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This recital is sponsored by The Czech and Slovak Society of Arts and Sciences of Alberta.
B. Smetana: String Quartet No. 2
L. Janáĉek: String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters
Intermission
A. Dvorák: String Quartet F major op. 96 "American"
Founded in 1994, the Zemlinsky Quartet has become a much-lauded example of the Czech string quartet tradition. They won the 1st Grand Prize in the 2010 Bordeaux String Quartet Competition and enjoyed a string of top competition prizes from the Banff, Prague Spring and London international string quartet competitions. They also received the prestigious Alexander Zemlinsky Advancement Award from the Alexander Zemlinsky Foundation.
The Zemlinsky Quartet has toured extensively on four continents. The repertoire of the ensemble is far ranging, containing more than 180 works by many leading composers from the classical period to the present day.
Since early 2007, the Zemlinsky Quartet has recorded exclusively for the French record label Praga Digitals, having released seven titles including “Diapason d’Or” award winning 4-CD set of early string quartets by Antonin Dvoˇrak. The recordings of the Zemlinsky Quartet have received universal critical acclaim.
Having studied with Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet) and Josef Klusonˇ (Pražak Quartet), the group currently teaches as assistant quartetin-residence at the Musikakademie Basel in Switzerland and gives numerous master classes. First violinist František Souˇcek also teaches violin and chamber music at the Prague Conservatory.
Muttart Hall
Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Drive, Edmonton AB
$35 adults/$25 seniors/$10 students
tickets available from Tix on the Square (780-420-1757)
Featuring:
Special Guests: Aaron Au, violin; Beth Levia, oboe and Tanya Prochazka, cello
Bach: Wedding Cantata and Cantatas BWV 58, 94 and 204
Handel: Cantata Un' Alma innamorata
9 Deutschen Arias, The Messiah and Acis and Galatea
Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 19 in A Major for solo harpsicord BWV 888
Purcell: Sweeter than Roses and The Plaint from The Fairie Queen
Canadian-born soprano Linda Perillo has been acclaimed in North America, in Europe, and further afield as one of the great Baroque sopranos. Linda Perillo studied in Canada, England and France. Her career in North America has included appearances with period-instrument ensembles and with symphony orchestras, from Tafelmusik in Toronto to the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, from the Montreal Symphony to the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
Linda Perillo’s career in Europe includes solo appearances in France with La Grande Ecurie and with la Chapelle Royale, with whom she recorded works by Delalande. She has performed with the English Concert in Europe, Finland and Argentina, recording with them Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’.
Although her repertoire is mainly from the Baroque period she also gives Lieder recitals, has performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, appeared with the Hilliard Ensemble in concerts of music by Arvo Part in Italy, and in the Winnipeg New Music Festival.
Jeremy Spurgeon has been the director of music at All Saints’ Cathedral since 1980. He came to Edmonton from London, England, via the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and the Geneva Conservatoire where he gained the Premier Prix de la Classe de Virtuosite. His teachers have been Eileen Sullivan, Eric Pask, Lorna Sergeant, Ronald Frost, Eric Chadwick, Una Bradbury, Dame Gillian Weir, and Lionel Rogg. Jeremy has performed as piano accompanist and organist in Canada, the USA, Britain, Italy, Switzerland and Poland.
Here in Edmonton, Jeremy Spurgeon is resident accompanist for ProCoro Canada, organist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and freelance musician much-asked-for throughout the city. In 2010, the
Alberta Choral Federation honoured him with the Con Spirito Award in recognition of his contribution to choral music in Alberta.
Muttart Hall
Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Drive, Edmonton AB
$35 adults/$25 seniors/$10 students
tickets available from Tix on the Square (780-420-1757)
Featuring:
Prize winning violist Eleanor Kendra James, from Vancouver, won the Shean String Competition in Edmonton in 2011. She won prizes at the Atlantic Symphony Concerto Competition and the Eastern
Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Competition in 2011 and was the grand prize winner in the 2010 Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Artists of Tomorrow Competition.
As a chamber musician, Kendra James has collaborated and studied with great artists at festivals in the US, Canada and China including Morningside Music Bridge, Zukerman’s Young Artists Programme, Sarasota Music Festival and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. In 2011, her piano quartet won the Yale Chamber Music Competition and was featured in the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 Chamber Music Season.
Kendra James has performed concertos with the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony and the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. Kendra James studied at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Gerald
Stanick, and gained her Bachelor of Music Degree from The Colburn School in Los Angeles where she studied with Paul Coletti. She is pursuing her Masters Degree at Yale with Professor Ettore Causa.
