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| Tuesday 28-May-13 08:00pm |
 Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QCThe Art of Jean-Philippe Collard: Part 1 Montreal Chamber Music Festival |
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| Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC, 1101 Rue Stanley, Montreal H3B 2S2, Canada Tuesday 28-May-13 08:00pm The Art of Jean-Philippe Collard: Part 1 France has given great gifts to the world and one of them is pianist Jean-Philippe Collard. His elegance, his refinement, his pianistic style are legendary and we are proud to be able to offer him in concert over two nights. His chosen repertoire will be French as he touches four of France’s greatest composers: Ravel, Debussy, Fauré and César Franck.
The first evening of his two concert series offers two works by Ravel and one by César Franck. To begin the evening, David Jalbert joins Collard in a performance of the original version of the Mother Goose Suite. Ravel’s String Quartet in F major follows in a presentation by the Cecilia String Quartet and after the intermission, you will hear César Franck’s Piano Quintet featuring Collard and the Cecilia in what has been called a work of ecstasy and unconstrained sensuality. | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 08:00pm |
La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Montreal, QC Joan of Arc at the Stake |
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Kent Nagano, Conductor Marianne Fiset, Soprano Hélène Guilmette, Soprano Allyson McHardy, Mezzo-soprano Pascal Charbonneau, Tenor Alexandre Sylvestre, Bass-baritone Andrew Megill, Conductor Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Chorus Choeur des Enfants de Montréal Andrew Gray, Chorus director Daniel Roussel, Director |
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| La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Montreal, QC, 1600, rue Saint-Urbain, Montreal, QC, Canada Tuesday 28-May-13 08:00pm Joan of Arc at the Stake Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Kent Nagano, Conductor Marianne Fiset, Soprano Hélène Guilmette, Soprano Allyson McHardy, Mezzo-soprano Pascal Charbonneau, Tenor Alexandre Sylvestre, Bass-baritone Andrew Megill, Conductor Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Chorus Choeur des Enfants de Montréal Andrew Gray, Chorus director Daniel Roussel, Director | ||
| Wednesday 29-May-13 08:00pm |
Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC The Art of Jean-Philippe Collard: Part 2 Montreal Chamber Music Festival |
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| Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC, 1101 Rue Stanley, Montreal H3B 2S2, Canada Wednesday 29-May-13 08:00pm The Art of Jean-Philippe Collard: Part 2 France has given great gifts to the world and one of them is pianist Jean-Philippe Collard. His elegance, refinement and pianistic style are legendary and we are proud to be able to offer him in concert for a second evening. His chosen repertoire will be French as he touches three of France’s greatest composers: Ravel, Debussy and Fauré.
In this program, Collard is joined by Denis Brott for a performance of Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano written in 1915. Violinist Giora Schmidt and Collard present Ravel’s famous Tzigane and the concert closes with a performance of Gabriel Fauré’s astonishingly beautiful and unmistakably French Quartet in C minor for Piano and Strings. | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 08:00pm |
Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC Emerson String Quartet, Passing the Torch Montreal Chamber Music Festival |
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| Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC, 1101 Rue Stanley, Montreal H3B 2S2, Canada Thursday 30-May-13 08:00pm Emerson String Quartet, Passing the Torch The Emerson String Quartet is recognized as one of the finest quartets in the world. With more than 30 recordings to their credit since 1987 and 9 Grammy Awards, the Emerson is the world’s benchmark for string quartet performance. For the first time in 34 years, there will be a change to one of their members. Cellist David Finckel is leaving and Paul Watkins will take his chair. The Festival is proud to offer you the world premiere of the Emerson with Paul Watkins, an exceptional and unique opportunity.
The evening’s program will include Quartet no. 3 in G minor by Haydn, Quartet no. 2 in A minor by Bartók and Beethoven’s famed 8th String Quartet, one of the three Razumovsky’s. | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 08:00pm |
The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON Chopin and Beethoven |
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| The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, Canada Thursday 30-May-13 08:00pm Chopin and Beethoven Back by popular demand! Tafelmusik and Canadian superstar pianist Janina Fialkowska bring you Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 2, arranged for piano and chamber ensemble, on a unique 19th-century Pleyel piano. From Chopin we move to Beethoven's Symphony no. 4, directed by Bruno Weil - another stellar (and award-winning) Tafelmusik partnership. | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm |
The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON Chopin and Beethoven |
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| The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, Canada Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm Chopin and Beethoven Back by popular demand! Tafelmusik and Canadian superstar pianist Janina Fialkowska bring you Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 2, arranged for piano and chamber ensemble, on a unique 19th-century Pleyel piano. From Chopin we move to Beethoven's Symphony no. 4, directed by Bruno Weil - another stellar (and award-winning) Tafelmusik partnership. | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm |
Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC The Assad Brothers and Paquito D'Rivera Montreal Chamber Music Festival |
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| Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC, 1101 Rue Stanley, Montreal H3B 2S2, Canada Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm The Assad Brothers and Paquito D'Rivera The TD Jazz series closes its doors for the season with a great evening of Latin jazz featuring one of the finest jazz clarinetists in the world, Paquito D’Rivera and the Assad Brothers, one of the most famous guitar duos of all time. Paquito has 11 Grammy Awards to his credit and the Assad’s have added to this number with Grammy’s of their own! They come to our stage in an intimate evening of Brazilian and Latin jazz featuring the unique contemporary sounds of the clarinet and nylon strings and all the technical wizardry you could ever want. First time in Montreal and one night only! | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC Everybody loves Tchaikovsky - 4 hour Marathon Montreal Chamber Music Festival |
Giora Schmidt, Violin Conrad Tao, Piano Denis Brott, Cello Min-Jeong Koh, Violin Marie-Ève Poupart, Violin Victor Fournelle-Blain, Violin Simon Riverin, Violin Sarah Nematallah, Violin Veronica Cherniak, Violin Ryan Truby, Violin Marcus Thompson, Viola Caitlin Boyle, Viola Rachel Desoer, Cello James VanDemark, Double Bass Cecilia String Quartet Giora Schmidt, Violin |
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| Montreal Chamber Music Festival at St George's Church, Montreal, QC, 1101 Rue Stanley, Montreal H3B 2S2, Canada Saturday 1-Jun-13 06:00pm Everybody loves Tchaikovsky - 4 hour Marathon Once again we celebrate the end of a fabulous Festival that has featured outstanding performances and tremendous audiences. To close out the season we offer you a marathon double concert of Tchaikovsky, the great Russian romantic who gave us some of the most beloved and often-played music in the world, including the 1812 Overture and the fabulous Nutcracker. Tonight we offer something more intimate but equally outstanding, his chamber music.
