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Canadian conductor Kerry Stratton

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Kerry Stratton conducting Toronto Philharmonia at Toronto Raptors opening game

Oct 28, 2009: "...a stirring live performance by the Toronto Philharmonia at centre court, and then the game and the players lived up to the hype..."

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Feb 6, 2010: Kerry Stratton conducted the Grand Salon Orchestra at the 14th annual Viennese Winter Ball at the National Gallery, Ottawa (see here also).

 

L'orchestra Internazionale D'italia (in Italy and Canada)

This October, Maestro Stratton made his Italian debut, leading Italy's flagship ensemble, l'Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia. He conducted the orchestra in concerts in the cities of Fermo, Ascoli Picena and Pesaro (October 24-26, 2008)

Maestro Stratton accompanied the orchestra to Canada for its Canadian debut tour: November 2-10, for performances in Toronto, Port Hope; Welland, Orillia, Markham, Milton, Barrie and Richmond Hill; the tour concluded with a performance in Montreal.

More Czech Music Opened Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra's 21st Season

Thursday, September 18, Maestro Stratton began his 21st season as Music Director with the Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra. The program celebrated the 40th anniversary of "Prague Spring" with Smetana's iconic Ma Vlast (My Homeland).

Other highlights of the 2008-09 Philharmonia season include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, November 13, with Eve Rachel McLeod, soprano; Vicki St. Pierre, mezzo-soprano; Min Jin, tenor; and Nicolae Raiciu, baritone.

Delicious Favorites With The Grand Salon Orchestra

Kerry Stratton led his Grand Salon Orchestra in three programs that remember the elegance of the early decades of the 1900s:

  • Sunday, September 28 in Brockville: Puttin' On the Ritz, featured the music of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and the Gershwin brothers, among others.
  • Saturday, October 4 at the Markham Theatre: Tea at the Savoy, including works by Albert W. Ketelbey, Noel Coward and Eric Coates, among others.
  • Friday, October 17 in Perth: Puttin' On the Ritz.

Honours & Concerts In Huntsville

In July 2008, the Huntsville Festival of the Arts paid tribute to arts contributors, including Kerry Stratton, who was given a statuette and called "leader and music director of the Huntsville Festival Orchestra and an ambassador for the festival throughout the province." The event included Mozart's Letters,, in which he conducted the Festival Orchestra in music by Mozart, and read selected personal letters written by the great composer.

Saturday, August 9, 2008, Maestro Stratton returned to the Huntsville Festival in a summer pops program that includes works by Offenbach, Gershwin, Leroy Anderson, Morton Gould, Richard Rodgers, Tchaikovsky, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Philip Sousa. The concert was sold out.

Czech Republic

In July 2008, Maestro Stratton made a return visit to the Czech Republic to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. They gave a pair of concerts in mid-July at the Cesky Krumlov Festival, performing works by Mozart, Benda and Vivaldi. This was Maestro Stratton's return engagement with the orchestra, which he conducted in Europe — as well as leading the full-sized Czech Philharmonic — and subsequently toured in Canada last fall. The tour followed his receipt in the spring of 2007, of the Gratias Agit Award from the Czech Republic for his significant contribution to promoting the country's musical culture.