Jean-Michel Blais & Dina Gilbert, Salmon Arm Sundays with the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra

Titled Jean-Michel Blais & Dina Gilbert, this concert welcomes critically acclaimed Canadian pianist Jean-Michel Blais (known as JMB to his fans), who has ranked #1 on the Billboard Canada Classical Chart fourteen times and has also performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival to an audience of 40,000. We will also welcome back KSO Music Director Dina Gilbert—now mother to a sweet baby girl.
We’ll hear JMB’s own music paired with his musical inspirations and one of Dina’s favourite works. The concert is a series of ‘coups de coeur’ or ‘blows of the heart’—a love note to the music that inspires these two fantastic artists. The concert takes JMB’s musical inspirations and pairs them with his own work, for example: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 entwined with a work that he wrote based upon it called roses, or Smetana’s The Moldau alongside JMB’s Amour. Other highlights will be works by Debussy, Satie, Britten, Vivaldi, Tieersen, Yanni, Anna Clyne and, of course, original works by JMB.
The concert gets at the heart of beauty in music. It is meditative and explores new perspectives on passion and joy.

Season ticket packages for the three Salmon Arm Sundays concerts (including November’s Palestrina, Mozart & Beyond, and February’s Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony are still available online at KamloopsSymphony.com or by calling the KSO Office at 250.372.5000. You save 20% off single ticket prices when you buy the package for only $108 (that’s $36/concert!).

Concert tickets can be purchased online, by phone, or at the door for $45, or $15 for youth under 19. And if you’re a student or under 35, you can sign up for the new Edge program and get up to two tickets for $20 each.