Kendra is Principal Violist of the Yale Philharmonia and the Delphi Chamber Orchestra and a teaching artist in the Yale Undergraduate Lessons Program and the Yale Music in Schools Initiative.
Pianist Sarah Ho is a leading Canadian soloist, chamber musician, collaborative artist, teacher and adjudicator. She performs frequently in concerts, festivals and competitions in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the
National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, and her performances are frequently heard on CBC radio. Sarah studied at Indiana University with Menahem Pressler and at Yale University, with Claude Frank.
A resident of Edmonton, Sarah Ho is extremely active in the Edmonton musical community. Sarah Ho is on the piano faculty at the Alberta College Conservatory of Music of MacEwan University and is Assistant Artistic Director of the Edmonton Recital Society.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
10037 - 84 Avenue
admission is free - donations are welcome
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This event is co-presented with Francis Winspear Centre for Music to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Davis Concert Organ.
$99 Special Gala ticket – includes VIP Seating and Post-Gala Reception$59/$39 (adult)* ERS subscribers receive $10 discount on adult tickets.$20 (students)
To purchase advance tickets to the Gala, please contact Winspear Box Office at 780-428-1414 or visit www.winspearcentre.com
“ one of the most supremely gifted organists of his generation,” Chicago Tribune
“ precisely what the organ scene needs right now” Los Angeles Times
Paul Jacobs, Organ
Grammy award-winning organist Paul Jacobs unites technical skills of the first order with probing emotional artistry. First receiving acclaim for his sweeping marathon performances of Bach and Messiaen, Paul Jacobs has proven himself a tireless advocate for new organ works and core repertoire for nearly two decades.
Paul Jacobs’ career began at age 15 as parish organist in his hometown of Washington, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music, Paul Jacobs made musical history at the age of 23, when he played Bach’s complete organ works on the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. Two years later he performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen throughout the U.S. At 26, Paul Jacobs was invited to join the faculty of the Juilliard School, and in 2004, at age 27, was named chairman of the organ department.
Recent performances include Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra and a new work by Mason Bates, “Mass Transmission” with the San Francisco Symphony, the world premiere of “The Gospel According to Sister Aimee” for Organ, Brass and Percussion by Michael Daugherty, and the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony with the Kansas City Symphony.
In addition to his concert and teaching appearances which take him to all parts of the US, Paul Jacobs is a frequent performer at international and national festivals, and appears frequently on American Public Media, NPR and ABC-TV.
His recording of Messiaen’s Livre du Saint Sacrement was released by Naxos in September 2010 and received a Grammy Award in the category of Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra). This marks the first time in its history that an organist has won this award.
Program to include:
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Canon in A-flat Major, Op. 56, No. 4 Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Voluntary in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 8 John Stanley (1712-1786)
Prelude in F Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Transcendental Etude, Pointes, Op. 5 Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968)
Petit Canon Boulanger
Transcendental Etude, Octaves, Op. 5 Demessieux
Andante in F, K. 616 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 42 Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Enmax Hall at Winspear Centre
4 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton AB
T5J 4X8
$59 adults/$59 seniors/$20 students
tickets available from Winspear Centre (780-428-1414)
Featuring:
Julianne Scott hails from Calgary and, since 2009, is the Principal Clarinetist of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. This follows her position as Principal Clarinetist with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic from 2007-2009. Julianne Scott studied clarinet performance with Joaquin Valdepenas at the University of Toronto where she gained her Bachelor of Music Degree in 2006. She then went to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was a student of Yehuda Gilad and received her Masters in Music Degree.
Julianne Scott has performed and collaborated with great artists in numerous summer festivals including the Sunflower Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, the
Spoleto Festival, and she has toured with the National Canadian Youth Orchestra.
As concerto soloist, Julianne Scott has played with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Julianne Scott is also an avid chamber musician, teacher and recitalist.
Julianne Scott is on the clarinet faculty at the University of Alberta, Edmonton and is a Rico Performing Artist.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
10037 - 84 Avenue
admission is free - donations are welcome
Featuring:
Program to Include:
F. Schubert: Impromptu in F minor Op.142
A. Berg: Sonata Op.1
R. Schumann: Fantasiestücke Op.73, for cello and piano
with Tanya Prochazka, cello
G. Fauré: First, Fifth and Thirteenth Barcarolles
L. van Beethoven: Sonata No.30 in E major, Op.109
“ From his elegant interpretive style, his sensitivity and technical perfection there is much to learn. Lemelin is a veritable master of refinement.” Radko Tichavsky, Milenio Diario de Monterrey
Pianist Stéphane Lemelin is well known to audiences throughout Canada and regularly performs in the United States, Europe and Asia. A guest soloist of the major Canadian orchestras, he is widely sought after as a recitalist and chamber music partner.
