Jeremy Dutcher & the KSO Concert Program

JEREMY DUTCHER & THE KSO Sagebrush Theatre Friday May 17, 2024 • 7:30pm Kelson Group Pops Performance

Saturday May 18, 2024 • 7:30pm

Fairfield by Marriott Kamloops Signature Series Performance

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Message from the Executive Director I welcome you to this extraordinary final performance of the KSO’s 2023/24 season, here on the unceded and traditional territories of the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc peoples, where we are proud to continue the tradition of musicmaking that has existed here since time immemorial.

Through the music of Juno-nominated artist Jeremy Dutcher, I am reminded of the profound connection between language, music, and reconciliation.

It is a bridge—a shared language that unites us all. Dutcher has breathed new life into centuries old Wolastoqiyik melodies, weaving his Indigenous heritage with contemporary influences. His compositions serve as a testament to the power of cultural revival and reconciliation: honouring the Indigenous peoples and languages that have endured despite historical challenges and upheaval while echoing stories of resilience, loss, and hope.

As we close the season, we also look to our upcoming 48th season—one of joy that places the power of music at the heart of our community. It features orchestral favourites like Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Handel’s The Messiah, and Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony, and unique performances like the history of the Ojibwe horses told through music, storytelling, and art in The Spirit Horse Returns; the return of Alex Cuba, the Grammy Awardwinning artist from Northern BC; and new musical experiences on the North Shore and at our home in Kelson Hall.

I invite you to join us for the KSO’s 2024/25 season as a valued season ticket holder. With your season ticket to any of our curated series or when you compose your own, you help keep the music playing for everyone across Kamloops and the BC interior.

Thank you for joining us this season, and we look forward to welcoming you back in September! Kukstsélp!

Yours in music,

Christopher Young Executive Director KSO & KSO Music School GOVERNMENT GRANTS

FOUNDATIONS BC Interior Community Foundation Kamloops Symphony Foundation Shuswap Community Foundation SOCAN Foundation

The Kamloops Symphony wishes to acknowledge that this concert is taking place on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory within the traditional lands of the Secwépemc Nation.

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Kamloops Symphony Society BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John McDonald, ICD.D • President Steve Powrie • Vice President Tyler Klymchuk • Treasurer Lisa Fuller Christy Gauley Lucille Gnanasihamany Gabriele Klein Simon Walter

HONOURARY LIFE MEMBERS Bonnie Jetsen Art Hooper

ADMINISTRATION Executive Director

Christopher Young

Office Administrator

Sue Adams

Operations Coordinator

Sam Bregoliss

Marketing Coordinator

Ryan Noakes

Orchestra Personnel Manager

Olivia Martin

Production Assistant

Adrien Fillion

Audio Engineer

Doug Perry

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MUSIC DIRECTOR Music Director Dina Gilbert is a Canadian conductor passionate about communicating with audiences of all ages to broaden their appreciation of orchestral music through innovative collaborations. This commitment, along with her extensive knowledge of the orchestra repertoire, has brought her to conduct orchestras across Canada as well as in France, Spain, the United States, Colombia and Japan. She has received critical acclaim for her energetic presence on the podium, her versatility, and her audacious programming.

In addition to conducting the Kamloops Symphony, highlights of the 20232024 season include return invitations with the Toronto Symphony, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, as well as debuts with the Walla Walla Symphony and the Kingston Symphony. As the Principal Conductor of the Orchestre des Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Dina will perform Prokofiev’s Cinderella, as well as works of Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann, Louise Farrenc and Kaija Saariaho in the ballet premiere of La Dame aux Camélias by choreographer Peter Quanz.

Her innate curiosity towards nonclassical musical genres and her willingness to democratize classical music has brought her to conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre national de Lyon in several Hip Hop Symphonic

programs featuring renowned Hip hop artists I AM, MC Solaar, Youssoupha and Bigflo & Oli. Dina is also renowned for her expertise in conducting multidisciplinary projects such as film concert performances (The Red Violin, The Artist, E.T. the Extraterrestrial).

As the founder and artistic director of the Ensemble Arkea, a Montrealbased chamber orchestra, Dina has premiered over thirty works from emerging Canadian composers and has reached thousands of children with her interactive and participative Conducting 101 workshops. From 2013 to 2016, Dina Gilbert was the assistant conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal and Maestro Kent Nagano, also assisting notable guest conductors including Zubin Mehta and Sir Roger Norrington.

In April 2016, she received great acclaim for stepping in to replace Maestro Alain Altinoglu with the OSM in a program showcasing Gustav Holst’s The Planets.

Featured in the recent documentary “Femmes symphoniques”, Dina Gilbert earned her doctorate from the Université de Montréal and polished her skills in masterclasses with Kenneth Kiesler, Pinchas Zukerman, Neeme Järvi and the musicians from the Kritische Orchester in Berlin. Awarded the Opus Prize of “Découverte de l’année” in 2017, Dina Gilbert was also named as one of the “50 personnalités créant l’extraordinaire au Québec” in 2018 by the Urbania Magazine.

