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Mainstage Music at the Winspear

Harmonies of the Heart and Strife: Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Haydn

University Symphony Orchestra | Petar Dundjerski, conductor
Jacques C. Després | piano, guest soloist
Matthew Craig | cello, guest soloist
Wiktoria Jurkiewicz | soprano, guest soloist

February 9, 2025 | 3 p.m.

Winspear Centre
4 Sir Winston Churchill Square | Corner of 99 St. & 102 Ave., Edmonton, AB

Join the University Symphony Orchestra for a afternoon of tour-de-force performances: featuring 2024 Concerto Competition winner Matthew Craig playing Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb-major, soprano Wiktoria Jurkiewicz with Haydn's aria Berenice, che fai, and piano faculty Jacques C. Després bringing us Beethoven's blockbuster Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, the Emperor Concerto!