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Tafelmusik’s Bach in Leipzig

Music

Wednesday, March 10 — Sunday, March 14

Trinity-St.Paul’s Centre
427 Bloor Street West, Toronto
(just steps away from the Spadina subway station)

$31 - $76

Tafelmusik’s Bach in Leipzig
Directed by Jeanne Lamon and Ivars Taurins

Concept & Musical Programme by Alison Mackay
Featuring Tafelmusik Orchestra and Chamber Choir

An imaginative concert designed by Alison Mackay, creator of Metamorphosis, Chariots of Fire & The Galileo Project.

Tafelmusik’s neighborhood in Toronto’s Annex has much in common with the 18th-century German city of Leipzig – the same size and population, a university, coffee shops, bookstores, colourful local characters, and an ensemble of singers and orchestral musicians who love to perform the stunning cantatas and instrumental works of J.S. Bach. In this performance designed by Alison Mackay and narrated by actor William Webster, choir, orchestra, trumpets and drums will highlight the variety and breadth of Bach’s music for Leipzig, introducing us to the local merchants, society ladies and town councilors for whom Bach composed his magnificent works.

For more information visit tafelmusik.org

Schedule
Wednesday March 10 at 7pm
Thursday March 11 at 8pm
Friday March 12 at 8pm
Saturday March 13 at 8pm
Sunday March 14 at 3:30pm

Dynamic Duo

Music

Friday, March 12 at 08:00 PM

Glenn Gould Studio
250 Front St., West

$40 adults; $32 seniors; $12 students

Mar 12, 2010, 8:00pm
Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front St. W)
SINFONIA TORONTO
NURHAN ARMAN, Conductor
HYUK-JOO KWUN, Violinist
HYEJIN KIM, Pianist
Winners of international competitions
BURGE A Light Fantastic Round
MENDELSSOHN Double Concerto
DVORAK Chamber Symphony op. 105

Sinfonia Toronto’s 2009/2010 Masterpiece Series continues March 12th at 8:00pm, with two young phenoms from Korea, both winners of international competitions. This concert’s guest soloists are Hyuk-Joo Kwun, violin and Sangwook Park, piano.

The winner of several prestigious violin competitions, 24-year-old violinist HYUK-JOO KWUN was born in Seoul, Korea, and moved to Russia at the age of 10 to study at the Tchaikovsky Central Music School in Moscow. He made his debut with the Moscow National Orchestra at the age of 11, and continued to study in Russia until recently relocating to Germany to continue his quest as a violinist. Having spent the majority of his life in Russia, he’s actually now more comfortable speaking in Russian than Korean, and that extends to his musicality, which has drawn comparisons to the long lineage of Russian violin virtuosos.

Praised by critics as “a pianist who is truly passionate, sensitive, and musical… an extremely polished and expressive pianist,” HYEJIN KIM has performed in Korea, United States, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia and many other countries.

She is the youngest prize winner of Busoni international Piano Competition in 2005. Most recently, she was a winner of Hong Kong International Competition. Ms. Kim appeared as soloist with the Yaroslavl Philharmonic, State Symphony Orchestra of St.Petersburg, Seoul Philharmonic, Pilzen Philharmonic, Citta Di Grosseto Orchestra, Slovak Sinfonietta of Zilina, Kharkov Philharmonic, Martinu Philharmonic, Nurnberger Symphoniker and many others .

Ms. Kim holds a Master of Musical Arts from the University of Hans Eisler in Berlin, a Bachelor Diploma from University of Berlin where she studied under Prof. Fabio Bidini. For the 200th Chopin anniversary, Ms. Kim is invited by to play Chopin’s two piano concertos in Vienna’s Musikverein Golden Hall.

This concert also features a piece by Canadian composer John Burge, Director of the School of Music at Queen’s University. He has written a large body of vocal, chamber, and orchestral compositions. A number of his works for large ensemble draw their influence from a distinctively Canadian perspective.

