There is no better way to start the New Year than by celebrating one of our own! London Symphonia is proud to present Joe Lanza’s Baroque Favourites, a feast of some of the best Baroque music ever written, curated and performed by the orchestra’s Concertmaster, Joe Lanza, with the London Symphonia Strings.
“Joe Lanza is regarded as one of Canada’s finest concertmasters. His playing is a bright jewel in London’s musical crown. We are so fortunate to have a musician of his calibre in the important position of concertmaster,” said Andrew Chung, Artistic Producer, London
Symphonia.
Joe Lanza’s Baroque Favourites will take the audience on a musical tour of Italy, Germany and England, sampling some of the most striking innovators of orchestral music of the 17th and 18th centuries, including works by Vivaldi, Handel, and J.S. Bach. The program will demonstrate how this music has left a rich legacy of ideas that has inspired composers for centuries afterward.
“The pieces I have selected are powerful, or have some really interesting aspect to their creation, or are simply just really cool,” said Joe Lanza. “All are evocative and poetic. In every case, I feel a special relationship with the work, the composer, or both.”
In true Baroque fashion, Lanza will lead the London Symphonia Strings from the concertmaster’s chair.
Known as one of the finest Baroque music interpreters in Canada, Lanza is Director of the Early Music Studio at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University. “This is a very special concert in so many ways. I am thrilled that three members of the London Symphonia Strings are on Early Music Studio alums,” he said.
