Presented by the Janice & Earle O’Born Fund for Artistic Excellence
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra & Stewart Goodyear
Great Performers Series
2025-03-17 20:002025-03-17 22:0060Canada/Eastern🎟 NAC: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra & Stewart Goodyear
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36082
In-person event
Three things to know ...
Our friends from the West coast return to Southam Hall for a can't-miss performance featuring superstar pianist Stewart Goodyear.
Rachmaninoff's final concerto for piano and orchestra is so difficult, the pianist for whom it was written never dared to perform it!
A search for hope in a time of oppression, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Making music became a matter of life and death for Soviet...
Dutch conductor Otto Tausk is the Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Advisor of the VSO School of Music, now in his fourth season. He is also Chief Conductor of Phion Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel, and until spring 2018, was Music Director of the Opera Theatre and Tonhalle Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen. He appears as a guest with such orchestras as Concertgebouworkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the orchestras of Perth, Tasmania, Auckland, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with whom he made his BBC Proms debut in August 2018. He is a hugely respected musical personality in his native Holland, working with all its major orchestras and composers.
Recently, in Vancouver Tausk led an innovative reimagined season in response to the COVID-19 crisis, showcasing the orchestra with a curated series of digital performances. In the 2021/22 season, he continues guesting relationships with orchestras such as Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Orchestre National de Belgique. 2021/22 also marks the beginning of a multi-season project combining the symphonies of Schumann with a new commissioned work. With Phion Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel, programming highlights include performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. In the opera pit, this season he conducts the world premiere of Michel van der Aa’s new opera ‘Upload’, with appearances worldwide at the Dutch National Opera, Oper Köln, Bregenzer Festspiele and Park Avenue Armory in New York. In St. Gallen, Tausk conducted the world premiere of ‘Annas Maske’, by Swiss composer David Philip Hefti, the Swiss premiere of George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’, Korngold’s ‘Die Tote Stadt’ and other titles including ‘Don Giovanni’, ‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’, ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘Lohengrin’ and ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’.
Tausk has recorded with the Concertgebouworkest (Luc Brewaeys, and an animated version of Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’), Tonhalle Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen (Korngold and Diepenbrock), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Mendelssohn) and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Gavin Bryars) amongst others. For the cpo label in 2011 Hans Pfitzner’s enchanting Orchesterlieder garnered international praise, not least the Classica France’s ‘Choc du mois’. His Prokofiev disc with Rosanne Philippens also received BBC Music Magazine Concerto Disc of the Month (2018).
Born in Utrecht, Otto Tausk initially studied violin and then conducting with Jonas Aleksa. Between 2004 and 2006, Tausk was assistant conductor to Valery Gergiev with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, a period of study that had a profound impact on him. In 2011 Tausk was presented with the ‘De Olifant’ prize by the City of Haarlem. He received this prestigious award for his contribution to the Arts in the Netherlands, in particular his extensive work with Holland Symfonia serving as Music Director 2007 to 2012. In reflecting on their work together in The Netherlands, Valery Gergiev paid particular tribute to Tausk on this occasion.
Proclaimed “a phenomenon” by the Los Angeles Times and “one of the best pianists of his generation” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished concert pianist, improviser, and composer. He has performed with, and has been commissioned by, many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world.
Last year, Orchid Classics released Goodyear’s recording of his suite for piano and orchestra, Callaloo, and his piano sonata. His recent commissions include a piano quintet for the Penderecki String Quartet, and a piano work for the Honens Piano Competition.
Stewart Goodyear’s discography includes the complete sonatas and piano concertos of Beethoven, as well as concertos by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Rachmaninoff; an album of Ravel piano works; and an album entitled For Glenn Gould, which combines repertoire from Gould’s U.S. and Montreal debuts. Goodyear’s recording of his own transcription of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (complete ballet), was chosen by The New York Times as one of the best classical music recordings of 2015. His discography is released on the Marquis Classics, Orchid Classics, Bright Shiny Things, Steinway and Sons, and Naxos labels.
Last summer included performances with the Chineke! Orchestra at Southbank Centre (U.K.) and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Grant Park Music Festival, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He also performed with Chineke! at the NAC in March 2023. Highlights of the 2023–2024 season are his recital debut at Wigmore Hall, his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, his return with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and his Carnegie Hall debut with Toronto’s Royal Conservatory Orchestra under Peter Oundjian.
