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Port Coquitlam musician to conduct wind band

A Port Coquitlam resident is the guest conductor for the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble’s last concert of the season.
Christin Reardon MacLellan
Christin Reardon MacLellan

A Port Coquitlam resident is the guest conductor for the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble’s last concert of the season.

Christin Reardon MacLellan, a flautist and the directors of UBC Winds and of education and community programs for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, will lead the ensemble for its show at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam on June 10.

The 8 p.m. performance, titled Fire!, will include such tunes as: Raise of the Son (Rossano Galante); Handel in the Strand (Percy Grainger); O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen); Blue Shades (Frank Ticheli); Entrance of the Gladiators or Thunder and Blazes (Julius Fucik); Fantasia on “Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” (Mark Camphouse); and Danzón No. 2 (Arturo Márquez).

For tickets at $20/$15/$12, call the Evergreen box office at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.