After 25 years, summer in Burnaby just wouldn't be complete without the Symphony in the Park, featuring the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Celebrating the silver anniversary of classical music nights for the whole family, this year's event at Deer Lake Park will offer classics, including Rossini's Barber of Seville: Overture, selections from John Williams' Star Wars soundtrack, and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Gordon Gerrard.
This year will also mark the return of piano soloist Avan Yu who played with the orchestra at Deer Lake Park in 2002 and will perform Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini with the orchestra at this year's event.
Winner of the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition, Yu also won gold at the Canadian Chopin Competition at the age of 17.
Born in Hong Kong, he moved to Vancouver at the age of nine and is now pursuing a graduate degree in piano performance at the Berlin University of the Arts.
The Symphony in the Park show will start at 7: 30 p.m. on Sunday, July 14 at 6450 Deer Lake Ave.
Admission is free, and there is general seating.
Guests are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on the grass.
For more information, visit www.shad boltcentre.com or call 604-205-3000.
