2022 Azrieli Music Prizes - Gala Concert

About this event

The Azrieli Foundation offers its 2022 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) Gala Concert, captured at Maison symphonique de Montréal, and featuring prize-winning works by AMP Laureates Iman Habibi, Aharon Harlap and Rita Ueda. The Orchestre Métropolitain (one of Canada’s leading ambassadors for symphonic music) performs this triple-premiere concert under the direction of daring French conductor Alexandre Bloch. Soprano Sharon Azrieli, vocalist and setar player Sepideh Raissadat, shō player Naomi Sato and suona/sheng player Zhongxi Wu join as soloists for this crowd-pleasing and critically acclaimed biennial event.

Programme

IMAN HABIBI: Shāhīn-nāmeh, for voice and orchestra

I. Prelude (In Susa)

II. Shāhīn’s Prologue

III. The Dawn of Esther

IV. Mordecai’s Prayer

V. Postlude

AHARON HARLAP: Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O Lord, for soprano and orchestra

I. Psalm 130

II. Psalms 120 and 23

III. Psalm 121

IV. Psalm 112

V. Psalm 98

RITA UEDA: Birds Calling…from the Canada in You, for shō, suona/sheng and orchestra

I. Phoenix Flies Over the Ocean of Dream

II. Birds Canada

III. Danger!

IV. From the Canada in You

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Duration: approx. 91 minutes

Artists

Orchestre Métropolitain

Alexandre Bloch, CONDUCTOR

Sepideh Raissadat • VOICE & SETAR

Sharon Azrieli • SOPRANO

Naomi Sato • SHŌ

Zhongxi Wu • SUONA & SHENG