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SUMMARY:OPUS x CMC: Intimate Conversations [OPUS Chamber Music]
DESCRIPTION:Join OPUS Chamber Music for an exclusive evening of intimate conversations & vibrant storytelling featuring violinist STEFAN JACKIW\, clarinetist YOONAH KIM\, soprano REILLY NELSON\, and OPUS Artistic Director KEVIN AHFAT. \n*LIMITED AVAILABILITY / few seats remain! \nMusicians from the global stage come together to share an intimate evening of music & storytelling among friends\, curating a personal setlist of Mozart\, Schumann\, Khachaturian\, Piazzolla\, and more. Witness world-class artists at the height of their craft\, up-close-and-personal. Join the Q&A panel & drinks with the artists following the music\, moderated by author & speaker Loredana Cunti. \nMozart Duo in G major | The Schumanns Romance & Abendlied | Khachaturian Trio | Piazzolla Oblivion & Libertango | and more… \nVISITING & RESIDENT ARTISTS\nStefan Jackiw\, violin\nStefan Jackiw is one of America’s foremost violinists\, captivating audiences with playing that combines poetry and purity with impeccable technique. Hailed for playing of “uncommon musical substance” that is “striking for its intelligence and sensitivity” (Boston Globe)\, Jackiw has appeared as a soloist with the Boston\, Chicago\, Cleveland\, New York\, Philadelphia\, and San Francisco symphony orchestras\, among others. \nFollowing his summer performance with the New York Philharmonic\, Jackiw opens the 2023-24 season returning to the orchestra to perform the Barber Concerto with Jaap van Zweden. His season also includes a quadruple World Premiere of new works at Roulette\, and his return to Asia with the Taiwan Philharmonic and the China National Symphony. In the spring\, the Junction Trio will make their Carnegie Hall debut with the New York premiere of John Zorn’s Philosophical Investigations. He was also recently invited to perform and curate a series of programs at the Edinburgh Festival (‘Stefan Jackiw and Friends’). \nDuring the 2022-23 season\, Jackiw returned to the Cleveland Orchestra to perform Britten’s Violin Concerto with Thomas Søndergård\, and to the Vancouver Symphony to perform Brahms with Otto Tausk. He also appeared at the 92NY with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Daniil Trifonov\, and he embarked on a multi-city Junction Trio tour that included the group’s Celebrity Series of Boston debut\, alongside performances in New York City\, San Francisco\, Washington DC\, and more. His European dates included his return to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Residentie Orkest\, as well as appearances with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra\, the Bournemouth Symphony\, and the Sinfónica de Galicia. Other recent highlights include his performance of Mozart’s violin Concerto no. 5 with Alan Gilbert and the Boston Symphony\, his return to Carnegie Hall to perform Bach with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s\, and performances with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Alan Gilbert\, and with Orchestre National de Lyon under Nikolaj Znaider. \nYoonah Kim\, clarinet\nHailed by The New York Times for her “inexhaustible virtuosity”\, clarinetist Yoonah Kim is rapidly earning recognition as a young artist of uncommon musical depth and versatility. Yoonah is a winner of the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. The first solo clarinetist to win CAG in nearly 30 years\, this Korean-Canadian artist joins the ranks of prominent solo clarinetists discovered by CAG\, including David Shifrin\, Michael Collins\, and David Krakauer. \nRecent performance highlights include Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Maui Chamber Orchestra\, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in a new arrangement for solo clarinet and string orchestra by Texu Kim\, and the World Premiere of a new concerto by Eric Nathan for Violin and Clarinet\, with violinist Stefan Jackiw and the New York Classical Players. Her recent chamber music appearances include performances of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Stefan Jackiw\, cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Orion Weiss at Princeton University and the Crypt in New York City and also with the Junction Trio (Stefan Jackiw\, Jay Campbell\, and pianist Conrad Tao) at Rockefeller University. \nYoonah recently made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall\, and has also given debut recitals for Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts series\, Washington Performing