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KSO has announced 2010 | 2011 season
Kindred Spirits Orchestra has announced its 2010.2011 season. Highlights feature internationally renowned violinist Jacques Israelievitch, guest pianist Ivan Evtimoff and soprano Helena Holl. Performances of Beethoven’s Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth symphonies, Mozart’s “Jupiter” symphony, as well as a Canadian premiere of A. Grossman’s Two Hanukkah Songs are also included.
For more information, visit www.KSOrchestra.ca
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Stratford Summer Music - 10th Anniversary Season
Stratford Summer Music celebrates its 10th anniversary with 100 concerts/events over five weeks in the churches, the Avon River parkland, the restaurants, even the downtown streets of this city dubbed Canada’s Summer Cultural Capital.
Featured series include A Portrait of Ben Heppner with a special salute to Canadian tenor Edward Johnson; Canadian Jazz Legends at Pazzo; classics with Made in Canada Piano Quartet, cellist Winona Zelenka, Tokai String Quartet, pianist Jan Lisiecki; premiere of Peter Hatch’s environmental opera, MyAudia: The Return of the Pied People; and after-theatre cabarets with musical theatre stars, Saturdays at The Church Restaurant.
For tickets log on to www.stratfordsummermusic.ca or call
1-800-567-1600.
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Westben - Concerts at The Barn - 11th Season
Westben – Concerts at The Barn celebrates its 11th season of presenting the best of Canadian and world-class music in the idyllic countryside setting of Ontario's Northumberland County, from June 11th to August 8, 2010. This “Season of Discovery” opens with the world premiere of Artistic Director Brian Finley and collaborator Ken Tizzard’s musical, “The Selfish Giant”. The Festival continues with a wide spectrum of the world's finest music, including opera, Broadway, jazz and world music.
Highlights include Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" featuring the UBC Opera Ensemble, "Bach Unaccompanied Suites for Cello" featuring Brian Manker, principal cellist for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, an afternoon of Chopin %26 Schumann music, a new show entitled "Shakespeare's Women", a celebration of favourite female characters from the world of Shakespeare in verse and in song featuring Chick Reid, actor %26 Donna Bennett, soprano, a solo piano concert featuring Robert Silverman, Saturday Night at the Opera with international star Adrienne Pieczonka, the very popular Barnful of Broadway matinees and “Jazz Out of This World concerts”. The summer season closes on Aug 8 with the Finale Fundraiser featuring special guest Michael Burgess.
The Barn is located at 6898 Country Road 30.
For tickets call: 1-877-883-5777.
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Organ Recitals
Jennifer Goodine Music Director %26 Organist will present a series of Organ Recitals in St. Luke’s Anglican Church 1371 Elgin Street Burlington. Jennifer will be playing a smorgasbord of music from different periods, styles and countries. Join us for lemonade on the lawn before the recitals which will start at approximately 11:30 am and last for about 30 minutes. All welcome
Sunday June 20th selections of music by Bach entitled “Bach Hors D’Oeuvres”
Sunday July 18th Music by VIERNE, GRIEG, %26 ELGAR “A LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO
NIGHT”
Sunday August 29th “Tea for Two”: with music by Chopin %26 Liszt
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Brott Music Festival Celebrates Its 23rd Season
Brott Music Festival will celebrate its 23rd season as Canada’s largest orchestral music festival and runs June 16 to August 20. 2010 guest artists include Jan Lisiecki, Veronica Tennant, Jonathan Crow, Denise Djokic, John Fanning, Valerie Tryon, Peter Appleyard, Alexei Gulenco and guest conductor Brian Jackson . Founded by charismatic maestro Boris Brott in 1988, it features classical, jazz, recital, pops and education concerts in Hamilton, Burlington, Muskoka and Toronto. Its orchestra-in-residence is the National Academy Orchestra, Canada’s only professional training orchestra, made up of young music graduates who are paired with professionals, both on and off-stage. Subscription packages available. www.brottmusic.com | 905.525.SONG or 888.475.9377
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HYUNTAK LEE PLAYS MOZART
Winner of the Korean National Piano Competition, Hyuntak Lee makes his Glenn Gould Studio debut with Mozart's enigmatic piano concerto No. 23. Maestro Alexander leads Kindred Spirits Orchestra in Beethoven's gentle and placid Fourth Symphony that prompted Berlioz to comment: "the being who wrote such a marvel of inspiration... was not human".
