Vancouver Symphony Orchestra principal flute Christie Reside performs a haunting Ballade alongside Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique in upcoming concert

The January 21 to 23 performance also features Sri Lankan-Canadian Dinuk Wijeratne’s Polyphonic Lively

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VSO principal flute Christie Reside.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is getting 2022 off to an exciting start with Symphonie fantastique January 21 to 23 at the Orpheum.

The concert features Christie Reside performing Swiss composer Frank Martin’s haunting Ballade for Flute, Strings, and Piano. Principal flute since 2004 of the VSO (Ron and Ardelle Cliff Chair), Reside is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and a faculty member at the Vancouver Academy of Music.

The upcoming performance will showcase the dramatic romanticism of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. The twisted, fantastical love story expresses the artist’s pining for unrequited love and his lapse into despair at his rejection.

Also on the program is Sri Lankan-Canadian composer Dinuk Wijerante’s Polyphonic Lively, a beloved piece inspired by the work of 20th-century Swiss-German master Paul Klee.

Maestro Otto Tausk leads the VSO. In keeping with Provincial Health Office orders, the concert will be sold at 50-percent capacity.

Ticket information is available at VancouverSymphony.ca and additional health information can be found here.

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