Glimmer

June 11 // 8PM // $20 – $35 + fees
In the Chamber

Glimmer is a new trans-disciplinary, concert-length work by award-winning composer Thierry Tidrow that explores the many layers and interpretations of queerness through classical music and narrative text. Commissioned by New Music Concerts, and presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, this intimate, autobiographical piece brings together text, music, and staging created by an all-queer team of performers and musicians.

Schedule:

7PM Doors
7:15PM Pre-Concert Talk with Thierry Tidrow
7:45PM Young Artist Overture featuring Kailan Fournier
8PM Main Show

Program: Thierry Tidrow (CA) Glimmer (2025 World Premiere) for three voices, flute, clarinet and violin.

Featuring:

Thierry Tidrow // Composer (@thierrytidrow)
Anika Venkatesh — Voice (@anikavenkatesh)
Brad Cherwin — Clarinets (@bradcherwin)
Danika Lorèn — Voice (@danikaloren)
Hee-Soo Yoon — Violin + Viola (@ur3isgra33)
Ryan McDonald — Voice (@ryanpatmcd)
Terry Lim — Flutes (@terryterrbearlim)

About Thierry Tidrow
Thierry Tidrow is an award-winning Canadian composer of instrumental and vocal music, with a predilection for opera. His music has been described as “embracing many musical worlds, in which explorations of noise, expressionist lyricism, pastiche and parody form a discursive and richly detailed whole.” (ECM+ Generations Jury 2018) This audacious synthesis of styles gives rise to a chiaroscuro of meaning, often playful, but where the humourous can quickly turn to horrific or tragic and back. His studied approach to text and sound reveals hidden meanings and erects new ones, and his dramatic instinct leads to an intrinsically narrative mode of expression packed with surprise and intrigue.