July 2021:
Join ERATO on a journey of remembrance as we travel through time and space from childhood fancies and lost love all the way to ancient Martian civilizations. Join us on our road to the future by way of the past.
Featuring music by Pacific Northwest composers Tom Baker, Stefan Hintersteininger, and two world premieres by Glenn Sutherland and Michael Park. Plus a classic by Morton Feldman takes us to outer space on our way to rediscovering the music of ancient Mars.
This concert was conceived of, recorded on, and is broadcast from the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
January 16, 2021
ERATO Ensemble presents ONE ON ONE: an intimate concert of Duos. Unique pairings of one voice and one instrument bring this music to life, in the comfort of your own home. The diverse programme features rarely-heard music composed between 1966 and 2016. Performed live at the Orpheum Annex in Vancouver, we are just awaiting an audience to make the performance complete…
This concert was conceived of, recorded on, and is broadcast from the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
The Perils of Pierrot
Erato Ensemble’s concert “The Perils of Pierrot” takes chamber music in a new direction. Previously unassociated songs are woven together to illustrate a story about an intrepid cat who bravely escapes captivity and fearlessly embarks on a hero’s journey. Along the way, Pierrot encounters taunting birds, hot jazz, a mournful nightingale, a dying swan and more.
The original book is written by Gina Leola Woolsey, and features the poetry of Ronald Wallace, e.e. cummings, Dennis Nurkse, Langston Hughes, Pierre de Ronsard, Olive Fraser, and Sara Teasdale, set to music by Sondra Clark, Morton Feldman, Whitney George, Valerie Coleman, Albert Roussel, Julian Philips, Elaine Fine, Arthur Honegger, and William George. The book is narrated in spectacular fashion by our resident Scottish lass, Julie Begg.
This concert was conceived of, recorded on, and is broadcast from the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.