Sinfonia Toronto is comprised of thirteen virtuoso string players. “A world-class ensemble,” according to Germany’s Russelsheimer Echo, they perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, under the direction of Music Director and conductor Nurhan Arman. A roster of Toronto’s finest woodwinds, brass and percussion joins the strings for select programs, drawn from the full range of chamber orchestra repertoire. The Toronto Star writes of "a remarkable range of colour," "ample eloquence" and "gripping authority," while La Scena Musicale declared: "Nurhan Arman and his orchestra literally conquered us." Their most recent CD, Flanders Fields Reflections features the 2009 Juno Award winner for Classical Composition of the Year, a Sinfonia Toronto commission composed by John Burge.

The programme for the evening consists of John Burge’s A Light Fantastic Round, Mendelssohn’s Double Concerto and Dvorak’s Chamber Symphony op. 105.

Tickets for this concert are $12 - $40 and are available through the Roy Thomson Hall box office at http://www.roythomson.com, 416-872-4255. Visit http://www.sinfoniatoronto.com for more information.

Who knew grannie: a dub aria

Theatre

Thursday, March 18 — Sunday, April 4

Factory Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide) Toronto

Written by ahdri zhina mandiela

Recipient of Dora Mavor
Moore Silver Ticket Award

Four cousins return to Jamaica for the burial of the grandmother who raised them. Confronting their past through the rhythm of childhood games and memories, they are swept up in a cathartic journey full of joy, laughter and pain underscored by music of the heart and the drums of their homeland. A theatrical tapestry of
language, movement and music from the always inventive mandiela.

Directed by ahdri mandiela

Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio

Music

Saturday, March 27 at 08:00 PM

Glenn Gould Studio
250 Front Street West, Toronto

$35 Regular, $20 Student

Kurt Rosenwinkel is acclaimed as one of the leading lights of the next generation of jazz artists. A Verve recording artist, he has performed with some of the biggest names in contemporary jazz including Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade and Brad Meldhau, has released four albums under his own name and is currently working on his fifth.

A tenured professor at the Jazz Institute of Berlin, Kurt Rosenwinkel received formal training at Berklee College of Music in Boston and later apprenticed with Gary Burton and Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band. Tonight’s performance features Eric Revis on bass and Rodney Green on drums.

Five Small Concerts Series "Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra"

Music

Monday, March 29 at 07:30 PM

Trinity-St.Paul's Centre
427 Bloor St West (1 block west of Spadina) Toronto

$18 Reg, $15 Std / Srs, $10 elem. std

Presented by The Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Ensembles from the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra will present a varied program. This inspiring concert demonstrates the exciting musicianshop of talented young performers who are the solo artists and orchestral musicians of the future.

Favourite Fireworks

Music

Friday, April 9 at 08:00 PM

Glenn Gould Studio
250 Front St. West, Toronto

$40 adults; $32 seniors; $12 students

Apr 9, 2010, 8:00pm
Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front St. W)
SINFONIA TORONTO
NURHAN ARMAN, Conductor
HEATHER SCHMIDT, Pianist
XIAOHAN GUO, Violinist
Violin pyrotechnics and a virtuoso composer
MOZART Divertimento K 138
SAINT-SAENS Caprice
WAXMAN Carmen Fantasy
SCHMIDT Piano Concerto No. 6 - Toronto Premiere!
PIAZZOLLA Oblivion Four for Tango
SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude and Scherzo

Sinfonia Toronto’s 2009/2010 Masterpiece Series continues April 9th at 8:00pm, with violin pyrotechnics and a virtuoso composer. This concert features Sinfonia Toronto’s 2009/2010 Composer in Residence Heather Schmidt at the piano playing her own composition, and Sinfonia’s own violinist Xiaohan Guo.

Sinfonia Toronto’s Composer in Residence Heather Schmidt lives a dual life as a busy concert pianist, and a prolific composer of concert music and film scores. She has been nominated for the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year, won the Julliard Composers’ Competition, as well as two SOCAN Composer’s Competitions, and 3 consecutive BMI Awards. In the past decade, Dr. Schmidt has received over forty commissions, and recorded for NAXOS and CBC Records. At this concert Ms. Schmidt will give the Toronto premiere of her Piano Concerto No. 6.

