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www.festivalofthesound.ca 1
Specializing In: Fresh Fish, Seafood, Steak, Ribs, Pasta &
Music: has the power & ability to transcend time & boundaries. It can unite & change people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Whether it uses any language or none at all. It’s very essence can
reach in & speak directly to a person’s soul, like nothing else can or ever could in our world, since the dawn of time and music itself.
For 32 years the Festival of the Sound has provided these rare & unique opportunities for everyone to experience & enjoy all this. We here at the Bay Street Café are pleased to offer you our continued
support, encouragement & congratulations as you provide the quality & variety of music you have become so famously renowned for.
Open Daily from 11 AM
22 Bay Street, Parry Sound, ON P2A 1S5Tel: 705-746-2882 / Fax: 705-746-5205
Anonymous (16)Bob & Katharine AndersonAubie & Esther-Rose AngelJean & Cec BaxterSuzanne & Ross BeauchampMary Louise & Dennis BeecroftKathy BeersDavid BirdBetty BirminghamFred BoughenEllen BradeyIivi CampbellMarjorie CampbellElizabeth CawleyJames ChestnuttGrace & Bill ChisholmRobert J. CleggCharles & Joy CohenRosemary A. CollinsBrian & Elizabeth CooneyRon & Shirley CornfieldNancy CunninghamKen DennisMaida de SteinMr. & Mrs. H. DickfeldJim & Allison DingleBaris DortokGreig DunnWendy & Elliott EisenShirley M. Awrey FarynaJohn & Margaret FlynnBernice GatesSherry GerstlJane Kennedy & Joseph GillNicole & Ken GoodwinReg GorczynskiPatricia GraingerPaul & Ruth GrayMarylou & Fred GregorisEd & Margaret GriffithKerri Mutrie & Roy HardieBarbara HayesPhilip & Moira HeywoodMary HorneyPeter HurlbutDon & Ruth InkpenJessie Iseler
Jean JacksonKaren & Tim JohnsonReg & Lorraine JordanDon & Evelyn KiddDonny KirbyMary Ellen KirkLouise KotSally & Jakub LabathGail & Gordon LangeNancy & Terry LeeCharlie Sise & Linda LitwackEsther LitzEleanor MacMillanBeatrice MagderRobert MasihTanis & Jim MathersDr. Kathleen McCroneLynn & Joe McEwenMargaret E. McKelveyJulia E. McLaughlinDonald & Nan McPhunDr Z.R. & Lilli MechGind & Arlene MedinaLea & Syd MoscoeEleanor MurchCarole & Jim NobleMarie & Stewart OickleMarilyn OneschukDavid & Molly PeltonPeggy PinkertonJune PinkneyLinda Lou & John PinningtonRichard & Patricia PooleHerbert C. RatzErnie & Nancy RegehrDavid & Thelma RosnerJane & David RossIla SandwellFred & Brenda SaundersFred SchaefferRachel & Jerry SchneidermanHenry & Molly Ann SchwarczDorothy ShaverJonathan & Brenda ShawGunild SpiessJeffrey Stokes
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Richard SmallOlaug & David SmithBeverly StagerDavid TovellMargaret TullochMargaret TurnerMary VariIlse von FehrentheilJohn & Gloria WaringBob & Elda WattsSilvia WeylieStephanie WhittickJohn & Janet WickensMarie WileyJ. Christopher WilsonElspeth WoodPearl & Len Yauk
années des pèlerinage, year two : italy Franz Liszt
Sposalizio (1811 - 1886)
Ilpensieroso
CanozonettadelSalvatorRosa
Sonetto47delPetrarca
Sonetto104delPetrarca
Sonetto123delPetrarca
AprèsunelecturedeDante:Fantasiaquasisonata
Sunday 17.7.2011 2:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
Conversations with Keith
keith horner, host; andré laplante, piano
Franz Liszt: saint or sinner? Keith Horner and André Laplante share thoughts
on a still controversial composer, born exactly 200 years ago.
Sunday 17.7.2011 3:45 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
Conversations with Keith
keith horner, host; alex seredenko, piano
Keith profiles 22-year-old Toronto pianist and RBC Stockey Young Artist Alex
Seredenko – in conversation and in performance.
Sunday 17.7.2011 6:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
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Music for a Summer Evening
cecilia string Quartet (RBC Stockey Young Artist); afiara string Quartet;
alex seredenko, piano (RBC Stockey Young Artist)
string Quartet no. 14 in g Major, k.387 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegrovivaceassai (1756 - 1791)
Menuetto
Andantecantabile,inCmajor
Moltoallegro
Piano sonata no. 2 in B-flat minor, op. 36 Sergei Rachmaninoff
Allegroagitato (1873 - 1943)
Nonallegro
Allegromolto
INTERMISSION
octet in e-flat Major, op. 20 Felix Mendelssohn
Allegromoderatomaconfuoco (1809 - 1847)
Andante
Scherzo
Presto
Charles Stockey, our generous benefactor, loved young musicians and often expressed the hope that many of them would have the opportunity to perform in the wonderful hall that he helped to build. The RBC Stockey Young Artists from 2010 and 2011 come together this evening for this concert in his memory.
Sunday 17.7.2011 7:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
Tuesday 19.7.2011 7:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
Music for a Summer Evening
toronto Mendelssohn choir; noel edison, conductor;
Matthew otto, associate conductor; James Bourne, piano
requiem Maurice Duruflé
Introit
Kyrie
requiem Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Hostias
Lacrimosa
Mass in c minor W.A. Mozart
Credo
elijah Felix Mendelssohn
He,WatchingOverIsrael
AndThenShallYourLightBreakForth
requiem Johannes Brahms
Wielieblichsind
carmina Burana Carl Orff
OFortuna
INTERMISSION
habanera (from carmen) Georges Bizet
voyagers’ chorus (from idomeneo) W.A. Mozart
anvil chorus (from il trovatore) Giuseppe Verdi
chorus of the hebrew slaves (from nabucco) G. Verdi
Bridal chorus (from lohengrin) Richard Wagner
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wHy MaHLer?How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our Worldby NoRMaN LebRechT
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Thursday 21.7.2011 12:00 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
James campbell, clarinet; winston choi, piano; Moshe hammer, violin;
James Mason, oboe
italian serenade Hugo Wolf
(1860 - 1903)
oboe concerto in e-flat Major Vincenzo Bellini
(1801 - 1835)
suite italienne for violin & piano Igor Stravinsky
Introduzione (1882 - 1971)
Serenata
Tarantella
Gavottaconduevariazioni
Minuetto
Finale
tarantelle in a minor, op. 6 Camille Saint Saëns
(1835 - 1921)
chrysanthemums Giacomo Puccini
(1858 - 1924)
tarantella* Gene DiNovi
*Worldpremiere (b. 1928)
concert sPonsor
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Friday 22.7.2011 12:00 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre Friday 22.7.2011 2:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
Music for a Summer Afternoon
yehonatan Berick, violin
24 caprices for solo violin Niccolò PaganiniCapriceNo.1“TheArpeggio”inEmajor:Andante (1782 - 1840)CapriceNo.2inBminor:ModeratoCapriceNo.3inEminor:Sostenuto-Presto-SostenutoCapriceNo.4inCminor:MaestosoCapriceNo.5inAminor:AgitatoCapriceNo.6“TheTrill”inGminor:LentoCapriceNo.7inAminor:PosatoCapriceNo.8inE-flatMajor:MaestosoCapriceNo.9“TheHunt”inEMajor:AllegrettoCapriceNo.10inGminor:VivaceCapriceNo.11inCMajor:Andante-Presto-AndanteCapriceNo.12inA-flatMajor:AllegroCapriceNo.13“Devil’sLaugher”inB-flatMajor:AllegroCapriceNo.14inE-flatMajor:ModeratoCapriceNo.15inEminor:PosatoCapriceNo.16inGminor:PrestoCapriceNo.17inE-flatMajor:Sostenuto-AndanteCapriceNo.18inCMajor:Corrente-AllegroCapriceNo.19inE-flatMajor:Lento-AllegroassaiCapriceNo.20inDMajor:AllegrettoCapriceNo.21inAMajor:Amoroso-PrestoCapriceNo.22inFMajor:MarcatoCapriceNo.23inE-flatMajor:PosatoCapriceNo.24inAminor:TemaconVariazioni(Quasipresto)
Friday 22.7.2011 6:00 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
Rian de Waal plays Schubert
Long time festival friend Rian de Waal passed away on May 25, 2011.
