FUEGO LATINO

With Daniel Bolshoy, guitar virtuoso

Livestream Available from February 16 to March 2

For its first concert of the year, the Orchestre classique de Montréal is pleased to present renowned guitarist Daniel Bolshoy in an evening of Latin and Spanish music on Tuesday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m., livestreamed fromSalle Pierre-Mercure, the OCM’s new home venue. The event will be available for online viewing until March 2.

Led by conductor Boris Brott, the Orchestre classique de Montréal will open the evening with Alcides Lanza’s Bourdrones and Joaquin Turina’s La Oracion del Torero, before welcoming Daniel Bolshoy for Joaquin Rodrigo’s beloved Concierto de Aranjuez. Bolshoy will then present three solo pieces: Un Sueño en la Floresta by Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Andante from Sonata Romanica by Manuel Maria Ponce and Valseana, Preludio e Toccatina from Suite Aquarelle by Sergio Assad. The concert will be approximately 70 minutes in length, with no intermission.

Daniel Bolshoy directs the guitar program at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. Over the course of his career, he has performed as a soloist with more than sixty orchestras and at numerous festivals and concert series throughout the world. In addition to a recent residency at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, he has been invited as faculty in residence in Brazil, Israel and Italy.

Here is Daniel Bolshoy performing the Adagio from the Concierto de Aranjuez with the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra: https://youtu.be/DIeHW2bHcmA

Fuego Latino

Tuesday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m. (available for online viewing until March 2)

Orchestre classique de Montréal

Daniel Bolshoy, guitar

Boris Brott, conductor

Tickets: $20 | Online at orchestra.ca