Symphonic Dances

Program

Prayer, Vivian Fung
Symphonic Dances, Sergei Rachmaninoff

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A live performance of music and poetry by Del Sol Quartet and poet Genny Lim, co-author of ISLAND, the first book of Angel Island poetry. This performance will amplify the experience of the Chinese diaspora on Angel Island through excerpts of their new project "Facing the Moon." The 45- minute concert includes new poetry by Genny Lim & music by Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, Theresa Wong, and Chinary Ung.

There will be one performance at 12:00 in the Detention Barracks Museum. Please note that the start time of this performance is subject to change.

There will be shuttles from Ayala Cove to the Immigration Station at 10:30 and 11:30 for the concert.

The performance is included in your $5 admission to the Detention Barracks Museum. Sign up below to let us know you’re attending.

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Canadian composer Vivian Fung’s bold and vibrant Parade and Kevin Chen’s take on Mozart’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 17, filled with wit, sparkling interplay, and serene beauty, complement Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7—a fiery, dramatic, and powerful masterpiece regarded as one of his greatest.

TSO RBC Resident Conductor
Kevin Chen, piano

Vivian Fung: Parade
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

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2026 Summer Series: Groove Café

John Psathas’ Island Songs bring sun, surf, and a dash of Kiwi cool – no sunscreen required. Then you’re kept guessing with Eliodoro Sollima’s Tre movimenti, leaping from atonal intrigue to melodic surprises faster than you can say “cin cin”. Vivian Fung’s Ominous Machine whirs, glitches, and grooves like your favourite gadget on a caffeine rush. And it all ends with Nikolai Kapustin’s Divertissement, the ultimate musical cocktail: equal parts classical poise and jazz swagger, shaken (not stirred) into four sparkling movements. 

This concert features guest pianist Stephen De Pledge 

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Conductor: Earl Lee
Soloist: Kerson Leong

Vivian Fung: Aqua
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Sibelius’s Violin Concerto occupies rare territory—technically demanding, deeply expressive, and long admired by audiences. Kerson Leong returns to pour his talent into this haunting and expansive work. Vivian Fung’s Aqua brings a vivid, contemporary voice to the program, evoking shifting textures and fluid motion inspired by the natural world. The program closes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, a deeply introspective work spanning a range of emotions, from quiet melancholy to vibrant, almost frenetic intensity.

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Canadian composer Vivian Fung’s bold and vibrant Parade and Kevin Chen’s take on Mozart’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 17, filled with wit, sparkling interplay, and serene beauty, complement Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7—a fiery, dramatic, and powerful masterpiece regarded as one of his greatest.

TSO RBC Resident Conductor
Kevin Chen, piano

Vivian Fung: Parade
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

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Artistic Director Kristin Lee teams up with our three-time GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble-in-residence, Sandbox Percussion, for a groundbreaking performance featuring three new premieres. This cutting-edge program showcases the dynamic blending of violin and percussion quartet- an unforgettable experience that pushes the boundaries of chamber music.

Program:

Joan Tower To Sing or to Dance (Seattle Premiere) ECM co-commission
Gabriella Smith FIVE (World Premiere)
Vivian Fung Goddess//Insect (World Premiere) ECM co-commission

Kristin Lee, violin | Sandbox Percussion, Ensemble in Residence: Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney, percussion

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2026 Summer Series: Groove Café

John Psathas’ Island Songs bring sun, surf, and a dash of Kiwi cool – no sunscreen required. Then you’re kept guessing with Eliodoro Sollima’s Tre movimenti, leaping from atonal intrigue to melodic surprises faster than you can say “cin cin”. Vivian Fung’s Ominous Machine whirs, glitches, and grooves like your favourite gadget on a caffeine rush. And it all ends with Nikolai Kapustin’s Divertissement, the ultimate musical cocktail: equal parts classical poise and jazz swagger, shaken (not stirred) into four sparkling movements. 