The Festival invites you to share Rian’s last musical statement, a wonderful
recording of Schubert’s great Sonata in B-flat, as we remember his artistry and
friendship.
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Saturday 06.8.2011 7:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
Music for a Summer Evening
elmer iseler singers; leslie fagan, soprano; ryan harper, tenor;
Bruce kelly, baritone; andrea ludwig, mezzo-soprano;
festival chamber orchestra; lydia adams, conductor
requiem Eleanor Daley
(b. 1955)
INTERMISSION
requiem Mass in d minor, k.626 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I.Introitus:Requiemaeternam (1756 - 1791)
II.Kyrieeleison
III.Sequentia
Diesirae
Tubamirum
Rextremendaemajestatis
Recordare,Jesupie
Confutatismaledictis
Lacrimosadiesilla
IV.Offertorium
DomineJesuChriste
Versus:Hostiasetpreces
V.Sanctus
SanctusDominusDeusSabaoth
Benedictus
VI.AgnusDei
VII.Communio
Luxaeterna
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Sunday 07.8.2011 2:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre
A Lighter Shade of Brass
hannaford street silver Band; alain trudel, principal guest conductor;
James campbell, clarinet
o canada C. Lavallee / arr. Cable
seize the day Peter Graham
life eternal Marcus Venables
RobertVenables,CornetSoloist
classics in BrassCanzonaTrigesmaquinta T. Massaino
JesuJoyofMan’sDesiring J.S. Bach
TrumpetVoluntary J. Clarke
symphony of thanksgiving Dean Goffin
INTERMISSION
on the Quarterdeck Kenneth Alford
georgian Bay reflections; Howard Cable
Inspired by The Paintings of Doris McCarthy
LittleRockReflected
TheHighPlace
GeorgianBay
shall we gather Trad. / arr. Ballantine
trios in BrassRollercoaster
MapleLeafRag
Trombola
gaelforce Peter Graham
sing, sing, sing Louis Prima
concert sPonsor
township of the archipelago
Rich in history, piano duo Anagnoson & Kinton are entering a remarkable fourth decade of performing. As The Ottawa Citizen noted: “Anagnoson and Kinton’s playing is everything that duo-piano playing should be.” This duo has enchanted audiences throughout North America, Europe, China and Russia. In addi-tion to performing with major Canadian orchestras, their nine CD titles include works for two pianos, two pianos with orchestra, and one piano-four hands. In 2006, a compilation CD titled ‘Stages’ celebrating their milestone 30th season was launched. James Anagnoson is Dean of The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School. Leslie Kinton is on the faculties of The Glenn Gould School and the University of Western Ontario.
The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet offers performances of “startling intensity” with a “powerful, keen-edged collec-tive sound.” Winners of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the Young Canadian Musicians Award, top prizes at the Munich ARD International Music Competition and the Banff International String Quartet Competition, where they also took the Szekely Prize for the best performance of Beethoven, the Afiara balances a lively interest in new works with deep insight into core classical repertoire. In the 2010/11 season, the Afiara String Quartet performs throughout North America and internationally. They make a studio recording at the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, and return to the Glenn Gould School at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music as Visiting-Quartet-in-Residence.
Julie Baumgartel has studied at Indiana University, the Freiburg Conservatory and the University of Toronto and has performed with Tafelmusik, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Orchestre des Champs Élysées across Europe, North America and Asia. She has been featured in numerous CBC radio broadcasts, was a member of Modern Quartet, and founded the “Festival Within a Festival” chamber music concert series at the Elora Festival. She has appeared on various chamber music series in southern Ontario including Sunday Afternoons at Rodman Hall and Baroque Music Beside the Grange. In 2003 she was appointed conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Orchestra Sinfonia. With her hus-band, oboist James Mason, she founded the Grand River Baroque Festival.
festival of the sound Musician BiograPhies
To view the musician’s full biographies and learn more about them please go to the Festival Musician page on our website.
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David Bourque has played clarinet and bass clarinet in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 1983. Prior to his appoint-ment to the TSO clarinet section, David played in the orchestras of the Stratford Festival, the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada. He plays regularly in the finest chamber music festivals in the world, Festival of the Sound and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. David is considered one of the finest bass clarinettists in North America and is Canada’s lead-ing bassethorn player.
Born into a musical Romani (Gypsy) family in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, the mainly self-taught Robi Botos began his musical career when he was just a child, playing drums, and percussion with his father and two brothers. It was at age seven when Robi first took up piano, the instrument he has since mastered and with which he has made his mark. Robi’s notable performances include: Concert at the Long Beach Entertainment Centre, open-ing concert for Bela Fleck, Stanley Clark, and Jean Luc Ponty, at the 2005 International Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival. As well Robi opened for Oscar Peterson at the prestigious Stravinsky hall in Montreaux Switzerland. Since immigrating to Canada in 1998, Robi has made great contributions to Canada’s jazz scene. He has been featured with many local and international greats.
Chris Bezant was born in Thornhill, Ontario. Though immersed in music throughout his life, he found his true calling when he first heard the great Django Reinhardt. He has performed through-out Canada and Europe, and has had the privilege of connecting with masters of the style throughout the world during his travels. Currently, Chris lives in Toronto as a performer and composer. He leads a swing band named the Hot Club of South-East Central, and is a member of Safety In Numbers.
A prizewinner at the 1993 Naumburg competition and a recipient of the 1996-97 Prix Opus, Yehonatan Berick is in high demand internationally as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician (on violin as well as on viola) and pedagogue. His busy concert schedule has already taken him throughout North America, Europe and Israel. Previously teaching at McGill University and the Eastman School of Music, Yehonatan Berick is currently Professor of Violin at the School of Music at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Yehonatan Berick currently plays on a violin by Honoré Derazy Pere from 1852, and a viola by Stanley Kiernoziak from 2003.
