Education & Outreach Programs
expanded and enhanced for 07/08 season

Each season, thousands of students of all ages experience live chamber music through school visits and special concerts in our classroom — Westminster Church!

MCO brings top musicians from around the world to Winnipeg. Call us if you are interested in a workshop with a guest artist or MCO musicians. Fees will vary.

To reserve tickets for the Evelyn Glennie and Playground Suite afternoon concerts, download this newsletter and registration form; fax form to (204)783-7383

Afternoon schools concert

Book early for this incredible opportunity for your students to hear percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie in a solo performance! 1:00 pm, 4 March 2008, Westminster Church Tickets $5 (plus GST) per person in school groups. Update: sorry, this event is sold out!

Playground Suite

Concerts on May 29th will feature the premiere performances of Playground Suite, a student composition project led by Marcelline Moody; students from Samuel Burland School, École Dieppe & Lincoln Middle School will participate.

Free schools concert: / 1:00 pm, 29 May 2008, Westminster Church; free admission.

Public concert / 7:30 pm, 29 May 2008, Westminster Church; tickets $5 students (plus GST), $10 adults (plus GST).

Call 783-7377 for school registrations or for individual tickets, or fax completed registration form to (204)783-7383.

Frontier School Division Program

We enthusiastically support the wonderful work being done in the Frontier School Division fiddling program! Our one-hour school presentations continue to explore the cultural significance of music through a collaboration of project developer Boyd MacKenzie with aboriginal flute player Ashok Salwan and five string players.

MCO Pizza Club

Students, parents & teachers arrive at 6 pm for delicious pizza and information on the music they’re about to hear at the concert. Musical ideas are presented in ways to which your children and students will respond!

Pizza Club dates: 12 September 2007, 4 December 2007, 15 January 2008,
19 February 2008, 5 March 2008, 1 April 2008.

Pre-concert events

October 23 / a Suzuki orchestra recital and a discussion of Shostakovich’s 14th symphony by Alain Trudel, 6:45 pm.

December 4 / a recital by this year’s MCO Young Player Award winner, 6:45 pm.

January 15 / a performance by a small ensemble from the UM School of Music, including students of Allen Harrington, 6:45 pm.

February 19 / a dance presentation by Manohar Performing Arts of Canada, 6:45 pm.

March 5 / a performance by the Dalhousie School Percussion Ensemble, 6:45 pm.

May 28 / a special sneak preview of Playground Suite.

 

Note: special pre-concert programs may be designed for large groups with advance notice.
Please call the office at 783-7377 for more information about any of the above mentioned activities.
Space is limited, so don’t delay!

The MCO Education Program is funded by The Canada Council for the Arts
and made possible by generous support from The Winnipeg Foundation, BMO Bank of Montreal
Volunteer Fund, Cargill, HED Insurance, Musicians' Performance Trust Fund, Manitoba Hydro,
RBC Foundation, the Rita Menzies Endowment Fund for Arts Education
and TD Canada Trust.

 

 

MCO's 2007/08 season is sponsored by The Great-West Life Assurance Company.
Support has been received from Media sponsors The Winnipeg Free Press, CBC Radio One 990,
CBC Radio Two 98.3, Golden West Radio & Shaw Cable. MCO's Chamber Chatter newsletter
is sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Heartstrings gala
sponsor: Mackenzie Financial Corporation.

© 2007 Manitoba Chamber Orchestra