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staff

executive director: Margaret Boyd

incumbent executive director: Jennifer McGillivray

box office manager: Allan Beers

marketing & community relations: Carla Bossart

administrative assistant: Dorothy Jenkins

box office clerk: Lloyd McArton

box office clerk: Caleb Downs

technical director: Craig Harley

technical crew: Thomas McGown

stage manager: Kelly Crowhurst

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James Campell, Artistic Director

2011-2012 board of directors

President: Cameron Murch

vice- President: Robert Clubbe

treasurer: Larry Simons

secretary: Judith White

It is my great pleasure to extend congratulations to the organizers of the

Festival of the Sound. This is especially true this year, as the Festival celebrates

its 10th year in the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts.

The Festival is part of the cultural foundation of the area and a perennial

highlight of the summer, and it is wonderful to see that part of the programme

will be focused on highlighting the great venue that is the Stockey Centre.

Not only has the Festival become a much anticipated event on the annual

calendar, it has contributed greatly to the broader community, inspiring young

performers and attracting visitors from far and wide. It is a cultural institution

that reinforces why our region is such a great place to call home.

I salute Artistic Director James Campbell and all those who work to make the

Festival such a resounding success. I wish everyone involved, from patrons to

performers and organizers, a wonderful and enriching experience this season.

Warm regards,

Tony Clement

Member of Parliament for Parry Sound-Muskoka

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Dear Festival organizers, artists, and guests:

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 33rd annual Festival of the Sound.

Every year, the finest musicians in the country converge on Parry Sound. For

arts lovers, it is an incredible festival-going experience, The quantity, quality,

and breadth of artistic excellence on display is astounding. For musicians that

travel here, it is an opportunity to collaborate and perform, and visit one of the

most beautiful spots in the province. For our talented local artists, it provides

invaluable opportunities. No matter your involvement, this festival is a treasure.

This truly is a world-class arts festival, and it is only fitting that since 2003,

it has had a world-class venue to call home. The Stockey Centre, one of

the finest concert halls in the country, has elevated this festival to new levels

of excellence, and I congratulate you on this milestone in your lasting

relationship together.

Parry Sound-Muskoka has some of the most dynamic artists, the most vibrant

communities, and the finest scenery in the country. The Festival of the Sound

brings all of these elements together, and it is something to cherish.

I wish you all the best for a successful season.

Sincerely,

Norm Miller, MPP

Parry Sound - Muskoka

Festival of the Sound,

It is my great pleasure to welcome musicians and patrons to Parry Sound’s

thirty-third annual summer season of the Festival of the Sound.

This year also marks the tenth festival season in the Charles W. Stockey Centre

for the Performing Arts. To commemorate this we are honoured to have the

Choir of Trinity College Cambridge perform “Paradise: a Song of Georgian Bay”

which was the first work heard in the hall on July 18, 2003.

The very nature and setting of this unique festival transforms Parry Sound, for a

few weeks each year, to a place filled with the wonderful and distinct sounds of

music that only this festival offers.

The Town is pleased to show its support for the Festival both financially, and

through the operation of the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts

which is the main performance venue.

Congratulations to everyone involved with the production of the Festival

including the Festival Board, the staff, the many volunteers and all our guest

musicians on the mounting of what I’m sure will be another successful

showcase of beautiful music.

Best wishes to all for an outstanding and delightful Festival experience.

Sincerely,

Jamie McGarvey

Mayor, Town of Parry Sound


Last autumn, as part of the search to replace my dear friend, Margie Boyd,

I was asked to write a document outlining my version of the Festival’s history,

values and vision. The exercise forced me to think about what the Festival has

been, is now, and perhaps will be and took me through many emotions.

I would like to share some of those thoughts with you as we celebrate our

10th season of living our dream in the Stockey Centre, thank Margie for the

21 years of love she has given the Festival and glimpse the future through

the eyes of Jennifer McGillivray, our new Executive Director.

Who we are!

Until 2002, concerts were held in “Festival Hall”, a gym in the local high

school with reasonable acoustics but intense heat, plastic and metal chairs,

train whistles, improvised lighting and no backstage facilities. Festival Hall and

the lobby were ingeniously decorated each summer by volunteers. There was

a sense that everyone, performers, board members, volunteers and general

public, belonged to something special, even if it was slightly eccentric.

What we do!

Concerts at the Festival of the Sound demand the intellectual, creative, and

physical participation of artists, audience and local community. It does not

offer a passive form of entertainment.

Why we do what we do!

My personal measure of success comes in those moments when a great work

is performed and the wonderful silence of concentrated communal listening

fills the concert hall. Musicians hear and feel this and are fulfilled, the Stockey

Centre is in its glory, doing what is was designed to do, and listeners are joined

in timeless community with others through the music of a great composer.

Welcome and thank you for being an important part of the

Festival of the Sound.

James Campbell

Executive Director

On behalf of the board of directors of the Festival of the Sound I welcome

you to our thirty-third season, the tenth in this beautiful hall on the shores of

Georgian Bay. Our Artistic Director James Campbell has once again

assembled over one hundred world class musicians and ensembles who

will present their best for you over three exciting weeks. Some of highlights

of this season include: The Sound of the Stockey, The Sound of the String,

a Beethoven Sonata mini-series of five well-known works, Music from the

Inside Out, Three Island Queen Cruises and our Grand Finale, the festival

musicians’ tribute to our retiring Executive Director Margie Boyd.

Margie has been with the festival for twenty one years and is a major reason

we continue to enjoy fine classical music every summer in Parry Sound.

She is the hub of all the activities that go on behind the scenes to produce

the Festival of the Sound. From bringing to fruition Jim’s vision for the

festival to working with the board, writing contracts and grant applications

to managing our staff, Margie does it all. We will miss you Margie and wish

you all the best in your retirement.

To our granting agencies, sponsors, patrons and volunteers, thank you for

your support for so many years. As you know, the challenges facing all arts

organizations lately are unprecedented in recent memory. The board of

directors would like to thank you deeply for your ongoing support of the

festival. It is our goal to continue to present our unique summer festival

experience for years to come.

Enjoy!

Cam Murch

President of the Board of Directors

President’s MessageDirector’s Message


Patrons

$250 to $499

Anonymous (5) • Mrs. Susan Agranove • Aubie & Esther-Rose Angel

Barb & Cliff Baker • Gary L. & Donna R. Ball • Jean & Cec Baxter

Stanley & Barbara Beck • Bob & Debby Bissell • Doug & Mary Lou Brock

David & Joan Brownlow • Don & Barbara Chapin • Rosemary A. Collins

Laura Crook • Nancy Cunningham • Dr. Dan & Velma Daley

John & Nell de Boer • Dr. Herbert & Bridget Hauffe • Susan & Stephen Héder

Angus Hilts • Anne Hoelscher • Clark & Isobel Holden • Fred & Susan Holmes

Naomi & Sandy Horodezky • Don & Ruth Inkpen • Kathie Joblin

Marilyn & Brent Kelman • Garth & Anne Kidd • Harold and Jean Adams

George W. Lange • Edda & Keith Loffler • A. Benson Lorriman

Horst & Ingrid Mattern • Prof & Mrs W.J. McClelland • James & Patricia McKay

David & Jean McLay • Ned & Georgina McLennan • Drs. Roger & Chris Nash

John & Anne North • Paul H. Palmer • Elizabeth Forster & Edward Reeser

Ernie and Nancy Regehr • Judy & Vern Shute • Ron Slater

Hume & Judy Smith • Frances & David Soloway • Ross Tucker & Elsie Sparks

Jon & Donna Spencer • Bryan & Pat Tennant • Porter-Tyson Family

Graham & Suzy Wilkinson • Dr. Richard & Sue Woodhouse

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Benefactors

$1,000 and over

Anonymous • Susan Arbuckle • Dave & Kay Betts • James & Carol Campbell

Dr. Michael T. Chambers • Robert Clubbe • Katherine & Murray Corlett

John & Wendy Crean • Frans & Gini Donker • Drs. Kathleen & Daniel Moquin

Margaret Hagerman • Christopher & Margaret Ibey • David & Peggy Leighton

Dr. Robert G. Luton • Molly Anne & Bill MacDonald • Steve & Lou Mason

Nicolina Pon • John Sallinen • Paul & Ina Scholfield • Richard and Nancy Self

Donna Campbell & Allan F. Shuh • Tom and Ellen Smee

Dr. D. J. Stern & Brenda Lewis • Dr. Maureen Thompson & Dr. Brad Hunkin

Kay Wilkinson

Distinguished Patrons

$500 to $999

Anonymous (4) • David P. Barrett • Margaret Beatty • Margaret & Bill Boyd

Carolyn Maule & Russell Braun • Don Brickett • Gwen Brickett

Gwen Brison • Erma Brisson • Doris M. Brown • Phyllis & Les Davison

Frederick Dobbin • Max Egli • Fred Ibey • Larry Lundy & Elizabeth Julian

Paul & Marcia Kavanagh • S. Jean Koetsier-Adams • Anne Mackay

John & Susan Matthew • R. Milne • Helen Muir • Cam & Carolien Murch

Brian & Josephine Oxley • Peter & Judy Perry • Siegfried & Corrie Quickert

Elizabeth Racic • Ken Stephen & Massi Tanaka

Dreams Do Come True

Patrons

Anonymous

Katherine & Murray Corlett

Fred Ibey

Dennis Stern & Brenda Lewis

Edda & Keith Loffler

Dora Logan

Kerri Mutrie & Roy Hardie

Judy & Peter Perry

Gordon & Jan Rempel

Paul & Ina Scholfield

Daily Lunches

provided by Now That’s Catering

Sandwich & Crudité ComboAn assortment of sandwiches served on a combination of white, whole wheat, and pumpernickel breads and buns.

Garnished with pickles and olives and served with assorted crudité. $12 / per person

Coffee & Gourmet Cookie$3 / per person

Available in the Stockey Centre Lobby from 1 pm to 2:30 pm

Week One: July 25, 26, 27Week Two: August 1, 2, 3

Week Three: August 8, 9, 10


Friends

$25 to $99


Donors

$100 to $249

Anonymous (16)Bob & Katharine AndersonMary Louise & Dennis BeecroftKathy BeersDavid BirdBetty BirminghamMargaret BordenNadine BorduasFrederick L. BoughenEllen BradeyVal & Ben CabellIivi CampbellMarjorie CampbellJohn & Sheila CarewSylvia and Terry CarscaddenElizabeth Mary CawleyJames ChestnuttGrace & Bill ChisholmRobert J. CleggCharles & Joy CohenLadies of the California Book Club Brian & Elizabeth CooneyNancy CovellMary DavidsonMaida de SteinMr. & Mrs. H. DickfeldJim & Allison DingleGreig Dunn Shirley M. Awrey FarynaMarian & Jim FerrisJean FinkRob FloydJohn & Margaret FlynnKarl and Barbara FreemanRick McEwen & Lorraine GalipeauJ. Peter & Sarah GardnerSherry GerstlJane Kennedy & Joseph GillAnna & Walter GillespieDrs. Harvey & Lisa GolombekCharlotte GrahamPatricia Grainger Paul & Ruth GrayPenny & John GumbertMarion Haggart

Philip & Moira HeywoodAshley & Wendy HilliardNick & Koas HuizengaPeter HurlbutDon & Evelyn KiddDonny KirbyMary Ellen KirkAndrew & Deb KnightTom & Jan KnowltonLouise KotGail & Gordon LangeNancy & Terry Lee Ernest Loukidelis Beatrice MagderMargaret E. Makelvey Jim Mathers Julia E. McLaughlin Rick and Beverly McNabbDonald & Nan McPhunBeverly McQuaigJohn & Eleanor MillikenWilliam MonkLea & Syd MoscoeEleanor MurchKerri Mutrie & Roy HardieCarole & Jim NobleMarie & Stewart OickleBob & Carol PearsonDavid & Molly PeltonJune PinkneyLinda Lou & John PinningtonKarin & Robert PohlBonnie RamsayHerbert C. RatzRuth Dianne RobertsonIla SandwellFred & Brenda SaundersRachel & Jerry SchneidermanHenry & Molly Ann SchwarczDorothy Shaver Jeanne B. ShuhPat & Jim SkellyMr. Aubrey SmithGordon & Anne SmithOlaug & David SmithAnne StoneAlma StonemanPenelope K. Sullivan