In 1999, young virtuosos from different cultures gathered around a musical score for their fondness for chamber music. The spe-cific sonority of the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, as well as an extremely profound stylistic research is the result of this union. Indeed, this group brings together six nationalities, each individual bringing their own country’s cultural sensitivity, forging a fabulous covenant between Asian discipline and European fantasy. The Brussels Chamber Orchestra has been graciously honoured with a residency at the prestigious institute of the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels.
Thrilling, manic, glorious, superbly sung and malevolently acted, rich, powerful, elegant, soft-grained, and spine-tingling are but a few of the epithets the media have used to describe Canadian opera sensation Russell Braun. In concert, opera and recital, the international stages of the world are his - whether it be the Metropolitan Opera in New York, l’Opéra de Paris, the State Opera in Vienna, the Lyric Opera in Chicago, the Los Angeles Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Salzburg or the Glyndebourne Festival. His powerful voice and commanding presence have given vigour to such roles as Billy Budd, Prince Andrei, Figaro, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Don Giovanni, Pelléas, and Eugene Onegin.
Macha Belooussova started her music studies in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, Russia. She then studied with Vladimir Tropp at The Gnessine Institute in Moscow where she obtained the Artist Diploma in 1991. She went to Paris to study with Christian Ivaldi at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP) while working as a concert artist. Macha Belooussova now teaches chamber music at the CNSMDP. As the permanent pianist with the French ensemble ‘Musique Oblique’, she recorded a CD of the music of Franck and Chausson and one with the music of Ravel. She travels around the world and has played in Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw.
James Campbell has been Artistic Director of the Festival of the Sound since 1985 and has programmed approximately 1250 fes-tival concerts, many heard nationally on CBC radio. He has taken the Festival to London, the USA, Japan, and Holland. Under his direction features on the festival have appeared on BBC Radio and Television, CBC Radio and Television, and TVOntario. During the winter months Jim concertizes throughout the world and teaches an international class of young clarinetists at the world famous Jacob School of Music at Indiana University, where he is Professor of Music. Much of his part of the planning needed to mount the festival takes place aboard airplanes and in airports. He has appeared in over 25 countries and has performed with over 60 orchestras.
The Toronto based Climax Jazz Band, formed in 1971, is known throughout North America, Europe and Japan for tight, driving, British style traditional jazz. Climax has appeared at festivals and clubs across North America, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. The band has toured the Netherlands, U.K. and Germany, cruised up the Amazon, around the Caribbean, the Mexican Riviera, Hawaii and through the Panama Canal. Climax also visited Kyoto, Japan, twice, as guests of the Shinji Shumeikai cultural organization. Climax Jazz Band is known for its wide variety of tunes, with lots of vocals. They are musicians who play straight from the heart and with a great sense of humour.
Terry Clarke got his first drum set on his 12th birthday and stud-ied for five years with Jim Blackley. In 1965, he moved to San Francisco and worked with John Handy III for the next 2 ½ years, during which time the award-winning recording, “Live at Monterey Jazz Festival” was made. Clarke then joined the pop vocal group, The Fifth Dimension, until 1970 when he re-located to Toronto, playing jazz in all styles in Toronto-studio scenes, television shows, jingles. For 25 years Terry Clarke has recorded and toured with Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass big band. Since 1985 he has pur-sued an exclusively jazz career, working and recording with Ed Bickert, Doc Cheatham, Gene DiNovi, Buddy Tate and The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra among many others.
Laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition and winner of France’s 2002 Concours International de Piano 20e siè-cle d’Orléans, Canadian pianist Winston Choi is an inquisitive performer whose fresh approach to standard repertory, and mas-terful understanding, performance and commitment to works by living composers, make him one of today’s most dynamic young concert artists. Choi has performed in recital and with orchestras across 4 continents. Choi’s debut CD, the complete piano works of Elliott Carter was given 5 stars by BBC Music Magazine. He has also recorded 2 CDs of the piano music of Jacques Lenot, hav-ing won the Grand Prix du Disque from l’Académie Charles Cros for Volume I. Choi is Assistant Professor and Head of Piano at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts.
First prize-winners of the 2010 Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC), Canada’s Cecilia String Quartet have quickly attracted the attention of the chamber world at home and internationally. Praised for their “extraordinary commitment and maturity” (Gazette) and “‘talent, passion and mastery” (Jacques Robert, JR Multimedia), this young quartet is one of Canada’s most exciting young ensembles today. They are currently the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School.
The recipient of several prizes and awards, among which at the Geneva, Paris, Toulouse and Bilbao international competitions, the Voix d’Or Prize (France), and the Mozart Prize of the Canadian Opera Company, Sharon Coste-Poras has sung on numer-ous European and North American opera stages. Recognised for her Mozart heroines – she also sings several leading French, Italian and Russian roles. Sharon Coste-Poras appeared with the Orchestre National de Paris, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de la Sorbonne, with a vast repertoire. A graduate of the University of Alberta, Sharon Coste-Poras was a member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble.
Gene DiNovi was born in Brooklyn and grew up in New York City. At the age of 16, he was asked by Dizzy Gillespie to sit in with his band. Over the years, he has been pianist and arranger for Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich and recorded with Artie Shaw. In the early 1970’s, Gene DiNovi decided to settle in Toronto and has developed a large audience through the CBC’s radio and television networks. In 1990, he returned to his jazz roots with an opportunity to play at the Ontario Pavilion at Expo 1990 in Osaka, Japan. Gene DiNovi’s work Alice in the Orchestra premiered at the 2002 Festival of the Sound and was translated into Dutch for performance in Holland.
Graham Campbell is a versatile guitarist who earned his degree in Music at Toronto’s Humber College after studying with jazz great David Baker in his hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. He has per-formed throughout North America and toured Nunavut and Chile. He has been a featured performer at the Festival of the Sound and The Bay Chamber Summer Festival in Rockport, Maine. Graham Campbell’s composition “Tune for Andy” was featured in the DVD release of a Robert Altman film, California Split. Gene DiNovi, whose playing he has heard since early childhood, is one of his major musical influences and a continuing source of inspiration and guidance.
Mark duBois is universally acclaimed for his outstanding lyric-tenor voice, its exceptional clarity and tonal purity, and his artistry and musicianship in performance. He has performed with every major orchestra in his native Canada and with several in the U.S.A. In 2004, he completed a concert tour of the new Oratorio Terezin by Ruth Fazal, performed in the prestigious venues of Reduta Hall, Bratislava, Vienna Konzerthaus, and Smetana Hall, Prague to great audience acclaim. His appearances at numerous music festivals have included such prestigious names as Ravinia, Tanglewood and Wigmore Hall. Mark DuBois is featured on several commercial recordings including a solo recording Chansons d’amore (nominat-ed for a Juno) with pianist Gloria Saarinen and The Music Within, a compilation of favourites from operetta, broadway and song.