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Meet the Orchestra Music Director Dina Gilbert

Music Director Emeritus Bruce Dunn FIRST VIOLIN

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concertmaster* Geoff & Judith Benson Chair

June McClure Chair

John & Joyce Henderson Chair

Cvetozar Vutev

Elyse Jacobsen,

assisstant concertmaster++ Rod Michell Chair

Susan Aylard Meredith Bates Jiten Beairsto Evelyn Creaser-Rumley Samantha Kung Molly MacKinnon SECOND VIOLIN

Boris Ulanowicz* Gabriele Klein Chair

Annette Dominik Michelle Gao Narumi Higuchi Haley Leach Sandra Wilmot Principal

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Ashley Kroecher* Jennifer Ho Caroline Olsen Wennie Wei Calvin Yang

Sally Arai* Julie Begg

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Sam McNally* Heather Walker

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Martin Krátký*

Anonymous Chair

Doug Gorkoff Yu Yu Liu Olivia Walsh

Olivia Martin* Karmen Doucette TRUMPET

Mark D’Angelo*

Hugh & Marylin Fallis Chair

BASS

Maggie Hasspacher* Yefeng Yin FLUTE

Jeremy Vint TIMPANI

Caroline Bucher* PERCUSSION

Heather Beaty*

Eleanor Nicoll chair

François-Xavier Leroy* Robin Reid

OBOE

LIBRARIAN

Jeff Pelletier

Marea Chernoff Lauris Davis

KSO CHORUS—supported by the Kelson Group Chorus Master Tomas Bijok Collaborative Pianist Daniela O’Fee Chorus Administrator Marnie Smith

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JEREMY DUTCHER & THE KSO Jennifer Tung, conductor* Jeremy Dutcher, piano & vocals Bram Gielen, bass

Stefan Schneider, drums KSO Chorus; Tomas Bijok, chorusmaster

Honour Song (arr. Lucas Waldin) Skicinuwihkuk (arr. Bram Gielen) Pomawsuwinuwok Wonakiyawoltuwok (People are Rising)(arr. Bram G) Wolasweltomutine (arr. Bram Gielen) Tahcuwi Anelsutipon (arr. Bram Gielen) TBA (solo work by Jeremy) Essuwonike (arr. Lucas Walsin) INTERMISSION Music is vibration (by composer Andrew Balfour) Koselwintuwakon “Love Song” (arr. Lucas Waldin) Sakom (arr. Stéphanie Hamelin) Graveyard (Feist Cover — arr. Stéphanie Hamelin) Ancestors Too Young (arr. Bram Gielen) Mehcinut (arr. Lucas Waldin) Take My Hand (arr. Bram Gielen) Nipuwoltin (arr. Lucas Waldin) Pomok naka Poktoinskwes (arr. Lucas Waldin)

* Participation made possible by the Kamloops Symphony’s partnership with Tapestry Opera in the Women in Musical Leadership Program

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GUEST CONDUCTOR

Jennifer Tung Guest Conductor

Artistic director of Toronto City Opera and assistant conductor of the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, Chinese-Canadian conductor Jennifer Tung leads a uniquely versatile career as music director and pianist.

In 2020/21, she joined Tapestry Opera as a conducting fellow in the inaugural year of the Women in Musical Leadership program, in partnership with Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Opera Victoria. As part of her time within the program, Jennifer served as assistant conductor for the world premiere of Brian Current’s Gould’s Wall for Tapestry Opera, and a brand-new production of Orfeo ed Euridice by Vancouver Opera in collaboration with Ne Sans.

In 2017, Jennifer made her conducting debut in The Mikado with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and has subsequently returned to conduct Sweeney Todd and Peter Brook’s Tragedy of Carmen. In 2019, she led La Traviata for Opera York and assisted the Dora Award winning opera Shanawdithit by Dean Burry and Yvette Nolan for Tapestry Opera and Opera on the Avalon.

Jennifer is a sought-after faculty member for international training programs, and is on faculty at Toronto’s prestigious Glenn Gould School. She holds degrees in vocal performance and collaborative piano from the Eastman School of Music and studies conducting with Denis Mastromonaco.

GUEST ARTIST

Jeremy Dutcher Piano & Vocals

Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, ethnomusicologist and classically-trained vocalist from New Brunswick, Canada who currently lives in Montréal, Québec. A Wolastoqiyik member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in North-West New Brunswick, Jeremy is best known for his debut album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (The Songs of the People of the Beautiful River), recorded following a research project on archival recordings of traditional Wolastoqiyik songs at the Canadian Museum of History. Jeremy transcribed songs sung by his ancestors in 1907 and recorded onto wax cylinders, transforming them into “collaborative” compositions. The album earned him the 2018 Polaris Music Prize and Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the 2019 JUNO Awards.