Born in Shenyang, China, Xiaohan Guo began her violin studies at the age of six and enrolled at the Shenyang Conservatory at the age of 13. She won the 2001 Mozart Violin Concerto Competition, and as a member of the Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, had the pleasure of performing with outstanding musicians such as Itzhak Perlman, Seiji Ozawa and Mstislav Rostropovich. She has been a student of Mrs. Eleonora Turovsky at University of Montreal since her arrival in Canada in 2004.

Sinfonia Toronto is comprised of thirteen virtuoso string players. “A world-class ensemble,” according to Germany’s Russelsheimer Echo, they perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, under the direction of Music Director and conductor Nurhan Arman. A roster of Toronto’s finest woodwinds, brass and percussion joins the strings for select programs, drawn from the full range of chamber orchestra repertoire. The Toronto Star writes of "a remarkable range of colour," "ample eloquence" and "gripping authority," while La Scena Musicale declared: "Nurhan Arman and his orchestra literally conquered us." Their most recent CD, Flanders Fields Reflections features the 2009 Juno Award winner for Classical Composition of the Year, a Sinfonia Toronto commission composed by John Burge.

The programme for the evening also includes Mozart’s Divertimento K 138, Charles-Camille Saint-Saens’ Caprice, Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy, Astor Piazzolla’s Oblivion Four for Tango and Shostakovich’s Prelude and Scherzo.

Tickets for this concert are $12 - $40 and are available through the Roy Thomson Hall box office at 416-872-4255 or online at http://www.sinfoniatoronto.com for more information.

Music at La Maquette

Music

Saturday, April 10 at 06:30 PM

La Maquette Restaurant
111 King Street East, Toronto

$80 per person with $35 tax-deductible receipt

A beautiful evening of fine music and dining in one of Toronto's magnificent restaurants.

La Maquette was voted in 2007 as one of Toronto's "most romantic".

6.30 pm ~ Champagne reception
7.00 pm ~ Floraleda Sacchi performs a program designed on a dance theme

LOU HARRISON (1917-2003) Jahla and Avalokiteshvara - Two Indian dances for harp and ankle bells
ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916) Valses Poeticos (Introduction y Vals Melodico, Vals Noble, Vals Lento, Vals Humoristico, Vals Elegante, Vals Sentimental, Vals Vivo y Final)
CARLOS SALZEDO (1885-1961) Suite of 8 Dances (Gavotta, Menuet, Polka, Siciliana, Bolero, Seguidilla, Tango, Rumba)

Dinner ~ Dessert ~ Silent Auction

'Sinfonia Series I' paintings by Pavla Quinn

$80 per person with $35 tax-deductible receipt
Buy now online http://www.sinfoniatoronto.com/cgi-bin/online/storepro.php
Or call 416.499.0403

Visit Floraleda Sacchi's website: http://www.floraledasacchi.com/
Visit La Maquette's website: http://www.lamaquette.com/home.php
Visit Pavla Quinn's website: http://www.pavlaquinn-art.smugmug.com/

Véronique Pestel et Michel Glasko

Music

Sunday, April 11 at 07:00 PM

ANNEX THEATRE at The Randolph Centre for the Arts
730 Bathurst Street, (Lennox Street entrance) Toronto

$28

Some French journalists have called her une amante des mots, "a lover of words". Véronique Pestel is reputed to be one of the finest young singer-songwriters in France.

Her music formula is simple: piano, voice and words. She puts poetry to music and lets her musical skill carry her melody from blues to samba to jazz. As a former student of philosophy, Véronique Pestel writes strikingly intelligent lyrics, which are reflected in a very personal writing style.

http://veronique.pestel.free.fr/

FemCab 2010

Theatre

Tuesday, April 13 at 08:00 PM

Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto

$30

The only cabaret in town where politics and art come together in an irreverent, humourous and shameless celebration of women's success! This sell-out event is now in its 28th year. Don't miss it! Ten extraordinary
performers (music, comedy, dance, film, theatre and more) show their wares.

This year's line-up includes keynote speaker Maude Barlow, stand-up comic Sandra Battaglini, mezzo soprano Jean Stilwell and a short film by Andrea Dorfman.

