New Voices, New Faces - MCO’s 2024 Spring Series

MCO’S 2024 SPRING CONCERT SERIES

CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE

SPRING BEGINS ONE DAY EARLY at the MCO, with our hot Spring Concert Series blowing into town on March 20, 2024. “‘New Voices, New Faces,’ is one theme making the MCO season’s second half unique,” says MCO Music Director Anne Manson.

Many of our guests are new to MCO audiences but known the world over for their blazing virtuosity. New faces in front of the orchestra include, among soloists Lara Secord-Haid, Maria Brea, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, and Sarah McElravey; among conductors, Jeri-Lynn Johnson and Jean-Marie Zeitouni. Even our dearly beloved principal cello, Desiree Abby, is a new face as a soloist with the orchestra, and the work she is premiering that was written expressly for her is by the ‘new to the MCO’ composer, Ted Runcie.

“We can’t wait to share these fresh musical offerings this spring with MCO audiences, celebrating famous local talent and connecting Winnipeg to an international selection of emerging powerhouses,” Anne adds.

Here’s a rundown of our Spring Series’ concerts, presented at Crescent Arts Centre in Osborne Village:

- 7:30pm, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 / Internationally, soprano Lara Secord-Haid’s performances are praised by the New York Times and Opera Today. Locally she’s known to Winnipeg for her stunning appearances with the Manitoba Opera and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

- 7:30 pm, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 / Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, and Palais Garnier are just some of the prestigious stages Venezuelan soprano Maria Brea has graced in her fast-rising career.

- 1:00pm & 7:30pm, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 / 19-year-old pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, a member of one of England’s most famous musical families, plays Mozart’s gorgeous Piano Concerto No. 23 with the MCO. Will you see her before she’s a global superstar?

- 7.30pm, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 / You know cellist Desiree Abbey as among the most talented players on the MCO’s stage. At this concert, she steps out front to premier a cello concerto written for her by Jamaican Canadian composer Ted Runcie.

- 1:00pm & 7:30pm, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 / Sarah McElravy, one of Canada’s great violists, joins Anne Manson and the MCO to perform Shostakovich’s exquisite Viola Concerto. Promises to be one of the most moving concerts you’ll hear this spring. Promises to be one of the most moving concerts you’ll hear this spring.

TICKET BUNDLE
The MCO is also excited to announce the Ticket Bundle, a new discounted four-ticket package. Audiences can bring three friends to one spring concert or keep this bouquet of tickets for themselves. Just another way that the MCO is keeping our concert experiences accessible and affordable.

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