Tchaikovsky’s music was played at the inauguration of Carnegie Hall and will bring our Festival to an end but not before we hear his first String Quartet, his Piano Trio, his Souvenir de Florence, a very special performance of a transcription for piano of the Scherzo from Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony by teen sensation Conrad Tao and, to close the season, his Serenade for Strings. Many of this season’s artists will be back to take a bow and, with their final notes, offer us a marvelous way to bring the 18th season to a close. Thank you all for making this the best season ever and see you next year! Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893), Sérénade mélancolique in B minor, for violin and orchestra, Op.26 Giora Schmidt, Violin Conrad Tao, Piano Denis Brott, Cello Min-Jeong Koh, Violin Marie-Ève Poupart, Violin Victor Fournelle-Blain, Violin Simon Riverin, Violin Sarah Nematallah, Violin Veronica Cherniak, Violin Ryan Truby, Violin Marcus Thompson, Viola Caitlin Boyle, Viola Rachel Desoer, Cello James VanDemark, Double Bass Cecilia String Quartet Giora Schmidt, Violin | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 08:00pm |
The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON Chopin and Beethoven |
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| The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, Canada Saturday 1-Jun-13 08:00pm Chopin and Beethoven Back by popular demand! Tafelmusik and Canadian superstar pianist Janina Fialkowska bring you Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 2, arranged for piano and chamber ensemble, on a unique 19th-century Pleyel piano. From Chopin we move to Beethoven's Symphony no. 4, directed by Bruno Weil - another stellar (and award-winning) Tafelmusik partnership. | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 03:30pm |
The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON Chopin and Beethoven |
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| The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON, Canada Sunday 2-Jun-13 03:30pm Chopin and Beethoven Back by popular demand! Tafelmusik and Canadian superstar pianist Janina Fialkowska bring you Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 2, arranged for piano and chamber ensemble, on a unique 19th-century Pleyel piano. From Chopin we move to Beethoven's Symphony no. 4, directed by Bruno Weil - another stellar (and award-winning) Tafelmusik partnership. | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Toronto Baroque Summer Festival Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival |
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| Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, 80 Queen's Park, Toronto M5S 2C5, Canada Tuesday 4-Jun-13 08:00pm Toronto Baroque Summer Festival Programme not known Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 9-Jun-13 12:00pm |
Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Toronto Baroque Summer Festival Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival |
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| Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, 80 Queen's Park, Toronto M5S 2C5, Canada Sunday 9-Jun-13 12:00pm Toronto Baroque Summer Festival Faculty Chamber Recital Price type: Free | ||
| Monday 10-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Lula Lounge, Toronto, ON Euphonia and Lula Lounge present Mozart, CPE Bach and Haydn |
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| Lula Lounge, Toronto, ON, 1585 Dundas St W, Toronto M6J 1T9, Canada Monday 10-Jun-13 08:00pm Euphonia and Lula Lounge present Mozart, CPE Bach and Haydn | ||
| Thursday 13-Jun-13 01:00pm |
Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Toronto Baroque Summer Festival Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival |
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| Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, 80 Queen's Park, Toronto M5S 2C5, Canada Thursday 13-Jun-13 01:00pm Toronto Baroque Summer Festival TBSI Orchestras and Choirs Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 16-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Grace Church on the Hill, Toronto, ON Toronto Baroque Summer Festival Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival |
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| Grace Church on the Hill, Toronto, ON, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto M4V 1X4, Canada Sunday 16-Jun-13 07:30pm Toronto Baroque Summer Festival TBSI Orchestras and Choirs, combined with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir Price type: Free | ||
| Monday 15-Jul-13 09:15pm |
Queens Park, Stratford, ON Opening Night: Music for a Midsummer's Night Stratford Summer Music |
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| Queens Park, Stratford, ON, 55 Queens Park Dr, ontario, Stratford N5A 4M9, Canada Monday 15-Jul-13 09:15pm Opening Night: Music for a Midsummer's Night Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and join us in a unique community launch for the 13th season of Stratford Summer Music.
Summer Music’s traditional Opening Night Celebration, with fireworks to...
Music for a Midsummer’s Night (Carrière)
In 2002, Music for a Midsummer’s Night was originally commissioned by Anne Walsh and composed by Berthold Carrière CM in honour of the late B.J. ‘Bo’ Sibold. We acknowledge with great appreciation Anne’s support for eleven straight years so that this music and its fireworks may continue to signal the official opening of another Stratford Summer Music season as an annual occasion for celebration by the entire community. | ||
| Friday 19-Jul-13 07:00am |
Tom Patterson Island, Stratford, ON Music for Wilderness Lake Stratford Summer Music |
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| Tom Patterson Island, Stratford, ON, Stratford, Ontario, Stratford, ON, Canada Friday 19-Jul-13 07:00am Music for Wilderness Lake Murray Schafer's compositions, rather like Canadians themselves, are often drawn toward nature. As the morning sun rises, Music for Wilderness Lake brings twelve trombonists into harmony with the waters and the shores. In this presentation, which the composer has specially modified for Stratford, soprano Brooke Dufton sings the haunting Princess' Aria from another of Schafer's vast environmental works, Princess of the Stars. Price type: Free | ||
| Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:00am |
Tom Patterson Island, Stratford, ON Music for Wilderness Lake Stratford Summer Music |
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| Tom Patterson Island, Stratford, ON, Stratford, Ontario, Stratford, ON, Canada Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:00am Music for Wilderness Lake Murray Schafer's compositions, rather like Canadians themselves, are often drawn toward nature. As the morning sun rises, Music for Wilderness Lake brings twelve trombonists into harmony with the waters and the shores. In this presentation, which the composer has specially modified for Stratford, soprano Brooke Dufton sings the haunting Princess' Aria from another of Schafer's vast environmental works, Princess of the Stars. Price type: Free | ||
| Saturday 20-Jul-13 11:00am |
Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON Joseph Macerollo: Gypsy Caravan Stratford Summer Music |
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| Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON, 9 Cobourg Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 3E4, Canada Saturday 20-Jul-13 11:00am Joseph Macerollo: Gypsy Caravan Tickets $49.50 - Incudes Lunch
Joseph Macerollo is one of the world’s greatest living accordionists, with an international reputation for both his skill with the instrument and the variety of his repertoire. His witty, live performances, whether in his native Canada or abroad, are audience favourites and his virtuosic recording, television, and film credits exceed those of almost any other accordionist on the planet. A former member of Canada’s famous Quartetto Gelato, this musician genuinely deserves the title, Mr. Accordian… and if you don’t know this before you meet him, you’ll definitely be saying it after you hear him play! | ||
| Sunday 21-Jul-13 07:00am |
Tom Patterson Island, Stratford, ON Music for Wilderness Lake Stratford Summer Music |
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| Tom Patterson Island, Stratford, ON, Stratford, Ontario, Stratford, ON, Canada Sunday 21-Jul-13 07:00am Music for Wilderness Lake Murray Schafer's compositions, rather like Canadians themselves, are often drawn toward nature. As the morning sun rises, Music for Wilderness Lake brings twelve trombonists into harmony with the waters and the shores. In this presentation, which the composer has specially modified for Stratford, soprano Brooke Dufton sings the haunting Princess' Aria from another of Schafer's vast environmental works, Princess of the Stars. Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 21-Jul-13 11:00am |
Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON Joseph Macerollo: Gypsy Caravan Stratford Summer Music |
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| Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON, 9 Cobourg Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 3E4, Canada Sunday 21-Jul-13 11:00am Joseph Macerollo: Gypsy Caravan Tickets $49.50 - Incudes Lunch
Joseph Macerollo is one of the world’s greatest living accordionists, with an international reputation for both his skill with the instrument and the variety of his repertoire. His witty, live performances, whether in his native Canada or abroad, are audience favourites and his virtuosic recording, television, and film credits exceed those of almost any other accordionist on the planet. A former member of Canada’s famous Quartetto Gelato, this musician genuinely deserves the title, Mr. Accordian… and if you don’t know this before you meet him, you’ll definitely be saying it after you hear him play! | ||
| Thursday 25-Jul-13 11:15am |
St James' Church, Stratford, ON Rachel Laurin: Interpretation Stratford Summer Music |
Programme to include: Works by Buxtehude Works by Bach J.S. Works by Reger Works by Vierne Works by Laurin |
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| St James' Church, Stratford, ON, 41 Mornington Street, Ontario, Stratford, ON, Canada Thursday 25-Jul-13 11:15am Rachel Laurin: Interpretation RACHEL LAURIN, organist, composer and improviser, was born in St-Benoît, Quebec. After her studies at the Montreal Conservatory, she became Associate Organist at St-Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal (1986-2002), and from 2002 to 2006 she was Titular Organist at Notre Dame Cathedral, Ottawa. An Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Rachel has composed more than a hundred works for various instruments, instrumental ensembles and orchestras, has performed organ recitals in major cities in Canada, the United States and Europe, and has made more than twelve recordings. A new recording including some of her solo organ music, her Fantasia for organ and harp, and her Sonata for organ and horn, has been released by Raven label this spring, 2013. Mme Laurin is frequently invited to major organ festivals as organist and composer. She was a recitalist at the American Guild of Organists National Convention in 2008 (St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota), and a commissioned composer for the AGO National Convention in 2010 in Washington, D.C.. She also presented the opening gala recital at the Royal Canadian College of Organists Centenary National Convention in Toronto in 2009. A feature-length program devoted to her was broadcast by American Public Media’s Pipedreams in October, 2012. Mme Laurin, who resides in Ottawa, now devotes herself to composition, master classes, lectures and recitals where her unique skills with the art of improvisation are always evident within her presentations. Programme to include: Works by Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707) Works by Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Works by Reger, Max (1873-1916) Works by Vierne, Louis (1870-1937) Works by Laurin, Rachel | ||
| Friday 26-Jul-13 09:30am |
Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON Bicycle Opera Stratford Summer Music |
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| Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON, 37 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Friday 26-Jul-13 09:30am Bicycle Opera Tickets: Pay what you can
Rosa by James Rolfe and Camyar Chai Isabelle has fled from her home and husband after the death of their child. Hector finds her in a brothel, where she has retreated in order to forget, and desperately urges her to return. Slip – excerpts by Juliet Palmer and Anna Chatterton Slip was created as a site-specific performance for the Harrison Baths, Toronto’s only public bathing complex. Connecting to homelessness, the piece also explores how we are bound together by the intimate experience of cleansing and our precious connection to water and how women experience interaction in intimate spaces. Cake by Monica Pearce. This twelve-minute comedic opera premiered in January 2012 at the Toy Piano Composers’ Opera Scenesters concert. A bride-to-be barely navigates her family’s relationships and expectations as she attempts to order the perfect cake for her wedding. The Bicycle Opera Project brings Canadian contemporary opera to communities across Ontario by bicycle! We bring Canadian music to people who might otherwise have little opportunity to hear it, and work to close the distance between audiences and opera singers through performance in intimate spaces. The project focuses on operatic repertoire that deals with contemporary issues relevant to all audiences. Our scenes are sung in English (with one in French) so that audiences can more readily relate to the material. Featuring Larissa Koniuk, soprano, Michelle Simmons, mezzo, Geoffrey Sirret, Baritione, Will Reid, Tenor, Wesley Shen, Music Director, piano, Katherine Watson, flute & Leslie Ting, violin. Michael Mori, Stage Director, Alex Samaras, Associate Producer, & Composer in Residence Adam Scime. In July 2013, we will be cycling west of Toronto to Hamilton, Elora, Fergus, Kitchener, Waterloo, Bayfield, London and Stratford! Demythologizing the idea of “the opera singer” (we get dirty too!) and operatic traditions (who says we can’t cycle?), and providing a car-free alternative to touring. Image credit: Alice Irene Whittaker-Cumming Rolfe, James (b. 1961), Rosa (Libretto by Camyar Chai) Palmer, Juliet, Slip (Libretto by Anna Chatterton) | ||
| Friday 26-Jul-13 11:15am |
St James' Church, Stratford, ON Rachel Laurin: Transcription and Improvisation Stratford Summer Music |
Programme to include: Works by Bach J.S. (arr. Laurin) Works by Paganini (arr. L.Daveluy) Works by Brahms (arr. Laurin and Improvisation) |
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| St James' Church, Stratford, ON, 41 Mornington Street, Ontario, Stratford, ON, Canada Friday 26-Jul-13 11:15am Rachel Laurin: Transcription and Improvisation RACHEL LAURIN, organist, composer and improviser, was born in St-Benoît, Quebec. After her studies at the Montreal Conservatory, she became Associate Organist at St-Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal (1986-2002), and from 2002 to 2006 she was Titular Organist at Notre Dame Cathedral, Ottawa. An Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Rachel has composed more than a hundred works for various instruments, instrumental ensembles and orchestras, has performed organ recitals in major cities in Canada, the United States and Europe, and has made more than twelve recordings. A new recording including some of her solo organ music, her Fantasia for organ and harp, and her Sonata for organ and horn, has been released by Raven label this spring, 2013. Mme Laurin is frequently invited to major organ festivals as organist and composer. She was a recitalist at the American Guild of Organists National Convention in 2008 (St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota), and a commissioned composer for the AGO National Convention in 2010 in Washington, D.C.. She also presented the opening gala recital at the Royal Canadian College of Organists Centenary National Convention in Toronto in 2009. A feature-length program devoted to her was broadcast by American Public Media’s Pipedreams in October, 2012. Mme Laurin, who resides in Ottawa, now devotes herself to composition, master classes, lectures and recitals where her unique skills with the art of improvisation are always evident within her presentations. Programme to include: Works by Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) (arr. Laurin) Works by Paganini, Niccolò (1782-1840) (arr. L.Daveluy) Works by Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) (arr. Laurin and Improvisation) | ||
| Friday 26-Jul-13 05:00pm |
Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON Bicycle Opera Stratford Summer Music |
Beecher, Little Miss All Canadian (Libretto by Liza Balkan) Gervais, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. (Libretto by Colleen Murphy) Brown, Trahisons liquides (Libretto by Sébastien Harrisson) |
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| Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON, 37 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Friday 26-Jul-13 05:00pm Bicycle Opera Tickets: Pay what you can
