Van Django & KSO

In-person Viewing Sagebrush Theatre

NOVEMBER 5 & 6 FRIDAY & SATURDAY 7:30PM Limited seating

Online Viewing available from

NOVEMBER 6 –DECEMBER 4

Van Django &KSO

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Greetings from the Executive Director What a weekend!

As we approach the winter months, we are thrilled to be launching not one, but two concert productions this weekend, with Van Django & KSO, and The Wild Orchestra. These mark the third and fourth programmes of the Kamloops Symphony’s hybrid 2021–22 in-person and digital Season.

Although there are so many different parties and partners that make all our productions possible, one particular group of people that sometimes gets overlooked in my pre-show announcements, is the hard-working administrative team at the Kamloops Symphony.

Over the last 20 months of pandemic, Dina and I have been fortunate enough to have worked with an incredibly adaptable, perseverant, and cooperative group of individuals that have rolled with the punches, to make what we do actually happen. Going from in-person events pre-pandemic, to exclusively digital, and now mixing both has not been an easy feat, and we have been challenged in this way in all areas of our operations (not just our concert productions, but also our various other activities, including operating Kamloops Symphony Music School, our fundraising initiatives, and even running the office itself). I know Dina and I are so grateful for the team who has continuously risen to the occasion of delivering on our mission as an organization, however complex it has been.

So please join me in giving a big thank to our administrative team, and please enjoy this Wild Weekend of music-making!

Daniel Mills

Executive Director Kamloops Symphony

BC Interior Community Foundation Kamloops Symphony Foundation TELUS Community Foundation Hamber Foundation

GOVERNMENT FOUNDATIONS GRANTS

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 | President Claire Ann Brodie | Vice President Helen Newmarch | Secretary Kathy Collier Lucille Gnanasihamany Gabriele Klein Rod Michell Steve Powrie Simon Walter

HONOURARY LIFE MEMBERS Bonnie Jetsen Art Hooper

ADMINISTRATION Executive Director

Daniel Mills

Music Director

Dina Gilbert

Office Administrator

Sue Adams

Marketing Coordinator

Ryan Noakes

Operations Coordinator

Sam Bregoliss Librarian

Sally Arai

Orchestra Personnel Manager

Olivia Martin

Production Assistant

Adrien Fillion

Chorus Master

Tomas Bijok Proud Member of Orchestras Canada, the national association for Canadian orchestras

Collaborative Pianist

Daniela O’Fee

Music Director Emeritus

Bruce Dunn

MUSIC DIRECTOR Regularly invited to conduct in Canada and overseas, Dina Gilbert attracts critical acclaim for her energy, precision and versatility. Currently Music Director of the Kamloops Symphony and of the Orchestre symphonique de l’Estuaire (Québec), she is known for her contagious dynamism and her audacious programming.

Dina Gilbert is regularly invited by leading Canadian orchestras including the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre métropolitain, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic and the Orchestre symphonique de Québec.

In 2017, she made debut performances in the United States with the Eugene Symphony and the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra as well as in Asia conducting a series of five concerts with the Sinfonia Varsovia in Niigata and Tokyo.

Passionate about expanding classical audiences and with an innate curiosity towards non-classical musical genres, Dina has conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre national de Lyon in several Hip-Hop Symphonic programmes collaborating with renowned Hip hop artists. She has also conducted the world premiere of the film The Red Violin with orchestra at the Festival de Lanaudière and has conducted the North American premiere of the film The Artist with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

As the founder and artistic director of the Ensemble Arkea, a Montreal-based chamber orchestra, Dina premiered over thirty works from emerging young Canadian composers. Committed to music education, she has reached thousands of children’s in Canada with her interactive and participative Conducting 101 workshop.

From 2013 to 2016, Dina Gilbert was assistant conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Maestro Kent Nagano, also assisting guest conductors including Zubin Mehta, Sir Roger Norrington, Lawrence Foster and Giancarlo Guerrero. 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.

Dina Gilbert earned her doctorate from the Université de Montréal, where she studied with Jean-François Rivest and Paolo Bellomia. Awarded the Opus Prize of “Découverte de l’année” in 2017, Dina Gilbert was also named as one of the 50 personalities creating the extraordinary in Québec in 2018 by the Urbania Magazine.

