Joshua Weilerstein conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra: Kanon Shibata, cello

“A Born Communicator” (Le Temps), Joshua Weilerstein is the Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne who enjoys a flourishing guest conducting career. He has been praised for “intense, eloquently moving and spectacularly knife-edge” performances (Classical Source).

Cellist Kanon Shibata is the Grand Prize winner of The Robert W. and G. Ann Corcoran Concerto Competition and an alumna of The Alexandra Koerner Yeo Cello Program at The Glenn Gould School.

Part of the Temerty Orchestral Program at The Glenn Gould School (GGS), the Royal Conservatory Orchestra (RCO) is widely regarded as an outstanding ensemble and one of the best training orchestras in North America. It consists of instrumental students in the undergraduate and graduate programs of The Glenn Gould School. Graduates of the RCO have joined the ranks of the greatest orchestras in the world.

Program:
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, op. 85
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp Minor