Little Miss All Canadian by Lemit Beecher and Liza Balkan A miniature opera that was written at this year’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab) at Tapestry. Two mothers hilariously coach their daughters from the sidelines of a beauty pageant while they discover a disturbing article in the paper: an eleven-year-old girl’s dismembered body parts have been discovered in a park. The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.by Aaron Gervais and Colleen Murphy This scene served as the genesis for the larger work but does not exist in the full-scale opera. A woman from Eastern Europe had been forced into prostitution, but manages to escape to Italy. She finds herself at a safe house run by a priest and has begun the process of recovery. One night, she enters the priest's room to look out the window at the moon. He wakes up and they begin discussing her situation, the possibility of returning home, and their relationship. Trahisons liquides - excerpt by Stacey Brown & Sébastien Harrisson Set on the Hibernia oil platform located off the east coast of Newfoundland, Pierre, a neurologist is conducting research on the reactions of the human brain under water. Nora, a deep-sea welder, is one of Pierre’s research subjects and the two become romantically involved. Nora encounters the spirit of a long dead pilot, who mistakes her for her past lover, and Pierre manipulates his authority to keep Nora close. The Bicycle Opera Project brings Canadian contemporary opera to communities across Ontario by bicycle! We bring Canadian music to people who might otherwise have little opportunity to hear it, and work to close the distance between audiences and opera singers through performance in intimate spaces. The project focuses on operatic repertoire that deals with contemporary issues relevant to all audiences. Our scenes are sung in English (with one in French) so that audiences can more readily relate to the material. Featuring Larissa Koniuk, soprano, Michelle Simmons, mezzo, Geoffrey Sirret, Baritione, Will Reid, Tenor, Wesley Shen, Music Director, piano, Katherine Watson, flute & Leslie Ting, violin. Michael Mori, Stage Director, Alex Samaras, Associate Producer, & Composer in Residence Adam Scime. In July 2013, we will be cycling west of Toronto to Hamilton, Elora, Fergus, Kitchener, Waterloo, Bayfield, London and Stratford! Demythologizing the idea of “the opera singer” (we get dirty too!) and operatic traditions (who says we can’t cycle?), and providing a car-free alternative to touring. Image credit: Alice Irene Whittaker-Cumming Beecher, Lembit, Little Miss All Canadian (Libretto by Liza Balkan) Gervais, Aaron, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. (Libretto by Colleen Murphy) Brown, Stacey, Trahisons liquides (Libretto by Sébastien Harrisson) | ||
| Friday 26-Jul-13 07:00pm |
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON Vienna Boys Choir: Welcome to Vienna Stratford Summer Music |
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| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON, 25 St Andrew Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A2, Canada Friday 26-Jul-13 07:00pm Vienna Boys Choir: Welcome to Vienna The young singers greet their Stratford audiences with a program that includes the very songs which we would hear if we could get tickets to their constantly sold-out appearances in the Austrian capital. With a repertoire that stretches back centuries, yet is as fresh as modern young people would wish, this concert presents an introduction to some of the world’s greatest musical treasures, all interpreted by the world’s most sought-after youth chorus. The Vienna Boys Choir proves time and time again just how exciting choral singing can be. And now the Choir - which is arguably the oldest Boy Band in the world - invites you to join them at Stratford Summer Music to hear their very latest repertoire, from motets to World Music and pop. In 1498, when Maximilian I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, moved his court to Vienna and ordered that there should be six boy choristers among his court musicians, it laid the foundation for the Vienna Boys Choir. Today, 515 years later, the Vienna Boys Choir still continues the tradition of the Imperial Court's young choristers with its four constituent choirs named for four Austrian composers personally associated with the VBC: Bruckner, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. In Vienna, you can hear them each Sunday. But this summer it's only at Stratford Summer Music where you can hear the senior chorus, named for Franz Schubert who was himself a Vienna Boys Choir chorister in 1808, and who, as a boy, was tutored in Vienna by Antonio Salieri, that figure whom stage and movie history has come to label as the nemesis of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Schubert Choir has 26 boys who have spent the previous season attending school, taking turns with the other VBC choirs at performing Sunday Mass at the Imperial Chapel and singing at Vienna's famous concert hall, the Musikverein. This choir's members come from Austria, Bosnia, England, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Romania and Russia. This year's VBC highlights have included the traditional anniversary concert of the Chapel Imperial, a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and the New Year's Day Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic which was broadcast around the world. These boys are touring until July 9, after which they will fly to Canada for their exclusive Stratford Summer Music appearances. | ||
| Saturday 27-Jul-13 09:30am |
Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON Bicycle Opera Stratford Summer Music |
Beecher, Little Miss All Canadian (Libretto by Liza Balkan) Gervais, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. (Libretto by Colleen Murphy) Brown, Trahisons liquides (Libretto by Sébastien Harrisson) |
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| Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON, 37 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Saturday 27-Jul-13 09:30am Bicycle Opera Tickets: Pay what you can
Little Miss All Canadian by Lemit Beecher and Liza Balkan A miniature opera that was written at this year’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab) at Tapestry. Two mothers hilariously coach their daughters from the sidelines of a beauty pageant while they discover a disturbing article in the paper: an eleven-year-old girl’s dismembered body parts have been discovered in a park. The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.by Aaron Gervais and Colleen Murphy This scene served as the genesis for the larger work but does not exist in the full-scale opera. A woman from Eastern Europe had been forced into prostitution, but manages to escape to Italy. She finds herself at a safe house run by a priest and has begun the process of recovery. One night, she enters the priest's room to look out the window at the moon. He wakes up and they begin discussing her situation, the possibility of returning home, and their relationship. Trahisons liquides - excerpt by Stacey Brown & Sébastien Harrisson Set on the Hibernia oil platform located off the east coast of Newfoundland, Pierre, a neurologist is conducting research on the reactions of the human brain under water. Nora, a deep-sea welder, is one of Pierre’s research subjects and the two become romantically involved. Nora encounters the spirit of a long dead pilot, who mistakes her for her past lover, and Pierre manipulates his authority to keep Nora close. The Bicycle Opera Project brings Canadian contemporary opera to communities across Ontario by bicycle! We bring Canadian music to people who might otherwise have little opportunity to hear it, and work to close the distance between audiences and opera singers through performance in intimate spaces. The project focuses on operatic repertoire that deals with contemporary issues relevant to all audiences. Our scenes are sung in English (with one in French) so that audiences can more readily relate to the material. Featuring Larissa Koniuk, soprano, Michelle Simmons, mezzo, Geoffrey Sirret, Baritione, Will Reid, Tenor, Wesley Shen, Music Director, piano, Katherine Watson, flute & Leslie Ting, violin. Michael Mori, Stage Director, Alex Samaras, Associate Producer, & Composer in Residence Adam Scime. In July 2013, we will be cycling west of Toronto to Hamilton, Elora, Fergus, Kitchener, Waterloo, Bayfield, London and Stratford! Demythologizing the idea of “the opera singer” (we get dirty too!) and operatic traditions (who says we can’t cycle?), and providing a car-free alternative to touring. Image credit: Alice Irene Whittaker-Cumming Beecher, Lembit, Little Miss All Canadian (Libretto by Liza Balkan) Gervais, Aaron, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. (Libretto by Colleen Murphy) Brown, Stacey, Trahisons liquides (Libretto by Sébastien Harrisson) | ||
| Saturday 27-Jul-13 11:00am |
Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON Joseph Macerollo: International Classics Stratford Summer Music |
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| Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON, 9 Cobourg Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 3E4, Canada Saturday 27-Jul-13 11:00am Joseph Macerollo: International Classics Tickets $49.50 - Incudes Lunch