Arts’ Music in the Country series\, Chamber Music Society of Little Rock and Union County Performing Arts Center. She also appeared as concerto soloist with the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra\, the Chesapeake Youth Symphony\, and the DuPage Symphony Orchestra. \nShe currently holds a faculty position at New York University’s Steinhardt School. \nReilly Nelson\, soprano\nCanadian soprano Reilly Nelson brings her “distinctly warm and burnished” sound to stages of all sizes in North America and Europe. In the 2020⁄21 season\, Ms. Nelson was a Young Artist with the Glimmerglass Opera Festival\, a virtual iteration of the distinguished program that featured working sessions with Isabel Leonard\, Francesca Zambello\, Eric Owens\, and Renée Fleming. In 2021\, Ms. Nelson sang Caterina in Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl\, and Mercédès in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Carmen\, before joining Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium Young Artists Programme at the Lunenberg Academy of Music Performance in Nova Scotia. \nAdditional recent highlights include the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Leah in Enemies\, A Love Story\, both with Kentucky Opera\, and Trouble in Tahiti with Lexington Philharmonic. Her continued relationship with Cincinnati Opera mirrors Ms. Reilly’s consistent balance of traditional and new operatic repertoire\, including Flora in La traviata\, Lupe Marin in Frida\, a workshop performance of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Intimate Apparel\, and the U.S. premiere of Julien Bilodeau’s Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera. \nIn addition to her theatrical work\, Ms. Nelson is a seasoned concert artist. Recent credits include Mozart’s Requiem with the Reno Philharmonic\, a staged performance of Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf with Cincinnati Chamber Opera and Cincinnati Song Initiative. With Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music\, Ms. Nelson has performed Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and B minor Mass\, Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder\, and cabaret songs of William Bolcom and Kurt Weill. \nKevin Ahfat\, piano\nAn artist that “leaves no question about his riveting presentation and technical finesse” (Seattle Times)\, Canadian pianist KEVIN AHFAT is acclaimed to be “poised to become one of the young heirs of the classical piano realm\, with a bold\, boundary-pushing\, millennial style matched by refined execution” (Vanguard Seattle). Possessing “a balanced mix of expressiveness and virtuosity” (Musical America)\, he “summons plenty of thunderpower in the big moments\, but clearly values musicianship over mere showmanship” (American Record Guide). \nAhfat continues performances and recordings as the newest core member of the three-time Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble\, one of Canada’s preeminent chamber ensembles and foremost cultural forces. Their latest releases on Chandos Records have been nominated for a 2022 Juno Award\, 2022 OPUS Klassik Award\, as well as being named one of the “Top 10 classical musical albums of 2020” by The Boston Globe and one of WQXR’s “Best Classical Albums of 2020”. \nAhfat was named one of CBC Music’s 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30 in 2018 and subsequently released a live recording of Brahms from CBC’s Studio 211. Highlights of recent seasons include engagements as soloist throughout North America and abroad\, including at the Maison symphonique in Montreal\, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts and Harbourfront Centre in Toronto\, Alice Tully Hall in New York\, and with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles. Further highlights include a return to the Seattle Symphony at Benaroya Hall for its first-ever Shostakovich Concerto Festival\, as well as a partnership with Richard Alston & Juilliard Dance in their recreation of Alston’s Sheer Bravado (2006) in New York. \nAhfat has had the privilege of sharing the stage with renowned artists across many genres\, including Jean-Yves Thibaudet\, SO Percussion\, David Finckel\, Derek Bermel\, and Sonia Rodriguez. Festival appearances include the Bowdoin\, Music@Menlo\, Rockport\, Fall for Dance North\, Zhuhai\, and Kyoto International Music Festivals. He has been broadcast locally and abroad several times on CBC Music’s In Concert program and WFMT’s Dame Myra Hess Series\, and contributed his playing to Yamaha Canada’s recent Dear Glenn AI Project.