Qualifié de « phénomène » par le Los Angeles Times et classé parmi les « meilleurs pianistes de sa génération » par le Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear est un pianiste de concert, improvisateur et compositeur accompli. Musicien très présent sur la scène internationale, il a reçu de nombreuses commandes des orchestres et ensembles de musique de chambre les plus prestigieux du monde.
L’an passé, il a publié sous l’étiquette Orchid Classics une suite pour piano et orchestre intitulée Callaloo, et une sonate pour piano. Parmi ses récentes commandes, notons : un quintette pour piano pour le quatuor à cordes Penderecki et une œuvre pour piano pour le concours international de piano Esther Honens.
Sa discographie comprend l’intégrale des sonates et concertos pour piano de Beethoven, ainsi que des concertos de Tchaïkovsky, Grieg et Rachmaninov, un album regroupant des œuvres pour piano seul de Ravel, et un album intitulé For Glenn Gould dans lequel il reprend le répertoire avec lequel Glenn Gould a fait ses débuts en concert aux États-Unis et à Montréal. En 2015, son propre arrangement pour piano du Casse-Noisette de Tchaïkovsky (intégrale du ballet) est reconnu par le New York Times comme l’un des meilleurs albums de musique classique de l’année. Ses albums paraissent sous les étiquettes Marquis Classics, Orchid Classics, Bright Shiny Things, Steinway and Sons, et Naxos.
L’été dernier, il s’est produit avec l’Orchestre Chineke! au Southbank Centre (Royaume-Uni), au Festival de musique du Schleswig-Holstein, au Festival de musique de Grant Park, et au Festival Mostly Mozart (New York). Il a également joué avec le Chineke! au CNA, en mars 2023. Ses engagements pour la saison 2023-2024 comprennent un premier récital au Wigmore Hall, des débuts avec l’Orchestre symphonique de la Ville de Birmingham, ainsi que de nouvelles prestations avec l’Orchestre philharmonique de Buffalo et l’Orchestre symphonique de Milwaukee. Il fera également ses débuts au Carnegie Hall avec l’Orchestre du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Toronto, sous la direction de Peter Oundjian.
Founded in 1919, the GRAMMY and JUNO–award winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents passionate, high-quality performances of classical, popular, and culturally diverse music, creating meaningful engagement with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. On tour the VSO has performed in the United States, China, Korea, and across Canada.
Led by Music Director Otto Tausk since 2018, the VSO performs more than 150 concerts each year, throughout Vancouver and the province of British Columbia, reaching over 270,000 people annually, and is one of the few orchestras in the world to have its own music school.
Recent guest artists include Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joe Hisaishi, Daniil Trifonov, Dawn Upshaw, James Ehnes, Adrianne Pieczonka, Gidon Kremer, Renée Fleming, Yefim Bronfman, Bernadette Peters, Tan Dun, and more.
Fondé en 1919, l’Orchestre symphonique de Vancouver (VSO), lauréat de prix GRAMMY et JUNO, offre des prestations passionnées et de haut calibre de musique classique et issue de diverses cultures, tissant des liens privilégiés avec des publics de tous âges et de tous horizons. Le VSO s’est produit en tournée aux États-Unis, en Chine, en Corée et partout au Canada.
Sous la direction musicale d’Otto Tausk depuis 2018, l’Orchestre présente plus de 150 concerts par année à Vancouver et ailleurs en Colombie-Britannique, et touche un public de 270 000 personnes annuellement. Il est l’un des rares orchestres dans le monde à avoir sa propre école de musique.
Parmi les personnalités invitées du VSO, mentionnons Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joe Hisaishi, Daniil Trifonov, Dawn Upshaw, James Ehnes, Adrianne Pieczonka, Gidon Kremer, Renée Fleming, Yefim Bronfman, Bernadette Peters et Tan Dun.
Our friends from the West coast return to Southam Hall for a can't-miss performance featuring superstar pianist Stewart Goodyear.
Rachmaninoff's final concerto for piano and orchestra is so difficult, the pianist for whom it was written never dared to perform it!
