Inaugural concert of the Colombo Wind Orchestra
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Keiko
Kobayashi |
The Inaugural concert of Sri Lanka’s first ever Symphonic Wind
Ensemble, the Colombo Wind Orchestra (CWO), will take place on March 24,
at Ladies’ College Hall commencing at 7 pm.
The concert will be conducted by the well known Japanese conductor,
Keiko Kobayashi, who is one of the most popular guest conductors of the
Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka. Kobayashi is a dynamic and accomplished
conductor who has conducted and also recorded frequently with the
renowned Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. The CWO itself has the wind players
of the Symphony Orchestra at its core, with accomplished wind
instrumentalists from the bands of the Army, Navy, Air force and Police
joining in to total over forty musicians in the CWO.
The CWO will perform an exciting programme of music by Holst, Vaughan
Williams, Alfred Reed, Percy Grainger and the Japanese composers E.
Suzuki and G. Fujita. The programme covers a wide variety of styles from
Classical to Caribbean dance. The audience will be able to enjoy within
the fine acoustics of the Ladies College Hall, the gloriously rich
sonorities of the sounds of piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet,
cornet, trombone, tuba, euphonium, horn, saxophone combined with a
variety of percussion instruments and double bass, in these works.
The concert is sponsored by the Dr. Earle de Fonseka Trust and is
supported by the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka.
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