This year, the WSO is celebrating Canada 150 with a diverse and colourful mosaic of Canadian ethnic composers starting with a major new work by Christos Hatzis. Meredith Monk, our distinguished guest composer, will be performing on three different evenings.
We will explore new spaces: the basement of the Hudson’s Bay and the Duncan Sportsplex behind the Centennial Concert Hall. Our collaboration with Melissa Auf der Maur and Basilica Hudson is bringing a 12-HOUR DRONE extravaganza to Winnipeg. Sound artist William Basinski will play his own work The Deluge. And Turkish composer Fazil Say’s enormous Mesopotamia Symphony will end our festival.