Vivaldi violin concerto in g major5/8/2023 For classical, I try to program pieces that people are familiar with.” I can do from a Broadway show to Dvorak Symphony No. “Pops gives me a wider range of programming. “I don’t want to do the same thing.” That’s especially true if you’re reaching beyond the usual concert audience demographics. “We are the only pops orchestra in the GTA.” With several other orchestras in the GTA alone, all performing essentially standard concert repertoire, it left a gap, he felt. “I got 345 replies from people who wanted to play in the orchestra.”Īfter a series of auditions, the orchestra got started. “You don’t start with a professional orchestra,” he says. We started out the orchestra, and I’m kind of a modern conductor in that I use a lot of social media.” What he started with was the idea of creating a community orchestra in Etobicoke. “Usually when people ask me, I say I play 65 different instruments.”įounding the OPO has been a winding road from its inception in 2014. “After doing that for a couple of decades, after seeing so many conductors, I thought, I can do that better,” he says. He began with playing professionally as a bassoonist in various orchestras, while studying conducting as well. Back in the 90s, there wasn’t a conducting program.” “My main instrument at the time was the bassoon. He moved to Canada to pursue his studies at the University of Ottawa. “I’ve been taking music since I was 11 years at the National Conservatory in Colombia,” he says. Maestro Carlos Bastidas came to Canada from Colombia to study music. Ontario Pops Orchestra (Photo courtesy of OPO) Carlos Bastidas and Ontario Pops Orchestra The release, Breaking Barriers, spotlights Black women in the role of featured soloists: violinists Tanya Charles Iveniuk and Yanet Campbell Secades, and bassoonist Marlene Ngalissamy. The Ontario Pops Orchestra and music director/conductor Carlos Bastidas are celebrating the release of their debut album with a concert in Toronto on March 31. L-R: Conductor Carlos Bastidas Violinist Yanet Campbell Secades Bassoonist Marlene Ngalissamy Violinist Tanya Charles Iveniuk (Photos courtesy of Ontario Pops Orchestra)
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