Doreen ThomasSuus and Jan Tissot Bridget & Kit WellsSilvia WeylieScott Whittington & Marsha MoffittRudy & Lena WilliamsMichael & Janet WilsonKrystyna WojakowskiTerrance WolffHermann & Brigitte Zettl

Anonymous (22)Wendell & Sheila AltonGerald & Joyce AmesErin L. AxtBob & Dana BachRod BainMarianne BaljetDiana Bates Ross BeersArnold & Loreen BolligerAnne & Jo BossartAndre & Judith BoutinJean Boyd Betty BrannenKathleen BrobstPatricia BrodieLorna & Ralph BrookeRobert & Beverley BurnhamSusan Bushell Craig & Jane Campbell Richard & Jo CoskeyJudy & Art CraigJudith DahmerMinda & Moe DavisVictor & Sandra DavisKen DennisDr. Ed & Renee DisenhausDeborah Doherty Glenn & Margaret DrewWendy & Elliott EisenCliff & Maxine ElliottBud & Pat EllisBeth & Lee EmersonDr. & Mrs R.H.D. Farmer Mary Lynn FlemingIlse FolkensJanet FothergillKaterina Fretwell Bruce & Susan Gibbon Margaret GoddardJudy Gauthier & Ken GodfreyReginald GorczynskiRosemary & Roland GosselinLes & Louise GrahamOntario Bluewater Visitor GuideMavis Hall Kenneth W Harding

Jane HendryDoreen & Fred HiltzBernice HolmanRichard HookAlice Marie HopkinsJean JacksonBetty JohnsonDiane JohnsonMorland & Charlyn Jones Anne KearGerry & Jennie KeatingStella KonarekRuth LannoD. & J. LevineMr & Mrs D.J. LowKatja MathysGeorgina MatusClaire & James McAllister Dr. Kathleen McCroneBarbara McDonaldMarian McIsaacMarg McLean Melitta MereyTamara MietinsJean MitchellWilliam R. MitchellKathryn M. MonkMarlene & Herman MooyLarry MoserPaula MullenKathleen & Graham Nairn Joan & Robert NortheyMarilyn OneschukTom & Joyce OrchardPhilip & Mary PadgettDon & Joan PatonPat & Lloyd PosnoJohn & Annette ProsserMargaret PrugoveckiElizabeth RaymerEd & Marianne ReimerEleanore ReynoldsGary and Barbara RollmanRobert & Margaret RooksBen & Rachel SchlesingerKarl & Ursula SchnullLarry SimonsGerry & Vi SkoryJoan & Ron SlaterMr. and Mrs. Don Slingerland

Richard M. SmallAnna SmuklerGunild SpiessBeverly StagerJanet Stewart Dave TirsellDavid TovellMargaret TullochIlse von FehrentheilHarriet Wagman Bob & Elda WattsDavid & Judi WeaverSheila WeinbergWarren & Cathy WhelenJohn & Janet WickensMarie WileyJudith WilliamsKaren & Peter ZalanShirley Zieb McDonald

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Charles & Lois Stockey Endowment Fund Concert Sponsors

Township of the Archipelago • Canadore College • Township of Carling

Emhiser Research Limited • FAD architects

In Memory of Betty Ibey & Ed Gawronski • Kudos Kuisine

Municipality of McDougall • Napoleon Fireplaces & Grills

Town of Parry Sound • RBC Foundation

RE/MAX Parry Sound-Muskoka Realty Ltd. • Ross Windows and Doors

Scotiabank • Seguin Township • Richard & Nancy Self

The Estate of Margaret Whiteman • Kay Wilkinson to thank Festival Volunteers

The William Beatty Company

Music Scores Sponsors

Youth Music Education Fund – Frances M. Brown, lead donor

Near North District School Board • Rotary Club of Parry Sound

TD Canada Trust

Noon and Afternoon Concert Sponsors

In Honour of Margie Boyd by The Wittstein/Avner Families

In Memory of Helen Elsasser by the West Parry Sound Cancer Support Group

In Memory of Inge and Paul Gerstl by Sherry Gerstl

Atchison’s Home Hardware • Iron City Fishing Club

Retired Teachers of Ontario

Artist Sponsors

Book City • Dr. Derek & Mary George • Logan’s of Parry Sound

Roy Hardie & Kerri Mutrie • Parry Sound Books • Ritchie Insurance

Dr. Stuart & Adrienne Shaw

Corporate Friends

Dentistry on the Bay

in memory of

dr. larry m. agranove

Carol & James Campbell

Sophie Skaith

in memory of Joyce & kay blake

Rob & Hilda Floyd

in memory of kasie brickett

Gwen Brickett

Ruth Robertson

in memory of

hon. barney danson

Dave & Kay Betts


in memory of rian de waal


Peter Rosenbaum &

Suzanne Shulman

in memory of

dr. John gordon hare

Justine Hare

in memory of lane hazelwood

John & Penny Gumbert

in memory of Jack k. homer

Lois A. Voight

in memory of w. stuart hunter

Donny Kirby

in memory of fred Joblin


Kathie Joblin

in memory of ken Johnson

Peter Maule

in memory of betty kyl-heku

John & Jean Boyd

Susan Bushell

California Book Club


Nancy Cunningham

Stanley & Alice-Marie Hopkins

Christopher & Margaret Ibey

Ernet Loukidelis

Marian McIssac

Helen Muir

John & Annette Prosser

Felice Shohet

Ronald & Joan Slater

Anne Stone & Patricia Bain

in memory of louis murch

Cam & Carolien Murch

in memory of david reeser

Elizabeth Forester & Edward Reeser

in memory of edna taubman

Sheila & John Carew

in memory of rabbi Joel wittstein

Ailene Wittstein


Wednesday 18.7.2012 7:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre

Gala Opening Concert

the choir of trinity college cambridge; stephen layton, conductor

Programme will proceed without intermission

bogoroditse djevo Avro Pärt

(b. 1935)

mother of god, here i stand John Tavener

(b. 1944)

ave maria Robert Parsons

(1535 – 1571)

gloria, missa rigensis Uģis Prauliņš

(b. 1957)

salvator mundi Thomas Tallis

(1505 – 1585)

o sacrum convivium Steven Stucky

(b. 1949)

remember not, lord, our offences Henry Purcell

(1659 – 1695)

die himmel erzählen die ehre gottes, swv 386 Heinrich Schütz

(1585 – 1672)

lobet den herrn, alle heiden Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685 – 1750)

richte mich, gott Felix Mendelssohn

(1809 – 1847)

hear my prayer Henry Purcell / Sven-David Sandström

(1659 – 1695)/(b.1942)

Paradise Eleanor Daley

(b. 1955)

a drop in the ocean Eriks Esenvalds

(b. 1977)

concert sPonsor

rbc foundation

2012

Welcoming all participants and

visitors to the

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Thursday 19.7.2012 7:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre

Piano Gala

anagnoson and kinton, piano duo

march militaire no. 1 in d major, d. 733 Franz Schubert

(1797-1828)

fantasie in f minor, d. 940 Franz Schubert

(1797-1828)

grandes marches, d.819, op. 40 Franz Schubert

Allegro ma non troppo (1797-1828)

INTERMISSION

suite no. 3 in c major, op. 33 Anton Arensky

Theme. Andante con moto (1861 - 1906)

Dialogue. Andante sostenuto

Valse. Allegro

Marche triomphale. Maestoso

Menuet (XVIIIème siècle)

Gavotte. Allegro

Scherzo. Presto

Marche funèbre. Adagio non troppo

Nocturne. Andantino

Polonaise. Allegro moderato

ritmo, from andalousian dances Manuel Infante

(1883 – 1958)

Jamaican rhumba Arthur Benjamin

(1893 - 1960)

scaramouche, samba Darius Milhaud

(1892 - 1974)

artist sPonsor

mary lou fallisby Book City

Friday 20.7.2012 6:00 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre

Dreams do Come True

mary lou fallis, host and soprano; anagnoson and kinton, piano duo

Tonight we celebrate our tenth season in the wonderful hall built on dreams

with a gala fundraising dinner.

Music to include:

grandes marches for 2 pianos, op. 45 Ludwig van Beethoven

(1770 – 1827)

slavonic dances Antonin Dvořák

(1841 -1904)

Paraphrase on the Johann Strauss / Abram Chasins

blue danube waltz (1825 - 1899) / (1903 - 1987)

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Saturday 21.7.2012 12:00 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre

Family Concert

strings across the sky; andrea hansen, musical director

Since 1988, Strings Across the Sky has taught fiddling in Northern Canada

to Aboriginal, Métis and Inuit youth. Many of today’s players are beginners,

performing before an audience for the first time. We are proud to work with

Strings Across the Sky to offer the children the opportunity to perform in our

wonderful concert hall.


Art Show Opening

The Festival of the Sound and artist Alan Stein invite you to the opening of his

art show in the lobby of the Stockey Centre. Your purchases support the work

of the Festival of the Sound.

concert sPonsor

the william beatty company


Canadian Brass

canadian brass: chuck daellenbach, tuba;

achilles liarmakopoulos, trombone; brandon ridenour, trumpet;

chris coletti, trumpet; eric reed, French horn

galliard battaglia Samuel Scheidt

canzon Prima a 5 Giovanni Gabrieli

“little” fugue in g minor Johann Sebastian Bach/Ronald Romm

chorale Prelude no. 10 Johannes Brahms/Ralph Sauer

waltzes for Piano Johannes Brahms/Chris Coletti/Brandon Ridenour

carnival of venice Del Staigers/Arthur Frackenpohl

INTERMISSION

dixie bach Johann Sebastian Bach /Luther Henderson

air on a g string Johann Sebastian Bach /Arthur Frackenpohl

hungarian dance no. 7 Johannes Brahms / arr. Ridenour

killer tango Sonny Kompanek

tribute to the ballet arr. Sonny Kompanek


Conversations with Keith

James Campbell will be hosting Keith’s chats this year as Keith recovers

from surgery. We wish him well and look forward to his return to these

conversations next year.

Today’s guests are Keith Loffler, architect of the Charles W. Stockey Centre for

the Performing Arts, and Robert Wolff, consultant in performance space design

and room acoustics on the project. How did a small town in Northern Ontario

plan for and build what William Littler of the Toronto Star has called, “one of

the finest small concert halls in the country.” Who is Charles W. Stockey?

Why is the room such an acoustical success?

Join us with your questions for the team that made it happen.


Sunday 22.7.2012 2:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre

Music Scores in the Summer

festival winds; Jim ferris, narrator

the goal Eric Robertson / Gary Michael Dault

Peter and the wolf Sergei Prokofiev / arr. Trevor Wagler


Music for a Sunday Afternoon

James campbell, clarinet; gryphon trio: annalee Patipatanakoon, violin;

roman borys, cello; Jamie Parker, piano

clarinet trio in a minor, op. 114 Johannes Brahms

Allegro (1833 - 1897)

Adagio

Andantino grazioso

Allegro

Piano trio no. 3 in f minor, op. 65 Antonin Dvořák

Allegro, ma non troppo (1841 -1904)

Allegretto grazioso

Poco Adagio

Finale. Allegro con brio

concert sPonsor

retired teachers of ontario


Music for a Summer Evening

remembering charles stockey

borodin string Quartet: ruben aharonian, violin;

andrei abramenkov, violin; igor naidin, viola; vladimir balshin, cello

string Quartet movement in b-flat major, Piotr Tchaikovsky

op. Post. (1840 - 1892)

string Quartet no. 2 in f major Mikhail Glinka

Allegro spiritoso (1804 - 1857)

Andante con molto

Menuetto. Allegro brillante

Rondo. Allegro moderato

INTERMISSION

string Quartet no. 1 in d major (1871) Piotr Tchaikovsky

Moderato e semplice (1840 - 1892)

Andante cantabile

Scherzo. Allegro non tanto

Finale. Allegro giusto - Allegro vivace

In memory of Charles Stockey, we present for the first time the legendary

Borodin String Quartet.

concert sPonsor

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Monday 23.7.2012 7:00 pm Parry Sound Town Dock

Sunset on the Bay Cruise

beyond the waves

sharlene wallace, Celtic harp; anne lindsay, fiddle;

george koller, bass

Join Sharlene, Anne and George on this spectacular sunset cruise. The music

of these award-winning musicians will set your feet tapping and your heart

singing with Celtic airs, jigs and reels.