A search for hope in a time of oppression, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Making music became a matter of life and death for Soviet composers when Joseph Stalin's Great Terror campaign began a lethal crackdown on artistic dissent. Despite being denounced by the authorities and fearing for his life, Dmitri Shostakovich penned his Fifth Symphony — a work of artistic heroism in which the composer reacts to the violence, oppression, and cruelty of his time.
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto is adored by music lovers — and feared by pianists — for its marriage of technical fireworks and passionate melodies. From the tolling of distant bells that haunts the opening to the spirited dances of its finale, this rollercoaster ride for solo piano and orchestra is brought to life by Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear, whose performances of Rachmaninoff's music "would surely have won the composer's approval" (Gramophone).
And to commemorate the life of composer Jocelyn Morlock, the VSO's composer-in-residence before her untimely death in 2023, Otto Tausk and the orchestra open the program with Night, Herself — a moody and mysterious work inspired by Morlock's love of birdsong and nature.
Dutch conductor Otto Tausk is the Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Advisor of the VSO School of Music, now in his fourth season. He is also Chief Conductor of Phion Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel, and until spring 2018, was Music Director of the Opera Theatre and Tonhalle Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen. He appears as a guest with such orchestras as Concertgebouworkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the orchestras of Perth, Tasmania, Auckland, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with whom he made his BBC Proms debut in August 2018. He is a hugely respected musical personality in his native Holland, working with all its major orchestras and composers.
Recently, in Vancouver Tausk led an innovative reimagined season in response to the COVID-19 crisis, showcasing the orchestra with a curated series of digital performances. In the 2021/22 season, he continues guesting relationships with orchestras such as Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Orchestre National de Belgique. 2021/22 also marks the beginning of a multi-season project combining the symphonies of Schumann with a new commissioned work. With Phion Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel, programming highlights include performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. In the opera pit, this season he conducts the world premiere of Michel van der Aa’s new opera ‘Upload’, with appearances worldwide at the Dutch National Opera, Oper Köln, Bregenzer Festspiele and Park Avenue Armory in New York. In St. Gallen, Tausk conducted the world premiere of ‘Annas Maske’, by Swiss composer David Philip Hefti, the Swiss premiere of George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’, Korngold’s ‘Die Tote Stadt’ and other titles including ‘Don Giovanni’, ‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’, ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘Lohengrin’ and ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’.
Tausk has recorded with the Concertgebouworkest (Luc Brewaeys, and an animated version of Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’), Tonhalle Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen (Korngold and Diepenbrock), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Mendelssohn) and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Gavin Bryars) amongst others. For the cpo label in 2011 Hans Pfitzner’s enchanting Orchesterlieder garnered international praise, not least the Classica France’s ‘Choc du mois’. His Prokofiev disc with Rosanne Philippens also received BBC Music Magazine Concerto Disc of the Month (2018).
Born in Utrecht, Otto Tausk initially studied violin and then conducting with Jonas Aleksa. Between 2004 and 2006, Tausk was assistant conductor to Valery Gergiev with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, a period of study that had a profound impact on him. In 2011 Tausk was presented with the ‘De Olifant’ prize by the City of Haarlem. He received this prestigious award for his contribution to the Arts in the Netherlands, in particular his extensive work with Holland Symfonia serving as Music Director 2007 to 2012. In reflecting on their work together in The Netherlands, Valery Gergiev paid particular tribute to Tausk on this occasion.
Proclaimed “a phenomenon” by the Los Angeles Times and “one of the best pianists of his generation” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished concert pianist, improviser, and composer. He has performed with, and has been commissioned by, many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world.
Last year, Orchid Classics released Goodyear’s recording of his suite for piano and orchestra, Callaloo, and his piano sonata. His recent commissions include a piano quintet for the Penderecki String Quartet, and a piano work for the Honens Piano Competition.
Stewart Goodyear’s discography includes the complete sonatas and piano concertos of Beethoven, as well as concertos by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Rachmaninoff; an album of Ravel piano works; and an album entitled For Glenn Gould, which combines repertoire from Gould’s U.S. and Montreal debuts. Goodyear’s recording of his own transcription of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (complete ballet), was chosen by The New York Times as one of the best classical music recordings of 2015. His discography is released on the Marquis Classics, Orchid Classics, Bright Shiny Things, Steinway and Sons, and Naxos labels.