Guy Few is a virtuoso, in demand as a trumpeter, cornist, pianist and singer. Equally at home in classical or contemporary genres, he has debuted new works by Canadian composers including Glen Buhr, Peter Hatch, Alain Trudel, Boyd McDonald and Jacques Hétu among others. He has been a professor, adjudicator, soloist, prin-cipal and recitalist at hundreds of festivals including the Festival of the Sound, Scotiafest, The Orford Festival, The Ottawa Chamber Festival, The Elora Festival, Tanglewood, Takefu International Music Festival and The Oregon Bach Festival. He performs and records on a regular basis with Bellows and Brass, Nadina Mackie Jackson (bassoon), and Stephanie Mara (piano).
The Festival Winds for many years have been a resident ensemble of the Festival of the Sound. Festival Winds are a Harmoniemusik ensemble consisting of pairs of oboes, clarinets, horns and bassoons with a double bass. They regularly have guests join to fill out the Winds as the instrumentation requires. A woodwind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn) is also a core ensemble of the Festival.
Leslie Fagan’s exceptional artistry and talent continue to gar-ner much attention. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she studied with Madame Irene Jessner and Lois Marshall. Prior to entering university Leslie Fagan studied privately with Catherine Robbin and Greta Kraus. The 2007-2008 season marked Ms. Fagan’s official Carnegie Hall debut and her Lincoln Center debut. She was invited by both the Oratorio Society of New York and Music Sacra to sing their performances of Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall. On the opera stage, Leslie Fagan has sung the title role in Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Sophie in Massenet’s Werther, Musetta in Verdi’s La Bohème and Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff.
Based in Toronto, the Elmer Iseler Singers is considered to be Canada’s foremost professional chamber choir with an enviable international reputation since its debut performance in 1979. Now conducted by Dr. Lydia Adams, the group was founded by and nurtured under the direction of the late Dr. Elmer Iseler, the “Dean of Canadian Choral Conductors.” The Elmer Iseler Singers organi-zation is celebrating its 32nd season in 2010-2011. This 20-voice, fully professional choir has performed throughout Canada and the United States as well as internationally. With repertoire that spans 500 years of choral music, the Elmer Iseler Singers are known for their beauty of tone and wide interpretive range.
Having impressed international audiences and the press with their highly refined, dynamic performances, the Gryphon Trio has firm-ly established itself as one of the world’s preeminent piano trios. With a repertoire that ranges from the traditional to the contempo-rary and from European classicism to modern-day multimedia, the Gryphons are committed to redefining chamber music for the 21st century. Gryphon cellist Roman Borys is entering his fourth sea-son as Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Chamber Music Society, where the Gryphons have been a mainstay since the Festival’s inception in 1994. Annalee Patipatanakoon and Jamie Parker serve as the OICMS’s Artistic Advisors.
Mark Fewer’s most recent appointment is to the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, where he teaches violin, cham-ber music, and string improvisation. He is Artistic Director of the SweetWater Music Weekend in Owen Sound, Ontario and is a reg-ular member of the Duke Trio and the SuperNova String Quartet. His recent projects include the jazz-hybrid show Lotusland and performances of the complete cycle of Bach sonatas and partitas. Growing up in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where his father was a famous local singer and entertainer, he played the piano at age 4, the violin at 6, and the saxophone at 10. After deciding to focus on the violin, he studied in Toronto, London, England and Budapest, Hungary. His major teachers were David Zafer, Jose-Luis Garcia and Ferenc Rados.
Duo Concertante has worked together since 1997, develop-ing the exceptionally unified voice that has repeatedly impressed audiences worldwide. Duo Concertante have consistently revealed their passion for new music, commissioning a total of fourteen new works for violin and piano from many of Canada’s leading com-posers. Duo Concertante maintains a busy touring schedule, with frequent performances across North America, as well as in Europe and China. Based at Memorial University in St. John’s, Dahn and Steeves are energetic, experienced teachers who have given hun-dreds of master classes and workshops across Canada, in the US, and in China. Their commitment to working with young musicians gave rise to the annual Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival, which they founded in 2000.
Adam György was accepted to the Béla Bartók Conservatory as a prodigy at the age of 12. He flourished under the tutelage of Katalin Halmagyi who continues to be his mentor. He was accepted at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2000 and studied under Professors György Nador and Balazs Reti. He graduated in 2006 and is currently doing his doctoral studies at the Liszt Academy. In 2002 Adam György won the Vienna Classics Prize, in 2003 the Special Prize at the San Remo International Piano Competition, and in 2004 all prizes at the First International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest. In 2005 Adam was invited to the Steinway Artist community, a signal honour that places him in the company of the greatest pianists of all time, including Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Krystian Zimmerman.
Cynthia Hiebert has performed both traditional and contempo-rary harpsichord works in Canada, the United States and England. She studied with Colin Tilney and Arthur Haas, and as a recipient of the Gelber Fellowship, completed a doctorate in harpsichord per-formance at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She now teaches harpsichord at Wilfrid Laurier University and piano at the Beckett School of the Arts. In addition to work as a soloist, she has collaborated with numerous ensembles including New York Baroque, the Penderecki String Quartet, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and the Nota Bene Period Orchestra. Notable solo projects include a performance of Gyorgy Ligeti’s Hungarian Rock for the David Earle Dance Company and Numus, and a recording of Peter Hatch’s ‘In a Vernacular Way.’
Ryan Harper earned his undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Toronto where he studied with Dr. Darryl Edwards. After completing his Bachelor’s degree he attended the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. In 2005, Ryan began working towards his Masters degree under the tutelage of tenor Stanford Olsen at Florida State University. The 2010/2011 season sees Ryan with role and company debuts such as Georges Brown in Boieldieu’s, La dame blanche, for Toronto’s Opera In Concert, and as Frederick in Toronto Operetta Theatre’s production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, The Pirates of Penzance.
Andrea Hansen retired as a full time violinist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1999. Prior to her classical career, she enjoyed a long and memorable entertainment career, working with performers like Glenn Gould, Arthur Godfrey and Guy Lombardo. In 1987 the Toronto Symphony took their Canadian Odyssey tour to the Western Arctic. Following this, Andrea Hansen co-founded Strings Across the Sky, a not-for-profit association destined to inspire a passion for learning through the art of fiddling. Strings Across the Sky returns to the Arctic communities three times a year, inspiring new musicians. Andrea Hansen has received The Order of Canada, the Golden Jubilee Medal and The Order of Ontario.
Since 1983, The Hannaford Street Silver Band (HSSB), has been striking up the brass band tradition and stirring up critical and popular acclaim. The HSSB is recognized as Canada’s award win-ning premier professional brass band and is a Resident Company of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. The HSSB has been regularly featured at such events as Festival of the Sound, Westben Summer Music Festival and The Huntsville Festival of the Arts. Recent guest conductors include Bramwell Tovey, Gary Kulesha, Lydia Adams, Richard Bradshaw, Robert Cooper, Howard Cable, James Cumow, Elmer Iseler, Susan Haig, and Elgar Howarth. In recognition of its accomplishments, in November of 2003, the HSSB was awarded its second Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Arts by the Province of Ontario.