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SUMMARY:Flying Pooka! - CD Release Show “The Ecstasy of Becoming”
DESCRIPTION:Embark on an enchanting voyage with the Canadian duo Flying Pooka— JUNO-winning pianist Florian Hoefner and JUNO-nominated winds/vocal improviser Dani Oore. Their fearless debut venture\, “The Ecstasy of Becoming\,” available from Alma Records in October 2023\, intertwines risk and unbridled creativity. \nThe origins of this extraordinary collaboration are rooted in chance. Award-winning composer Florian Hoefner’s relocation to remote St. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador opened a serendipitous chapter. Drawn by the beauty and remoteness\, he navigated a jazz scene that demanded reliance on connections from his international journeys. Dani Oore’s timely presence shortly before the pandemic began\, as an interdisciplinary artist posted at Memorial University\, sparked an unforeseen synergy. Their bond intensified\, culminating in a pandemic album of fully improvised music that unveils a vulnerable transformative story. \nA ‘mascot’ of their musical odyssey is “The Pooka\,” a Celtic shapeshifter known to guide people on wild rides. “The Ecstasy of Becoming” encapsulates this essence\, inviting listeners to join their mesmerizing journey. Dani Oore’s seamless transitions between winds and impassioned glossolalic vocals blend as one with Florian Hoefner’s intricate harmonies and expansive soundscapes\, crafting a spellbinding narrative. \nThe album’s authenticity stems from its fully improvised nature. The absence of pre-planned material results in a directness of expression\, sustaining tonality and shifting harmonies\, rarely found in completely improvised music performed on melodic/harmonic instruments. Each composition and the overarching narrative emerge organically\, an intuitive dialogue bursting with melodies\, sophistication\, and depth. Their distinctive improvisational style nurtures a way of listening that resonates across divisions\, nourishing a fragmented world. \nUnited in their musical journey\, Flying Pooka’s resonance is palpable. With their debut album on the horizon\, Florian and Dani’s synergy unfurls on an international stage\, fostering connection\, transformation\, and the magic of unscripted musical dialogues. \n  \n“Sublimely evocative music” The WholeNote (Canada) \n“Utterly charming… deeply moving” Globe and Mail (Canada) \n“In every situation\, the music is so substantial and at times even breath-taking.” Ottawa Citizen (Canada
URL:https://on.cmccanada.org/event/flying-pooka-cd-release-show-the-ecstasy-of-becoming/
LOCATION:Chalmers Performance Space\, 20 St. Joseph Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M4Y 1J9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ontario
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SUMMARY:CEE Book Party and Performance
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nThursday\, October 19\, 2023\nChalmers House\, Toronto.\nDoor: 7:30. Performance: 8:00\nPWYC\nCash bar \nThe Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) and the Canadian Music Centre – Ontario region co-host the book launch of An Orchestra at My Fingertips: A History of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble by Dr. Alexa Woloshyn. \nPublished this summer by McGill-Queens University Press\, An Orchestra at My Fingertips is the first detailed study of the history\, music and legacy of the CEE. Covering the Ensemble since its inception\, and drawing on extensive interviews with group members\, Alexa Woloshyn provides unique insight into the musicians that make up the group as well as analysis of the CEE’s compositions\, commissions\, and improvisation and performance practice. \nAn Orchestra at My Fingertips speaks to the global development and transformation of live electronic music through the history of a group that has been a consistently innovative voice in Canada and beyond. More details and purchase options available here. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. \nJoin us for live improvisations by the CEE and a discussion of Dr. Woloshyn’s book with the author. Reservations are requested.