Tuesday 24.7.2012 12:00 pm St. James United Church

Noon at St. James

stockey young artist artistic director: adrian fung

afiara string Quartet: valerie li, violin; yuri cho, violin;

david samuel, viola; adrian fung, cello; Cecilia String Quartet:

Min-Jeong Koh, violin; sarah nematallah, violin; caitlin boyle, viola;

rachel desoer, cello

Passacaglia Georg Frederic Handel/Johan Halvorsen

for violin & viola (1685 - 1759)/(1864 – 1935)

drobnosti, op. 75a for two violins & viola Antonin Dvořák

Cavatina, Moderato (1841 -1904)

Capriccio, Poco allegro

Romanza, Allegro

Elegia, Larghetto

serenade in c major, Ernő Dohnányi

op. 10 for violin, viola & cello (1877 - 1960)

Marcia: Allegro

Romanza: Adagio non troppo, quasi andante

Scherzo: Vivace

Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto

Rondo

concert sPonsor

municipality of mcdougall

Tuesay 24.7.2012 7:30 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre


Patricia o’callaghan, soprano; gryphon trio:

annalee Patipatanakoon, violin; roman borys, cello; Jamie Parker, piano

Passion ‘n tune

volver Carlos Gardel/Alfredo La Pera/arr. Roberto Occhipinti

river man Nick Drake/arr. Roberto Occhipinti

estoy sentado aqui César Rosas/arr. Hilario Durán

otoño Porteño Ástor Piazzolla/arr. José Bragato

the gypsy wife Leonard Cohen/arr. Roberto Occhipinti

the window Leonard Cohen/arr. Andrew Downing

flor de la canela Scull Arsenio Rodriguez/arr. Hilario Durán

INTERMISSION

Porgy and bess suite George and Ira Gershwin/arr. Gene DiNovi

la confession Lhasa de Sela/arr. Roberto Occhipinti

Pieces and Parts Laurie Anderson/arr. Roberto Occhipinti

if it be your will Leonard Cohen/arr. Andrew Downing)

muerte del Ángel Ástor Piazzolla/arr. José Bragato)

i want you Elvis Costello/arr. Roberto Occhipinti)

cuccurucucu Paloma Tomas Mendez/arr.Hilario Durán

yo soy maria Ástor Piazzolla/arr. Andrew Downing)



Music for a Summer Noon

Painted sound

James campbell, clarinet; Joseph Phillips, double bass;

ed hanley, tabla; dinuk wijeratne, piano (RBC Stockey Young Artist);

new Zealand string Quartet: helene Pohl, violin;

douglas beilman, violin; gillian ansell, viola; rolf gjelsten, cello;

afiara string Quartet: valerie li, violin; yuri cho, violin;

david samuel, viola; adrian fung, cello; cecilia string Quartet:

min-Jeong koh, violin; sarah nematallah, violin; caitlin boyle, viola;

rachel desoer, cello

The performance of Raven and the First Men by James Campbell and the

New Zealand String Quartet will be accompanied by projections of paintings

by Parry Sound School children who painted as they experienced the power of

the music.

bright light and cloud shadows for string quartet Gao Ping

three sketches from karmic blue Dinuk Wijeratne

tabla concerto Dinuk Wijeratne

Garland of Gems

raven and the first men Timothy Corlis

concert sPonsor

in memory of inge and Paul gerstl

Sherry Gerstl


Music for a Summer Afternoon

Jamie Parker, piano

nocturne in c-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 1 Frédéric Chopin

(1810 – 1849)

nocturne in d-flat major, op. 27 no. 2 Frédéric Chopin

träumerei, from kinderszenen Robert Schumann

(1810 – 1856)

romanze, op. 118 no. 5 Johannes Brahms

(1833 - 1897)

intermezzo, op. 118 no. 2 Johannes Brahms

(1833 - 1897)

la soirée dans grenade, from estampes Claude Debussy

(1862 - 1918)

clair de lune, from suite bergamasque Claude Debussy

(1862 - 1918)

a nocturne Linda Smith

(b. 1957)

the night’s music, from out of doors suite Béla Bartók

(1881 - 1945)

Piano sonata in b-flat major, d. 960 Franz Schubert

Andante sostenuto (1797-1828)

Piano sonata in c-sharp minor, Quasi una fantasia, op. 27 no. 2, moonlight Ludwig van Beethoven

Adagio sostenuto (1770 - 1827)

Allegretto

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martin roscoe, piano; new Zealand string Quartet: helene Pohl, violin;

douglas beilman, violin; gillian ansell, viola; rolf gjelsten, cello

Piano sonata no. 8 in c minor, Ludwig van Beethoven

op. 13, Pathétique (1770 - 1827)

Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio

Adagio cantabile

Rondo: Allegro

string Quartet in b minor, op. 11 Samuel Barber

Molto allegro e appassionato (1910 – 1981)

Adagio

Molto adagio-Presto

INTERMISSION

Piano Quartet no. 2 in a major, op. 26 Johannes Brahms

Allegro non troppo (1833 - 1897)

Poco adagio

Scherzo. Poco allegro; Trio

Finale. Allegro



the storied harP

tom allen, storyteller; lori gemmell, harp

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Lori Gemmell for a program inspired by Greek myth: seductive nymphs, hide-

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ing Songs of Nymphs and R. Murray Schafer’s tour-de-force The Crown of

Ariadne.

songs of nymphs Marjan Mozetich

Prelude (b.1948)

Reflection

Ritual

Freedom

the crown of ariadne R. Murray Schafer

Ariadne Awakens (b.1933)

Ariadne’s Dance

Dance of the Bull

Dance of the Night Insects

Ariadne’s Dream (added)

Sun Dance/Labyrinth Dance

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James campbell, clarinet; martin roscoe, piano; afiara string Quartet:

valerie li, violin; yuri cho, violin; david samuel, viola; adrian fung, cello

sonata in a minor, Franz Schubert / arr. Brian Newbould

d.821, arpeggione (1797-1828) / (b. 1956)

Allegro moderato

Adagio

Allegretto

Piano sonata no. 21 in c major, Ludwig van Beethoven

op. 53, waldstein (1770 - 1827)

Allegro con brio

Introduzione: Adagio molto – attacca

Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo


The Direct Line

oPen rehearsal

Luba Dubinsky has played the Shostakovich Piano Quintet for over half a

century, including a performance for Shostakovich himself. Today she passes

on her passion and knowledge to the members of the Cecilia Quartet, who are

learning the work for the first time.



James Campbell chats with Earl and Dinah Rosen about Marquis Classics,

Canada’s oldest classical music label.




afiara string Quartet; cecilia string Quartet

string Quartet in f major, op. 77, no. 2 Josef Haydn

Allegro moderato (1732 - 1809)

Menuet: Presto

Andante

Finale: Vivace assai

string Quartet op. 56, voces intimae Jean Sibelius

Andante - Allegro molto moderato (1865 - 1957)

Vivace

Adagio di molto

Allegretto (ma pesante)

Allegro

INTERMISSION

viola Quintet in g major, op. 111 Johannes Brahms

Allegro non troppo, ma con brio (1833 - 1897)

Adagio

Un poco allegretto

Vivace ma non troppo presto

concert sPonsor

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elvis everywhere


James campbell, clarinet; graham campbell, guitar; ed hanley, tabla;

dinuk wijernate, piano (RBC Stockey Young Artist); afiara string Quartet:

valerie li, violin; yuri cho, violin; david samuel, viola; adrian fung, cello

hound dog Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller/arr. Ryan Brown

this way up ↓ Dinuk Wijernate

extended family Ryan Brown

love me tender Elvis Presley

twilight in turkey Raymond Scott/arr. Randolph Wolfe

elvis everywhere Michael Daugherty



luba dubinsky, piano; martin roscoe, piano; cecilia string Quartet

Piano sonata no. 17 in d minor, Ludwig van Beethoven

op. 31, no. 2, tempest (1770 - 1827)

Largo – Allegro

Adagio

Allegretto

Piano Quintet in g minor, op. 57 Dmitri Shostakovich

Prelude: Lento (1906 - 1975)

Fugue: Adagio

Scherzo: Allegretto

Intermezzo: Lento

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kerry-anne kutz, soprano; martin roscoe, piano; afiara string Quartet:

valerie li, violin; yuri cho, violin; david samuel, viola; adrian fung, cello;

cecilia string Quartet: min-Jeong koh, violin; sarah nematallah, violin;

caitlin boyle, viola; rachel desoer, cello

Juliet letters Elvis Costello/Brodsky Quartet

for soprano and string quartet

octet in b-flat major, op. Post. Max Bruch

Allegro moderato (1838- 1920)

Adagio

Allegro molto

intermission

Piano Quintet no. 2 in a major, op. 81 Antonin Dvořák

Allegro, ma non tanto (1841 -1904)

Dumka: Andante con moto

Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace

Finale: Allegro.

concert sPonsor

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Opera Gala

Prima donnas, divas and divos

guest artistic director: mark dubois

leslie fagan, soprano; gabrielle Prata, mezzo-soprano;

david Pomeroy, tenor; Peter mcgillivray, baritone; guy few, piano;

Peter tiefenbach, piano

Tonight’s programme will be announced from stage and will include the

beloved arias, duets and ensembles from the world of Opera by Rossini,

Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Massenet, Bizet and more.

concert sPonsor

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Puttin’ on the Ritz

krisztina szabó, mezzo-soprano; Peter barrett, baritone;

Peter tiefenbach, piano

Programme order to be announced from stage.

where are the songs we sung Noël Coward

(1899 – 1973)

shine through my dreams Ivor Novello

(1893 – 1951)

glamorous night Ivor Novello

someday i’ll find you Noël Coward

dearest love, now that i’ve found you Noël Coward

why isn’t it you? Ivor Novello

you were there Noël Coward

and her mother came, too Ivor Novello

someday my heart will awake Ivor Novello

my life belongs to you Ivor Novello

my dearest dear Ivor Novello

love is my reason for living Ivor Novello

nina from argentina Noël Coward

a bar on the Piccola marina Noël Coward

i can give you the starlight Ivor Novello

we’ll gather lilacs Ivor Novello

i’ll see you again Noël Coward

Puttin’ on the ritz Irving Berlin

(1888 – 1989)

concert sPonsor

township of carling


Sunset on the Bay Musical Cruise

climax Jazz band

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covering a wide repertoire of marches, blues, spirituals, ragtime and popular

songs. The band members also look forward to this cruise, saying that “it is a

beautiful way to spend the evening with a very appreciative audience.”