Brian James was raised in Washington, D.C. In 2005 he became a member of Symphony Nova Scotia. He has performed regularly as Principal Oboe with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Opera Lyra Ottawa and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony and the Canadian Opera Company. Brian teaches oboe at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia Canada. He is also a member of the Festival Winds from Parry Sound and the Toronto Chamber Orchestra. Brian received his degrees in music perform-ance from Florida State University and Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters, Mallory and Elora.
Keith Horner is a long-time festival regular and returns to inter-view festival musicians for a fourth season. He shares his love and knowledge of classical music by writing program notes and giving pre-concert chats. He started writing as a freelance music critic with the London Times and the Daily Telegraph and as a contribu-tor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Keith began his radio career as a music producer for the BBC in London and was Executive Producer and Host for CBC Radio for many years, winning the Special Prize at the Prix Italia, the Prix Bohemia and other awards. He continues to enjoy producing CDs with musicians and, from time to time, the Juno Award people have shared his enjoyment. “Music has been a constant companion throughout my life,” he says. “And we’re still the best of friends.”
World-renowned violinist and teacher, Moshe hammer, has seen the scars of war and violence and the power of music to heal them. Born in the ruins of Budapest, Hungary after World War II, Moshe and his family traveled to the new country of Israel as refugees. There, as Israel was struggling to build itself in a troubled region of the world, young Moshe established himself as an award-winning musician. Moshe has performed around the world as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. A naturalized Canadian living in Toronto, Moshe was founder of The Amadeus Ensemble and taught violin at York University. Moshe launched The Hammer Band - From Violence to Violins in 2006 after the ‘summer of the gun’ in Toronto. “When I teach kids music and violins, I get them away from violence.” It’s that simple.”
Cellist Marc Johnson, after study at the Eastman School, con-tinued at Indiana University with Janos Starker and Josef Gingold. The youngest member of the Rochester Philharmonic at age eight-een, he later joined the Pittsburgh Symphony. Then, for thirty-five years as cellist of the renowned Vermeer Quartet, he appeared regularly in the world’s musical capitals on five continents, and made extensive tours yearly on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been active in the commissioning of new works for both cello and string quartet, and has recorded for CRI Records. With pian-ist Katherine Johnson, he co-directs Bay Chamber Concerts, the Next Generation, free seminars for Maine students. He is professor of cello at Boston University and plays an instrument by Francesco Stradivarius, c. 1730.
Stéphane Lemelin performs regularly across Canada, as well as in the United States, Europe and Asia. A frequent guest of major summer festivals, he has appeared as soloist with many of Canada’s principal orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit. Mr. Lemelin’s concerts are frequently heard on CBC and his recordings have been broadcast internationally. A pianist with a broad repertoire ranging from the Classical period to the twentieth century and encompassing a wide spectrum from lieder to the Romantic concerto, his performances of Schubert, Schumann, Fauré and Ravel have garnered enthusiastic praise. He is a member of Trio Hochelaga, with violinist Anne Robert and cellist Paul Marleyn. He is also the artistic director of the Prince Edward County Music Festival, in Picton, Ontario.
Canadian pianist André Laplante has firmly established him-self as one of the great romantic virtuosos, garnering interna-tional attention after winning prizes at the Geneva and Sydney International Piano Competitions, then capturing the silver medal at the International Tchaïkovsky Competition in Moscow. In 2005, Mr. Laplante was honoured to be named an Officer of the Order of Canada. His performance of Jacques Hétu’s Piano Concerto No. 2 for CBC Records won the 2004 Juno award for orches-tral recordings, as well as the Western Canadian Music Award. In recent years, Laplante has appeared as orchestral soloist with the Montreal and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center and with the Royal Philharmonic under the baton of the late Sir Yehudi Menuhin during their extensive North American tour.
In 2011 the Lafayette String Quartet celebrates its 25th anni-versary season and its 20th year as Artists-in-Residence at the University of Victoria’s School of Music. These dynamic women (Ann Elliott-Goldschmid, violin; Sharon Stanis, violin; Joanna Hood, viola: Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello) have inspired audi-ences and performed to critical acclaim throughout North America and Europe since 1986. The Lafayette is the only all-female ensemble in the world to comprise the four original members after twenty-five years - a distinct rarity, regardless of gender and regardless of profession.
Baritone Bruce Kelly’s career has taken him to many of the important opera houses and concert halls of Europe and his native Canada. He has appeared in Nice, Strasbourg, Lieges, Avignon and Moscow in a variety of leading roles. In Canada Mr. Kelly has appeared as guest soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony, Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Thunder Bay Symphony, Kingston Symphony, Newfoundland Symphony and Niagara Symphony. In 2009-2010, Mr. Kelly made his role debut as Germont in La Traviata for Pacific Opera Victoria, sang Walton in I Puritani for Opera in Concert and Opera Galas for the Kingston Symphony and Festival of the Sound.
Ken MacDonald, a native of Vancouver, BC, joined the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as Associate Principal Horn in 2001. Since 1997 he has also been Principal Horn of the Hamilton Philharmonic. Along with positions with Symphony Nova Scotia and the Vancouver Opera, he has also performed regularly with the Vancouver Symphony, the Canadian Opera Company, and many other ensembles in the Toronto and Vancouver areas. His cham-ber and solo appearances in festivals across Canada have been featured on CBC Radio and have earned him praise as a “master French hornist” with “an expressive, clean, and beautiful sound”. He is on the faculty of the University of Manitoba and a member of Metalmorphosis Brass Quintet. In April of this year, he was appointed to the position of Dad, with the birth of his son Matthew.
The Canadian mezzo-soprano, Andrea Ludwig, is a Canadian Opera Company Ensemble graduate who has appeared with them as Moira in Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale, following perform-ances as the First witch/Spirit in Dido and Aeneas, Liesgen in J.S. Bach’s The Coffee Cantata and the Second Niece in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes. She made her company debut in the 2001-2002 season as Nireno in Sartorio’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto and went on to sing Nireno in Julius Ceasar, Delia in Il viaggio a Reims, and Flora in The Turn of the Screw. Andrea Ludwig’s many concert appearances have included Mozart’s Mass in C Minor as well as G.F. Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Copland’s In the Beginning with the Amadeus Choir and Mozart’s Requiem with The Elmer Iseler Singers.
A charismatic performer and outstanding musician, Beverley Johnston is internationally recognized for her virtuosic perform-ances on a wide range of percussion instruments. Her perform-ances and recordings have been broadcast on radio networks all over the world. She has been nominated for a GEMINI award and invited to perform at the Stockholm International Percussion Event, which included many of the world’s finest percussionists. Other guest solo appearances included the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Scotia Festival of Music and the Vancouver New Music Society. She currently lives in rural Ontario with her husband composer Christos Hatzis, where she has built a percussion studio that can finally fit all of her exotic instruments!