"Nightwood Theatre's FemCab is one of the most entertaining and inspiring shows of every year."
NOW Magazine 2009

Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes

Music

Saturday, April 24 at 08:00 PM

Glenn Gould Studio
250 Front Street West, Toronto

$45 Regular, $20 Student

This special concert features the acclaimed husband and wife duo of pianists Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes (two pianos, four hands).

Bill Charlap is a Grammy Award nominated Blue Note recording artist. He was a regular in Gerry Mulligan’s band and is a frequent guest of the Phil Woods Quintet; for the last three years, he has been the Artistic Director of Jazz In July, a six-concert series at the 92nd Street Y's Tisch Center for the Arts. Renee Rosnes is a four-time Juno Award winner and a Blue Note recording artist with nine albums under her name. She has been the pianist for Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and JJ Johnson, among others, and is a founding member of the SF Jazz Collective.

Featuring Loretta

Theatre

Thursday, May 6 — Sunday, June 6

Factory Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide) Toronto

Written by GEORGE F. WALKER

Ever since her husband was eaten by a bear, everyone wants something from Loretta, including the ex-KGB motel owner’s daughter and two fiercely competing young men - one an industrial screw salesman; the other a would-be porn filmmaker - both desperate to turn their lives around by fantasizing Loretta into their future. Vintage Walker comedic mayhem at its hilarious best.

Directed by KEN GASS

Superstars

Music

Friday, May 14 at 08:00 PM

Glenn Gould Studio
250 Front Steet W, Toronto

$19 - $49

NURHAN ARMAN, Conductor
SHAUNA ROLSTON, Cellist
A grand-finale with a cello superstar
PUCCINI Crisantemi
CHAN KA NIN Soulmate for Cello and Strings
SCHMIDT Cello Concerto – World Premiere!
TCHAIKOVSKY Nocturne for Cello and Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY Valse Sentimentale
BRAHMS Sextet in G Major op. 34

On May 14th at 8:00pm, Sinfonia Toronto concludes their 2009/2010 Masterpiece Series with a grand-finale with a cello superstar. This concert features Sinfonia Toronto’s 2009/2010 Composer in Residence Heather Schmidt’s Cello Concerto in its World premiere, performed by virtuoso cellist Shauna Rolston.

Cellist Shauna Rolston is one of the most distinctive and compelling voices of her generation. Armed with stunning technique and exquisite interpretational abilities, and always a passionate advocate for new music, Shauna once premiered five concertos composed expressly for her in the same season. A prolific recording artist, her discography includes two CDs that are included on a global list of 13 “Cello Recordings to Please Discriminating Audiophiles” (Benjamin Ivry).

Heather Schmidt lives a dual life as a busy concert pianist, and a prolific composer of concert music and film scores. She has been nominated for the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year, won the Julliard Composers’ Competition, as well as two SOCAN Composer’s Competitions, and 3 consecutive BMI Awards. In the past decade, Dr. Schmidt has received over forty commissions, and recorded for NAXOS and CBC Records.

Sinfonia Toronto is comprised of thirteen virtuoso string players. “A world-class ensemble,” according to Germany’s Russelsheimer Echo, they perform standing, in the tradition of great chamber orchestras, under the direction of Music Director and conductor Nurhan Arman. A roster of Toronto’s finest woodwinds, brass and percussion joins the strings for select programs, drawn from the full range of chamber orchestra repertoire. The Toronto Star writes of "a remarkable range of colour," "ample eloquence" and "gripping authority," while La Scena Musicale declared: "Nurhan Arman and his orchestra literally conquered us." Their most recent CD, Flanders Fields Reflections features the 2009 Juno Award winner for Classical Composition of the Year, a Sinfonia Toronto commission composed by John Burge.

The programme for the evening also includes Puccini’s Crisantemi, Chan Ka Nin’s Soulmate for Cello and Strings, Tchaikovsky’s Nocturne for Cello and Strings and Valse Sentimentale and Brahms’ Sextet in G Major op. 34.

Tickets for this premium concert are $19 - $49 and are available through the Roy Thomson Hall box office at http://www.roythomson.com, 416-872-4255. Visit http://www.sinfoniatoronto.com for more information.