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in honour of margie boyd

from the Wittstein/Avner families


Noon at St. James

festival baroQue

guest artistic directors: James mason & Julie baumgartel

leslie fagan, soprano; suzanne shulman, flute; James mason, oboe;

cynthia hiebert, harpsichord; william mcarton, organ;

Julie baumgartel, violin; kate bevan-baker, violin; natasha sharko, viola;

marc Johnson, cello; Joel Quarington, double bass.

sinfonia in b minor, Johann Sebastian Bach

from cantata bwv 209 (1685 – 1750)

concerto in a major, Johann Sebastian Bach

bwv 1055 for oboe d’amoreAllegro

Larghetto

Allegro ma non tanto

concerto for organ in b flat major, Georg Frederic Handel

op.4 no.2, hwv 290 (1685 - 1759)

A tempo ordinario, e staccato

Allegro

Adagio, e staccato

Allegro, ma non presto

cantata bwv 202 wedding cantata Johann Sebastian Bach

Adagio: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten

Recit: Die Welt wird wieder neu

Aria: Phöbus eilt mit schnellen Pferden

Recit: D’rum sucht auch Amor sein Vergnügen

Aria: Wenn die Frühlingslüfte streichen

Recit: Und dieses ist das Glücke

Aria: Sich üben im Lieben

Recit: So sei das Band der keuschen Liebe

Gavotte: Sehet in Zufriedenheit

concert sPonsor

in honour of margie boyd

from the Wittstein/Avner families


Afternoon at St. James

festival baroQue

suzanne shulman, flute; James mason, oboe; Julie baumgartel, violin;

marc Johnson, cello; cynthia hiebert, harpsichord; william mcarton, organ;

Julie baumgartel, violin; kate bevan-baker, violin; natasha sharko, viola;

marc Johnson, cello; Joel Quarington, double bass.

fantasia and fugue in g minor, Johann Sebastian Bach

bwv 542 (1685 – 1750)

sonata for oboe & violin Georg Frederic Handel

(1685 - 1759)

excerpts from cello suites Johann Sebastian Bach

orchestral suite Johann Sebastian Bach

in b minor for flute & strings, bwv 1067 (1685 – 1750)

Ouverture

Rondeau

Sarabande

Bourrée I/II

Polonaise (Lentement) – Double

Minuet

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guest artistic director: guy few

guy few, trumpet; leslie fagan, soprano; leopoldo erice, piano;

John novacek, piano; James mason, oboe; James campbell, clarinet

vocalise Sergei Rachmaninoff

(1873 – 1943)

Pieces by strauss Richard Strauss

Befreit (1864 – 1949)

Ständchen

Zueignung

danzas argentinas Alberto E. Ginastera

Danza del viejo boyero (1916 – 1983)

Danza de la moza donosa

Danza del gaucho matrero

konzert f minor moll, op. 18 Oskar Böhme

Allegro moderato (1870 – 1938)

Adagio religioso

Allegretto – Rondo allegro scherzando

INTERMISSION

valses bourgeoises Lord Berners

Valse brillante (1883 – 1950)

Valse caprice

Strauss, Strauss et Straus

bushwakker sixpack Elizabeth Raum

Stubblejumper Pilsner (b. 1945)

Northern Lights Lager

MacGregor’s Wee Heavy

songs by gershwin George Gershwin

Summertime (1898 – 1937)

They Can’t Take That Away From Me

By Strauss

concert sPonsor

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alexander tselyakov, piano; daniel tselyakov, piano;

guy few, trumpet; mark fewer, violin; Julie baumgartel, violin;

natasha sharko, viola; marc Johnson, cello;

Joel Quarrington, double bass

fantasy on gershwin’s opera Percy Grainger

Porgy and bess for two pianos (1882 - 1961)

Étude in c minor, op. 25 no. 12 Frédéric Chopin

(1810 – 1849)

Petite suite Claude Debussy

En Bateau (1862 - 1918)

Cortège

Menuet

Ballet

septet in e-flat major, op. 65 Camille Saint-Saëns

Préambule (1835 - 1921)

Menuet

Intermède

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trio voce: Patricia tao, piano; Jasmine lin, violin; marina hoover, cello

Piano trio (1921) Rebecca Clarke

Moderato ma appassionato (1886 – 1979)

Andante molto semplice

Allegro vigoroso

Piano trio no. 1 in d minor, op. 32 Anton Arensky

Allegro moderato (1861 - 1906)

Scherzo - Allegro molto

Elegia - Adagio

Finale - Allegro non troppo

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guest artistic director: leslie fagan

leslie fagan, soprano; James campbell, clarinet; leopoldo erice, piano;

guy few, trumpet; marc Johnson, cello; suzanne shulman, flute;

Joel Quarrington, bass.

der hirt auf dem felsen Franz Schubert

(1797 – 1828)

cello suite no. 3, bwv 1009 Johann Sebastian Bach

Prelude (1685 – 1750)

Sarabande

Bourees I, II

Gigue

heimliche aufforderung, op. 27 no. 3 Richard Strauss

(1864 – 1949)

morgen, op. 27 no. 4 Richard Strauss

cäcilie, op. 27 no.2 Richard Strauss

syrinx Claude Debussy

(1862 – 1918)

last contrabass in vegas Eugene Kurtz

(1923 – 2006)

INTERMISSION

canciones de valldemossa, Antón García Abril

Agua me daban a mí (b. 1933)

A pié van mis suspiros

No por amor, no por tristeza

arabesque in c major, op. 18 Robert Schumann

(1810 – 1856)

lucia di lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti

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the sound of the string: kate’s fiddle

guest artistic director: mark fewer

kate bevan-baker, violin; graham campbell, guitar; John novacek, piano

short trip home Edgar Meyer

bees & flowers medley/the bluebird Rufus Guinchard

spring John Bevan-Baker

rooster’s reel Emile Benoit

sonata representativa Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

neil gow’s lament/marion birdwatching Niel Gow/Jerry Holland

hit her on the bum Traditional

sonata in g major, Ludwig van Beethoven

opus 96 “the cockcrow”

the bee’s wing hornpipe Traditional

the bee Franz Schubert

a bit o’ bach Johann Sebastian Bach/Traditional

tullochgorum Traditional




mark fewer, violin; drew Jurecka, violin; marc Johnson, cello;

John novacek, piano; hot club of Parry sound: graham campbell,

roberto rosenman, chris bezant, guitars; chris kettlewell, bass

Programme to be announced from stage. Music to include Café Music by Paul

Schoenfield and tributes to Stéphane Grapelli and Django Rheinhardt.

concert sPonsor

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mark fewer, violin; Julie baumgartel, violin; steven dann, viola;

kate bevan-baker, viola; marc Johnson, cello;

Joel Quarrington, double bass; John novacek, piano

violin sonata in a major, d. 574 Franz Schubert

Allegro moderato (1797-1828)

Scherzo: presto

Andantino

Allegro vivace

cello sonata in g minor, op. 5 no. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven

Adagio sostenuto e espressivo - Allegro molto più tosto presto (1770 - 1827)

Rondo. Allegro

INTERMISSION

string sextet no. 1 in b-flat major, op. 18 Johannes Brahms

Allegro ma non troppo (1833 - 1897)

Andante, ma moderato

Scherzo: Allegro molto

Rondo: Poco Allegretto e grazioso

concert sPonsor

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the sound of the string

viva mexico mariachi band

Drew Jurecka leads the Viva Mexico Mariachi Band in a highly spirited and fun

musical ride!

Viva Mexico Mariachi has become one of the most important exponents of

Mexican music and traditions in the multicultural city of Toronto, and has also

expanded its scope to Brussels, Belgium. The popularity of Mariachi music

has grown well beyond the borders of Mexico and has acquired international

recognition. Using flawless technique and audience-pleasing showmanship,

Mariachi musicians blend virtuosity and art, magically transforming music into

life itself.



Peter desotto, violin; alexander sevastian, accordion

Stepping outside their roles with Quartetto Gelato, festival favourites Peter

DeSotto and Alexander Sevastian play an irresistible combination of Gypsy

pieces.



violin Party!


Peter desotto, violin; mark fewer, violin; drew Jurecka, violin;

marc Johnson, cello; Joel Quarrington, double bass;

graham campbell, guitar; James campbell, clarinet;

John novacek, piano; alexander sevastian, accordion

The many styles and colours of the violin all come together in a concert that is

a love affair with this wonderful instrument.

Programme will be announced from stage.

Music to include:

nocturne from string Quintet in g major, op. 77 Antonin Dvořák

(1841 -1904)

liebesleid and liebesfreud Fritz Kreisler

(1875 - 1962)

tribute to 20th century Jazz violin Cameron Wilson

navarra for violin, double bass & piano Pablo de Sarasate

(1844 - 1908)

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artist sPonsor

James campbellby Logan’s of Parry Sound

mark fewerby Ritchie Insurance


Saturay 04.8.2012 12:00 pm Charles W. Stockey Centre

Jazz for Families

graham campbell, roberto rosenman, chris bezant, guitars and

chris kettlewell, bass with an introduction to jazz for a young audience.

concert sPonsor

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Peter Appleyard

Peter appleyard, vibes, kevin turcotte, trumpet; dave young, bass;

John sherwood, piano; terry clarke, drums

Programme to be announced from stage.

Peter Appleyard’s show-stopping performances never fail to thrill audiences, as

they have for over five decades. A versatile studio percussionist and nightclub/

TV personality in Toronto, he moved to Canada in 1951 as a drummer and

soon turned to the vibraphone.

Appleyard’s TV shows included the CBC’s Mallets and Brass (1969, with flugel-

hornist Guido Basso) and the syndicated Peter Appleyard Presents (1977-

80). Appleyard, who has conducted his Canadian career with a keen instinct

for popular tastes, has recorded several light-instrumental albums, includ-

ing Swing Fever (1982), as well as the jazz CDs Barbados Hot and Barbados

Cool (1990). His version of The Lincolnshire Poacher was a pop hit in the early

1970s. Appleyard has worked abroad with Benny Goodman, Dick Hyman, Mel

Tormé, Bob Wilber and other noted US jazz musicians.


Phil Nimmons

Phil nimmons, clarinet; James campbell, clarinet; david braid, piano

Programme to be announced from stage.

With a brilliant career spanning six decades, Phil Nimmons, the Canadian Dean

of Jazz, and Juno award winner David Braid have been working together for

the past ten years. The programme will include Nimmons’ Time Revisited, a

musical reflection of his life written especially for his friend James Campbell.

One of the country’s most outstanding jazz artists, Phil Nimmons is widely

acknowledged as having done more than almost any other musician to bring

jazz into the mainstream of Canadian culture. He is unique in this country as

a performer, composer, educator, clinician and artistic director of music pro-

grams. He is a multimedia composer of over 400 original contemporary clas-

sical and jazz compositions written for stage, television, radio, and film, in

addition to hundreds of jazz orchestrations.

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Music for a Sunday Afternoon

david braid, piano; John novacek, piano; James campbell, clarinet;

mark fewer, violin; Joel Quarrington, double bass

All of this afternoon’s musicians enjoy exploring music that bridges the intrica-

cies of classical music and the spontaneity of jazz.

chauvet David Braid

Prelude David Braid

semi piano, clarinet, violin and bass David Braid

le Phare David Braid

china spring festival David Braid

INTERMISSION

elegy for double bass and Piano John Novacek

three Piano solos George Gershwin

Jazzbo Brown Blues (from Porgy and Bess)

Prelude No. 2

Rialto Ripples

four rags for violin, Piano and bass John Novacek

Cockles

Full Stride Ahead

4th Street Drag

Intoxication

duke 2010 Duke Ellington / arr. Mark Fewer

it meant something Duke Ellington / arr. Mark Fewer


Swing, Swing, Swing

toronto all-star big band

The music of the Big Bands of the 1930’s and ‘40’s still holds a special place

in the hearts of many. The Toronto All-Star Big Band revives the spirit, style and

sound of the golden age of the big bands.

concert sPonsor

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Sunset on the Bay Musical Cruise

braZilian nights

luanda Jones, vocals; gord sheard, piano; dave young, bass;

terry clarke, drums

Canadian pianist/composer Gord Sheard has a lifelong empathy with the

culture and music of Brazil. Brazilian singer/songwriter Luanda Jones shares

that passion for the country’s vibrant music. Enjoy the spectacular scenery of

Georgian Bay along with the sensational rhythms of Brazil.




yehonatan berick, violin; rachel mercer, cello; angela Park, piano

Partita no. 3 in e major, bwv 1006 Johann Sebastian Bach

Preludio (1685 – 1750)

Loure

Gavotte en Rondeau

Menuets (I and II)

Bourrée

Giga

l’isle joyeuse for piano, l. 106 Claude Debussy

(1862 - 1918)

cello sonata in g minor, op. 19 Sergei Rachmaninoff

Lento – Allegro moderato (1873 - 1943)

Allegro scherzando

Andante

Allegro mosso

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Gelato Magic

Quartetto gelato: Peter de sotto, violin & tenor;

alexander sevastian, accordion & piano; elizabeth mclellan, cello;

colin maier, oboe

The name Quartetto Gelato has always been synonymous with innovation

and reinvention and once again it is forging a new path unlike anything seen

before. QG has taken its theatrical approach to music and infused it with

grand magical illusions, acrobatics, and dance, combined with the quirky

personalities of four brilliant musicians! Welcome to Quartetto Gelato’s

Musical Caravan.



