Mainstage Series

HOLST
& MOZART

NADÈGE FOOFAT | CANDIDATE CONDUCTOR

DAVID FUNG | PIANO

October 18 - 20, 2024

SEASON SPONSOR

PROGRAM

The stars align for our season launch! Holst’s The Planets and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 with the uncommonly expressive David Fung.

ANDREW BALFOUR | Kiwetin-acahkos (North Star) Fanfare for the peoples of the North
arr. SIMEONE | Music from Star Trek
MOZART | Piano Concerto No. 21, K.467 in C Major
HOLST | The Planets
with Ancora Women’s Ensemble

CANDIDATE CONDUCTOR

NADÈGE FOOFAT

ARTIST

DAVID FUNG | PIANO

Price

$24 - $65

Friday

OCTOBER

7:30pm

Kelowna Community Theatre

TICKETS

Saturday

OCTOBER

7:00pm

Penticton’s Cleland Community Theatre

TICKETS

Sunday

OCTOBER

2:00pm

Vernon & District
Performing Arts Centre

TICKETS

PRE-CONCERT CHAT

One hour before each performance.

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Open Dress Rehearsal

Friday, October 18 | 2:00pm
Kelowna Community Theatre
Suggested $20 donation at the door

MAINSTAGE SERIES PARTNERS

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Nadège Foofat is a conductor, violinist, violist, and advocate for innovation in thought, action, music and culture. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Classical at the MSV.

Born in Calgary, Nadège grew up in a home filled with music, dance and visual art. An accomplished musician at a young age, she was principal viola of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada at age 14, and invited to attend the Juilliard School at age 16.

Over the past decade, Nadège has conducted across Canada, the USA and Europe. Her collaborations include recording a new song cycle for coloratura soprano Fotina Naumenko, as well as writing and recording arrangements for pop star Natalie Merchant.

From 2009-2014, Nadège was the Founder and Director of the Esopus Chamber Orchestra, a twenty-five-member award-winning professional chamber orchestra based in the Hudson Valley, New York. During this time, she was also Associate Conductor for Naxos’s recording of Milhaud's L'Orestie d'Eschyle, which was nominated for a 2015 GRAMMY® Award (Best Opera Recording). Nadège was recognized in 2018 by the League of American Orchestras for her “experience, talent, leadership potential, and commitment to a career in service to American orchestras” with a Bruno Walter Award and a debut with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

Nadège holds a Doctorate from the Université de Montréal and a Diploma from the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in conducting, and a Master of Music degree from Yale University School of Music and Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School in viola performance.

HOLST & MOZART
October 18, 19 & 20, 2024

Nadège Foofat

David Fung | Piano

Praised for his “ravishing and simply gorgeous” performances in The Washington Post, pianist David Fung is widely recognized for interpretations that are elegant and refined, yet intensely poetic and uncommonly expressive.

With a repertoire of over sixty concertos, Mr. Fung regularly appears with the world’s premier ensembles including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony working with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Joana Carneiro, Gustavo Dudamel, Michael Francis, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Lan Shui, and Christian Zacharias. An incisive interpreter of Mozart and Bach, Mr. Fung has collaborated with the Israel, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Orpheus, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

He has captivated audiences at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Louvre, Gewandhaus, Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Zürich Tonhalle, as well as the major halls in Asia, including the Beijing Concert Hall, Guangzhou Opera House, Hong Kong Town Hall, Seoul Art Center, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Taiwan National Concert Hall, and the Tianjin Grand Theater. Notable festival appearances include Aspen, Blossom, Caramoor, Edinburgh, Hong Kong Arts, and Ravinia Festival.

Mr. Fung garnered international attention as laureate of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels and the Arthur Rubinstein Piano International Masters Competition in Tel Aviv, where he was further distinguished by the Chamber Music and Mozart Prizes.

He is the first piano graduate of the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, where he studied with John Perry, and later worked with Peter Frankl, Claude Frank and Arie Vardi at Yale University and the Hannover Hochschüle. Mr. Fung is on faculty at the University of British Columbia, and is a curator at the Chan Center for the Performing Arts in Vancouver. Mr. Fung is a Steinway Artist.

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Friday

OCTOBER

7:30pm

Saturday

OCTOBER

7:00pm

Sunday

OCTOBER

2:00pm

PRE-CONCERT CHAT

Open Dress Rehearsal

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David Fung | Piano

Mainstage Series

HOLST& MOZART

SEASON SPONSOR

SEASON SPONSOR

PROGRAM

CANDIDATE CONDUCTOR

ARTIST

Price

Friday

OCTOBER

7:30pm

Saturday

OCTOBER

7:00pm

Sunday

OCTOBER

2:00pm

PRE-CONCERT CHAT

Open Dress Rehearsal

MAINSTAGE SERIES PARTNERS

Nadège Foofat

David Fung | Piano

HOLST
& MOZART