), while his spectacular compositions for Ethan Hawke’s Born to Be Blue surely explain why it’s considered one of the top jazz films of all time. From Hollywood to New York’s coolest jazz clubs, from Armenia to Canada’s most illustrious classical stages, this musical wanderer has clearly been everywhere – except the MCO. This will soon change in spectacular fashion. 

Mark Fewer

Mark Fewer has performed around the world to critical acclaim in virtually every role asked of a violinist, and then some. In a career that now spans over three decades, he’s graced Carnegie, Wigmore and Salle Pleyel, performed with Stevie Wonder, and appeared with major orchestras all over the world. Fewer has presented the premieres of over 200 works – some may recall his mind-blowing Canadian premiere of John Adams’ "The Dharma at Big Sur” for 6-string electric violin and orchestra a few years ago. The “genre-bending” (National Post) virtuoso is just as at home in early baroque as he is in jazz and the avant-garde. His collaboration with Braid will be something special. 

Casual tickets available here!

The concert begins at 7.30pm on Thursday, November 21, in Crescent Arts Centre, 525 Wardlaw Avenue. Casual tickets available online here and on MCO’s Ticketline at 204-783-7377.