guest artistic director: Joel Quarrington

Joel Quarrington, double bass; Jeffrey stokes, double bass;

yehonatan berick, violin; elissa lee, violin; sharon wei, viola;

rachel mercer, cello; glen montgomery, piano

Joel and Jeff introduce five of history’s great master bassists using illustrations

from:

Quartet no. 3 in d major Franz Anton Hoffmeister

Moderato (1754 - 1812)

Adagio

Tempo di minuetto

Quintet no. 18 Domenico Dragonetti

Andante (1763 - 1846)

Allegro non troppo

elegia Giovanni Bottesini

(1821 - 1889)

duetto for cello and bass Gioacchino Rossini

Allegro (1792 - 1868)

chanson triste and valse miniature Serge Koussevitzky

(1874 - 1951)

moses fantasy Niccolò Paganini

(1782 - 1840)




James mason, oboe; James sommerville, horn; glen montgomery, piano;

swiss Piano trio: martin lucas staub, piano; angela golubeva, violin;

sébastien singer, cello

trio for piano, oboe and horn in a minor, op. 188 Carl Reinecke

(1824 - 1910)

moments musicaux Rudolf Kelterborn

(b. 1931)

Piano trio no. 2 in c major, op. 87 Johannes Brahms

Allegro (1833 - 1897)

Andante con moto (Tema con variazioni)

Scherzo. Presto - Trio. Poco meno presto

Finale. Allegro giocoso



Janina fialkowska, piano; ensemble made in canada: elissa lee, violin;

sharon wei, viola; rachel mercer, cello; angela Park, piano

impromptus, op. 142 Franz Schubert

No. 1 in F minor (1797-1828)

No. 2 in A-flat major

No. 3 in B-flat major

No. 4 in F minor

sonata no. 13 in a major, op.120, d.664 Franz Schubert

Allegro moderato

Andante

Allegro

INTERMISSION

Piano Quartet no. 3 in c minor, op. 60 Johannes Brahms

Allegro non troppo (1833 - 1897)

Scherzo: Allegro

Andante

Finale: Allegro comodo

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Thursday 09.8.2012 10:00 am Charles W. Stockey Centre

The Direct Line

master class

Janina fialkowska, stephen nyguen, & gordon mok, piano

Janina Fialkowska works with two outstanding young pianists. Fourteen-year-

old Stephen Nyguen of Calgary was the Grand Prize Winner in his age catego-

ry in the 2011 Canadian Music Competition. Thirteen-year-old Gordon Mok of

Parry Sound was the Second Place Winner in the 2011 International Mozart

Piano Competition in Rome.



anne robert, violin; elissa lee, violin; yehonatan berick, viola;

sharon wei, viola; Paul marleyn, cello; rachel mercer, cello;

swiss Piano trio: martin lucas staub, piano; angela golubeva, violin;

sébastien singer, cello

litany in c# minor, op. 70 Paul Juon

(1872 - 1940)

string sextet in a major, op. 48 Antonin Dvořák

Allegro. Moderato (1841 -1904)

Dumka. Poco allegretto

Furiant. Presto

Finale. Tema con variazioni. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino



stéphane lemelin, piano; anne robert, violin; sharon wei, viola;

Paul marleyn, cello; James campbell, clarinet; James sommerville, horn

Piano sonata no. 23 in f minor, Ludwig van Beethoven

op. 57, appassionata (1770 - 1827)

Allegro assai

Andante con moto

Allegro ma non troppo - Presto

sextet in c major, op.37 Ernő Dohnányi

Allegro appassionato (1877 - 1960)

Intermezzo: Adagio

Allegro con sentiment- Poco Adagio, Andante tranquillo

Finale: Allegro vivace, giocoso


Pre-Concert Talk

Jeffrey Stokes shares his insights into the three late works of Schubert that will

be heard this evening and in the noon and afternoon concerts tomorrow.


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Janina fialkowska, piano; glen montgomery, piano;

stephen nguyen, piano; elissa lee, violin; yehonatan berick, violin;

sharon wei, viola; rachel mercer, cello; Joel Quarrington, double bass;

Penderecki string Quartet: Jeremy bell, violin; Jerzy kaplanek, violin;

christine vlajk, viola; Jacob braun, cello

Piano sonata in g major, op. 14, no. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven

Allegro (1770 - 1827)

Andante

Scherzo: Allegro assai

waltzes for piano four hands, op. 39 Johannes Brahms

No. 1 in B Major Tempo giusto (1833 - 1897)

No. 3 in G Sharp minor

No. 4 in E minor Poco sostenuto

No. 5 in E Major Grazioso

No. 15 in A Major

No. 16 in D minor

Piano concerto in f major, k. 413 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Allegro (1756 - 1791

Larghetto

Tempo di menuetto

INTERMISSION

string Quartet in d minor, Franz Schubert

d. 810, death and the maiden (1797-1828)

Allegro vivace

Andante con moto

Scherzo: Allegro molto

Presto

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Friday 10.8.2012 10:00 am Charles W. Stockey Centre

Mozart in the Morning

Jeffrey stokes, lecturer; ensemble made in canada: elissa lee, violin;

sharon wei, viola; rachel mercer, cello; angela Park, cello

Piano Quartet in e-flat major, k. 493 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Allegro (1756 – 1791

Larghetto

Allegretto

An informal welcome to a day at the Festival. Jeffrey Stokes and Ensemble

Made in Canada offer an in-depth talk and the quartet plays Mozart’s great

work.



Janina fialkowska, piano; festival winds

serenade for winds in c minor, k. 388 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Allegro (1756 - 1791

Andante

Menuetto in canone – Trio

Allegro

Piano sonata in g major, d. 894, fantaisie Franz Schubert

Molto moderato e cantabile (1736 - 1791)

Andante

Menuetto, Allegro moderato

Rondo: Allegretto


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trio hochelaga: stéphane lemelin, piano; anne robert, violin;

Paul marleyn, cello

trio élégiaque Sergei Rachmaninoff

(1873 - 1943)

Piano trio in b-flat major, d. 898 Franz Schubert

Allegro moderato (1797-1828)

Andante un poco mosso

Scherzo. Allegro

Rondo. Allegro vivace



James Campbell chats with William Littler about his 39-year career as music

critic for the Toronto Star.

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shakesPeare and king James

elmer iseler singers; lydia adams, conductor;

rh thomson, narrator with guests gene dinovi and dave young

For over 400 years, the King James Bible and the writings of William

Shakespeare have provided composers with an endless supply of musical

inspiration. Join us for this celebration of word and song.

Programme will proceed without intermission.

serenade to music Ralph Vaughan Williams

(from the merchant of venice) (1872 - 1958)

when david heard Eric Whitacre

(b. 1970)

our lady motets Healey Willan

I Beheld Her, Beautiful As a Dove (1880-1986)

Fair In Face

Rise Up, My Love

three shakespeare songs Harry Freedman

O Mistress Mine (1922 – 2005)

The Wind and the Rain

It Was A Lover and His Lass

such sweet thunder Duke Ellington / Gene DiNovi

Star Crossed Lovers (1899 - 1974) / (b. 1928)

Lady Mac

music to hear: songs from shakespeare George Shearing

Music To Hear (1919 – 2011)

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?

Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow’s Eye

Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind



Family Concert

glen montgomery, gordon mok, & stephen nguyen, piano

Pianists Gordon Mok and Stephen Nguyen with host Glen Montgomery offer a

short piano recital suitable for a family audience


Roundtable Discussion

Join William Littler, James Campbell, Margaret Boyd with Festival musicians

and Board members to discuss the role that festivals play in the life of their

communities.

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moshe hammer, violin; yehonatan berick, violin;

festival chamber orchestra; James sommerville, conductor

A rare chance to hear some of Canada’s leading musicians and soloists per-

form together in an orchestra. This can happen today because of the musi-

cians’ long association with the Festival of the Sound and their desire to thank

Margaret Boyd for her years of working with them in her easy, honest and effi-

cient way.

double concerto Johann Sebastian Bach

in d minor for two violins, bwv 1043 (1685 – 1750)

Vivace

Largo ma non tanto

Allegro

serenade in d minor, op. 44 Antonin Dvořák

Moderato, quasi marcia (1841 -1904)

Minuetto. Tempo di minuetto

Andante con moto

Finale.Allegro molto

symphony no. 40 in g minor, k. 550 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Molto allegro (1756 - 1791)

Andante

Menuetto. Allegretto

Finale. Allegro assai

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moshe hammerby Parry Sound Books

david borqueby Roy Hardie &

Kerri Mutrie

O N T H E B AY

ALAN STEIN

Featured Exhibit at the Festival of the Sound Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts

July 18 – August 12, 2012

Please join us at the opening of the art show On the Bay, celebrating the seventh time that

Alan Stein’s artwork has been used for Festival brochures and posters. Alan is a painter and a

printmaker, concentrating on pastels, charcoal on paper and limited edition books with his

own illustrations. He is a member of the Canadian Society of Painters

in Water Colour, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Society of Canadian Artists.

S AT U R DAY J U LY 2 1 , 2 01 2Opening Reception

3:00 pm — Artist Present



The Grand Finale

Musicians to include: carolyn maule, russell braun, denis brott,

glen montgomery, mark fewer, leslie fagan, beverley Johnston

gordon mok, mary lou fallis, moshe hammer, James campbell,

suzanne shulman, graham campbell, gene dinovi, dave young,

anne robert, Paul marleyn, festival winds, Penderecki string Quartet

Is it a concert or is it a party? The open seating will bring back memories

of the old Festival Hall, without the heat. Admission is free. The musicians

are donating their performances to show their love for Margie on her last

day as Executive Director of the Festival of the Sound.

Join us in this happy celebration.

A passionate music lover, storyteller, accomplished trombonist, writer and broadcaster, Tom Allen continues to bring a wealth of experience to CBC Radio 2. Allen hosted Radio 2’s former morning drive show MUSIC AND COMPANY from September 1998 – 2008. Prior to this, his weekly stories aired to a keen Ontario audience on CBC Radio One’s Fresh Air, and nationally on This Morning.He has had three books published - Toe Rubber Blues (1999), Rolling Home - A Cross-Canada Railroad Memoir, (2001) and most recently The Gift of The Game. Allen studied at McGill University, graduated from Boston University and received his MA at Yale University. In 1987 he began touring with the Great Lakes Brass until he joined CBC Radio in Halifax.

The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet offers performances of “startling intensity” with a “powerful, keen-edged collective sound”. Winner 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 2011/12 season the Afiara will perform concerts at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre in New York City, at Stamford Chamber Music Group in Connecticut, ProMusica San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, Music at Kohl Mansion in California, Chamber Music Cincinnati, Art Center Chamber Music Concerts in New Jersey, and elsewhere in North America.

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Festival Musicians’ Biographies

Tom AllenPeter BarrettBorodin QuartetDavid Braid Kate Bevan-BakerLori Gemmell

Ed HanleyLuanda JonesDrew JureckaAnne LindsayKerry-Ann KutzStephen Nguyen

Patricia O’CallaghanEnsemble Made in CanadaMartin RoscoeKrisztina SzaboRH Thomson

Alexander TselyakovDaniel TselyakovViva MexicoJoe PhilipsTrio VoceDinuk Wijeratne

Welcome to all 2012 Festival Musicians. A special welcome to those new the Festival this summer.

Lydia Adams is Artistic Director of both the Elmer Iseler Singers and the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, ensembles which are national leaders in commissioning, premiering, performing and recording Canadian choral works. A native of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, she received her musical education at Mount Allison University, the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio, London, England. An innovative programmer, Lydia Adams has included over 40 new commissions in the past 10 years. Her own compositions are performed worldwide. In 2003, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Allison University for her ser-vice to music in Canada. In 2009 Lydia Adams won the prestigious Ontario Premier’s Finalist Award for Excellence in the Arts, which recognizes her outstanding achievement and contribution to arts and culture.


