Mozart’s Birthday Festival
A 2-day Festival featuring Concerto Competition winners and two completely different programs!
Concert Sponsor: The Mountain View International Festival of Song & Chamber Music
January 26 | Polaris Centre
January 27 | Polaris Centre
Program(s)
FRIDAY
🇦🇹 MOZART Overture to “Le Nozze di Figaro”
🇦🇹 MOZART Piano Concerto (TBD)
🇦🇹 MOZART Serenade #13 “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”
🇦🇹 MOZART Concerto for Oboe in C
SATURDAY
🇦🇹 MOZART Overture to “Don Giovanni”
🇦🇹 MOZART Piano Concerto (TBD)
🇦🇹 MOZART Symphony #40 in G minor
Masterworks & Festival
Artists
CARLOS FOGGIN Conductor
AIDAN DUGAN Oboe
TBA Piano Soloist
TBA Piano Soloist
Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra
Friday, January 26 – 7:30pm
The Polaris Theatre
Saturday, January 27 – 7:30pm
The Polaris Theatre
FESTIVAL PASS (Both Concerts)
Save 10% when you attend both!
Aidan Dugan
Oboe
With RMSO since season 4
Oboist Aidan Dugan is an active freelancer and teacher based in Calgary, AB. Aidan completed a Master of Music degree at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Ottawa. Aidan also holds an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
An active freelance artist, Aidan has performed frequently with many orchestras across Canada, including the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Regina Symphony, Ottawa Symphony, Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Ontario Philharmonic, National Youth Orchestra Canada and the National Academy Orchestra.
Aidan maintains an independent teaching studio as well as a reed-making business, and is also a reedmaker for MKL Reeds. A finalist in the NACO Bursary Competition in 2012 (honorable mention), he was also awarded Apprentice of the Year with the National Academy Orchestra in 2014. In 2018, Aidan participated in the orchestral program at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado. Most recently, Aidan won an oboe position in the Canadian Armed Forces Music Branch.
