PEI Symphony Orchestra Presents: Resurface

Resurface questions the human story on Earth and our relationship with the natural world. A trio of premieres opens the concert to tell Our Story. Maritimer Hope Salmonson warns of a time when climate change takes its course in “Ocean Solitudes,” followed by a PEISO co-commission and the Atlantic Canada premiere of Saman Shahi’s Viola Concerto “…then the sky was amber,” featuring acclaimed violist Sharon Wei, which speaks to the human side of disaster. Thad Bailey-Mai delivers the live premiere of “Three short pieces about birds,” evoking all manner of birds flying above it all. Tying it all together, almost 200 years to the day of Beethoven’s death, is Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, the ultimate sonic description of fate—in this case, that of both the human and natural world.