VMO 獻演莫札特、貝多芬  驚喜可期

 春天是令人驚奇的季節。溫哥華大都會交響樂團（VMO）的春季音樂會料將帶來驚喜。出乎意料之外的是，這些驚喜來自一些最為耳熟能詳的古典音樂作品──莫札特的第二十一號鋼琴協奏曲和貝多芬的第五號交響曲！

VMO本年度的春季音樂會，在樂團總監謝建得指揮下，將於四月五日（星期五）晚上七時三十分在桑那斯高地聯合教會（Shaughnessy Heights United Church; 1550 W 33rd Ave.）舉行。本地作曲家貝克曼（Beckman）最新作品〈幻化〉（Flux）的世界首演將為音樂會揭開序幕，莫札特和貝多芬的作品隨之登場。協奏曲將由羅馬尼亞裔卑詩大學音樂藝術博士杜魯（B. Dulu）擔任鋼琴獨奏。

莫札特所寫的二十三首鋼琴協奏曲是他在音樂上最重大的成就之一，其中以C大調第二十一號協奏曲最膾炙人口。法國作曲家梅湘（O. Messiaen）談到這首協奏曲的第二樂章（慢板）曾表示：「它包含著莫札特甚或所有音樂最美的其中一個曲調。」

雖然這首協奏曲的曲調耳熟能詳而且聽起來輕鬆自如，但就如莫札特的父親李歐波德（Leopold）指出，這其實是演奏起來「難得驚人」的作品。難就難在流暢優雅地把它奏出──就像莫札特本人在維納首演時的表現一樣。杜魯的優美演繹料將令聽眾為之驚艷。

貝多芬第五號交響曲（一般稱為「命運交響曲」）一切看來熟悉不過：像開頭據說象徵命運在扣門的「三短一長」四音主題音型，還有它從悲壯的開頭（C小調）步向勝利的終結（C大調），凡此種種，家喻戶曉。

但其實它還有很多驚喜有待發掘。比方說，過渡的第三樂章（詼諧曲）一路聽來神秘兮兮 ，像是毫無方向，最後卻直接引出終曲的勝利歡騰。還有一種流行說法聲稱這首樂曲的最後樂章是交響曲歷史上首次用上了短笛（最高音的木管樂器）、倍低音管（最低音的木管樂器）和伸縮長號，雖然此說不盡真確，但這些樂器確實在當中扮演了重要角色，表現不凡，值得喝采！

<p>The post VMO獻演莫札特、貝多芬 驚喜可期 first appeared on VMO Canada.</p>

The Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra is led by a Board of Directors comprised of members of the community who are dedicated to the uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence and the development of an outstanding professional development program.

2018-19 Board of Directors

Steve Coombe – Presiden
Dean Hsieh – Vice President
Van Doren Chan – Secretary
Wells Hsu – Treasurer

Directors

Cindy Kuo
Daniel Chiu
Graham Blank
Henry Liao
Kailin Che – Legal
Marie Cahill
Paul Kwan
Pearl Hsieh
Sophie Yi

Advisors

Kim Leclercq
Tristin Lee

Members at Large

Grace Ao
Evan Chen

<p>The post Board of Directors first appeared on VMO Canada.</p>

The Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra is led by staff comprised of members of the community who are dedicated to the uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence and the development of an outstanding professional development program.

Steven Lin
Artistic Administrative Manager & Personnel Manager

Peter Johnson
Artistic Administrator

Katie Ho, Kemuel Wong
Librarian

<p>The post Administration first appeared on VMO Canada.</p>

The VMO Orchestra

VIOLIN

Akira Nagai, concertmaster mentor
Adrian Chui, principal mentor
Dominic Woo, concertmaster
Larisa Lebeda, mentor
Christine Lin, personnel manager
Carol Hur
Emma Bazinet
Erin Dorfet
Esther Hwang
Hyunnah Cho
Jeremy Ferland
Julia Lim
Lucy Chang
Molly MacKinnon
Rick Dorfet
Yun Jung

VIOLA

Emily Zwamborn
Isabelle Roland
Jennifer Ho
Manti Poon
On You Lee
Steven Lin

CELLO

Brian Mix
Luke Kim
Minjee Yoon
Rebecca Wenham
Shin-Jung Nam
Zhuojun Bian

BASS

Kenneth Friedman, principal mentor
Jesse Lu
Lenna Wong
Michael Vaughan

FLUTE

Heather Beaty
Laura Vanek
Samantha Fu
Susan Lee

OBOE

Geronimo Mendoza
Fleur Sweetman
Emily Yu

CLARINET

Shawn Earle
Sydney Hsin-Yi Chang
Tiffany Tsai

BASSOON

Ingrid Chiang, principal mentor
Iraj Tamadon-Nejad
Sarah Ellis
Tristan Lambert

HORN

Richard Mingus, principal mentor
Dawn Haylett
Ian Beatson
Keon Briney
Nick Anderson

TRUMPET

Daniel Kocurek
Mark D’Angelo

TIMPANI

Martin Fisk

TROMBONE

Greg Passmore
Justin Chiang
Jim Hopson

<p>The post The VMO Orchestra first appeared on VMO Canada.</p>

Bogdan Dulu

With a knack for leaping musical hurdles, Bogdan Dulu is steadily establishing himself as one of Canada’s noteworthy musicians of the newer generation, combining mastery of the piano with the ability to educate and entertain with his engaging speaking style, intelligence, compassion, and humour.
The 2017/2018 season brought Dulu’s Vancouver Symphony Orchestra debut under music director, Bramwell Tovey, who asked Dulu to step in on a 20-day notice and present the world premiere of Shalimar Variations, Tovey’s latest work for piano and orchestra. The previous concert season found him above the Arctic Circle, touring the Northwest Territories with British actor, Tayo Aluko, in a theatrical play depicting the life of American singer and civil rights movement activist, Paul Robeson. Later on, his High-Voltage Piano/Piano Haute-Voltige program highlighting piano music of Marc-André Hamelin reached audiences across Eastern Canada with a marathon tour of 19 solo recitals in 7 weeks, presented by Jeunesses Musicales Canada. In the 2015/2016 season, Dulu toured across the Maritime provinces of Canada as a Debut Atlantic artist. He has performed in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. He is equally at home as a soloist as well as chamber musician, collaborative pianist, coach, or public speaker, with appearances on NHK Tokyo, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, Romanian Radio Corporation, KING FM Seattle, and planned recording projects with the CBC.
Dulu was born and raised in Romania, where he received a rigorous foundation in the fundamentals of music. After intense private piano studies with Ana Pitiş during his undergraduate training in Bucharest, Dulu continued his graduate studies in New York City with Irina Morozova at Mannes School of Music (Master of Music) and later in Vancouver as Jane Coop’s last graduate student at the University of British Columbia (Doctor of Musical Arts). In masterclasses, he has played for Yefim Bronfman, Richard Goode, and Stephen Hough, and worked with soprano Dawn Upshaw at the Banff Centre.
Dulu is the first pianist to have written a doctoral dissertation on Marc-André Hamelin’s piano Études, researched under the personal guidance of the Canadian composer-pianist. It was during his doctoral studies that he developed a keen interest in the music of this legendary artist, with whom he worked closely during the final stages of the degree.
Bogdan Dulu is on faculty at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music and the Vancouver Academy of Music | S.K. Lee College, where he teaches piano and chamber music. He makes his home in ncouver, where he proudly (yet humbly) becomes a little more Canadian by the day.

<p>The post Bogdan Dulu first appeared on VMO Canada.</p>