Timothy Vernon
A familiar figure on the podiums of Canada's
most important orchestras and opera companies, Orchestra London’s
Music Director and Principal Conductor Timothy Vernon has conducted
orchestras including: the Calgary Philharmonic, the Vancouver Symphony,
L'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Winnipeg Symphony, the
Toronto Symphony, Ottawa's Thirteen Strings, Symphony Nova Scotia,
the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony at the
Lanaudiere Festival.
In addition to leading two full seasons
of concerts with Orchestra London he continues as Artistic Director
of Pacific Opera Victoria and is the newly appointed Music Advisor
to the Victoria Symphony. During the 2000/2001 season Maestro Vernon
conducted performances of Zigeunerbaron and Handel's Giulio Cesare
in Victoria. The 1999/2000 season was highlighted by the world premiere
of Erewhon by Mavor Moore and Lou Applebaum. Guest conducting appearances
include productions of Die Zauberflöte and Faust for Ottawa's
Opera Lyra, as well as Turn Of The Screw for l'Opéra de Montréal.
As Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Victoria,
a post he has held since that company's inception in 1980, he has
led over forty of its' fifty productions including the first staged
Canadian presentations of L'amore Dei Tre Re, Giannini's The Taming
Of The Shrew and Weber's Der Freischütz. This season he conducts
the company's performances of Wozzeck and Le Nozze Di Figaro. He
has also made appearances with orchestras and opera companies in
Edmonton, Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo and Hamilton, Ontario.
Broadcasts include the production of Fidelio
for TV by the PBS and CBC networks, Britten's A Midsummer Night's
Dream on CBC Radio Two's Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, and the
film McGill, Mahler, Montreal broadcast nationally on Bravo and
on CBC. Of special note was his latest performance with the National
Arts Centre Orchestra, conducting Ben Heppner and Pinchas Zukerman
in a gala concert seen on CBC and filmed for worldwide television
distribution.
Maestro Vernon is internationally renowned
for his work with young musicians. An ecstatically received performance
of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in Montréal with the McGill Symphony
is now released as a CD on the Fonovox label. Rick Phillips of Classical
Music Magazine praised both orchestra and conducting, noting that
"this is the only Canadian recording
ever made of a Mahler symphony, and it's a real triumph. It has
every right to share shelf space with the celebrated readings of
Bernstein, Karajan, Tennstedt and other giants of Mahler interpretations".
Previously Maestro Vernon has conducted
the McGill Orchestra in acclaimed performances at Carnegie Hall,
the Lincoln Center, Roy Thomson Hall, the National Arts Centre in
Ottawa, Le Grande Théâtre de Québec and Montréal's
Place des Arts. Broadcasts of Britten's War Requiem and Mahler’s
Symphony No. 9 are part of an ongoing association between the McGill
Orchestra and CBC/Radio Canada which will include a complete cycle
of Mahler's symphonies. The orchestra's recording of Korngold's
Symphony in F#, recorded live in Carnegie Hall, is distributed by
Polygram and was nominated for a Juno Award.
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