This concert features guest pianist Stephen De Pledge 

Details and tickets>>>

Conductor: Earl Lee
Soloist: Kerson Leong

Vivian Fung: Aqua
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Sibelius’s Violin Concerto occupies rare territory—technically demanding, deeply expressive, and long admired by audiences. Kerson Leong returns to pour his talent into this haunting and expansive work. Vivian Fung’s Aqua brings a vivid, contemporary voice to the program, evoking shifting textures and fluid motion inspired by the natural world. The program closes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, a deeply introspective work spanning a range of emotions, from quiet melancholy to vibrant, almost frenetic intensity.

Details and tickets>>>

Artistic Director Kristin Lee teams up with our three-time GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble-in-residence, Sandbox Percussion, for a groundbreaking performance featuring three new premieres. This cutting-edge program showcases the dynamic blending of violin and percussion quartet- an unforgettable experience that pushes the boundaries of chamber music.

Program:

Joan Tower To Sing or to Dance (Seattle Premiere) ECM co-commission
Gabriella Smith FIVE (World Premiere)
Vivian Fung Goddess//Insect (World Premiere) ECM co-commission

Kristin Lee, violin | Sandbox Percussion, Ensemble in Residence: Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney, percussion

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2026 Summer Series: Groove Café

John Psathas’ Island Songs bring sun, surf, and a dash of Kiwi cool – no sunscreen required. Then you’re kept guessing with Eliodoro Sollima’s Tre movimenti, leaping from atonal intrigue to melodic surprises faster than you can say “cin cin”. Vivian Fung’s Ominous Machine whirs, glitches, and grooves like your favourite gadget on a caffeine rush. And it all ends with Nikolai Kapustin’s Divertissement, the ultimate musical cocktail: equal parts classical poise and jazz swagger, shaken (not stirred) into four sparkling movements. 

This concert features guest pianist Stephen De Pledge 

Details and tickets>>>

2026 Summer Series: Groove Café

John Psathas’ Island Songs bring sun, surf, and a dash of Kiwi cool – no sunscreen required. Then you’re kept guessing with Eliodoro Sollima’s Tre movimenti, leaping from atonal intrigue to melodic surprises faster than you can say “cin cin”. Vivian Fung’s Ominous Machine whirs, glitches, and grooves like your favourite gadget on a caffeine rush. And it all ends with Nikolai Kapustin’s Divertissement, the ultimate musical cocktail: equal parts classical poise and jazz swagger, shaken (not stirred) into four sparkling movements. 

This concert features guest pianist Stephen De Pledge 

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Program
Li Huanzhi, Spring Festival Overture
Vivian Fung, Pizzicato
Zhao Jiping, Concerto No. 2
Chen Gexin, Gōngxǐ Gōngxǐ (恭喜恭喜)
Huang Ruo, Folk Songs
Grieg, Piano Concerto A Minor, Op.16–Mvt. I
Alison Yun Fei Jiang, The Mountain Paths of Shu are Treacherous! (Shǔ Dào Nán / 蜀道难) (World Première)
Liu Tieshan (刘铁山) & Mao Yuan (茅沅), Dance of Yao People

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2026 Summer Series: Groove Café

John Psathas’ Island Songs bring sun, surf, and a dash of Kiwi cool – no sunscreen required. Then you’re kept guessing with Eliodoro Sollima’s Tre movimenti, leaping from atonal intrigue to melodic surprises faster than you can say “cin cin”. Vivian Fung’s Ominous Machine whirs, glitches, and grooves like your favourite gadget on a caffeine rush. And it all ends with Nikolai Kapustin’s Divertissement, the ultimate musical cocktail: equal parts classical poise and jazz swagger, shaken (not stirred) into four sparkling movements. 