Kate Bevan-Baker was born in Newfoundland but moved to Brockville, Ontario before she was one year old. From the moment she picked up a fiddle at age five, Kate was hooked. Trained classically, Kate has always loved to experiment with other genres such as traditional and jazz music. Kate received her Bachelor of Music Performance from Memorial University of Newfoundland in May 2010. She is currently pursuing her Masters degree in Violin Performanceat McGill University. Since moving to Montreal, Kate has been Concertmaster of the McGill Symphony Orchestra and was awarded a Schulich Scholarship at the McGill School of Music. She can be heard on eleven CDs varying in musical styles from celtic to jazz and classical.

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 Honore Derazy Pere from 1852, and a viola by Stanley Kiernoziak from 2003.

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 husband, oboist James Mason, she founded the Grand River Baroque Festival.

Recipient of the Ian Rosenblatt Bursary at the Wexford Festival in Ireland and a top prize winner in the Montreal International Music Competition, baritone Peter Barrett is one of Canada’s most important new faces on the opera and concert stage. Peter has sung across Canada in major concert halls, including the North York Performing Arts Centre and the Rosza Centre in Calgary. He studied at Hartwick College in the United States, attended Tanglewood’s Music Institute and is a graduate of the Glenn Gould Professional School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto where he studied under Roxolana Roslak and Peter Tiefenbach. Peter Barrett is also generously supported by the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation.

For more than sixty-five years, the Borodin Quartet has been celebrated for its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. In addition to performing quartets, the members of the Borodin Quartet regularly join forces with other distinguished musicians to further explore the chamber music repertoire. The Quartet’s first release on the Onyx label, featuring Borodin, Schubert, Webern and Rachmaninov, was nominated for a Grammy in the 2005 “Best Chamber Performance” category. The Borodin Quartet has produced a rich heritage of recordings over several decades, for labels including EMI, RCA and Teldec.

david bourque has played clarinet and bass clarinet in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 1983. Prior to his appointment 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 leading bassethorn player.

Peter Appleyard is a versatile studio percussionist and nightclub/TV personality in Toronto, he moved to Canada in 1951 as a drummer and soon turned to the vibraphone.Appleyard’s TV shows included the CBC’s Mallets and Brass (1969) and the syndicated Peter Appleyard Presents (1977-80). Appleyard, who has conducted his Canadian career with a keen instinct for popular tastes, has recorded several light-instrumental albums, including Swing Fever (1982), as well as the jazz CDs Barbados Hot and Barbados Cool (1990). His version of The Lincolnshire Poacher was a pop hit in the early 1970s. Appleyard has worked abroad with Benny Goodman, Dick Hyman, Mel Tormé, Bob Wilber and other noted US jazz musicians.

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 audi-ences throughout North America, Europe, China and Russia. In addition 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. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, James holds a Masters Degree from The Juilliard School. Leslie Kinton is on the faculties of The Glenn Gould School and the University of Western Ontario.


Five tremendous brass musicians — each a virtuoso in his own right — form the legendary Canadian Brass. With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.” The varied Canadian Brass repertoire features brass standards as well as a wide-ranging library of original arrangements created especially for them. These include the works of Renaissance and Baroque masters, Classical works, marches, holiday favorites, ragtime, Dixieland, Latin, jazz, big band, Broadway and Christian music as well as popular songs and standards. With a discography of over 100 albums and an extensive world-wide touring schedule, Canadian Brass is an important pioneer in bringing brass music to mass audiences everywhere.

James Campbell has been Artistic Director of the Festival of the Sound, since 1985 and has programmed approximately 1100 festival concerts during his 28 seasons. 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. In addition to concerts across Canada and the United States, this year he travelled abroad to Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, and Brazil. He has appeared in over 30 countries and has performed with over 60 orchestras. His recording of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet with the Allegri String Quartet was chosen by the London Times as the best available. This year, James was granted an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from Wilfred Laurier University.

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 performed 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.

Founder and Artistic Director of the prize-winning Montreal Chamber Music Festival and Professor at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, cellist Denis Brott is recognized internationally as one of Canada’s finest performing musicians. A devoted chamber musician, Denis Brott spent eight years in the Orford String Quartet during which time he recorded 25 chamber music discs. Denis Brott is also a passionate pedagogue. Mr. Brott is currently professor of cello and chamber music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (1990). In 1985, Denis Brott played a pivotal role in the creation of the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank which gave him a magnificent 1706 David Tecchler cello for his lifetime use.

The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge comprises around thirty choral scholars and two organ scholars, all of whom are ordinarily undergraduates of the College. The College’s choral tradition dates back to the all-male choir of the fourteenth century, when former Chapel Royal choristers studied in King’s Hall which later became part of Trinity College. Directors of Music have included Charles Villiers Stanford, Alan Gray, Raymond Leppard and Richard Marlow. In a new departure for Cambridge choral music, Richard Marlow founded the current mixed choir in the 1980s. Stephen Layton has been Director of Music since 2006.

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 andinternationally. 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.

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.

Hailed in the Canadian press as “A jazz genius to call our own” (MacLean’s Magazine), Juno award winning David Braid is among a new generation of Canadian artists making his mark on international stages. Braid has performed across Western Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Australia, Brazil, the United States and Canada. Braid graduated from the University of Toronto in 1998 and was nominated for the Canadian Governor General’s Academic Medal. Since that time, he has produced eight recordings, garnering five Juno nominations. In addition to performing and composing, Braid is on faculty at the University of Toronto, and is an honorary guest professor at Xinghai Conservatory.


Luba Edlina-Dubinsky started playing piano at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine (then USSR). She made her first public appearance at the age of nine and by age seventeen she was accepted to the prestigious Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Upon the completion of her studies under the guidance of the renowned professor Yakov Flier, Mrs. Edlina-Dubinsky graduated with distinction. From 1976 to 1981 Mrs. Dubinsky held a professorship at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands. Since 1981 she has been living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is Professor of Piano at the Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

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.

Peter DeSotto is a remarkable talent who’s chameleon like abilities allow him to perform on the violin not only as a seasoned classical violinist but also as a dazzling gypsy virtuoso. If that is not enough the real surprise is his fabulous tenor voice, which ranges from South America, to authentic Irish folk, to the great romantic Italian songs and arias including Turandots “Nessun Dorma”. DeSotto has been referred to as “a credible Pavarotti stand-in (Stereo Review). Peter has appeared in leading roles in numerous opera and theatre productions and was a member of The Toronto Symphony Orchestra for 11 years, and was voted Musician Of The Year in 1999 by the Toronto Musicians Association.

Steven Dann’s career has covered a wealth of violistic possibilities. As principal viola of some of the world’s leading orchestras, as a veteran of the string quartet and chamber music world, as soloist and recitalist and as a dedicated teacher, Mr. Dann has left all the doors open. As both a performer and teacher, Mr. Dann is a regular guest at many international festivals and arts schools. He teaches viola and chamber music at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music and is the Coordinator of the chamber music programs at the Domaine Forget in Quebec and the National Arts Centre’s Summer Music Institute in Ottawa. Mr. Dann plays a viola of Joseph Gagliano, circa 1780.

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 organization 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.

Mark DuBois is universally acclaimed for his outstanding lyric tenor voice, its exceptional clarity and tonal purity, and his art-istry 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 (nominated for a Juno) with pianist Gloria Saarinen and The Music Within, a compilation of favourites from operetta, broadway and song.

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 studied 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 pursued 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.


Mark Fewer’s most recent appointment is to the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, where he teaches violin, chamber music, and string improvisation. He is Artistic Director of the SweetWater Music Weekend in Owen Sound, Ontario and is a regular 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.

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, principal 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).

Mary Lou Fallis holds a unique position in the music scene as “Canada’s foremost musical comedienne.” Known to thousands of viewers and listeners across the country for the Bravo! television series Bathroom Divas, her CBC Radio series Diva Diaries, and to hundreds of theatre-goers for her Primadonna series of one-woman shows, Ms. Fallis in her inimitable way, has re-invented the classical music comedy genre. A favourite of the late great Anna Russell, Ms. Fallis made her operatic debut at 16 years of age as the Second Spirit in a CBC Television production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. After obtaining the first Master’s degree in Performance and Literature from the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, her career has encompassed performances of major oratorios and choral works with leading orchestras, as well as opera.

Leslie Fagan’s exceptional artistry and talent continue to garner 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.

Janina Fialkowska began her piano studies with her mother at age four, graduated from the Université de Montréal at 17 and became the pupil of Yvonne Lefebure in Paris. In New York she studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Sasha Gorodnitzki. Her career was launched by the legendary Arthur Rubinstein after her performances at the first international piano competition held in his name in Israel in 1974. Janina Fialkowska has performed with all the major North American and international orchestras with such conductors as Sir Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit and Zubin Mehta. In January, 2002 her career was brought to a dramatic halt by the discovery of a tumour in her left arm. After successful surgery to remove the cancer, she underwent a rare muscle transfer procedure and has now resumed her two-handed career.

Canadian-born cellist Adrian Fung is a founding member of the Afiara String Quartet, winners of the Concert Artist Guild International Competition in New York and top prizes at the Munich ARD and Banff International String Quartet Competitions. A new music enthusiast, Adrian premiered several works from many composers, including a cello concerto and an amplified piece for solo cello, both written for him by Huck Hodge and commissioned by the International Society for Contemporary Music. Adrian studied cello with Bonnie Hampton, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Fred Sherry, Antonio Lysy, David Hetherington and Susan Gagnon. After receiving diplomas from McGill University and Mannes College of Music, Adrian earned a Bachelor’s from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was also a teaching assistant to the Juilliard String Quartet.

Leopoldo Erice is a Spanish pianist born in Madrid in 1977. He studied music in his home country, in Holland, and in the US, with Joaquín Soriano, Rian de Waal, Leonard Hokanson and Emile Naoumoff. He was a fellow of the prestigious “la Caixa” Foundation Fellowship Program. He has won prestigious national and international prices, among which the “Ciudad de Albacete” and the “Acisclo Fernández” stand out. The audiences have always enthusiastically acclaimed his numerous performances and broadcasts around the world. He is Assistant Professor of Music (Piano and Chamber Music) at the American University of Sharjah (UAE) and the founder and director of the Festival Internacional de Música Clásica de Ribadeo (Spain).

Ensemble Made in Canada is rapidly gaining recognition as Canada’s premier piano quartet. Awarded the 2006 CBC Galaxie Stars Award from the Banff Centre for the Arts, the quartet was also featured in 2008 Chatelaine Magazine’s 80 women to watch as an ensemble that is leading the next generation of classical musicians. The members of the group, violinist Elissa Lee, violist Sharon Wei, cellist Rachel Mercer and pianist Angela Park, have been forging outstanding individual careers and bring together a shared love of chamber music and a wealth of experience having already appeared at prestigious festivals such as Marlboro, Ravinia, Orford, Verbier, Prussia Cove, Pablo Casals and Evian.


Cynthia Hiebert has performed both traditional and contemporary 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 performance 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.’

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.

Ed Hanley began his tabla training in Toronto, Canada with Ritesh Das, and has studied with master drummers Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri in California, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee in Calcutta and Taalyogi Suresh Talwalkar in Pune. His interest in all aspects of Indian classical rhythm have led him to study outside of the Hindustani tabla tradition as well, focusing on Karnatic vocal percussion and drumming traditions. His studies have been supported by a number of funding bodies including The Canada Council, The Ontario Arts Council and The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Ed has composed, produced, and engineered a number of compositions for dance and film out of his own studio, and has co-produced three autorickshaw albums with Suba Sankaran, including the critically acclaimed, JUNO nominated CDs, Four Higher and So The Journey Goes.

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.”

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 performance 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.

Cellist Marc Johnson, after study at the Eastman School, continued at Indiana University with Janos Starker and Josef Gingold. The youngest member of the Rochester Philharmonic at age eighteen, 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 pianist 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.

Having impressed international audiences and the press with their highly refined, dynamic performances, the Gryphon Trio has firmly established itself as one of the world’s preeminent piano trios. With a repertoire that ranges from the traditional to the contemporary 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 season 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.