Joseph Macerollo is one of the world’s greatest living accordionists, with an international reputation for both his skill with the instrument and the variety of his repertoire. His witty, live performances, whether in his native Canada or abroad, are audience favourites and his virtuosic recording, television, and film credits exceed those of almost any other accordionist on the planet. A former member of Canada’s famous Quartetto Gelato, this musician genuinely deserves the title, Mr. Accordian… and if you don’t know this before you meet him, you’ll definitely be saying it after you hear him play! | ||
| Saturday 27-Jul-13 11:15am |
St James' Church, Stratford, ON Rachel Laurin: Composition Stratford Summer Music |
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| St James' Church, Stratford, ON, 41 Mornington Street, Ontario, Stratford, ON, Canada Saturday 27-Jul-13 11:15am Rachel Laurin: Composition RACHEL LAURIN, organist, composer and improviser, was born in St-Benoît, Quebec. After her studies at the Montreal Conservatory, she became Associate Organist at St-Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal (1986-2002), and from 2002 to 2006 she was Titular Organist at Notre Dame Cathedral, Ottawa. An Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Rachel has composed more than a hundred works for various instruments, instrumental ensembles and orchestras, has performed organ recitals in major cities in Canada, the United States and Europe, and has made more than twelve recordings. A new recording including some of her solo organ music, her Fantasia for organ and harp, and her Sonata for organ and horn, has been released by Raven label this spring, 2013. Mme Laurin is frequently invited to major organ festivals as organist and composer. She was a recitalist at the American Guild of Organists National Convention in 2008 (St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota), and a commissioned composer for the AGO National Convention in 2010 in Washington, D.C.. She also presented the opening gala recital at the Royal Canadian College of Organists Centenary National Convention in Toronto in 2009. A feature-length program devoted to her was broadcast by American Public Media’s Pipedreams in October, 2012. Mme Laurin, who resides in Ottawa, now devotes herself to composition, master classes, lectures and recitals where her unique skills with the art of improvisation are always evident within her presentations. Programme to include: Works by Cabena, Barrie (b. 1933) Works by Daveluy, Raymond (b. 1926) Works by Laurin, Rachel | ||
| Saturday 27-Jul-13 05:00pm |
Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON Bicycle Opera Stratford Summer Music |
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| Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON, 37 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Saturday 27-Jul-13 05:00pm Bicycle Opera Tickets: Pay what you can
Rosa by James Rolfe and Camyar Chai Isabelle has fled from her home and husband after the death of their child. Hector finds her in a brothel, where she has retreated in order to forget, and desperately urges her to return. Slip – excerpts by Juliet Palmer and Anna Chatterton Slip was created as a site-specific performance for the Harrison Baths, Toronto’s only public bathing complex. Connecting to homelessness, the piece also explores how we are bound together by the intimate experience of cleansing and our precious connection to water and how women experience interaction in intimate spaces. Cake by Monica Pearce. This twelve-minute comedic opera premiered in January 2012 at the Toy Piano Composers’ Opera Scenesters concert. A bride-to-be barely navigates her family’s relationships and expectations as she attempts to order the perfect cake for her wedding. The Bicycle Opera Project brings Canadian contemporary opera to communities across Ontario by bicycle! We bring Canadian music to people who might otherwise have little opportunity to hear it, and work to close the distance between audiences and opera singers through performance in intimate spaces. The project focuses on operatic repertoire that deals with contemporary issues relevant to all audiences. Our scenes are sung in English (with one in French) so that audiences can more readily relate to the material. Featuring Larissa Koniuk, soprano, Michelle Simmons, mezzo, Geoffrey Sirret, Baritione, Will Reid, Tenor, Wesley Shen, Music Director, piano, Katherine Watson, flute & Leslie Ting, violin. Michael Mori, Stage Director, Alex Samaras, Associate Producer, & Composer in Residence Adam Scime. In July 2013, we will be cycling west of Toronto to Hamilton, Elora, Fergus, Kitchener, Waterloo, Bayfield, London and Stratford! Demythologizing the idea of “the opera singer” (we get dirty too!) and operatic traditions (who says we can’t cycle?), and providing a car-free alternative to touring. Image credit: Alice Irene Whittaker-Cumming Rolfe, James (b. 1961), Rosa (Libretto by Camyar Chai) Palmer, Juliet, Slip (Libretto by Anna Chatterton) | ||
| Saturday 27-Jul-13 07:00pm |
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON Vienna Boys Choir: Mozart to Modern Stratford Summer Music |
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| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON, 25 St Andrew Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A2, Canada Saturday 27-Jul-13 07:00pm Vienna Boys Choir: Mozart to Modern How appropriate that an Austrian choir would sing the music of a composer who walked the very streets they walk and composed music which their ancestors sang in the same halls and churches where Wolfgang heard the premieres of his own compositions! Yet to bring their repertoire into the 21st century, the Vienna Boys Choir also enjoys the beat of their own times, popular music including songs featured in the Disney movie, Almost Angels, which starred the Boys themselves. The Vienna Boys Choir proves time and time again just how exciting choral singing can be. And now the Choir - which is arguably the oldest Boy Band in the world - invites you to join them at Stratford Summer Music to hear their very latest repertoire, from motets to World Music and pop. In 1498, when Maximilian I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, moved his court to Vienna and ordered that there should be six boy choristers among his court musicians, it laid the foundation for the Vienna Boys Choir. Today, 515 years later, the Vienna Boys Choir still continues the tradition of the Imperial Court's young choristers with its four constituent choirs named for four Austrian composers personally associated with the VBC: Bruckner, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. In Vienna, you can hear them each Sunday. But this summer it's only at Stratford Summer Music where you can hear the senior chorus, named for Franz Schubert who was himself a Vienna Boys Choir chorister in 1808, and who, as a boy, was tutored in Vienna by Antonio Salieri, that figure whom stage and movie history has come to label as the nemesis of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Schubert Choir has 26 boys who have spent the previous season attending school, taking turns with the other VBC choirs at performing Sunday Mass at the Imperial Chapel and singing at Vienna's famous concert hall, the Musikverein. This choir's members come from Austria, Bosnia, England, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Romania and Russia. This year's VBC highlights have included the traditional anniversary concert of the Chapel Imperial, a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and the New Year's Day Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic which was broadcast around the world. These boys are touring until July 9, after which they will fly to Canada for their exclusive Stratford Summer Music appearances. | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 09:30am |
Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON Bicycle Opera Stratford Summer Music |
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| Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON, 37 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Sunday 28-Jul-13 09:30am Bicycle Opera Tickets: Pay what you can
