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from Dance Victoria 2022-2023 Season | Ballet Edmonton with Victoria Symphony program insert

by Dance Victoria

from Dance Victoria 2022-2023 Season | Ballet Edmonton with Victoria Symphony program insert, page 5

Article from: Dance Victoria 2022-2023 Season | Ballet Edmonton with Victoria Symphony program insert

About Ballet Edmonton

GIUSEPPE PIETRAROIA, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

Giuseppe Pietraroia is Associate Conductor for both the Victoria Symphony and Pacific Opera. As a guest conductor, he has been engaged by l’Orchestre Métropolitain, Orchestra London, Vancouver Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Hamilton Philharmonic, Okanagan Symphony, Regina Symphony, Kingston Symphony and Thunder Bay Symphony. His extensive opera engagements with Pacific Opera include productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia, La traviata, La bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, Norma, Rigoletto, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, La Cenerentola, Tosca, and Let’s Make an Opera/The Little Sweep. In addition, he has conducted productions for l’Opéra de Montréal, l’Opéra de Québec, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Edmonton Opera, Opera New Brunswick, Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist Program, and l’Institut Canadien d’Art Vocal. With Victoria Choral Society where he was Music Director for seven seasons, Maestro Pietraroia conducted performances of Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Victoria Symphony, a choreographed production of Orff’s Carmina Burana in collaboration with Ballet Victoria, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus, and the Duruflé and Fauré requiems.

Maestro Pietraroia has recorded a CD with soprano MarieJosée Lord and l’Orchestre Métropolitain for the ATMA label, which won a Felix award granted by l’ADISQ and was also nominated for a JUNO award. Giuseppe Pietraroia is the recipient of the George and Jane Heffelﬁnger Paciﬁc Opera Victoria Artist of the Year Award and the Canada Council’s Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestral Conducting.

TERENCE TAM, VIOLIN SOLOIST & LEADER, The Four Seasons Recomposed

Consistently praised for his intense musicality and impressive technique, Canadian violinist Terence Tam has performed in Canada, the US, Australia, Europe and Japan as a recitalist and chamber musician. Currently concertmaster of the Victoria Symphony, he also previously held this prestigious position with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia and Symphony Nova Scotia in Canada. Tam has appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras in Canada, including those in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax. An active chamber musician, Tam’s performances have taken him to many festivals, including those presented by the Montreal Symphony, Sitka, Pender Harbour, Sarasota, Ravinia, Meadowmount, Banff, Aspen, Encore, Hamptons, Scotiafest, Sweetwater, Music in the Morning and La Conner music festivals. Tam made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1994; for his Paris concerto debut in 2000, he played the Ligeti Violin Concerto with the Academy of 20th Century Music Orchestra. His CD recording of composer Wim Zwaag’s Violin Concerto with the Victoria Symphony was chosen as one of CBC In Concert’s best classical recordings of 2011. Mr. Tam’s musical studies took place at Toronto’s Glenn Gould School, Baltimore’s Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Music School in Germany.