Lori Gemmell has been a musician all her life. Growing up in Montreal, as the child of a Presbyterian minister and a musically passionate mother, singing, and playing music were her natural state of being. University studies in Toronto with the renowned teacher and harpist Judy Loman were the obvious next step earning both an undergraduate and Masters’ degree from the University of Toronto. In 1999, Lori won the position of Principal Harpist with the KWS, where she still plays today. One year later she was a prize-winner at the Canadian Concerto Competition. She also has been a teacher for many years, both with a private studio and a faculty position at Wilfrid Laurier University.


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.

Stephen Layton is the Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the City of London Sinfonia. Layton guest conducts widely, including the Philadelphia, Minnesota, London Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Ulster, Bournemouth, Royal Scottish National, Britten Sinfonia, Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music and with English, Scottish, Irish and Australian chamber orchestras. For English National Opera he conducted Bach’s St John Passion in a stage production with Deborah Warner. Layton founded Polyphony in 1986 whilst organ scholar of King’s College Cambridge. He is Chief Guest Conductor of the Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Music Director of Holst Singers and in 2006 was made a Fellow and Director of Music of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Kerry-Anne Kutz is a singer/songwriter and recording artist. She performs a wide range of styles from pop, folk and jazz to classical music. Kerry-Anne was the first woman in Canada chosen to be a member of the RCMP Band based in Ottawa. She has performed throughout Canada and around the world to the delight of audiences and to the acclaim of critics. She earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master’s degree in performance at the Université de Montréal. A passionate promoter of Canadian music, Kerry-Anne has collaborated with many Canadian composers and musicians in concert. In addition to maintaining a busy performance schedule from her base in Montreal she also teaches voice to more than 30 vocal students. Her students’ curriculum includes an annual concert of Canadian music.

George Koller (bassist, cellist, sitar player, pianist, guitarist, sarode player, mandolin player, diruba player, vocalist) was born December 9, 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has accumulated hundreds of widely diverse performing and recording credits in his expansive musical career working with The Shuffle Demons, Phil Woods, Peter Gabriel, Loreena McKennitt, Bruce Cockburn, Holly Cole, Ian Tyson, and many, many others. Recognized primarily as a bass player, George plays a variety of instruments; many featured on his award-winning solo CD, Music for Plants, Animals, and Humans. He has performance and/or producer credits on over 500 CDs. George Koller continues to perform and produce concerts and recordings in the jazz, world and Indian Classical music styles.

Anne Lindsay has established herself as one of the most engaging and versatile instrumentalists in Canada, adapting her unique violin/fiddle style to the eclectic sounds and musical languages of this country’s rich cultural texture. She recently won the 2011 OCFF Songs From The Heart – Instrumental Award and is a nominee for Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year at this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards. In 2007 Anne was named Violinist of the Year at the National Jazz Awards, Solo Instrumentalist and Producer of the Yearat the 2007 Canadian Folk Music Awards. In 2006 she won both the KM Hunter Award from the Ontario Arts Council and the Songs From the Heart - Instrumental category from theOntario Council of Folk Festivals.

Drew Jurecka, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music where he studied with Lorand Fenyves, Drew has played with the Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra, the Canton Symphony, and has played the Hollywood Bowl with Diana Krall, Shirley Horn and Dianne Reeves. He has also appeared with the Roberto Rosenman Quartet, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, is a featured soloist with Jeff Healey’s Jazz Wizards, and has even starred in a film Liszt’s Rhapsody playing a gypsy violinist.

Emerging Brazilian singer/songwriter Luanda Jones has been captivating audiences for over a decade with her unique blend of suave, jazz inflected vocals and stylized guitar harmonies, passionately interpreting some of the South American nation’s most cherished popular musical traditions. Drawing from the effervescent wellspring of Brazil’s diverse MPB (Brazilian Pop Music) genre, Luanda colours the expansive, encyclopedic sonic shades of her cherished influences with an unforgettable vocal charm and entirely welcoming onstage personality. Luanda has battled through the initial struggles and is quickly making a name for herself in the Toronto music scene. A staple at the city’s Lula Lounge, she has opened for a host of both local and international artists, including Brazilian singer and virtuoso guitarist Badi Assad, Carmen Souza, Lady Son, and LAL.

A charismatic performer and outstanding musician, Beverley Johnston is internationally recognized for her virtuosic performances on a wide range of percussion instruments. Her performances 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!


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. 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. Rachel has given masterclasses at schools, conservatories and universities across North America, South Africa and in Israel. Rachel can be heard on the Naxos, Dalia Classics and EnT-T record labels.

James McKay maintains an active schedule as a bassoon-ist, conductor, acoustic researcher, university professor and adjudicator. 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 published 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.

Born in Saskatchewan and raised in Ontario, baritone Peter McGillivray gained international attention in 2005 by winning 2nd prize both at the Montreal International Musical Competition and at the Queen Sonja Competition in Oslo, Norway. He recently returned to the Canadian Opera Company as Schaunard in La Bohème, followed by a great personal success as the tortured protagonist in the World Premiere of Omar Daniel’s The Shadow. His 2010 season was busy with Messiah with the Elmer Iseler Singers, Die Fledermaus with Opera Hamilton and Dark Star Requiem with Tapestry New Opera Works. On the summer festival circuit, he has sung at the Elora, Orford, Ottawa Chamber Music, and Parry Sound Festivals in Canada and the Aspen, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Roskilde and Aldeburgh Festivals internationally.

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.

Thirteen year old pianist from Parry Sound, Gordon Mok, has studied 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 following year was awarded second place at the Canadian Chinese Piano Competition in Toronto. In the spring of 2011, Gordon travelled to Rome, Italy, where he became the second place winner in his age category at the International Mozart Piano Competition.

Canadian pianist Carolyn Maule is much in demand as a vocal accompanist. She has accompanied such renowned artists 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.

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 chamber 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.

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.


Pianist Angela Park has established herself as one of Canada’s leading young musicians. Equally accomplished in both solo and chamber music experience, Angela’s versatility has led to continued success in performances across Canada, as well as in parts of the United States, Europe, Japan and Mexico. Angela’s musical and academic education includes violin performance at the national level for ten years and studies in Biology at the University of Western Ontario. After studying with William Aide at the University of Toronto, Angela earned her Master of Music Degree in Performance with highest honours in 2003. Angela completed the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Performance at the Université de Montréal, where her studies were directed by Paul Stewart. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

Patricia O’Callaghan was born and raised in Northern Ontario and has lived, studied and picked up the local languages in Mexico, Quebec, Germany, and France. She trained at the University of Toronto and The Banff Centre for the Arts. She divides her time between recording, touring, and collaborating on projects such as singing with Bryn Terfel at Roy Thompson Hall and touring the multimedia opera Constantinople by Christos Hatzis, produced by The Gryphon Trio. Patricia O’Callaghan is achieving her heart’s ambition to bring her distinctive brand of cabaret to a broad-based audience. She has released two new CDs: Broken Hearts and Madmen with The Gryphon Trio and Matador: The Songs of Leonard Cohen.

John Novacek regularly tours the Americas, Europe and Asia as solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. John is a much sought after collaborative artist, has given numerous world premieres and worked closely with composers John Adams, John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, John Williams, and John Zorn. Novacek’s own compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Pacific Symphony, The 5 Browns, Harrington String Quartet, Ying Quartet, Millennium, Quattro Mani and The Three Tenors. John records for 13 labels and is often heard on radio broadcasts worldwide. Of his recording ‘Novarags,’ the Seattle Times states “more than half of the 23 rags are Novacek’s original compostions or arrangements. At his best, he rivals some of William Bolcom’s superb contributions to this literature.”

Phil Nimmons was raised in Vancouver and began playing clarinet in high school. Through his post- secondary years at the University of British Columbia, he played in local dance bands and joined the jazz quintet of guitarist Ray Norris. He earned a scholarship to study at the Julliard School of Music in New York and later studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.One of the country’s most outstanding jazz artists, Phil is widely acknowledged as having done more than almost any other musician to bring jazz into the mainstream of Canadian culture. He is unique in this country as a performer, composer, educator, clinician and artistic director of music programs.

In the realm of Canadian pianists, Jamie Parker, quite simply, is among the best known. Accomplished, versatile, brilliant, are descriptors all frequently linked to this most sought after artist.Jamie’s musical roots can be traced to the Vancouver Academy of Music and University of British Columbia where he studied with Kum Sing Lee, and then went on to complete his Masters and Doctoral with Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School. Dr. Parker continues the teaching tradition as the Rupert E. Edwards Chair in Piano Performance on the music faculty at the University of Toronto. A consummate professional, Jamie is recognized as a soloist and chamber musician. He is the pianist for Canada’s foremost ensemble: the Gryphon Trio. From his vast discography Jamie has earned two JUNO recording awards and many other nominations.

Stephen Nguyen, 15 year-old pianist, is establishing himself as one of Canada’s most distinguished young musicians. His enthusiastic and intensely musical performances are earning him accolades throughout the music world. In the past two years, Stephen was named the grand prize winner in 2011 and earned the highest marks of any pianist in any age category for the Canadian Music Competitions. He was winner of the Alberta Provincial Music Festival, and was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts in 2011. In 2005 he started lessons with his teacher, Glen Montgomery, professor at the University of Lethbridge and Mount Royal Conservatory. For the past six years Stephen has been part of the prestigious Academy program at Mount Royal in which he has performed with fine chamber music ensembles.

Pianist Glen Montgomery is a highly respected musician who maintains an active career performing and teaching. He travels extensively, performing as a soloist and in collaboration with chamber musicians. After tremendous success in his teens as a soloist (piano), Glen Montgomery chose to broaden his life and musical experience by teaching, travelling, vocal and instrumental coaching (as faculty instructor in the Advanced Training Program at the Banff School of Fine Arts), forming his own piano trio, and by composing. He has performed frequently on CBC Radio and has recorded for Icelandic Radio and television, Belarus television, and PBS radio in the United States.

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 musicians 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.


Martin Roscoe is a versatile pianist, equally at home in concerto, recital and chamber performances. In an ever more distinguished career, his enduring popularity and the respect in which he is universally held are built on a deeply thoughtful musicianship allied to an easy rapport with audiences and fel-low musicians alike. Recent and future engagements include appearances with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Martin is also Artistic Director of Ribble Valley International Piano Week and Beverley Chamber Music Festival. Teaching has always been an important part of Martin’s life and the development of young talent helps him to constantly re-examine and re-evaluate his own playing. He is currently a Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music in London.

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 unforgettable musical journey! For over a decade, this dazzling ensemble 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 mastery, 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.

Alexander Sevastian was born on October 2nd, 1976 in Minsk, Belarus. He started playing the accordion at the age of seven. After finishing the musical school in 1991 he entered the Glinka Musical College in Minsk where he was taught by Myron Boula. After finishing the college he entered the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow in the class of Professor Friedrich Lips. In July 1998, Alexander was trained by Professor Elsbeth Moser at the Sofia Goubaidulina Master Class in Avignon, France. Since September 2002 Alexander has been playing with an internationally recognized group “Quartetto Gelato”. He has been touring regularly in both the United States and Canada with this ensemble.

Christian Sharpe is a former member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and a sought after performer of orchestral and chamber music on the bassoon, contra-bassoon, and saxophone. He has performed regularly at the Festival of the Sound, the Elora Festival, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, and has been heard in recent seasons with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal , the Toronto Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Kirov Theatre, working with conductors Zubin Mehta and Valery Gergiev among others. In summer of 2008 Christian was a member of the Shaw Festival orchestra in the productions of Wonderful Town by Bernstein and Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, performing on both the saxophone and bassoon.

Mezzo soprano Gabrielle Prata is known for a host of roles ranging from opera to musical theatre. She made her New York debut as Rosina in National Grand Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, which she also sang for Opera Hamilton, Markham Opera and Pacific Opera, Victoria. Favourite operatic roles include Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (Canadian Opera Company), Carmen (Carmen) Opera North, Adalgisa in Norma (Gold Coast Opera, Florida), Cenerentola (La Cenerentola) Bermuda Festival and Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera) Colorado Music Festival. Known for her versatility, Gabrielle Prata’s concert repertoire ranges from Handel’s Messiah, to pops concerts. Gabrielle Prata was also the winner of many competitions and awards and has been broadcast internationally on radio and television.

Approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, Penderecki String Quartet has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musicians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional 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 country’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.

Blessed with a rich voice and thrilling top notes, Newfoundland tenor David Pomeroy has caught the attention of artistic directors internationally. Mr Pomeroy has been a soloist with all of the major orchestras and choral companies throughout Canada. Future 11/12 appearances include Carmen with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Hoffmann in Toronto with the Canadian Opera Company, Faust at the MET, New Years Eve gala at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, La Traviata with New York City Opera at BAM and a concert of La Boheme with Kingston Symphony.


Suzanne Shulman studied with Robert Aitken and in Europe with Marcel Moyse, Michel Debost and Jean-Pierre Rampal. In her international 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 international 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-born James Sommerville is Principal Horn for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Hamilton Philharmonic. Before moving to Boston in 1998, he was principal horn of the Canadian Opera Company and Symphony Nova Scotia, acting principal horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (1996-1998), associate principal horn of the Montreal Symphony (1986-1991) and third horn of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1997). Jamie Sommerville has also performed and recorded internationally as a chamber musician and soloist and teaches currently at the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. His CD of the Mozart horn concertos with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra won the Juno Award for Best Classical Recording.

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 position 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.

Jeffrey Stokes studied double bass and musicology at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. He subsequently 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, undergraduate 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 narratoractor, 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.

Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó has become highly sought after in both North America and Europe as an artist of supreme musicianship and stagecraft. The Chicago Tribune exclaimed, “Krisztina Szabó stole her every scene with her powerful, mahogany voice and deeply poignant immersion in the empress’ plight” after her performance of Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea. She made her Lincoln Center début as Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Ms. Szabó finished her postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England, after completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario studying with Darryl Edwards, with whom she continues to study. She has been the recipient of the Emerging Artist grant from Canada Council.

The Swiss Piano Trio is the 2005 first prize winner of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria. Their extraordinary success in international competitions together with concerts worldwide has made the Swiss Piano Trio with pianist Martin Lucas Staub, violinist Angela Golubeva and cellist Sébastien Singer one of the leading chamber music ensembles of its generation. Since its founding in 1998, the ensemble has given successful concerts in more than 35 countries on all continents. It has performed in major halls such as the Tonhalle in Zurich, Casino Berne, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Wigmore Hall in London and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In November 2007 the new Triple Concerto, written by Daniel Schnyder and commissioned by the Swiss Piano Trio, was premiered to great acclaim.

Gord Sheard (pianist, composer, arranger, educator) Toronto native Sheard, a graduate of York University has been active in the jazz scene in Canada for three decades including tours with Chuck Mangione, performing with and acting as producer for Manteca and Montuno Police, Eliana Cuevas and Carol Welsman. He has recorded with Phil Dwyer and Rick Shadarch Lazar, as well as producing and composing for television and film, In 2006, he released his much awaited CD, “Crucible”. He is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Ethnomusicology at York University focusing on Brazilian traditional and popular music and teaches at Humber College.

Born in Oakville Ontario in 1961, raised in St. Catharines, John Sherwood started his formal training at the age of five. His formal (classical) piano training came entirely in the form of pri-vate instruction by several teachers throughout the fifteen years and by the time John reached high school he was studying at an A.R.C.T. (Associates of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto) level. Today John Sherwood has his own sound. You will not hear as many of the O.P. lines and runs when he sits down to play, but the influence is unmistakable. John was able to look beyond the blind-ing technique and blistering tempos and realize what makes any piano player great: Touch.


Alexander Tselyakov is recognized as one of Canada’s most outstanding musicians. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan , Alexander Tselyakov began his piano studies at age 5 in the Special School for Gifted Children at the Baku Conservatory. A student of Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory, Tselyakov combines virtuosity with breathtaking musicality. Tselyakov has appeared as a recitalist at major festivals and concert halls around the world. A busy concert pianist, teacher and chamber musician, Tselyakov collaborates with many leading Canadian musicians. His knowledge of the repertoire and exquisite sense of program balance make him a valuable artistic director of music festivals in Clear Lake, Manitoba and Pender Harbour, BC. He resides in Manitoba where he is Professor of Piano at Brandon University School of Music.

Trio Voce is a spectacular piano trio that thrills audiences with their passion, enthusiasm and ability to make the written music come alive. The three individuals of Trio Voce communicate as one voice (“voce” in Italian), whether they are performing the repertoire of Haydn or that of the present day. All three members, Jasmine Lin, Marina Hoover and Patricia Tao, are established musicians, who have studied with some of the great masters at schools such as Curtis, Yale and Harvard, have a demonstrated depth of experience as collaborators and as performers on the international stages throughout the world, and have championed recent music through commissions, premieres and recordings of works by living composers. Their collaboration in this Trio has resulted in a new and outstanding synergy.

For the last ten years, Trio Hochelaga has been delighting audiences with the depth of its musicianship, precision of its ensemble, and originality of its programming. Violinist Anne Robert, cellist Paul Marleyn and pianist Stéphane Lemelin share their passion for the chamber music repertoire, ranging from the Classical era to contemporary music, and placing a particular emphasis on French music, whose lesser-known treasures they have actively explored. Bearing Montreal’s original Iroquois name, Trio Hochelaga has toured extensively throughout Canada, as well as Great Britain, the United States, Bermuda, Japan, China and Taiwan. Resident chamber ensemble of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, Trio Hochelaga presents an annual five-concert series in Montréal, often premiering newly commissioned works.

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 entertainment, 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 experiences with international stars.

Born into a musical family in 1992, Daniel Tselyakov began his piano studies at the age of five with his father, pianist Alexander Tselyakov. Daniel has studied two years at Brandon University with Michael Kim and Alexander Tselyakov. He will soon be attending Oberlin Conservatory this upcoming fall with Monique Duphil. By the age of 14, Daniel had performed Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 as a soloist with the Penderecki String Quartet. Daniel has been accepted with a full scholarship for the prestigious Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artist International Program at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada.

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 teaching tenure at the University of Toronto and a long-time adjudicator 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.

Robert Holmes Thomson studied at the University of Toronto, Ontario , the National Theatre School of Canada and in England. He is now one of the Canada’s most accomplished film, television and stage actors. He has played lead roles in many of the country’s major venues. RH Thomson has also directed at Neptune Theatre , Theatre Plus , Bard on the Beach, Ship’s Company Theatre, and Theatre in the Park. He has been awarded numerous Canadian film and theatre awards, including a Dora Mavor Moore and the 1992 Toronto Drama Bench Award. In 1996 he was honoured by the National Theatre School with the Gascon-Thomas Award in recognition of his career and activism in the arts. In 2010, he was inducted into the Order of Canada.

Peter Tiefenbach enjoys an extraordinarily varied career as a performer, composer and teacher. A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, he studied music in Canada, the United States and England, before settling in Toronto in 1986. His unique combination of talents has established his reputation as a gifted pianist, mentor and creator.Mr. Tiefenbach’s recordings include arrangements for Les Chemins de l’amour and Kabarett, with Jean Stilwell (CBC Records); for the Juno Award-winning Azul‹o, with Isabel Bayrakdarian (CBC Records), and for People of Faith, with The Canadian Brass and Elmer Iseler Singers. His compositions and arrangements are also featured on Remembrance, with Stuart Laughton (Marquis Classics), and Opening Day (both Opening Day Records).


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 principalDouble 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, recording and Festival performances, Dave Young also teaches at numerous seminars and jazz clinics, as well as being a faculty member of Humber College and the University of Toronto.

Ensemble Members

July 22nd, 2:30 PmFestival Winds:Suzanne Shulman, fluteJames Mason, oboeJames Campbell, clarinetJim McKay, bassoonKen MacDonald, horn

August 10th, 12:00 PM Festival WindsJames Mason, oboeBrian James, oboeJames Campbell, clarinetDavid Bourque, clarinetJim McKay, bassoonChristian Sharpe, bassoonJames Sommerville, hornNeil Spaulding, hornJoel Quarrington, bass

August 11th, 7:30 PMFestival Chamber OrchestraJames Sommerville, conductorMoshe Hammer, violin soloistYehonatan Berick, violin soloist

Suzanne Shulman, fluteJames Mason, oboeBrian James, oboeJames Campbell, clarinetDavid Bourque, clarinetJim McKay, bassoonChristian Sharpe, bassoonNeil Spaulding, hornKen MacDonald, horn

Jeremy Bell, violinJerzy Kaplanek, violin Elissa Lee, violinVicki Dvorak, violinAnna Luhowy, violinAnne Robert, violinJudith Davenport, violaChristine Vlajk, violaSharon Wei, violaRoman Borys, celloJacob Braun, celloDennis Brott, celloPaul Marleyn, celloRachel Mercer, celloJoel Quarrington, bassJeffrey Stokes, bass

festival winds & festival ensemble

the choir of trinity college cambridgeConductor/ Music Director Stephen Layton

Soprano Rachel Ambrose EvansAnna CavalieroSusannah KnightsBethany PartridgeHannah PartridgeMary PriceJulia St ClairAmy StewartCatherine WhiteGeorgina Whittington

AltoAntonia BeardsallHelen CharlstonJessica DandyHelen DanielsMichael HamwayGuy JamesAmy Lyddon-TowlLucy PrendergastTed Tregear

TenorHiroshi AmakoArchie BottGwilym BowenJames GreenwoodDavid KnappettBarnaby MartinCameron Richardson-Eames

BassHenry Anderson- ElliottMichael CraddockChristopher HowarthMatthew Middleton- JonesJustin SheeLaurence WilliamsWilliam Winning

Organ scholarsSimon BlandJeremy Cole

Described by the New York Times as ‘exuberantly creative’, and by the Toronto Star as ‘an artist who reflects a positive vision of our cultural future’, Sri Lankan-born Dinuk Wijeratne is one of Canada’s most eclectic and distinctive composer/ performers. Dinuk grew up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, before taking up composition studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, UK. A passionate educator, Dinuk lectures at the universities of Dalhousie and Acadia, and is returning for his seventh season as Music Director of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra. He has conducted the National Arts Centre Orchestra and appeared numerous times with Symphony Nova Scotia during his 3-year appointment as Conductor-in-Residence.

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Sharlene Wallace is one of Canada’s most prolific and influential Celtic harpists. Classically trained on piano and having studied Classical harp with Judy Loman at the University of Toronto, Sharlene discovered the lever (Celtic) harp to be her creative and expressive vehicle for writing, arranging and recording. She has won two international lever harp competitions, recorded five independent CDs, and tours constantly across North America giving concerts and master classes. Sharlene performs as a soloist as well as with bass player George Koller, flute and piano player Susan Piltch and accordion and fiddle player from BC Adrian Dolan. Sharlene is on the Faculties of York and Guelph Universities and is the Principal Harpist with both the Kingston and Oakville Symphony Orchestras.

Through outstanding performances, Viva Mexico Mariachi has earned the preference of Mexican Consulate in Toronto and has become the number one choice to perform in all Festivals and official events sponsored by them. In addition the group has performed at Harbourfront Centre, Ontario Place, Wonderland, Toronto Metro Convention Centre, and CBC TV’s “Drangon’s Den” Show.

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Acknowledgements

THE FESTIVAL OF THE SOUND’S 2012 BOARD OF DIRECTORS THANKS

THE FOLLOWING FOR GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Arts Presentation FundOntario Arts CouncilOntario Ministry of Culture, Summer Experience ProgramOntario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Ontario Summer Jobs

Parry Sound Municipal Assistance Program

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Artistic Endeavours – Nancy Little & staffCharles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts – Cheryl Ward & staff John Elton & ushersClassical 96.3 FMDoug McNaughtonGeorgian Bay Software – Darryl McMurray & staffH&R Block – Nancy Roy & staff30,000 Island Cruise Lines – Ron and Steven Anderson & staffLinkhouse Media & Linkhost MediaMetroland North Media103.3 Moose FMNear North Business MachinesSara Tyson DesignSt. James-Centennial United Church

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