URL:https://on.cmccanada.org/event/cee-book-party-and-performance/
LOCATION:Chalmers Performance Space\, 20 St. Joseph Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M4Y 1J9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Piano Lunaire presents COMPOSERS IN PLAY: "Keyboard of Colours"
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 20\, 2023\nChalmers House\, Toronto.Door: 7:00. Performance: 7:30General $25; Seniors/arts workers $20; Students FREEReception and Complimentary Bar \nCOMPOSERS IN PLAY: Keyboard of Colours\nPianist/Composer Adam Sherkin presents COMPOSERS IN PLAY: “Keyboard of Colors\,” featuring the piano music of Canadians Zosha Di Castri\, Matthew Ricketts\, Kotoka Suzuki and Sherkin himself.Japanese-Canadian Kotoko Suzuki’s Hidden Voices is a richly hued\, neo-impressionist work that explores shadowy counterpoint and integrated resonances. Ricketts’ balladic Melodia embraces a “narrante” sound-profile. Vibrant and intrepid composer\, Zosha Di Castri\, found a distinction and purpose at the keyboard early on in her output. Adam Sherkin performs the Canadian premiere of newest work\, The Untellable Hour of Quiet\, recently commissioned by Clare Longendyke\, and inspired by Maurice Ravel’s “Oiseaux tristes.” Castri’s The Thinking Eye of 2006 is also played alongside and has been conceived around the following quote from Paul Klee:“One day I must be able to improvise freely on the keyboard of colours: the row of watercolours in my paintbox.”The late Finnish composer Saariaho was a friend and mentor of Zosha Di Castri. She also worked with Adam Sherkin in Toronto during the COC’s production of her opera\, L’amour de loin in 2012; Saariaho’s Ballade for piano is included on this programme.PROGRAMME: \n\nRicketts: Melodia* (2016) for solo pianoDi Castri: The Thinking Eye (2006); The Untellable Hour of Quiet* (2023)Suzuki: Hidden Voices for solo piano (2003)Saariaho: Ballade for solo piano (2005)Sherkin: Four Preludes\, “Before the Gallows” for solo piano (2022)\n\n*Canadian premiere
URL:https://on.cmccanada.org/event/piano-lunaire-presents-composers-in-play-keyboard-of-colours/
LOCATION:Chalmers Performance Space\, 20 St. Joseph Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M4Y 1J9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Shoe Box Composer's Concerts #2
DESCRIPTION:Date: October 24th\, 2023\nTime: 8pm\, doors at 7:30\nLocation: Canadian Music Centre\, 20 St Joseph St\, Toronto ON \n  \nShoe Box Composer’s Concerts is a new community-based concert series that provides emerging composers the opportunity to write pieces for diverse instrumentations and hear them played live. Each concert features a different instrumentation and group of composers. \nThe second concert in this series\, co-presented by the Canadian Music Centre\, will feature 8 new pieces for harp\, piano\, and violin. \nThis concert series is volunteer-led and crowd-funded. Please consider supporting our GoFundMe campaign to keep this project alive: https://gofund.me/48495b5e \nPerformers: Erin Bestvater (violin)\, Charlene Chin (harp)\, and Rashaan Allwood (piano). \nComposers: Aidan McConnell\, Crescenzo Dicecco\, Jahred Warkentin\, Kelly Yixuan Wang\, Madeleine Ertel\, Mira Riselli\, Patrick O’Reilly\, and Shreya Jha.
URL:https://on.cmccanada.org/event/shoe-box-composers-concerts-2/
LOCATION:Chalmers Performance Space\, 20 St. Joseph Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M4Y 1J9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ontario,Region
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SUMMARY:cons•tell •ation | 星星 of contemporary wind
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for an enchanting evening as Canadian-Vietnamese saxophonist\, Jennifer Tran\, and Chinese pianist\, Jialiang Zhu\, come together to bring you cons•tell •ation | 星星 of contemporary wind. This exceptional showcase is a musical voyage through contemporary starlight that illuminate the rich tapestry of their cultural heritage and life stories. \nThe program will transport you through the works of five incredible female-identifying composers\, delving into themes bearing witness to ethnic roots\, nostalgia\, and generational history. Each composition represents not only the composer’s unique life journey but also their resilience and individuality\, akin to radiant stars in the vast cosmos. By weaving these compositions together\, we unveil the threads that connect them\, binding them like stars within a constellation – hence the evocative title of this concert! \nPlease join Jennifer and Jialiang on this rare occasion to immerse yourself in the compelling music of Dorothy Chang\, Chen Yi\, Du Yun\, Cait Nishimura\, and Marilyn Shrude. Their works invite you to resonate with their narratives\, perhaps finding your own place among the celestial constellations they create.
URL:https://on.cmccanada.org/event/constell-ation-%e6%98%9f%e6%98%9f-of-contemporary-wind/
LOCATION:Chalmers Performance Space\, 20 St. Joseph Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M4Y 1J9\, Canada
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