On Tuesday, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra will launch its 42nd season with Juno award-winning Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin. At the helm will be the internatioanlly acclaimed conductor and MCO's own music director, Anne Manson.

 Together, they will be Sarah Jo Kirch's guests Monday afternoon in the 4 o'clock hour of the show.

Recog­nized inter­na­tion­ally for her work in the baroque rep­er­toire,  Karina Gau­vin also sings Bach, Mahler, Brit­ten, and music of the 20th and 21st cen­tur­ies with equal suc­cess. How­ever, she is most often asso­ci­ated with one com­poser in par­tic­u­lar: George Frideric Handel.

At Tuesday night's concert Gau­vin will sing arias from two of his early operas: Alcina and Giulio Cesare. Anne Man­son describes Gau­vin as “one of the greatest inter­pret­ers of Han­del of our day.”

Anne Manson, praised by The New York Times for conducting of “balance, clarity and richness,” is notable for her mastery of a wide range of opera and orchestral repertoire, from new works by living composers such as Philip Glass, Peter Maxwell Davies and John Harbison, to fresh interpretations of canonic works. She was the first woman to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, where she led Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with the Vienna Philharmonic. She is one of only three women to have been appointed Music Director of a leading American symphony orchestra, having served as Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony from 1999 to 2003. And she has guest conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra

On Tuesday night, MCO audiences will also will also hear Mozart’s Diver­ti­mento and a con­tem­por­ary work by com­poser Pierre Jalbert.

‘Autumn Rhaps­ody’

One of the works nestled between glor­i­ous Han­del arias is Autumn Rhaps­ody by the Amer­ican com­poser Pierre Jalbert. Jalbert’s inspir­a­tion for the piece was “the autumn land­scape in Ver­mont, when the trees present a multi-colored tapestry, and the wind begins to blow colder …”

Tune in to Sarah Jo Kirch Monday afternoon between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM. You may even win tickets to Tuesday night's MCO season premiere.

 The con­cert begins at 7:30 pm on Septem­ber 16th in West­min­ster United Church, 745 West­min­ster at Mary­land. Tick­ets are $30 for adults, $28 for seni­ors and $10 for stu­dents, includ­ing GST, at McNally Robin­son, the West End Cul­tural Centre (586 Ellice at Sherbrook), Organic Planet (877 West­min­ster Ave) or MCO’s Tick­et­line (204.783.7377).