James Mason is one of Canada’s most prominent oboists. In his early teens Jim could throw a baseball really fast and got a tryout with the California Angels. They told him to grow a little bigger and throw a bit faster and to come back next year. He became ill and was quarantined from sports when his band director needed an oboe player. Jim gamely gave it a try and fell in love. Since 1981 many of his musical highlights have occurred here: the Mozart Gran Partita and the Concerto for Oboe and Violin with his wife Julie Baumgartel. Jim loves the camaraderie in the Festival Winds, the intensity needed to put together high level performances and the sense of family that defines the organization. James Mason, who is principal oboe with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, was recently named the Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty Mentor of the Year.
emma carina Meinrenken, born in June 1999, is a student of Atis Bankas. Ms. Meinrenken has won top awards in many festi-vals and competitions, including a first place at the 2009 Ontario Music Festival and first place at the 2009 and 2010 Canadian Music Competitions. In the 2010 Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival, she earned the highest marks among all participants in the strings section, placing first in grade 9 and grade 10 categories. She is a two-time winner of the Sid Oue Memorial Scholarship. In 2010, Ms Meinrenken was the featured soloist in the junior level concerts with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and gave a solo recital at the Music Niagara festival. Ms Meinrenken performs on a 1700 Joannes Tononi violin, generously on loan from George Heinl and Co.
James McKay maintains an active schedule as a bassoonist, conductor, acoustic researcher, university professor and adjudica-tor. He appears on over a dozen recordings with artists including James Campbell, James Sommerville, Anton Kuerti and Steven Staryk and with ensembles including the Festival Winds, the Amadeus Ensemble, and the Contemporary Chamber Players of Chicago. His book, The Bassoon Reed Manual, which details Lou Skinner’s theories and practise of bassoon reed making, was pub-lished by Indiana University Press in 2000. He has been the Music Director of Symphony Hamilton since 1994. Prof. McKay was the Chair of the Department of Music Performance Studies in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario.
Carol McCartney’s impeccable vocals and finely tuned musi-cianship have made her a favourite among musicians and audi-ences alike. Her current CD A Night in Tunisia showcases a star-studded band and has received critical acclaim. Ted O’Reilly wrote “[Carol McCartney is] sweet and swinging, warm, dramatic and rhythmically assured at all tempos. Carol can also be heard on Bob Brough’s recording of original songs Like a Spring Day, released in 2005. Carol has played most of the jazz festivals in and around the Toronto area and all the major jazz clubs. including regular sessions at the Rex Hotel with John MacLeod’s 20-piece big band. Recent symphonic performances include the Toronto, Vancouver, Nashville, Detroit, Omaha, San Antonio, Grand Rapids, Tacoma, Harrisburg, Orlando and Sarasota Symphonies.
William McArton studied at Mount Allison University and graduated with an honours degree in church music from Wilfrid Laurier University. He completed teacher training at University of Western Ontario and holds a Master’s degree in special education from University of Southern Queensland. He has held organist-choirmaster positions at Anglican churches in Kingston, Elora, Waterloo, London, Gravenhurst and Parry Sound and is currently Director of Music at St. James Centennial United Church in Parry Sound. He established the Parry Sound Choral Collective in 2005 with adult and children’s choirs, plays piano and pedal bass in Jazz Aspect, plays saxophone in the Parry Sound Community Band and teaches vocal and instrumental music at William Beatty School.
Twelve year old pianist from Parry Sound, Gordon Mok, has stud-ied piano for four years with Maia Vimboule at the Parry Sound School of Music. In 2009, Gordon received the Outstanding Performer’s Award at the Barrie Kiwanis Music Festival and the fol-lowing year was awarded second place at the Canadian Chinese Piano Competition in Toronto. In the spring of 2011, Gordon trav-elled to Rome, Italy, where he became the second place winner in his age category at the International Mozart Piano Competition.
Canadian cellist Rachel Mercer has demonstrated her love for sharing music through performance since she was three years old. Winner of the 2009 Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank Competition, Rachel was awarded the use of the 1696 Bonjour Stradivarius cello, until August 2012. As the grand prize winner of the 2001 Vriendenkrans Competition in Amsterdam, Rachel made her European debut in the Concertgebouw and has appeared as a soloist across Canada, in Europe, United States, the Balkans and Israel. A member of the award-winning Aviv String Quartet from 2002-2010, Rachel toured regularly on five continents. Currently based in Toronto, Rachel is cellist of Ensemble Made In Canada, Via Salzburg, the Mercer-Park Duo, and is Artistic Director of the “5 at the First” chamber series in Hamilton.
Canadian pianist Carolyn Maule is much in demand as a vocal accompanist. She has accompanied such renowned art-ists as Michael Schade, Monica Whicher, Patricia Racette, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Norine Burgess, Elizabeth Turnbull and Russell Braun. Ms. Maule has performed as accompanist in London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and Roy Thomson Hall, the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts and the St. Lawrence Centre, in Toronto. She has accompanied recitals in Salzburg, Barcelona, Hamburg, Chicago, Cleveland and New York, as well as at music festivals across Canada. Her recording of Schubert’s “Die Winterreise” with Russell Braun drew critical acclaim from around the world.
With its dynamic performing style, eloquent communication and beautiful sound the New Zealand String Quartet has forged a major career in the busy international chamber music field. Much-loved by audiences in New Zealand, the engaging musi-cians of that country’s premier chamber ensemble present over eighty concerts there and overseas each year. The New Zealand String Quartet has recently brought its interpretative skill to a major project to record all of Mendelssohn’s string quartets in a three volume CD set for Naxos. Dedicated teachers, the group has been Quartet-in-Residence at the New Zealand School of Music, since 1991. In North America they have been artist/teachers-in-residence at the Banff Center, Quartet Fest West, and the Quartet Programme at Bucknell in Pennsylvania.
The Quatuor Arthur-Leblanc is widely recognized as one of Canada’s finest string ensembles, recently making its debut at Carnegie Hall. As of September 2005, the QAL proudly assumed the role of quartet-in-residence at the Université Laval in Quebec City. In addition to their role as invited professors in the Laval string faculty, where they also teach chamber music, the QAL continues to pursue the highest levels of artistic excellence in its national and international appearances. Performing some 60 concerts a year, the quartet is frequently invited to play on Canada’s major concert stages and regularly tours abroad, including frequent appearances in Japan. The quartet has been warmly appreciated at numerous festivals including Ottawa, Festival of the Sound, Domaine Forget, Orford, Ravinia and Santander (Spain).
reg schwager is one of Canada’s leading jazz guitarists. His reputation has led to his performing with internationally acclaimed jazz artists and such celebrated Canadian jazz musicians as Diana Krall, Rob McConnell, Peter Appleyard, Oliver Jones, Dave Young and Don Thompson. Recent highlights include television, con-cert and club performances in the US, Japan and the Bahamas with master jazz pianist George Shearing. Reg has been active in establishing the RANT studio, and this has resulted in the release of two recordings of the Reg Schwager Trio, “Never Swim Alone” and “Know Your Zones”. His group has appeared across Canada in clubs and at jazz festivals from Halifax to Vancouver as well as in Europe, and has recorded “Resonance” for the Justintime label.
