I Medici di McGill Orchestra's Fall Concert

26th Season

Conducted by Maestro Gilles Auger, the performance features famous Russian compositions, and the mastery of Jacqueline Leclair, professor of oboe at Schulich School of Music, in a solo work by Eric Ewazen.

Introducing our new conductor—Maestro Gilles Auger
Maestro Gilles Auger our new Music Director, will be making his debut with the complete orchestra.  Born in Quebec City, Maestro Auger holds a M.Mus. from the Julliard School of Music where he was the recipient of the prodigious Bruno Walter Scholarship.  Maestro Auger has conducted many professional orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He teaches conducting at the Quebec Conservatory of Music. In the words of our former Music Director, Iwan Edwards, “Gilles is the right choice to take the orchestra to the next level.”  

Oboist Jacqueline Leclair is Associate Professor of Oboe and Chair of the Woodwind Area at McGill University's Schulich School of Music. She is a member of the ensembles Signal and Sequitur, and can frequently be heard performing solo and chamber music concerts internationally.

Composer Eric Ewazen born in Cleveland, Ohio studied composition at Eastman and Julliard where he now teaches composition. His teachers included Milton Babbitt, Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Joseph Schwantner and Gunther Schuller.  Down the River of Time “…unabashedly tonal music, sunbathes the ears in triadic sonority… Ewazen understands the rhythms and different complexities of our fin-de-siècle.”

Aram Khachaturian: Suite Masquerade
Eric Ewazen: Down a River of Time, Concerto pour hautbois et cordes / Concerto for oboe & strings, Jacqueline Leclair, oboe
Pyotr I. Tchaïkovski: Symphonie no 2 « Petite Russie » / Symphony No 2 (Little Russian)

Tickets on sale at the door and on I Medici’s website