WNMF Showcase: Launchpad

Centennial Concert Hall: 

This concert is FREE but tickets must be reserved.

Throughout its history, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra has played a leading role in supporting the creation of new music in Canada, most notably through its now 33-years-young Winnipeg New Music Festival. Building on this tradition of fostering the voices of the future, the WNMF Composers Institute now enters its sixth year, gathering emerging talents from across the nation to work with the WSO in bringing to life an exciting program of fresh ink orchestral music.

Maestro Julian Pellicano is joined by WSO’s new RBC Assistant Conductor Monica Chen and RBC Guest Conductor Serena Reuten as they lead your WSO through a set of world and Canadian premieres of new works by six gifted composers, including the winner of the Canadian Music Centre’s annual Emerging Composer Competition. Mentor composers Eugene Astapov and Amy Brandon join WSO composer-in-residence Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis in introducing this year’s featured young artists as the 2024 Winnipeg New Music Festival lifts off in this free symphonic concert celebrating Winnipeg’s musical community.

The composers selected to have their pieces premiered at the 2024 Winnipeg New Music Festival and to participate in the 2023 WNMF Composers Institute and are:

• Robert Humber: Warmth Comes – World Premiere
• Lauren Greenberg: Cosmic Origins – Canadian Premiere
• Willyn Whiting: Framework – World Premiere
• Tom Lachance: Blizzard Sylvestre – World Premiere
• Yejin Kwon: White Clad – World Premiere
• Judah Williams: Cosmic Abyss – World Premiere

Also participating in the 2024 Composers Institute are the winners of the CMC Prairie Region and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Emerging Composer Competition:

• TBA: TBA (2024 Winner)

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Program Notes

Robert Humber: Warmth Comes – World Premiere (2023)
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Lauren Greenberg: Cosmic Origins – Canadian Premiere (2022)
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Willyn Whiting: Framework – World Premiere (2020)
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Tom Lachance: Blizzard Sylvestre – World Premiere (2022)
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Yejin Kwon: White Clad – World Premiere (2023)
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Judah Williams: Cosmic Abyss – World Premiere (2023)
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TBA TBA – World Premiere

TBA piece TBA, composed for the Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region’s Emerging Composers Competition, is about XXX.