Rosa by James Rolfe and Camyar Chai Isabelle has fled from her home and husband after the death of their child. Hector finds her in a brothel, where she has retreated in order to forget, and desperately urges her to return. Slip – excerpts by Juliet Palmer and Anna Chatterton Slip was created as a site-specific performance for the Harrison Baths, Toronto’s only public bathing complex. Connecting to homelessness, the piece also explores how we are bound together by the intimate experience of cleansing and our precious connection to water and how women experience interaction in intimate spaces. Cake by Monica Pearce. This twelve-minute comedic opera premiered in January 2012 at the Toy Piano Composers’ Opera Scenesters concert. A bride-to-be barely navigates her family’s relationships and expectations as she attempts to order the perfect cake for her wedding. The Bicycle Opera Project brings Canadian contemporary opera to communities across Ontario by bicycle! We bring Canadian music to people who might otherwise have little opportunity to hear it, and work to close the distance between audiences and opera singers through performance in intimate spaces. The project focuses on operatic repertoire that deals with contemporary issues relevant to all audiences. Our scenes are sung in English (with one in French) so that audiences can more readily relate to the material. Featuring Larissa Koniuk, soprano, Michelle Simmons, mezzo, Geoffrey Sirret, Baritione, Will Reid, Tenor, Wesley Shen, Music Director, piano, Katherine Watson, flute & Leslie Ting, violin. Michael Mori, Stage Director, Alex Samaras, Associate Producer, & Composer in Residence Adam Scime. In July 2013, we will be cycling west of Toronto to Hamilton, Elora, Fergus, Kitchener, Waterloo, Bayfield, London and Stratford! Demythologizing the idea of “the opera singer” (we get dirty too!) and operatic traditions (who says we can’t cycle?), and providing a car-free alternative to touring. Rolfe, James (b. 1961), Rosa (Libretto by Camyar Chai) Palmer, Juliet, Slip (Libretto by Anna Chatterton) | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 11:00am |
Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON Joseph Macerollo: International Classics Stratford Summer Music |
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| Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON, 9 Cobourg Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 3E4, Canada Sunday 28-Jul-13 11:00am Joseph Macerollo: International Classics Tickets $49.50 - Incudes Lunch
Joseph Macerollo is one of the world’s greatest living accordionists, with an international reputation for both his skill with the instrument and the variety of his repertoire. His witty, live performances, whether in his native Canada or abroad, are audience favourites and his virtuosic recording, television, and film credits exceed those of almost any other accordionist on the planet. A former member of Canada’s famous Quartetto Gelato, this musician genuinely deserves the title, Mr. Accordian… and if you don’t know this before you meet him, you’ll definitely be saying it after you hear him play! | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 12:30pm |
MusicBarge, Stratford, ON Canadian Men's Chorus Stratford Summer Music |
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| MusicBarge, Stratford, ON, Stratford, ON, Canada Sunday 28-Jul-13 12:30pm Canadian Men's Chorus The mission of the Canadian Men’s Chorus is to perform and advance music specifically for men’s voices, thereby increasing the profile of this distinctive repertoire within the existing choral landscape. Under the direction of their founding conductor, Greg Rainville, the Chorus presents high calibre, professional performances of classical repertoire, traditional and contemporary, with a focus on music that reflects Canadian culture and on creating new Canadian music.Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 02:00pm |
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON Vienna Boys Choir: Our Musical Heritage Stratford Summer Music |
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| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON, 25 St Andrew Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A2, Canada Sunday 28-Jul-13 02:00pm Vienna Boys Choir: Our Musical Heritage This is a performance that crosses centuries and ties the history of a great cultural institution – and one of the world’s most sought after tourism and musical experiences - with the most challenging scores ever written. Sacred and secular. Medieval to modern. Enjoy the beauty of the youthful voices performing compositions written expressly for the Vienna Boys Choir by celebrated musical masters such as Gluck, Salieri, Haydn and Schubert. The Vienna Boys Choir proves time and time again just how exciting choral singing can be. And now the Choir - which is arguably the oldest Boy Band in the world - invites you to join them at Stratford Summer Music to hear their very latest repertoire, from motets to World Music and pop. In 1498, when Maximilian I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, moved his court to Vienna and ordered that there should be six boy choristers among his court musicians, it laid the foundation for the Vienna Boys Choir. Today, 515 years later, the Vienna Boys Choir still continues the tradition of the Imperial Court's young choristers with its four constituent choirs named for four Austrian composers personally associated with the VBC: Bruckner, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. In Vienna, you can hear them each Sunday. But this summer it's only at Stratford Summer Music where you can hear the senior chorus, named for Franz Schubert who was himself a Vienna Boys Choir chorister in 1808, and who, as a boy, was tutored in Vienna by Antonio Salieri, that figure whom stage and movie history has come to label as the nemesis of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Schubert Choir has 26 boys who have spent the previous season attending school, taking turns with the other VBC choirs at performing Sunday Mass at the Imperial Chapel and singing at Vienna's famous concert hall, the Musikverein. This choir's members come from Austria, Bosnia, England, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Romania and Russia. This year's VBC highlights have included the traditional anniversary concert of the Chapel Imperial, a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and the New Year's Day Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic which was broadcast around the world. These boys are touring until July 9, after which they will fly to Canada for their exclusive Stratford Summer Music appearances. | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 03:00pm |
MusicBarge, Stratford, ON Canadian Men's Chorus Stratford Summer Music |
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| MusicBarge, Stratford, ON, Stratford, ON, Canada Sunday 28-Jul-13 03:00pm Canadian Men's Chorus The mission of the Canadian Men’s Chorus is to perform and advance music specifically for men’s voices, thereby increasing the profile of this distinctive repertoire within the existing choral landscape. Under the direction of their founding conductor, Greg Rainville, the Chorus presents high calibre, professional performances of classical repertoire, traditional and contemporary, with a focus on music that reflects Canadian culture and on creating new Canadian music.Price type: Free | ||
| Sunday 28-Jul-13 05:00pm |
Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON Bicycle Opera Stratford Summer Music |
Beecher, Little Miss All Canadian (Libretto by Liza Balkan) Gervais, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. (Libretto by Colleen Murphy) Brown, Trahisons liquides (Libretto by Sébastien Harrisson) |
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| Revel Cafe, Stratford, ON, 37 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Sunday 28-Jul-13 05:00pm Bicycle Opera Tickets: Pay what you can
Little Miss All Canadian by Lemit Beecher and Liza Balkan A miniature opera that was written at this year’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab) at Tapestry. Two mothers hilariously coach their daughters from the sidelines of a beauty pageant while they discover a disturbing article in the paper: an eleven-year-old girl’s dismembered body parts have been discovered in a park. The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.by Aaron Gervais and Colleen Murphy This scene served as the genesis for the larger work but does not exist in the full-scale opera. A woman from Eastern Europe had been forced into prostitution, but manages to escape to Italy. She finds herself at a safe house run by a priest and has begun the process of recovery. One night, she enters the priest's room to look out the window at the moon. He wakes up and they begin discussing her situation, the possibility of returning home, and their relationship. Trahisons liquides - excerpt by Stacey Brown & Sébastien Harrisson Set on the Hibernia oil platform located off the east coast of Newfoundland, Pierre, a neurologist is conducting research on the reactions of the human brain under water. Nora, a deep-sea welder, is one of Pierre’s research subjects and the two become romantically involved. Nora encounters the spirit of a long dead pilot, who mistakes her for her past lover, and Pierre manipulates his authority to keep Nora close. The Bicycle Opera Project brings Canadian contemporary opera to communities across Ontario by bicycle! We bring Canadian music to people who might otherwise have little opportunity to hear it, and work to close the distance between audiences and opera singers through performance in intimate spaces. The project focuses on operatic repertoire that deals with contemporary issues relevant to all audiences. Our scenes are sung in English (with one in French) so that audiences can more readily relate to the material. Featuring Larissa Koniuk, soprano, Michelle Simmons, mezzo, Geoffrey Sirret, Baritione, Will Reid, Tenor, Wesley Shen, Music Director, piano, Katherine Watson, flute & Leslie Ting, violin. Michael Mori, Stage Director, Alex Samaras, Associate Producer, & Composer in Residence Adam Scime. In July 2013, we will be cycling west of Toronto to Hamilton, Elora, Fergus, Kitchener, Waterloo, Bayfield, London and Stratford! Demythologizing the idea of “the opera singer” (we get dirty too!) and operatic traditions (who says we can’t cycle?), and providing a car-free alternative to touring. Image credit: Alice Irene Whittaker-Cumming Beecher, Lembit, Little Miss All Canadian (Libretto by Liza Balkan) Gervais, Aaron, The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. (Libretto by Colleen Murphy) Brown, Stacey, Trahisons liquides (Libretto by Sébastien Harrisson) | ||