Kristian Alexander, conductor
Hyuntak Lee, piano
Alexa Petrenko, host
Bach-Stokowski, Siciliano, BWV 1017
Mozart, Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 23 in A major
Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 in B flat
Tickets: $20 | $15 through Roy Thomson Hall Box Office http://www.roythomson.com/eventdetail?eventId=324 or call 416.872.4255.
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McMichael Sunday Concert
McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg presents Christopher Lee, flutist at its first concert of the 2010/11 season. The concert will begin at 1:30 and is free with admission to the gallery.
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Toronto Summer Music Festival
Toronto Summer Music Festival
July 20 - August 14, 2010
2010 marks the fifth annual Toronto Summer Music Festival and Artistic Director Agnes Grossmann is delighted to unveil her plans for this year’s edition devoted to the theme Songs of the Earth. The Festival takes place in downtown Toronto from July 20 to August 14 and features an array of Canadian and international stars including Matthias Goerne, Andreas Haefliger, Anton Kuerti, Menahem Pressler, Connie Shih and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi; top flight international chamber ensembles the Pacifica String Quartet, the Vienna Piano Trio, the Gryphon Trio and the Penderecki String Quartet; and four imaginative concert programmes that combine music with an added dimension: theatre, music and dance. Landmark anniversaries of composers Schumann, Chopin and Mahler will be celebrated in concert programmes throughout the four-week Festival, which includes the world-premiere of a new Mahler-inspired work by Glenn Buhr.
The Festival features a series of 13 concerts, five public master classes and many free activities including pre-concert talks and emerging artist concerts.
For tickets and information, visit www.torontosummermusic.com or call 416-408-0208
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Festival of the Sound - July 16 to August 8
Festival of the Sound will take the plunge into its fourth decade from July 16 to August 8, 2010. In a season of firsts for the Festival, larger scale productions such as Bach’s Mass in B minor, a Beethoven Symphony, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance will be presented. While honouring the past thirty years with the return of Festival favourites, this summer’s programming looks toward the future of chamber music with a new generation of young musicians. Jan Lisiecki and Frederieke Saeijs, as well as 2010 RBC Stockey Young Artists Adam György and the Afiara String Quartet will be appearing. Over 50 concerts and special musical events will be offered at a variety of venues such as the Island Queen and M.V. Chippewa cruise ships, the West Parry Sound District Museum, and the Ridge at Manitou. The Festival’s main performance venue, the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, is located right on the Parry Sound waterfront, marrying beautiful music and a spectacular setting.
Whether this is your first summer at the Festival or your thirty-first, come and join us on beautiful Georgian Bay where the world’s great musicians come to play. For more information, please visit www.festivalofthesound.ca .
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Stratford Summer Music
Stratford Summer Music celebrates its tenth season from July 19 to August 22 with 100 concerts and events, including a six-part “Portrait of Ben Heppner” which the Toronto Star calls the Must-See music event of the entire summer.
Hundreds of Canadian and international musicians and a dozen musical genres bring life to this special anniversary season. Masterpieces by Bach, Chopin and Mozart, plus great operatic repertoire and a bouquet of Canadian works during Organ Week highlight the classical programming in three downtown churches. An outdoor environmental opera and 29 free concerts beside the Avon River enliven the city centre. Canadian jazz legends, after-theatre cabarets, cello suites played on a rare 1707 Italian instrument, even a Cappuccino Cantata at Balzac’s are the programs in four of the city’s finest restaurants.
Add music to your Stratford experience this year with Stratford’s “other” festival, Stratford Summer Music. Programming/tickets at www.stratfordsummermusic.ca or toll-free 1-866-288-4313.
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La Clemenza di Tito - Royal Conservatory School Opera
On July 27th, 28th, 39th and 31st, the Royal Conservatory School Opera presents La Clemenza di Tito. This special presentation will be held at Mazzoleni Concert Hall. Tickets are still available, for more information call 416-408-0208.
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Jan Lisiecki will perform with the National Academy Orchestra
Thursday, July 29, Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki will perform with the National Academy Orchestra and conductor Boris Brott. Part of the Brott Music Festival. For tickets and more information, visit http://www.BrottMusic.com or call 1-888-475-9377
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