Vancouver Academy of Music Orchestra conjures Arabian fairy-tale world of Scheherezade, at Kay Meek Arts Centre on February 26

Brahms violin concerto and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde also on the program

Vancouver Academy of Music Orchestra. Photo by Lindsay Elliott

Kay Meek Centre presents the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra in the Grosvenor Theatre at 2 pm

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV’S ENTRANCING symphonic spin on “The Thousand and One Nights” transports listeners to a fairy tale world of one-eyed giants, sea monsters, and flying carpets.

Under maestro Ian Parker, the Vancouver Academy of Music Orchestra brings to life several of its most dramatic stories in a concert at Kay Meek Arts Centre Sunday afternoon, including “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship” and “The Kalendar Prince”.

Complementing it on the program is another myth-spinning work, the “Prelude” and “Liebestod: from Wagner’s dissonant Tristan und Isolde, the famous tragedy around an illicit love affair between a knight and a princess.

The young orchestra rounds out the concert with Brahms’s powerful Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77, featuring Aaron Kang, VAM's 2022 Kay Meek Competition winner, tackling the virtuosic violin solo.

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