Season 1.0

The Telus Studio Theatre at UBC's Chan Centre

Development and Debut:

The first year’s activities of the National Broadcast Orchestra included studio recording sessions, live concerts, and radio broadcasts.

September, 2009:

The NBO ran a pilot program of high-definition digital video recording at the Chan Centre’s Telus Studio on September 14 and 15.  Material from these sessions were used to build awareness and funding support for the NBO’s future activities.

The studio sessions were followed by the National Broadcast Orchestra’s first live concert on September 16.  This event took place at the ArtSpring theatre on Salt Spring Island as the first of many future regional outreach performances.

January 2010

On Friday, January 8, 2010, the National Broadcast Orchestra performed a gala opening concert in the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, its home venue in Vancouver.  This performance was recorded live for broadcast on CBC Radio 2, with the premiere of a CBC-commissioned work by Michael Oesterle entitled The Sparrow’s Ledger.

The gala program also featured new works for trumpet and orchestra by Alain Trudel and Allan Gilliland, performed by the great Canadian trumpet soloist Jens Lindemann.

Pianist Anton Kuerti joined the orchestra for the performance of a rare Beethoven work known as Concerto No. 0. This early work survives as a complete manuscript of a one piano reduction.  The piece was performed with Kuerti’s own orchestration, reimagined from Beethoven’s reduction.

The program concluded with Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, which was a part of Oesterle’s inspiration for his new orchestral suite.

The January 8 performance was a special fundraising gala for the National Broadcast Orchestra.