Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra Annual Concert with Guest Performers: The Sam Baardman Trio
Posted April 20th, 2025
Saturday, May 10 7:30 pm Tickets from Eventbrite: $20 plus fees or at the Door: $25 Ukrainian Labour Temple – Wheelchair Accessible
In its 104th year, the WMO is pleased to present its Annual Concert, Saturday May 10th, 7:30 PM, at the historic Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard Avenue. The orchestra will play a variety of music including Ukrainian Suite by Zenon Dashak, who was a professor of viola and the long-time rector of the Lviv National Academy of Music and taught the celebrated violist Yuri Bashmet. Other music from Ukraine includes the Concerto for Accordion - 2nd Movement by Nikolai Chaikin, and Arkan, a traditional Ukrainian dance arranged by Slava Prysiazhniuk, a violist and assistant conductor with the orchestra.
A new piece for us this year is Zorba the Greek. The music from this 1964 award-winning film is well suited to mandolins as the mandolin and Greek bouzouki are closely related.
Compositions by Anthony Hopkins, Kuwahara, Piazzolla and Mosolov are present. We add a taste of Americana with Minneapolis musician, Peter Ostroushko's Heart of the heartland.
Our guest this year is the Sam Baardman Trio. Sam, a musician and photographer, is also an orchestra member.
The Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra is conducted by Annis Kozub.
