In addition to the two world premiere performances of C.F. Kip Winger's Ghosts by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, two additional performances being presented by the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance on Friday, November 13 at 8:00 pm and Green Valley Recreation on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30 pm. Location and ticket information below.
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Tucson Symphony Orchestra Press Release
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO PREMIERE ORCHESTRAL WORK BY C.F.
WINGER, AKA KIP WINGER ON MASTERWORKS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PROGRAM, MENDELSSOHN AND HAYDN.
(Tucson, AZ)The first Tucson Symphony MasterWorks Chamber Orchestra
program of the 2009/10-81st season, Mendelssohn and Haydn, will
feature Music Director and Conductor George Hanson conducting the
TSO in the Overture to Felix Mendelssohns Fingals Cave, Franz
Joseph Haydns Symphony No. 101, The Clock, and the world premiere
of Ghosts, a work by C.F. Winger, who achieved international stardom
in the 1990s as the leader of the rock band, Winger. Performances are
Saturday, November 14 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, November 15 at 2:00
pm at Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive, Tucson.
Additional performances will be presented by the Southern Arizona
Arts and Cultural Alliance on Friday, November 13 at 8:00 pm and
Green Valley Recreation on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30 pm.
The TSOs world premiere performance of C.F. Wingers Ghosts
:Suite No. 1 for Orchestra will be followed by the San Francisco
Ballets February, 2010 premiere of the new ballet top choreographer
Christopher Wheeldon has created to accompany the 20-minute
composition.
Musician/composer C.F. Winger discovered his passion for music at an
early age. His parents were jazz musicians and he began studying
piano at age six. Two years later, he began playing professionally
with his two older brothers. He began studying classical guitar and
composition with Sam Guarnaccia, director of the nationally
recognized guitar program at Denver University, when he was still in
his teens.
In the early 1990s with his band, Winger, he released the platinum
recordings Winger, In the Heart of the Young and Pull and led the
quartet on sold-out world tours. Londons Classic Rock Magazine
called him one of the most gifted composers and arrangers in the
rock genre and praised his compulsion to experiment. While
topping the charts, he continued to pursue his interest in
composition.
He studied with such masters as Edgar Grana, who holds a Masters
from Juilliard, and currently teaches composition at the School of
Visual Arts in New York City; University of New Mexico Professor of
Theory and Composition, Richard Hermann; and Professor Michael Kurek
from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.
A recording of Ghosts conducted by Lynn Bingham, Assistant Conductor
of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, featuring New York Philharmonic
Associate Principal Lisa Kim, violin, drew the attention of the
Tucson Symphony Orchestras Composer-in residence, Dan Coleman and
Christopher Wheeldon, who was inspired to create the ballet.
MasterWorks Series single tickets, priced at $30 to $40, are
available at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Box Office located at
2175 N. Sixth Avenue or by phone at (520) 882-8585. Tickets may also
be purchased online at www.tucsonsymphony.org. TSO Box Office
hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
For tickets to the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance
presentation at Canyon del Oro High School, 25 W. Calle Concordia,
Oro Valley, visit www.saaca.org or call (520) 797-3959.
For tickets to the Green Valley Recreation presentation at the West Social
Center, 1111 Via Arcoiris, visit www.gvrec.org or call (520)
625-0288.
Programming, artists and prices are subject to change.
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