Last summer included performances with the Chineke! Orchestra at Southbank Centre (U.K.) and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Grant Park Music Festival, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He also performed with Chineke! at the NAC in March 2023. Highlights of the 2023–2024 season are his recital debut at Wigmore Hall, his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, his return with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and his Carnegie Hall debut with Toronto’s Royal Conservatory Orchestra under Peter Oundjian.
Qualifié de « phénomène » par le Los Angeles Times et classé parmi les « meilleurs pianistes de sa génération » par le Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear est un pianiste de concert, improvisateur et compositeur accompli. Musicien très présent sur la scène internationale, il a reçu de nombreuses commandes des orchestres et ensembles de musique de chambre les plus prestigieux du monde.
L’an passé, il a publié sous l’étiquette Orchid Classics une suite pour piano et orchestre intitulée Callaloo, et une sonate pour piano. Parmi ses récentes commandes, notons : un quintette pour piano pour le quatuor à cordes Penderecki et une œuvre pour piano pour le concours international de piano Esther Honens.
Sa discographie comprend l’intégrale des sonates et concertos pour piano de Beethoven, ainsi que des concertos de Tchaïkovsky, Grieg et Rachmaninov, un album regroupant des œuvres pour piano seul de Ravel, et un album intitulé For Glenn Gould dans lequel il reprend le répertoire avec lequel Glenn Gould a fait ses débuts en concert aux États-Unis et à Montréal. En 2015, son propre arrangement pour piano du Casse-Noisette de Tchaïkovsky (intégrale du ballet) est reconnu par le New York Times comme l’un des meilleurs albums de musique classique de l’année. Ses albums paraissent sous les étiquettes Marquis Classics, Orchid Classics, Bright Shiny Things, Steinway and Sons, et Naxos.
L’été dernier, il s’est produit avec l’Orchestre Chineke! au Southbank Centre (Royaume-Uni), au Festival de musique du Schleswig-Holstein, au Festival de musique de Grant Park, et au Festival Mostly Mozart (New York). Il a également joué avec le Chineke! au CNA, en mars 2023. Ses engagements pour la saison 2023-2024 comprennent un premier récital au Wigmore Hall, des débuts avec l’Orchestre symphonique de la Ville de Birmingham, ainsi que de nouvelles prestations avec l’Orchestre philharmonique de Buffalo et l’Orchestre symphonique de Milwaukee. Il fera également ses débuts au Carnegie Hall avec l’Orchestre du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Toronto, sous la direction de Peter Oundjian.
Founded in 1919, the GRAMMY and JUNO–award winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents passionate, high-quality performances of classical, popular, and culturally diverse music, creating meaningful engagement with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. On tour the VSO has performed in the United States, China, Korea, and across Canada.
Led by Music Director Otto Tausk since 2018, the VSO performs more than 150 concerts each year, throughout Vancouver and the province of British Columbia, reaching over 270,000 people annually, and is one of the few orchestras in the world to have its own music school.
Recent guest artists include Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joe Hisaishi, Daniil Trifonov, Dawn Upshaw, James Ehnes, Adrianne Pieczonka, Gidon Kremer, Renée Fleming, Yefim Bronfman, Bernadette Peters, Tan Dun, and more.
Fondé en 1919, l’Orchestre symphonique de Vancouver (VSO), lauréat de prix GRAMMY et JUNO, offre des prestations passionnées et de haut calibre de musique classique et issue de diverses cultures, tissant des liens privilégiés avec des publics de tous âges et de tous horizons. Le VSO s’est produit en tournée aux États-Unis, en Chine, en Corée et partout au Canada.
Sous la direction musicale d’Otto Tausk depuis 2018, l’Orchestre présente plus de 150 concerts par année à Vancouver et ailleurs en Colombie-Britannique, et touche un public de 270 000 personnes annuellement. Il est l’un des rares orchestres dans le monde à avoir sa propre école de musique.
Parmi les personnalités invitées du VSO, mentionnons Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joe Hisaishi, Daniil Trifonov, Dawn Upshaw, James Ehnes, Adrianne Pieczonka, Gidon Kremer, Renée Fleming, Yefim Bronfman, Bernadette Peters et Tan Dun.
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