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Music in the MorningCoffee, Concerts & Commentary
2016–2017season
Welcome to a new decade
of Music in the Morning!
Our 31st season is our opportunity to
celebrate Music in the Morning’s legacy
and look to the future with both inspiring
concerts on our Main series, and the launch
of our new summer festival.
Your concert subscriptions now include seven
performances at the Vancouver Academy on
our much-loved series, plus a choice of one
of the morning concerts that form part of our
new festival, Summer Music Vancouver in July
(summer was just too long without music...).
Our signature series at the Vancouver Academy
of Music welcomes back cellist Colin Carr who
on his last visit transformed us with his perfor-
mances of solo Bach. I am excited our season
opens with the exceptional New Orford String
Quartet, and can’t wait for you to hear the
magical voice of Canadian mezzo-soprano
Wallis Giunta in November.
Looking to engage further, join us for Tuning In
with Eric Friesen. This popular series of talks
with artists introduces the creative world of
some magnificent personalities.
Sincerely,
Barry Shiffman
Executive Artistic Director
Season Supporters
Major Supporters
Season Sponsor
Main Concert Series2016–2017 Season
Coffee 10am • Concert 10:30am
September 14–16, 2016New Orford String Quartet
October 12–14, 2016Colin Carr, celloThomas Sauer, piano
November 16–18, 2016Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano
December 14–16, 2016A Touch of Brass Quintet
January 18–20, 2017Mozart and Bach withDiana Doherty, Terrence Tam and Lorraine Min
February 15–17, 2017Krakauer/Tagg DuoBreath and Hammer
March 15–17, 2017Miriam Fried, violinWorks of Solo Bach
Tuning In: Conversations with Eric FriesenCoffee 10am • Conversation 10:30am
September 28, 2016Emily Molnar
November 30, 2016Judith Forst
February 1, 2017Bill Richardson
March 29, 2017Janina Fialkowska
July 13–14, 2017 • Summer Music VancouverMorning Festival Events (details to come)
THE MARTHA LOU HENLEY
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
MARY & GORDON
CHRISTOPHER FOUNDATION
Jonathan Crow, violinAndrew Wan, violin
Eric Nowlin, violaBrian Manker, cello
September 14–16, 2016 | Coffee 10am, Concert 10:30am
New Orford String Quartet
Generously sponsored by
“These four string virtuosos animate every note with uncommon power and passion as well as elegance.” —john terauds, t oro n t o s t a r
Hailed for their “ravishingly beautiful tone” as well as their
“extraordinary technical skills and musicianship,” the New
Orford String Quartet rose out of the fame and tradition
of its glorious predecessor, one of Canada’s most illustri-
ous music ensembles, the Orford String Quartet.
These stars of the classical music field, all principal players
in the Montreal, Toronto and Detroit Symphony Orches-
tras, come together for a limited touring schedule on a
project-by-project basis, providing a fresh perspective on
interpretations of standard string quartet repertoire. We
are honored to have this JUNO-nominated group open
our season.
From their recent recording on Bridge Records, they will
present the mammoth first Brahms quartet, paired with
the much-loved quartet by Debussy.
Colin Carr appears throughout the world as a soloist,
chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has
played with major orchestras worldwide, including the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal
Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago,
Los Angeles, Washington, Montréal and all the major
orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Carr’s many
awards include First Prize in the Naumburg Competition,
the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award, and Second Prize
in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition.
Joined by American pianist Thomas Sauer, Carr will
perform Bach’s Gamba Sonata in G major, Brahms’ Sonata
in F major op 99, and British composer Thomas Adès’
Lieux Retrouvés, a Canadian premiere.
“Carr’s beautiful sound instantly drew the audience in. It was immediately apparent that this was no ordinary Bach playing, but an original and highly personal interpretation. The phrases melted into each other with an inevitable momentum ….” — jessica bruser, t i m e ou t ho ng ko ng
October 12–14, 2016 | Coffee 10am, Concert 10:30am
Colin Carr, celloThomas Sauer, piano
Generously sponsored by Chris Eynon
November 16–18, 2016 | Coffee 10am, Concert 10:30am
Wallis Giunta, mezzo-sopranoStephen Philcox, piano
Wallis Giunta is a young mezzo who has recently burst
onto the international stage. Having studied in Canada
at The Glenn Gould School, she went on to great
success in New York, where she graduated from both
both the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist
Development Program, and The Juilliard School’s Artist
Diploma Program.