Virtuosic showpieces, romantic tenor arias, gypsy pyrotechniques and a World Accordion Champion – this is Quartetto Gelato; where music meets theatre and audiences are taken on an unfor-gettable musical journey! For over a decade, this dazzling ensem-ble has enchanted audiences and critics worldwide with their exotic blend of musical virtuosity, artistic passion, and charismatic anecdotes. Classical in training – eclectic by design – Quartetto Gelato not only thrills its audiences with its multi-instrument mas-tery, but also offers the bonus of a brilliant operatic tenor. With a performance repertoire that travels the globe including classical masterworks, operatic arias, the sizzling energy of tangos, gypsy and folk songs, the group’s theatrical stage presence and relaxed humor establish an intimate rapport with audiences worldwide.
Born in Toronto, Canada, Joel Quarrington began playing the double bass at the age of eleven and was trained in Toronto, Rome, Vienna and Prague. For over thirty years, he has served as the Principal Double Bassist of many ensembles, including the Canadian Opera Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. In 2009/2010 he had the honour of leading the bass section of the great London Symphony Orchestra in concerts conducted by Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas and Valery Gergiev. Joel Quarrington teaches at Montreal’s McGill University and each summer at the Orford Arts Centre. His latest solo recording, “Garden Scene”, won the 2010 Juno Award as the Best Classical Recording in the Solo/Chamber music category.
Gil Sharon began his musical studies in Bucharest, and in 1961 emigrated to Israel, where he continued his studies with Oedoen Partos at the Rubin Academy of Tel Aviv University. Sharon was one of the founders of the Israel Army String Quartet, which gave frequent concerts throughout Israel and received the David Award. In 1971 he won first prize in the International Emily Anderson Violin Competition in London. He is currently first concert-master of the Symphony Orchestra of Maastricht and has performed as soloist and recitalist in Europe, Israel, Canada, and the United States. He is the founder and leader of the Sharon Quartet and the Amati Ensemble, which has had its own chamber music series in Maastricht since 1995.
Pianist Alexander Seredenko is emerging as a leading voice in the next generation of Canadian young artists. His electrifying yet deeply expressive performances have been thrilling audiences in Canada, Europe, and Asia. Recital highlights include the Young Artist Series of Canada’s National Arts Centre and recitals at Music At Sharon and the Barrie Colours Of Music Festival. He recently won the Toronto Symphony National Piano Competition and per-formed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Maestro Peter Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thompson Hall in December of 2010. Alexander Seredenko is currently pur-suing his studies at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School under the tutelage of Dean James Anagnoson.
Approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, Penderecki String Quartet has become one of the most cel-ebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musi-cians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotion-al sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail). The Quartet’s performing schedule takes them annually to the great concert stages of North and South America, Europe and the Far East. The PSQ appears extensively in Canada, giving numerous performances in all the major centres from coast to coast and participating in this coun-try’s foremost concert series such as the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Festival of the Sound, Banff Centre’s Music and Sound, Festival Vancouver and Music Toronto.
Christian Sharpe has become one of Canada’s most respected bassoonists, at home in the concert hall and recording studio, in demand in orchestral and chamber music alike. Starting out his musical life as a jazz saxophonist, he made the switch to bas-soon while studying at Toronto’s York University. In recent years Christian has performed on bassoon and contrabassoon with the Toronto Symphony and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, substituted as principal bassoon with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, toured as principal bassoon with the National Ballet Orchestra, and per-formed and recorded chamber music on bassoon and saxophone with the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, the Festival Winds, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival.
Michel Strauss, one of the most accomplished cellists of his generation, studied in France with Paul Tortelier and in the United States with Aldo Parisot at Yale University. As a cello profes-sor at the Paris Conservatoire since 1987, he gave lessons and masterclasses to an entire generation of musicians in the United States, Asia and also in France. He has performed in most French Festivals as well as in many of the world’s top concert halls. He collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard for cinema and worked in musical theatre in Avignon. His eclectic vision of music and his natural charisma make him sought after as performer and teacher. Michel Strauss is musical director of the International Festival of Chamber Music in Giverny.
Jeffrey Stokes studied double bass and musicology at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. He sub-sequently took a PhD degree in musicology at the State University of New York in Buffalo. First appointed to the Faculty of Music of The University of Western Ontario in 1970, he became Director of Graduate Studies in Music in 1984 and served as Dean from 1986 to 2000. Current duties include both studio teaching, undergradu-ate lectures in music history, graduate seminars for performers and producing the Faculty’s flagship 12:30 Fridays concert series. He continues to perform and record as a chamber player and narrator-actor, and to lecture, give clinics, and adjudicate. He has served as a consultant to both the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council, and as a judge for the Juno Awards.
Jean Stilwell, hailed on three continents for her complex por-trayal of Carmen, is at the forefront of this generation’s mezzo sopranos. Since first assuming the role in Vancouver, Bizet’s fasci-nating gypsy has opened many doors for Ms. Stilwell and she has appeared with the Buxton Festival, New York City Opera, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Opera Zuid of Holland, Connecticut Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and all the opera companies of Canada. In June of 2007, Jean moved from the large concert hall at Roy Thomson Hall, into an intimate night club, The Senator, to open the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival’s Cabaret Series with another performance of Carmen UnZipped, with pianist Patti Loach. Jean is morning co-host with Mike Duncan on Toronto’s Classical 96.3FM radio station.
Neil Spaulding studied French horn with Scott Wilson, Wayne Jeffrey and Eugene Rittich at the University of Toronto and with Ifor James in Freiburg, Germany. Currently he holds the posi-tion of Second Horn with the Hamilton Philharmonic. He enjoys both chamber and new music and has appeared with the Music Toronto Chamber Series, Continuum, Array Music and the Esprit Orchestra. He has made numerous appearances at the Festival of the Sound as a member of the Festival Winds. He has enjoyed playing with many artists, including Brian Wilson, Ray Charles, Diana Krall, the rock band “YES”, Dionne Warwick and The Boss Brass. Neil has lectured at the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria and the National Youth Orchestra. He has taught at Queen’s University since 1997.
One of the most exciting bands around, the Toronto All-Star Big Band revives the spirit, style and sound of 1930’s and 40’s - that golden age of the big bands. Armed with brilliant programming, slick choreography and witty cultural nostalgia, this vibrant cast of awesome young talent has earned its position at the top of the list of presenters throughout Ontario and in the US. The Toronto All-Star Big Band provides one of the most intense and stimulating youth music programs in Canada. Behind their extraordinary enter-tainment, they engage cream-of-the-crop young musicians from across the GTA in a rigorous regime of rehearsals, workshops and a fantastic breadth of rich and skill-building performance experi-ences with international stars.
The Swingle Singers are an international a cappella phenom-enon. For over four decades, the unmistakable sound of “Swingle singing” has defined the art form: virtuosic vocal agility and blend demonstrated by their signature close-microphone technique, combined with high-level entertainment that has thrilled audiences around the globe. The latest lineup of young and talented voices represents the group’s transformation from pioneering classical/jazz crossover artists to contemporary vocal super-group. Their repertoire encompasses classical, jazz, Latin, pop and rock, all accompanied by their own vocal rhythm section. The Swingle Singers have performed all across the UK, America, Asia, and vir-tually every country in Europe, have released over 50 recordings, and have won five Grammy Awards.
