Vancouver Symphony to Premiere Vivian Fung's Flute Concerto 'Storm Within' The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also includes Schubert's Fifth Symphony.by BWW News Desk The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by Tania Miller, will perform the world premiere of JUNO-winning composer Vivian Fung's Flute Concerto "Storm Within," featuring VSO principal flutist Christie Reside as soloist, on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7:30pm PT. The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also includes Schubert's Fifth Symphony and is available on the VSO's virtual venue, TheConcertHall.ca, presented by TELUS. Fung's Flute Concerto "Storm Within," co-commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony, is a work in one continuous movement written during the fall and winter of 2020, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic was raging and California, where Fung currently resides, was in full lockdown. She says, "As I sat in my studio, powerful images and stories filtered in from the daily news - protests, violence, death, resistance, and conflict from the many events happening around the world. It was all a bit overwhelming, and I frequently found it difficult to process all the emotions that emerged from witnessing these events unfolding on the screen. In an effort to understand and come to terms with often unresolved sentiments swirling in my head, I decided to put them all into the concerto. I knew from the start that I did not want the flute concerto to focus on the many themes that have already been brilliantly portrayed by composers before me, subjects such as birdsong and pied piper tales. But although the concerto accordingly touches on an angrier - and perhaps a more emotive - side of my writing, it also has many moments of beauty and solace.