His 2019 NPR Tiny Desk Concert has over 95,000 views.

Jeremy studied music and anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After training as an operatic tenor in the Western classical tradition, he expanded his professional repertoire to include the traditional singing style and songs of his community. Jeremy’s music transcends boundaries: unapologetically playful in its incorporation of classical influences, full of reverence for the traditional songs of his home, and teeming with the urgency of modern-day resistance.

Jeremy has toured the world, from Australia and Norway to Italy and the Philippines. He has worked with and performed for iconic artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Joni Mitchell, and Beverly Glenn Copeland. Jeremy is regularly sought out for his perspectives on queerness, Indigeneity, language revitalization, and fashion, including a 2022 appearance as a guest judge on Canada’s Drag Race, and a 2023 feature in Vogue. In 2022, Jeremy and his family launched Kekhimin, the first ever Wolastoqey language immersion school, in Fredericton New Brunswick.

KSO CHORUS

KSO Chorus The KSO Chorus provides local singers with the opportunity to perform masterworks for choir and orchestra in concert with the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra.

Nichole Annis Guram Asatiani Robin Bhattcharya Rita Bittante Amanda Bond Nicole Bremner Elisa Bruno Alan Buchanan Jingbi Cui Lynn Eberts Tom Eccleston Kristine Faulds Heather Gnoato Grace Graham Alan Hodgson

Tomas Bijok, chorus master Daniela O’Fee, collaborative pianist Marnie Smith, chorus administrator

Mary Hunter Adrianne Hydasz Tracy Hydasz George Johnson Elaine Karas Heather Martin Diane McArthur Dale Merret Candace Morrison Peter Nieuwold Daniella O'Fee Linda Oliver Charene Perog Elizabeth Reichenback Janice Rutherford

Supported by the Kelson Group

Mia Sage Phillip Sigalet Marnie Smith Samantha(Sam) Snucins Patricia Spencer Gisele Strodl Jill Timko Gordon Tisher Evelyn Vipond-Schmidt Bob Walter Natasha Winston Cynthia Yaunish Hayang Yoo Michelle Zwolak Sally Zyrd

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JANUARY

2024

Elinor Frey plays Bach’s Cello Suites 22 & 23 | Kelson Hall • Live At Kelson Hall

Jean-Michel Blais & Dina Gilbert

28 | Sagebrush Theatre • Fairfield by Marriott Signature 29 | The Nexus at First • Salmon Arm Sundays

OCT

Musical Fairytales: Bremen’s Musical Brigade 12 | Kelson Hall • Tiny Tots & Relaxed Tots

Sycamore String Quartet plays Bach 12 | Kelson Hall • KSO Chamber Players

NOV

Alex Cuba & The KSO

1 & 2 | Sagebrush Theatre • Kelson Group Pops

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid

3 | Sagebrush Theatre • Kids Concerts & Relaxed Performances

Palestrina, Mozart & Beyond

16 | Kamloops Alliance Church • North Shore Harmonies 17 | The Nexus at First • Salmon Arm Sundays

DEC

Christmas with the KSO

13 & 14 | Sagebrush Theatre • Kelson Group Pops

Kids’ Christmas with the KSO

15 | Sagebrush Theatre • Kids Concerts & Relaxed Performances

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2025

CONCERT CALENDAR

JAN

The Who & Led Zeppelin

10 & 11 | Sagebrush Theatre • Special Concert

String Theory

25 | Kelson Hall • Tiny Tots & Relaxed Tots

A Night with Dvořák, Ellington & Price 25 | Kelson Hall • KSO Chamber Players

FEB

Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony

8 | Sagebrush Theatre • Fairfield by Marriott Signature 9 | The Nexus at First • Salmon Arm Sundays

Rémi Bolduc swings with Oscar Peterson 22 | Kelson Hall • Live at Kelson Hall

MAR Maggie & Her Magical Bass

2 | Kelson Hall • Tiny Tots & Relaxed Tots

All About that Bass! with Maggie Hasspacher 2 | Kelson Hall • KSO Chamber Players

From Paris to Broadway

7 & 8 | Sagebrush Theatre • Kelson Group Pops

APR

Janina Fialkowska in Recital 1 | Kelson Hall • Live at Kelson Hall

Vivaldi’s Gloria

12 | Kamloops Alliance Church • North Shore Harmonies

Symphonic Stories: Handel Writes the Messiah 26 | Sagebrush Theatre • Fairfield by Marriott Signature

MAY The Spirit Horse Returns

11 | Sagebrush Theatre • Kids Concerts & Relaxed Performances

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5

17 | Sagebrush Theatre • Fairfield by Marriott Signature