Recent appearances include the Canadian Opera Company,
The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and
Oper Frankfurt. Her total command in the premier of
Louis Andriessen’s one-woman-opera, Anaïs Nin at the
21C festival in Toronto, was the talked-of performance of
the event. Her ability to completely immerse herself in a
role is stupefying, and when coupled with the beauty of
her voice, the result is truly exceptional.
For her recital for MITM, she will sing a program of
songs by Barber, Fleming and Vaughan Williams.
Generously sponsored by
“Giunta’s rich, expressive voice ... has the power to produce a sound that’s suited to whatever particular repertoire she’s singing ... she could switch effortlessly between the angular sound of Weill to the baroque luxury of Handel or the world of John Lennon.” — t h e ot t awa c i t i z e n
December 14–16, 2016 | Coffee 10am, Concert 10:30am
A Touch of Brass Quintet
A Touch of Brass (ATOB) quintet has thrilled, entertained
and educated audiences since its formation in 1978. Co-
founded by its tubist, David Sabourin, the ensemble has
toured across Canada, and around the world. ATOB enjoys
ongoing creative relationships with some of Vancouver’s
finest composers and arrangers, and has been thrilled to
champion music created in BC on the concert stage and
in recording.
A Touch of Brass is expert in virtually every style of music
and is in demand all over BC for both recitals and educational
clinics. The members of the quintet—Tom Shorthouse
and Jim Littleford, trumpets; Ben Kinsman, French horn;
Jeremy Berkman, trombone; and David Sabourin, tuba
and euphonium—have established distinguished careers
as individual performers, as teachers and clinicians, and also
as professional performers in the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and many ensembles
throughout the province, including some of Vancouver’s
finest Jazz Ensembles.
ATOB is thrilled to be returning to the Music in the Morning
stage with a program of traditional brass music and holiday
cheer.
Tom Shorthouse, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet, Piccolo Trumpet
Jim Littleford, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet, Piccolo Trumpet
Ben Kinsmen, French HornJeremy Berkman, Trombone,
EuphoniumDavid Sabourin, Tuba
“Doherty … was riveting, shaping every line and phrase with care, yet throwing herself into the driving rhythms of the outer movements with tremendous energy.” — t h e au s t r a l i a n
Australia’s favourite oboist and Principal of the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra, Diana Doherty, is recognized as
one of the great oboists performing today. On the Music
in the Morning stage, she will be joined by Victoria
Symphony concertmaster Terence Tam, Vancouver
Academy of Music President, Joseph Elworthy, and MITM
Executive Artistic Director Barry Shiffman performing Bach’s
Concerto for Violin and Oboe, and Mozart’s Quartet for
Oboe and Strings. Victoria-based piano soloist Lorraine
Min joins Doherty for the Duo Concertante of Dorati.
Doherty’s notable successes include performing Ross
Edwards’ Concerto for Oboe with the New York, Liverpool
and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, appearances
with Australia’s and New Zealand’s leading Symphony
Orchestras, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne
Chamber Orchestra, and at many international festivals,
including Prague Spring Festival, Spoleto Festival USA,
MusicaRiva Festival, Italy, Bratislava Music Festival.
January 18–20, 2017 | Coffee 10am, Concert 10:30am
Diana Doherty, oboewith Terence Tam, violinLorraine Min, piano
Joseph Elworthy, celloBarry Shiffman, viola
Generously sponsored by
“David Krakauer is such an overwhelmingly expressive clarinetist who moves so seamlessly between different genres that for a minute you’d almost think that there’s no appreciable difference between jazz, klezmer and formal classical music.” — t h e wa l l s t r e e t jou r n a l
Grammy-nominated artist David Krakauer has been
praised internationally as a key innovator in modern
klezmer as well as a major voice in classical music. Known
simply as “Krakauer” to his fervent following, he is nothing
less than an American original who has embarked on a
tremendous journey transforming the music of his Eastern
European Jewish heritage into something uniquely contem-
porary. That journey has lead Krakauer to an astounding
diversity of projects and collaborations ranging from solo
appearances with orchestras to major festival concerts with
his own improvisation based bands.
Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg, South-African-born pianist,
composer, and producer, have been performing together
as a duo since 2012, in a range of musical styles. Their
latest project, “Breath and Hammer,” is an innovative
re-imagining of the traditional clarinet and piano recital
that integrates folk and improvisation-based music with
classical masterworks.
February 15–17, 2017 | Coffee 10am, Concert 10:30am
Krakauer/Tagg DuoBreath & HammerDavid Krakauer, clarinet with Kathleen Tagg, piano
Miriam Fried is recognized as one of today’s major violin
virtuosos and pedagogues in North America, Europe,
the Far East and Israel. A consummate musician—equally
accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber
musician—she has been heralded for her “fiery intensity
and emotional depth” (Musical America) as well as for her
technical mastery. Her supreme blend of artistry and
musicianship continues to inspire audiences worldwide.
She has played with virtually every major orchestra in the
United States and Europe and has been a frequent guest
with the principal orchestras and performed in recital
throughout the US and internationally. A noted pedagogue,
Miriam Fried is on the faculty of New England Conservatory,
and since 1993 has been artistic director of the Ravinia
Festival outside of Chicago.
Her program of solo Bach for MITM is part of an interna-
tional tour that leads to her much-anticipated upcoming
recording in Israel of the complete Sonatas and Partitas.
March 15–17, 2017 | Coffee 10am, Concert 10:30am
Miriam Fried, violinWorks of Solo Bach
“I have always considered her one of the major musicians on the violin in our time.” — isaac stern
J U LY 12–15 2 017
J U LY 12–15 2 017
Full Festival details including complete calendar will be available March, 2017.
Concert subscriptions now include all seven performances on our signature series, plus a choice of one of the morning concerts that form part of our new festival, Summer Music Vancouver PLUS 25% OFF all other festival programming.
Festival packages and single tickets on sale March 2017.Artist details to come.
Ryerson United Church Kerrisdale
Thursday, July 13, 2017 Coffee 10am • Concert 10:30am
ORChrist Church Cathedral
690 Burrard St, VancouverFriday, July 14, 2017
Coffee 10am • Concert 10:30am
Tuning InConversations with Eric Friesen
A lifelong broadcaster, Eric Friesen thinks of himself as “a pilgrim of creative change and renewal.” At Music in the Morning, Friesen brings his name, voice and talents to Tuning In. In this season of conversations about music, Friesen has put together a lineup of interviews with a diverse group of individuals from the world of Canadian arts and letters—one that is sure to entertain, engage, and even surprise us.
Season Sponsor
The William and
Irene McEwen Fund
“Friesen has the knack of drawing out
the very best in every individual.
For the audience it is the pleasure of
overhearing an intimate conversation
that is always fascinating and never
boring. His warm presence is a welcome
addition to any event.”—ANGELA HEWITT
ABOUT ERIC FRIESEN
Eric Friesen is a broadcaster,
writer, speaker and consultant
on music, broadcasting, culture
and faith, and is the Program
Director for Winnipeg’s
classical and jazz station, Classic. He has spent much of his
life as a network classical music and culture host, producer
and executive. Friesen is a regular contributor to the
National Arts Centre, The Banff Centre and many Canadian
and international festivals. He writes regularly for Queen’s
Quarterly and NUVO magazine.
In addition to his leadership role as Chairman of Honens,
Friesen is an Honorary Governor of Massey Hall/Roy
Thomson Hall, Toronto; immediate Past Chairman of the
Kingston WritersFest, Chairman of the Advisory Committee
to the English Department of the University of Waterloo,
and regularly leads a book club for inmates at Collins Bay
Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario. He divides his time
between Amherst Island in Ontario’s Thousand Islands
and Winnipeg.