This concert features guest pianist Stephen De Pledge 

Details and tickets>>>

2026 Summer Series: Groove Café

John Psathas’ Island Songs bring sun, surf, and a dash of Kiwi cool – no sunscreen required. Then you’re kept guessing with Eliodoro Sollima’s Tre movimenti, leaping from atonal intrigue to melodic surprises faster than you can say “cin cin”. Vivian Fung’s Ominous Machine whirs, glitches, and grooves like your favourite gadget on a caffeine rush. And it all ends with Nikolai Kapustin’s Divertissement, the ultimate musical cocktail: equal parts classical poise and jazz swagger, shaken (not stirred) into four sparkling movements. 

This concert features guest pianist Stephen De Pledge 

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The Del Sol Quartet residency is a UI String Quartet Residency Program / Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/ Obermann Center for Advanced Studies collaboration with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Endowment Fund

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Experience the sounds of Alberta with ESO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni. This performance will feature music by familiar composers with connections to the province, including John Estacio, Zosha Di Castri, and Cris Derksen, and more, plus two exciting world premieres.

Program
John Estacio, King Arthur Suite: Picnic Bacchanale
Zosha Di Castri, Pentimento
Allan Gordon Bell, Sundogs Reel (ESO Premiere)
Joel Toews, Sleeping Giant (ESO Premiere)
Cris Derksen, Amiskkwacîwâskahikan (World Premiere)
Annika Schoenhardt, For the Star Chasers (World Premiere, Young Composers Project)
Vivian Fung, Earworms (ESO Premiere)

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Jiannan Cheng, conductor
Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
Yazhi Guo, suona

Program

LI Huanzhi Spring Festival Overture
Xiaogang Ye Cantonese Suite, IV. Thunder in Drought
TRADITIONAL (arr. Albert Wang) Doraji
Kelly TANG Sketches of Singapore, II. Rasa Sayang
DU Mingxin Piano Concerto No.1 “The Elegance of Spring,” I. Largo – Allegro con spirito

-INTERMISSION-

HE Luting Evening Party
Vivian FUNG Pizzicato
WANG Jianzhong One Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix
Tyzen HSIAO The Angel from Formosa
ZHOU Long The Rhyme of Taigu

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Maestro Peter Oundjian has been hailed as a masterful and dynamic presence in the conducting world and has developed a multi-faceted portfolio as a conductor, violinist, professor, and artistic advisor. He has been celebrated for his musicality, an eye towards collaboration, innovative programming, and an engaging personality.

Program:
Vivian Fung: Dust Devils
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, op. 21
(Eric Guo, Grand Prize winner of The Robert W. and G Ann Corcoran Concerto Competition)
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, op. 74

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"A Storm Within: The Music of Vivian Fung”  
University of Toronto New Music Festival: Contemporary Music Ensemble  
Wallace Halladay, conductor  
Sophie Lanthier, flute  
UofT Saxophone Ensemble  
Walter Hall  

Program
Vivian Fung: The Shaman Speaks (2009)  
Vivian Fung: Ominous (2024)  
Vivian Fung: Flute Concerto: “Storm Within” (2020-21)  
     (Sophie Lanthier, flute)  
Unsuk Chin: Xi (1998)  

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UTNMF: Percussion Ensemble: Vis a Vis

Norbert Palej, festival coordinator
Music of Vivian Fung and Morton Feldman

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Uri Mayer, conductor

Program
Fung – Earworms
Villa-Lobos – Chôros No. 10 (Rasga o Coração)
Korngold – Sinfonietta Op. 5

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Program

In The Woods, Toru Takemitsu
Mythos, Andrew Staniland
A Tre, Ester Mägi
Twist, Vivian Fung

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Bright Angel, Roshanne Etezady
Wood Point, Ian Crutchley
Down and Dirty: III. Impassioned, Vivian Fung
Limbo, Jocelyn Morlock

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The University of Toronto New Music Festival and the Student National Association of Teachers of Singing present a very special concert including works by Vivian Fung, the Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition, alongside works by student composers from the Faculty of Music.

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The University of Toronto New Music Festival and the Student National Association of Teachers of Singing present a very special concert including works by Vivian Fung, the Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition, alongside works by student composers from the Faculty of Music.

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