Inspiration launches Vetta Chamber Music's 2022-23 season
The ensemble’s opening concert features acclaimed Vancouver artists Jane Coop and Marcus Goddard
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Jane Coop.
Vetta Chamber Music is getting its 2022-23 season off to an inspiring start with performances in Vancouver and West Vancouver and on Salt Spring Island.
Inspiration is Vetta’s opening concert featuring two of Vancouver’s own, pianist extraordinaire Jane Coop and composer Marcus Goddard, with music inspired by other composers, literature, and the muses.
Goddard is an award-winning composer and internationally respected trumpet player whose music has touched the hearts of audiences around the world. His catalog of over 50 works includes 10 pieces for large orchestra, many frequently performed chamber works, and a large body of innovative work for solo instruments and electronics. Goddard is the Composer in Association and Associate Principal Trumpet with the Grammy and Juno-winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Coop has performed in more than 20 countries, in such venues as the Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Roy Thomson Hall, the Beijing Concert Hall, and the Salle Gaveau (Paris). Her 16 recordings, three of which have been nominated for Juno awards, have garnered glowing reviews. In 2012, Coop was appointed to the Order of Canada.
The Inspiration program includes Hildegard von Bingen’s O Virtus Sapientiae, Goddard’s Three Wings, Janáček String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata" , and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Opus 34.
Performing alongside Coop are Joan Blackman and David Gillham on violin, David Harding on viola, and Zoltan Rozsnyai on cello.
Concert dates and venues are:
2 pm, Friday October 14, at West Point Grey United Church
7:30 pm, Saturday October 15, at West Vancouver United Church
2 pm, Sunday October 16, at Pyatt Hall
7:30 pm, October 17, at ArtSpring on Salt Spring Island.
For Vancouver or West Vancouver Concerts, a five-concert subscription is $120; single tickets are $30.
More information is at Vetta Chamber Music.
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