September 28, 2016
Coffee 10am | Conversation 10:30am
Tuning In with
Emily Molnar
Emily Molnar, noted by Maclean’s magazine as one of
Canada’s “new generation of ballet sensations,” is the
artistic director of Ballet BC where she has been steering
the company into a new era of innovation and collaboration
since July 2009. Named The Globe and Mail’s 2013 “Dance
Artist of the Year,” Molnar is a recipient of the 2015 BC
Community Achievement Award and the 2015 YWCA
Women of Distinction Award in Art, Culture and Design.
She is a graduate of the National Ballet School and a former
member of the National Ballet of Canada, a soloist with
the Frankfurt Ballet, and a principal dancer with Ballet BC.
Molnar has worked and toured extensively throughout
Europe, Asia, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. She currently
serves as a Director on the Board of the BC Arts Council,
she is a committee member of the Peter Wall Institute for
Advanced Studies Arts Based Initiative, and has recently
been appointed Artistic Director of Dance at The Banff
Centre.
“Imagine a place where the body
is the creative mind in fluent
expression, an architect of
space, an instrument of sound,
a sculptor of the senses.”
— emily molnar
November 30, 2016
Coffee 10am | Conversation 10:30am
Tuning In with
Judith Forst, OC, OBC
“One of the few truly world-class coloratura mezzos on
the operatic stage today.” — new york times
Canadian mezzo-soprano Judith
Forst has sung with most major opera
companies throughout North America,
including over thirty roles in seventeen
seasons with the New York Metropolitan
Opera.
Ms. Forst’s most recent successes have included highly-
acclaimed performances in Strauss’s Arabella and
Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at the Met, Kostelnicka
in Janacek’s Jenufa with the Prague National Opera; and
Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame with the Canadian Opera. In
the last few years she has performed world premieres
of Conrad Susa’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Andre
Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire with the San Francisco
Opera, and The Golden Ass at the Canadian Opera
Company. Her recording of Canadian works won the
2001 Juno Award for Best Classical Composition (for
Oscar Morawetz for From the Diary of Anne Frank).
In 1991, Ms Forst received an honourary Doctorate of
Letters from the University of British Columbia, and in
1995 she received an Honourary Doctorate of Music
from the University of Victoria. She is also a recipient of
both the Order of Canada (1992) and the Order of British
Columbia (2001).
February 1, 2017
Coffee 10am
Conversation 10:30am
Tuning In with
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson is a writer
and broadcaster. He worked
for many years for CBC Radio 1 and 2, producing and/or
hosting such programs as Richardson’s Roundup, Bunny
Watson, and Saturday Afternoon at the Opera. His books
include a collection of poems about the dubious joys
of ageing, The First Little Bastard to Call me Gramps, as
well as Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast, Waiting for
Gertrude, and Scorned and Beloved: Dead of Winter
Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics. For children, he has
written novels and picture books. With Veda Hille and
Ami Gladstone, he wrote “Do You Want What I Have Got:
A Craigslist Cantata,” which was produced in Vancouver,
Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa.
He has been the recipient of the Leacock Medal for Humour,
a National Magazine Award for fiction, various New York
Festival prizes for radio documentaries, a Jessie Richardson
(no relation!) award, and the Silver Birch Children’s Choice
Award in Ontario for his novel After Hamelin. He lives in
Vancouver and in Holmfield, Manitoba.
“Indeed, lesser mortals may well weep with envy at such
unfaltering authority.” — bryce morrison, gramophone (uk)
March 29, 2017
Coffee 10am
Conversation 10:30am
Tuning In with
Janina FialkowskaBeloved the world over for
her exquisite pianism, Janina
Fialkowska has enchanted
audiences for almost forty
years with her glorious lyrical
sound, her sterling musician-
ship and her profound sense
of musical integrity. She has
appeared as a guest soloist
with prestigious international ensembles, and her discography
includes several JUNO-nominated recordings. As the founder
of the Piano Six music outreach program, she has championed
works by Canadian composers and brought the joy of live
classical music to thousands of Canadians living in remote
communities.
Fialkowska studied piano in Montreal, Paris (with Yvonne
Lefébure) and New York (at the Juilliard School with Sascha
Gorodnitzki). She made her debut as a piano soloist with
the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11, and
placed first in the 1969 CBC National Talent Festival. She is
particularly distinguished as one of the great interpreters
of the piano works of Chopin and Mozart.
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