After the resounding success of the Strathcona Symphony Orchestra’s (SSO) start to the 2025/26 season with December performances at Courtenay’s Filberg Centre, the SSO Music Director, Kenji Fusé, is offering concertgoers a collection of well-known chamber orchestra works from Bach, Mozart, and Respighi, and chamber music from other invited guests, including the Comox Valley Flute Choir.
=0D=0A=“The Respighi piece, Suite No. 3, offers audiences a bit of Mediterranean sunshine during our late winter season, and the Mozart Symphony 40 in G minor is a personal favourite, one of the supreme classics of the entire orchestral repertoire which must be experienced live,” said Mr. Fusé. “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 is such a joyous piece that I enjoy playing it anytime, anywhere.”
=0D=0A=“The Brandenburg is also special in that each of the ten performers plays a unique, important solo part,” he said. “The last movement in particular is extremely fun to perform and listen to live, and it will be an opportunity for the string players of the SSO to shine!”
=0D=0A=“Chamber music is the basis for playing music with others,” he added. “All orchestral musicians learn tremendously and deeply when they work on chamber music. This concert offers the musicians a chance to grow musically and as performers.”
=0D=0A=“I hope that the Comox Valley will one day become the site of a world-class chamber music event, including masterclasses, performances and potentially even a competition,” he said.
=0D=0A=“This type of event could offer more concert choices for tourists and make the area more attractive for world-class guest artists to play.”
=0D=0A=For more information about the symphony, please visit www.strathconasymphony.ca
=0D=0A=or the SSO’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/StrathconaSymphonyOrchestra.
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