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In their Silver Anniversary year, The Peking Acrobats® are masters of agility and grace. Accompanied by the orchestra, these Chinese Acrobats will defy gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility, and control. Pushing the envelope of human possibility with astonishing juggling dexterity and incredible balancing feats, the performers will bring all of the excitement and festive pageantry of a Chinese Carnival right to the Winspear Centre stage.

Ticket Information

Dress Circle, Terrace & Orchestra (A, B, C & F)
$50 Adult / $35 Child
Upper Circle & Gallery (D & E)
$40 Adult / $25 Child
All tickets subject to applicable service charges.

The same program will be performed on Monday, May 9 at 7:30 pm.

Thank you to our performance sponsor: 

Our Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin appears in part thanks to the support of Enbridge.
 

Artist Info

The Peking Acrobats

An outgrowth of the Great China Circus, popular during the 1920’s, The Peking Acrobats became an integrated professional acrobatic company in 1958. Since then, they have consistently traveled the world, sharing their special brand of enchantment with a global audience. They have played to sold-out houses and earned rave reviews during their 25 previous headline theatre tours from 1986 through 2011. The Peking Acrobats have been the featured performers on numerous television shows and celebrity-studded TV Specials over the years. The troupe is also pleased to announce the continued success of their first consumer DVD, initially released on their 2006 North American Tour and filmed on their 2005 North American Tour as a television special for HDNet. This crystal-clear, thrilling DVD is available for sale to the public at their performances and on the internet at www.iaipresentations.com.

Lucas Waldin, conductor

The 2010/11 season marks the second for Lucas Waldin as Resident Conductor for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. This mentorship position is made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts and Enbridge. Mr. Waldin graduated in 2006 from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a Masters in Conducting. He has performed with L'Orchestre du Festival Beaulieu-Sur-Mer (Monaco), Staatstheater Cottbus (Brandenburg), and Bachakademie Stuttgart. Lucas was assistant conductor of the contemporary orchestra RED (Cleveland), director of the Cleveland Bach Consort, and a Discovery Series Conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival. In 2007, he was invited to conduct the Miami-based New World Symphony Orchestra in masterclasses given by Michael Tilson Thomas. In Lucerne in 2009, he also participated in a masterclass led by Bernard Haitink, with the Lucerne Festival Strings.

A native of Toronto, Lucas Waldin has spent summers studying in Europe, including studies at the International Music Academy in Leipzig, the Bayreuth Youth Orchestra, and the Acanthes New Music Festival in France. On this continent, he has studied under the renowned Bach conductor Helmut Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival, and has attended conducting masterclasses with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto. Mr. Waldin received a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from the Cleveland Institute, studying with Joshua Smith.

The ESO would like to thank Enbridge Pipelines for their commitment to the arts and this program by matching the funding provided by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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