Dina Gilbert

Orchestra CELLO

HORN

—concertmaster°

Martin Kratky* Doug Gorkoff

—concertmaster*

BASS

TRUMPET

FIRST VIOLIN

Cvetozar Vutev

Elyse Jacobson

Molly MacKinnon

—assistant concertmaster Evelyn Creaser-Rumley

SECOND VIOLIN

Meaghan Williams++

FLUTE

Jeff Pelletier++

Boris Ulanowicz* Llowyn Ball Sandra Wilmot

OBOE

VIOLA

Sally Arai*

Marea Chernoff*

CLARINET

Ashley Kroecher* Erin MacDonald °On Leave

Principal

*

BASSOON

Olivia Martin* +

Acting Principal

Chair Sponsors

Sam McNally* Dennis Colpits Mark D’Angelo* Jeremy Vint

TROMBONE

Jim Hopson++ Rod Simmons

TIMPANI

Brian Nesselroad

PERCUSSION Martin Fisk

Substitute Principal

++

Geoff & Judith Benson | concertmaster Rod Michell | assistant concertmaster Gabriele Klein | principal second violin June McClure | principal viola Anonymous | principal cello Eleanor Nicoll | principal flute Joyce Henderson | principal clarinet Kelvin & Roberta Barlow | principal bassoon Hugh & Marilyn Fallis | principal trumpet

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Sponsors

PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE SPONSOR

Conductor:

Dina Gilbert

Guest Artists:

Van Django

Cameron Wilson | violin Jared Burrows | guitar Finn Manniche | guitar & cello Brent Gubbels | bass

Blue Moon ...............................................Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight .....Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson*

Rue Fir .....................................................Cameron Wilson & Finn Manniche

Swing 39 ..................................................Stéphane Grappelli & Django Reinhardt* Impromptu .............................................Django Reinhardt Chanson de Cowboy...............................Finn Manniche

Shine ........................................................Cecil Mack, Lew Brown & Ford Dabney* Jammin with Liam .................................Budge Schachte Black Orpheus ........................................Luiz Bonfá*

Fist of Beethoven ....................................arr. Van Django

Sweet Georgia Brown............................. Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard & Kenneth Casey * Van Django solo features

Orchestral arrangements by Cameron Wilson & Budge Schachte

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Music & the Arts

Todd Stone, MLA

Peter Milobar, MLA

Kamloops | South Thompson

Kamloops | North Thompson

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GUEST ARTISTS

Finn | Jared | Cameron | Brent

Van Django Our music is well-rooted in the gypsy jazz of 1930’s Paris France, but beyond that it’s all pure blue-skying; flights of dazzling fancy, driving rhythms and boundless creativity, featuring original compositions and arrangements including humorous mash-ups wearing their eclectic influences in full regalia. Since the group’s formation in 1998, they have toured extensively in Canada as well as international forays to the US, Europe and China.

The group has had repeat performances at Djangofest North-west (DFNW) in 2008-2016 sharing the stage with gypsy jazz luminaries such as the John Jorgenson Quintet, the legendary gypsy jazz guitarist Romane and many others.

We have released 4 CD’s “Tiptoe Trip”, “Waltz in the Shape of a Tree”, “Hotel Europe” and a Christmas CD with special guests titled, “Cool Yule”. They have been well received and played on many radio stations including; CBC, RDI, Espace Musique, NPR and Lyric FM in Ireland CD. Perhaps Nick Lehr, former director of Djangofest Northwest, summed it up best describing Van Django when he said: “In an increasingly crowded niche, Van Django is a standout act. With a clever mix of contemporary standards, classical ditties, rock homages and solid originals they effortlessly whip the audience into a joyful frenzy. Attending a Van Django concert is the most fun you can have sitting down with your clothes on.”

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Did you know, ticket sales and other earned revenues only cover about 30% of the costs to run Kamloops Symphony concerts? (and even less when our audiences sizes are restricted). More than ever, we rely on the generous support of individuals to ensure we can achieve our mandate of connecting to the community through music.

We invite you to help us reach our goal of bringing music to the public by giving to the Kamloops Symphony today.

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Thank you for your support

The Wild Orchestra

In-person Viewing Sagebrush Theatre

NOVEMBER 7 SUNDAY

2:00PM & 4:30PM Limited seating

A fun, familyfriendly introduction to the symphony

Online Viewing available from

NOVEMBER 7 –DECEMBER 5

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