| Thursday 1-Aug-13 11:15am |
Stratford City Hall, Stratford, ON Music that Changed the World with Robert Harris: Chopin's Keyboard Stratford Summer Music |
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| Stratford City Hall, Stratford, ON, 1 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Thursday 1-Aug-13 11:15am Music that Changed the World with Robert Harris: Chopin's Keyboard Tickets $20
All 3 Robert Harris Lectures for $48 by calling 519.271.2101 or toll-free 1.866.288.4313 Join CBC radio host and producer Robert Harris in a series of informative and entertaining lectures about three pieces of music that changed the world. Inspired by Harris' own 20-part "conversations" with Michael Enright on CBC Radio One's popular The Sunday Edition, these will definitely be insightful reflections and ruminations. Each lecture - sprinkled liberally with musical examples illustrating key points - will demonstrate the impact that the selected works have had upon our lives and our cultural history. Chopin's Keyboard Frederic Chopin may be the most famous underrated composer in all of classical music. Just about everything people think about him is wrong. He was not a delicate little flower, trapped in a hothouse Parisian salon, playing his beautiful melodies for the beautiful people of the day. He had a harmonic sense greater than Wagner's, a structural sense equal to Beethoven's, a dramatic sense to rival Verdi. This lecture will reveal the true Chopin. Image credit: CBC Still Photo Collection/Galbraith Photo Digital | ||
| Friday 2-Aug-13 11:15am |
Stratford City Hall, Stratford, ON Music that Changed the World with Robert Harris: Gospel's We Shall Overcome Stratford Summer Music |
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| Stratford City Hall, Stratford, ON, 1 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Friday 2-Aug-13 11:15am Music that Changed the World with Robert Harris: Gospel's We Shall Overcome Tickets $20
All 3 Robert Harris Lectures for $48 by calling 519.271.2101 or toll-free 1.866.288.4313 Join CBC radio host and producer Robert Harris in a series of informative and entertaining lectures about three pieces of music that changed the world. Inspired by Harris' own 20-part "conversations" with Michael Enright on CBC Radio One's popular The Sunday Edition, these will definitely be insightful reflections and ruminations. Each lecture - sprinkled liberally with musical examples illustrating key points - will demonstrate the impact that the selected works have had upon our lives and our cultural history. Gospel's We Shall Overcome The African musical heritage in North America expressed itself in two distinct ways. One was in religious music, the other in dance and secular music. Sometimes the two were hard to tell apart, but between them, virtually all of the popular music of the twentieth and twenty-first century came into being. By looking at the history of We Shall Overcome, a piece of music that dramatically changed the world after its appearance in the 1940s, we'll take a look at the religious tradition of African-American music – Gospel. Image credit: CBC Still Photo Collection/Galbraith Photo Digital | ||
| Saturday 3-Aug-13 11:00am |
Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON Joseph Macerollo: Argentina: Saluting Astor Piazzolla Stratford Summer Music |
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| Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON, 9 Cobourg Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 3E4, Canada Saturday 3-Aug-13 11:00am Joseph Macerollo: Argentina: Saluting Astor Piazzolla Tickets $49.50 - Incudes Lunch
Joseph Macerollo is one of the world’s greatest living accordionists, with an international reputation for both his skill with the instrument and the variety of his repertoire. His witty, live performances, whether in his native Canada or abroad, are audience favourites and his virtuosic recording, television, and film credits exceed those of almost any other accordionist on the planet. A former member of Canada’s famous Quartetto Gelato, this musician genuinely deserves the title, Mr. Accordian… and if you don’t know this before you meet him, you’ll definitely be saying it after you hear him play! | ||
| Saturday 3-Aug-13 11:15am |
Stratford City Hall, Stratford, ON Music that Changed the World with Robert Harris: Elvis Presley's That's Alright, Mama Stratford Summer Music |
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| Stratford City Hall, Stratford, ON, 1 Market Pl, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A4, Canada Saturday 3-Aug-13 11:15am Music that Changed the World with Robert Harris: Elvis Presley's That's Alright, Mama Tickets $20 All 3 Robert Harris Lectures for $48 by calling 519.271.2101 or toll-free 1.866.288.4313 Join CBC radio host and producer Robert Harris in a series of informative and entertaining lectures about three pieces of music that changed the world. Inspired by Harris' own 20-part "conversations" with Michael Enright on CBC Radio One's popular The Sunday Edition, these will definitely be insightful reflections and ruminations. Each lecture - sprinkled liberally with musical examples illustrating key points - will demonstrate the impact that the selected works have had upon our lives and our cultural history. Elvis Presley's That's Alright, Mama Many great artistic innovations, in all fields, occur when two great forces come together, and then explode. Causing great power, great damage, releasing forces that no one previously knew existed. That's what happened in the history of popular music when the country music of a young Elvis Presley rubbed up against the rhythm and blues of black America. The resulting explosion was called rock and roll. The fuse was a seemingly innocent piece of music, called “That's Alright, Mama”. A fuse that caused a musical revolution in which we're still living, that changed the music, the sociology, and the history of an entire planet. Image credit: CBC Still Photo Collection/Galbraith Photo Digital | ||
| Sunday 4-Aug-13 11:00am |
Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON Joseph Macerollo: Argentina: Saluting Astor Piazzolla Stratford Summer Music |
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| Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON, 9 Cobourg Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 3E4, Canada Sunday 4-Aug-13 11:00am Joseph Macerollo: Argentina: Saluting Astor Piazzolla Tickets $49.50 - Incudes Lunch
Joseph Macerollo is one of the world’s greatest living accordionists, with an international reputation for both his skill with the instrument and the variety of his repertoire. His witty, live performances, whether in his native Canada or abroad, are audience favourites and his virtuosic recording, television, and film credits exceed those of almost any other accordionist on the planet. A former member of Canada’s famous Quartetto Gelato, this musician genuinely deserves the title, Mr. Accordian… and if you don’t know this before you meet him, you’ll definitely be saying it after you hear him play! | ||
| Sunday 4-Aug-13 04:00pm |
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON Gospel Joy & Jamboree with the Toronto Mass Choir & Band Stratford Summer Music |
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| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON, 25 St Andrew Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A2, Canada Sunday 4-Aug-13 04:00pm Gospel Joy & Jamboree with the Toronto Mass Choir & Band Tickets $25
The Toronto Mass Choir (TMC) continues to be on the cutting edge of the Canadian gospel music scene bringing their distinct gospel sound to the world stage. TMC’s music incorporates contemporary gospel, traditional gospel and Caribbean music influences. In particular TMC’s combination of gospel lyrics with a variety of musical styles has resulted in a style unique in Canada. | ||
