Current Season - 2018/19 (36^th Season)

Sunday, 7 October, 2018 - 3:00pm

MIR TRIO

• Violinist Mark Skazinetsky, Associate Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony
• Cellist Igor Gefter, Toronto Symphony
• Pianist Rachael Kerr, Canadian National Opera

Program

Max Bruch: 8 Pieces, Op. 83
Yefim Adler: Jewish Dances
Paul Schoenfield: (USA) Café Music

Sunday, November 4, 2018 - 3:00pm

Internationally acclaimed pianist
Dr. Erika Crinó

Music

Rachmaninov: Prelude in C# Minor, op.3, n.2
Bach/Rachmaninoff: Prelude from violin Partita BWV 1006
Bach/Kempff: Siciliano BWV 1031
Benoît: Charest Bach-a-la-jazz
Pepa: Reflections*
Lavalleé: Papillons.
Debussy: Clair de lune.
Chopin: Ballade in A Flat Major, op. 47
Chopin: Scherzo n.2, B Flat Minor, op.31
Ravel: Jeux d'eau.
Liszt: La campanella, from six Grandes études de Paganini, S.141

 *Celebrating Composer / Founding Artistic Director Michael Pepa’s 80th birthday

Sunday, December 2, 2018 - 3:00pm

Violinist Lynn Kuo, Assistant Concertmaster of the National Ballet of Canada

Pianist Angela Park, Artist-in-residence at Wilfred Laurier University

Guest artist, clarinetist Emily Marlow

Khachaturian: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
*Pepa: Moldovenesca
Bartók: Contrasts

*Celebrating Composer / Founding Artistic Director Michael Pepa’s 80th birthday

Sunday, February 3, 2019 - 3:00pm

TakeFive

• Violinist Lynn Kuo, Assistant Concertmaster of the NBC Orchestra
• Violinist Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal 2nd Violin of the COC Orchestra
• Violist Theresa Rudolph, Assistant Principal Viola of the TSO
• Cellist Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, Associate Principal Cellist of the TSO
• Shoshana Telner, renowned pianist who made her solo orchestral début with the National Arts Centre Orchestra at the age of 16

"Chamber Classics"

Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 70, No. 1, "Ghost", First movement
Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44 in E flat major, Third movement
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 for solo piano
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, Fourth movement
Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and viola
Dvorák Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 31, First movement

Sunday, February 24, 2019 - 3:00pm

Ensemble Made in Canada

• Violinist Elissa Lee: She has held positions as second concertmaster in both the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the WDR Sinfonie Orchestra
• Violist Sharon Wei, Assistant Professor of Viola at Western University since 2014
• Cellist Rachel Mercer, National Arts Centre Orchestra Principal Cello
• Pianist Angela Park was Visiting Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano-Woodwinds at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music from 2011-2014

The Mosaïque Project

A unique and exciting nation-wide project. Become a part of the creation and express yourself through drawing as you listen to the music of 14 Canadians, each inspired by a different region of our country.
Performed by piano quartet, Ensemble Made In Canada.

www.mosaiqueproject.com

Braid, David (Northwest Territories) Great Bear River Blues
Croall, Barbara (St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes) Nbiidaasamishkaamin/We Come Paddling Here
Doiron, Julie arr. Andrew Creeggan (New Brunswick) Blessed
Downing, Andrew (Manitoba) Red River Fantasy
Fung, Vivian (Alberta) Shifting Landscapes
Gilbert, Nicolas (Québec) Ilôts
Lau, Kevin (Yukon) Race to the Midnight Sun
Lizée, Nicole (Saskatchewan) The Bessborough Hotel
Mascall, Richard (Ontario) Petroglyphs
Moussa, Samy (Nunavut) Orpheus in Nunavut
Rowson, William (Nova Scotia) Short Variations on Waves
Sigesmund, Darren (Prince Edward Island) Kensington Ceilidh
Slean, Sarah (Newfoundland) Jonny Pippy of Pouch Cove, on a Bicycle at Dawn
Sokolović, Ana (British Columbia) Splendor Sine Occasu

Read more: Musical Mosaïque - 24 February 2019

Sunday, May 5, 2019 - 3:00pm

• Penderecki String Quartet: Artists-in-residence at Wilfrid Laurier University
• Jeremy Bell & Jerzy Kaplaneck, violins
• Christine Vlayk, viola
• Katie Schaikjer, cello

Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D Major, Op.50 No.6, "The Frog"
*Pepa  'Nekuia' String Quartet No.1
Antonin Dvorak, String Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 51, "Slavonic"

*Celebrating Composer / Founding Artistic Director Michael Pepa's 80th