Vancouver Pride Festival’s Symphonic Pride features music exclusively by queer composers, July 30
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs works by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, Rodney Sharman, Aaron Copland, and more
Canadian composer Rodney Sharman’s Pronoun Symphony will be performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at Symphonic Pride.
Vancouver Pride Society and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra present Symphonic Pride, July 30 at 7 pm PDT online.
STORIES OF STRUGGLE and celebration representing the diversity of queer experience will be interspersed with stories of pioneering queer classical composers from the past and present in Symphonic Pride.
The program features music written exclusively by queer composers, performed by the full Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as well as solo artists, including soprano Teiya Kasahara.
Audiences will hear Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz” (from Serenade for Strings), Canadian composer Rodney Sharman’s Pronoun Symphony, American composer Aaron Copland’s Quiet City (for trumpet, English horn, and strings), and British composer Dame Ethel Smyth’s “Finale” (from String Quintet Op. 1).
Also on the set list are works by acclaimed U.S.-based composers John Corigliano and Jennifer Higdon.
Soprano Teiya Kasahara.
Kasahara is a queer, trans non-binary interdisciplinary performer-creator who explores identity through opera, theatre, electronics, and taiko. Kasahara is a co-founder of Amplified Opera, the Disruptor-in-Residence at the Canadian Opera Company.
VSO associate concertmaster Andrew Crust conducts.
For more information, see Vancouver Pride Society.
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