Suzanne Shulman studied with Robert Aitken and in Europe with Marcel Moyse, Michel Debost and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In her interna-tional touring career, she gave solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall and in the Chopin Institute in Warsaw. She has appeared as soloist with Canadian and interna-tional orchestras and is a frequent guest at chamber music festivals. She has performed with the Orford String Quartet and with the late Glenn Gould, with whom she collaborated on a variety of recording projects. Suzanne Shulman has premiered works by Jean Coulthard, Christos Hatzis, Srul Irving Glick and Jacques Hétu and is the flute soloist on all the Classical Kids recordings. She is currently performing with Valerie Tryon, Festival Ensemble, Chamberworks, and Trio Lyra.
Toronto Masque Theatre was founded by artistic director Larry Beckwith in 2003 as a multi-disciplinary performing arts organiza-tion dedicated to the revival of music theatre works from the 16th to 18th centuries and the commissioning of new works in the spirit of the masque from Canadian creative artists. Since then, TMT has produced close to two dozen critically-acclaimed productions. Audiences and critics have praised TMT for the high standards of its shows and the warm and inclusive performing atmosphere.
Voice Afire Pocket Opera and Cabaret is the brainchild of composer Ray Luedeke, was founded in 1997. This young com-pany specializes in small ensemble concerts, suitable for chamber music venues. Voice Afire also creates music theatre concerts, suitable with or without scenery or special lighting. Voice Afire breaks through the “fourth wall” separating audience and per-former by its intimate nature and directly addressing the audience. Pocket Opera productions feature Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, an English language adaptation using two singers, one actor, and four instrumentalists, and I Confess, I Have Lived, an original pocket opera using as its text the sensual poetry of Pablo Neruda.
Kevin Turcotte is universally recognized as one of Canada’s major trumpet talents with an impressive list of recording and tour-ing credentials as a prominent player with the elite of Canadian jazz ensembles. He studied music at the prestigious Banff School of Fine Arts and later, at the University of Toronto. He is a first call favorite among many leaders, and has performed on over 75 recordings and in countless club and concert appearances. Kevin Turcotte is also a dedicated jazz educator, with lengthy teach-ing tenure at the University of Toronto and a long-time adjudica-tor for MusicFest Canada. Since 1993, he has been named Jazz Trumpeter of the Year by Jazz Report Magazine and the National Jazz Awards multiple times.
Valerie Tryon’s career as a concert pianist began while she was still a child. Before she was twelve she had broadcast for the BBC and was appearing regularly before the public on the concert plat-form. She was one of the youngest students ever to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Music where she received the highest award in piano playing and a bursary which took her to Paris for study with Jacques Février. Since then she has played in most of the major concert halls and appeared with many of the leading orchestras and conductors in Britain. She now lives in Canada where she is the Artist-in-Residence at McMaster University, but spends a part of each year in her native Britain. Valerie Tryon has been awarded The Liszt Memorial Plaque in recognition of her life-long promotion of Franz Liszt’s music.
Louis Trépanier studied classical guitar at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Hull. Upon receiving the Prix en Guitare in 1998, he co-founded the Canadian Guitar Quartet with his former teacher, along with fellow former Roux student Denis Donegani, and renowned Canadian guitarist Philip Candelaria. This ensemble has since toured extensively in North and South-America, as well as in Europe. Louis Trépanier regularly contributes to the CGQ’s repertoire with arrangements and transcriptions from orches-tral masterpieces and jazz and folklore melodies, as well as the occasional composition. Balancing his career with the CGQ, Mr. Trépanier teaches guitar at the University of Ottawa where he is also Assistant Director of the School of Music.
Dave Young first began studying the guitar and violin at age ten but picked up the bass at his first gig. Equally comfortable with symphonic work and acoustic jazz, he was the principal Double Bass with the Edmonton and Winnipeg Symphonies and Hamilton Philharmonic and regularly brings jazz bass playing to a new level. Dave Young’s professional relationship with jazz giant Oscar Peterson spanned three decades during which he played in the Oscar Peterson Trio in appearances all over the world up until Peterson’s death. In addition to club appearances, touring, record-ing and Festival performances, Dave Young also teaches at numer-ous seminars and jazz clinics, as well as being a faculty member of Humber College and the University of Toronto.
Born in 1979 in Metz, Christophe Weidmann received his First Prize in Viola, Music Theory and Chamber Music with distinction in 1997 at the METZ conservatory of music. He continued his musi-cal education in Paris under Sabine Toutain, under Jean Baptiste Brunier, and Pierre Henry Xuereb, obtaining professional qualifica-tion with distinction. Christophe Weidmann finished his viola edu-cation in 2006 graduating from Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris CNSM. Currently, Christohe Weidmann is a well-established professional, working as a principal viola player in the North Netherlands Orchestra. In addition, Christophe enjoys playing chamber music and is a frequent guest at many European festivals, including Festival de Giverny.
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, directed by Noel Edison, as one of Canada’s largest choral organizations, believes its role is to provide Canadian audiences the experience of the classical cho-ral masterworks of the world. Grand symphonic sound has been the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s trademark for over 100 years. Performing both sacred and secular repertoire, TMC choristers are committed to offering audiences authentic interpretation, clarity of expression and a profound emotional experience of some of the most important music ever composed. Through its performances and educational programs, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir aspires to make choral masterworks available, accessible, and inspira-tional to all listeners in order to create a shared heritage of musical expression and appreciation.
Music director of l’Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, the National Broadcast Orchestra, as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, and of the Hannaford Street Silver Band, Alain Trudel is one of the most sought after conductors on the Canadian Scene. Highly committed to the new generation of musicians, Trudel is the conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, and has been regularly invited to conduct the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Beyond the borders of Canada, Trudel has conducted orchestras in the UK, the USA, Japan, Hong-Kong and in Latin America. First known to the public as a trombone solo-ist, Alain Trudel has been guest soloist with leading orchestras on five continents, and was the first Canadian to be a Yamaha inter-national artist.
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Acknowledgements
THE FESTIVAL OF THE SOUND’S 2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS THANKS
THE FOLLOWING FOR GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Arts Presentation FundOntario Arts CouncilCanada Council for the ArtsOntario Ministry of Culture, Summer Experience ProgramOntario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Ontario Summer JobsNorthern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, Youth Internship Program
Parry Sound Municipal Assistance Program
sPecial thanks to:
Artistic Endeavours – Nancy Little & staffCharles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts – Krista Holmes & staffClassical 96.3 FMDoug McNaughtonGeorgian Bay Software – Darryl McMurray & staffFriends of the Stockey Garden – Anne Bossart & volunteersH&R Block – Nancy Roy & staff30,000 Island Cruise Lines – Ron and Steven Anderson & staffLinkhouse Media & Linkhost MediaMetroland North Media103.3 Moose FMM.V. Chippewa III – Greg and Sandy Aldworth & staffNear North Business MachinesSara Tyson DesignSt. James-Centennial United Church
Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation
Yamaha Pianos provided courtesy of The Music Gallery, authorized dealer of