| Thursday 8-Aug-13 11:15am |
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON Jan Lisiecki Stratford Summer Music |
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| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON, 25 St Andrew Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A2, Canada Thursday 8-Aug-13 11:15am Jan Lisiecki All 3 Recitals for $89 by calling 519.271.2101 or toll-free 1.866.288.4313 Born in Calgary in 1995, Jan Lisiecki began his piano studies at age 5 and made his orchestral debut at age 9. Since then he has performed scores of solo recitals and more than 100 orchestral appearances in Canada and abroad, released two important CDs, and impressed audiences, critics, artistic directors and fellow musicians around the world. Last December Jan was featured with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Centre; this year aone, by the time he returns to Stratford in August hewill have performed in several Canadian cities and in Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States, often with return visits to these international destinations. Since being with us last summer, Jan's other proud achievement has been the recording and release of his new Deutsche Grammophone compact disc, Chopin Etudes. Each of Jan's performancs in Stratford will be centered on the 24 compositions presented in this sparkling new recording. BBC Music Magazine has called Jan Lisiecki “perhaps the most ‘complete’ pianist of his age.” 2013 marks Jan's fourth consecutive season with Stratford Summer Music where his talent and personal charm have made him an audience favourite and where we agree heartily with the BBC's assessment. Image credit: V.Tony Hauser | ||
| Thursday 8-Aug-13 12:30pm |
MusicBarge, Stratford, ON Sultans of String Stratford Summer Music |
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| MusicBarge, Stratford, ON, Stratford, ON, Canada Thursday 8-Aug-13 12:30pm Sultans of String 2010 JUNO Award nominees and “Canada’s ambassadors of musical diversity” Sultans of String thrill their audiences with their global sonic tapestry of Spanish Flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban rhythms, and French Manouche Gypsy-jazz, celebrating musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar while a funk bass lays down unstoppable grooves. Acoustic strings meet with electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound, while world rhythms excite audiences to their feet with the irresistible need to dance.Price type: Free | ||
| Friday 9-Aug-13 11:15am |
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON Jan Lisiecki Stratford Summer Music |
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| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON, 25 St Andrew Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A2, Canada Friday 9-Aug-13 11:15am Jan Lisiecki All 3 Recitals for $89 by calling 519.271.2101 or toll-free 1.866.288.4313 Jan Lisiecki presents three unique concerts developed from his personal exploration of the music of Frédéric Chopin and, in particular, his recording the 24 glorious Chopin Études as his recently released Deutsche Grammophon CD, a disc which Jan will be pleased to autograph at the conclusion of each concert. Over the three days we will hear the complete 24 Études. Each day, Jan will discuss how a composer’s creativity - in this case the 24 Études of Opus 10 and Opus 12 – inspires and, in turn, leads a performer to his own interpretations of the music. By speaking to, and demonstrating, various analyses and readings of the music...culminating in the choices and approaches he has concluded for his recording...this outstanding young pianist will provide a very personal insight into how he feels the music and how the journey he takes upon himself becomes an experience for us, his audiences and his listeners. The Chopin Études are among the most celebrated musical works ever created. Like most “new” music that lives beyond its early years and premiere performances, these Études were controversial when they were first played; their most severe critics even labelled them radical and revolutionary. The technical challenges and the keyboard mastery that they demand of any pianist, along with the beauty of the music itself, have made them audience favourites. Image credit: V.Tony Hauser | ||
| Friday 9-Aug-13 12:30pm |
MusicBarge, Stratford, ON Sultans of String Stratford Summer Music |
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| MusicBarge, Stratford, ON, Stratford, ON, Canada Friday 9-Aug-13 12:30pm Sultans of String 2010 JUNO Award nominees and “Canada’s ambassadors of musical diversity” Sultans of String thrill their audiences with their global sonic tapestry of Spanish Flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban rhythms, and French Manouche Gypsy-jazz, celebrating musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar while a funk bass lays down unstoppable grooves. Acoustic strings meet with electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound, while world rhythms excite audiences to their feet with the irresistible need to dance.Price type: Free | ||
| Saturday 10-Aug-13 11:00am |
Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON Joseph Macerollo: Italy: Saluting Luciano Pavarotti Stratford Summer Music |
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| Rundles Restaurant, Stratford, ON, 9 Cobourg Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 3E4, Canada Saturday 10-Aug-13 11:00am Joseph Macerollo: Italy: Saluting Luciano Pavarotti Tickets $49.50 - Incudes Lunch
Joseph Macerollo is one of the world’s greatest living accordionists, with an international reputation for both his skill with the instrument and the variety of his repertoire. His witty, live performances, whether in his native Canada or abroad, are audience favourites and his virtuosic recording, television, and film credits exceed those of almost any other accordionist on the planet. A former member of Canada’s famous Quartetto Gelato, this musician genuinely deserves the title, Mr. Accordian… and if you don’t know this before you meet him, you’ll definitely be saying it after you hear him play! | ||
| Saturday 10-Aug-13 11:15am |
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON Jan Lisiecki Stratford Summer Music |
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| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, ON, 25 St Andrew Street, Ontario, Stratford N5A 1A2, Canada Saturday 10-Aug-13 11:15am Jan Lisiecki All 3 Recitals for $89 by calling 519.271.2101 or toll-free 1.866.288.4313 Jan Lisiecki presents three unique concerts developed from his personal exploration of the music of Frédéric Chopin and, in particular, his recording the 24 glorious Chopin Études as his recently released Deutsche Grammophon CD, a disc which Jan will be pleased to autograph at the conclusion of each concert. Over the three days we will hear the complete 24 Études. Each day, Jan will discuss how a composer’s creativity - in this case the 24 Études of Opus 10 and Opus 12 – inspires and, in turn, leads a performer to his own interpretations of the music. By speaking to, and demonstrating, various analyses and readings of the music...culminating in the choices and approaches he has concluded for his recording...this outstanding young pianist will provide a very personal insight into how he feels the music and how the journey he takes upon himself becomes an experience for us, his audiences and his listeners. The Chopin Études are among the most celebrated musical works ever created. Like most “new” music that lives beyond its early years and premiere performances, these Études were controversial when they were first played; their most severe critics even labelled them radical and revolutionary. The technical challenges and the keyboard mastery that they demand of any pianist, along with the beauty of the music itself, have made them audience favourites. Image credit: V.Tony Hauser | ||
| Saturday 10-Aug-13 12:30pm |
MusicBarge, Stratford, ON Sultans of String Stratford Summer Music |
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| MusicBarge, Stratford, ON, Stratford, ON, Canada Saturday 10-Aug-13 12:30pm Sultans of String 2010 JUNO Award nominees and “Canada’s ambassadors of musical diversity” Sultans of String thrill their audiences with their global sonic tapestry of Spanish Flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban rhythms, and French Manouche Gypsy-jazz, celebrating musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar while a funk bass lays down unstoppable grooves. Acoustic strings meet with electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound, while world rhythms excite audiences to their feet with the irresistible need to dance.Price type: Free | ||
