President’s Message – May 2024

Dear Friends – 

I hope everyone enjoyed the final concert of the 2023-24 season with the Isidore String Quartet on April 19 – not to mention our traditional Subscriber Reception before the sold-out performance. It was a fitting capstone to a very successful year.

Looking forward to the exciting 2024-25 performance season, it’s time to invite our subscribers to renew your seats for our five-concert series at the RCA starting this October 26th. Your 2023-24 seats will be held for you until the end of August and you can find them by signing into your RCA account. You can also mail your order form in the return envelope provided in your renewal package.

For those who have been thinking about subscribing but haven’t got around to it yet, you can select series seats from those available on the RCA Box Office website. Subscribers receive a 20% discount on single ticket prices, so it’s like getting one concert for free!

The coming season will be varied and exciting with a wide range of top Canadian and international artists, several making their Kelowna debuts. Our Artistic Director, Patricia Tao introduces the new season below. Please join us!

We’re especially proud to feature pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko in our final concert of next season.  Jaeden has just won the Montreal International Music Competition, playing Brahms Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the Maison symphonique de Montreal.  As many of you will know, Jaeden is from the Valley and studied with Corey Hamm at UBC. The BC music community can be very proud of this extremely talented young artist! 

As you know, tickets sales cannot cover all the costs of CMK’s excellent programs. We hope you will consider making your annual charitable contribution to CMK when you place your subscription order. Your support will keep our quality high and our ticket prices affordable – and help us expand our community service and education programs.

With my best wishes,

Diane
P. Diane Bond, President

IMPORTANT P.S. We are thrilled to give you, our valued subscribers, advance notice of a remarkable Special Concert to take place in April 2025 featuring James Ehnes, violin. James last performed with CMK in January 2020 just before the pandemic, and we have been looking forward to his return ever since. Details of the April concert will be sent to CMK newsletter recipients in August and tickets will be available exclusively to renewing and new season subscribers until September 9th. Of course, CMK subscribers will receive their usual 20% discount for this very special event!

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