His repertory is vast, with a predilection for the German Classical and Romantic literature and a particular affinity for French music, as evidenced by his more than twenty recordings, which include works by Faure, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Poulenc and Roussel. Moreover, Stephane Lemelin is director of the French music series “Decouvertes 1890-1939” on the Atma Classique label, for which he has recorded works by Samazeuilh, Ropartz, Migot, Dupont, Dubois, Rhene-Baton, Rosenthal, Alder, Lekeu and Vierne.
A prizewinner of the Robert Casadesus International Competition in Cleveland, he has received many national and international awards and grants, notably from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.
Stephane Lemelin studied with Yvonne Hubert in Montreal, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel in New York, Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory, Boris Berman and Claude Frank at Yale University, where he obtained a doctorate. He taught at the University of Alberta for more than ten years, and since 2001 has been on the faculty of the School of Music of the University of Ottawa, where he has served as Director since 2007. A dedicated pedagogue, he has been invited to give master classes around the world. Stephane Lemelin is also a member of Trio Hochelaga and Artistic Director of an annual chamber music festival held in Ontario, the Prince Edward County Music Festival.
Muttart Hall
Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Drive, Edmonton AB
$35 adults/$25 seniors/$10 students
tickets available from Tix on the Square (780-420-1757)
Featuring:
Martin Riseley, violin
“ Ravel’s Tzigane was a technical showpiece for violinist Riseley. His double-stopping, glissandi, and left-handed pizzicato in gypsy style excited the audience to wild, footstomping applause.” Margot Hannigan, Nelson Mail
Well known and loved by Edmonton audiences, former ESO concertmaster Martin Riseley, from New Zealand, studied with English violinist Carl Pini and Polish violinist Jan Tawroscewicz. In 1988 Martin won the Television New Zealand Young Musicians Competition and Australian Guarantee Corporation Young Achievers Award and the following year went to the Juilliard School in New York where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Piotr Milewski. In 1996 Martin was awarded his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree.
Martin Riseley has an illustrious international solo and chamber music career in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Britain, Mexico, the US and Canada. From 1994 until 2010 Martin was Concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and spent a year as Associate Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra under Pinchas Zukerman in Ottawa. He was Artist in Residence at the University of Alberta, where he surveyed the complete literature for piano and strings by Brahms and Beethoven.
In 2010 Martin Riseley was appointed Head of Strings at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, New Zealand. Recent performances include the New Zealand premiere of the Red Violin Chaconne
of Corigliano, and solo recitals throughout New Zealand of the Paganini Caprices. His latest recordings include ‘Stradivariazioni’ and an album of Douglas Lilburn’s string chamber works. The premiere recording of Jack Body’s ‘Meditations on Michelangelo’ will be released in 2012, with Martin Riseley as soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Janet Scott Hoyt, piano
Janet Scott Hoyt is a performer and pedagogue with a wealth of concert and teaching experience. Active as a chamber musician, soloist and recording artist, performances have taken her across Canada, United States and Europe. Born and raised in Alberta, she graduated from the University of Alberta, and studied in Europe and at The Banff Centre. She maintained a long association with The Banff Centre, participating as a collaborative pianist during the summer programs from 1973 to 2007. She has performed with many internationally renowned artists, including Sidney Harth, Zara Nelsova, Barry Tuckwell, Jeanne Baxtresser, Shauna Rolston and Raphael Wallfisch. Among her many performances are premieres of works by composers Violet Archer, Srul Irving Glick, Malcolm Forsyth and Oskar Morawetz.
An active recording artist, her recordings include a CD with her husband David Hoyt and violinist Erika Raum featuring horn trios by Johannes Brahms and Canadian composer Elizabeth Raum. Other recordings have included “The Passionate Englishman” with cellist Tanya Prochazka, “Inspiration” with Lidia Khaner, principal oboist of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and “From the Library of Joseph Szigeti” with violinist Guillaume Tardif. Her most recent project is a recording of the Brahms Sonatas for Piano and Violin with Martin Riseley.
In 1998, Janet Scott Hoyt joined the piano faculty of the University of Alberta, where she is Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies and supervises the graduate program in piano pedagogy. In 2011
Janet received the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Her interest and expertise in educating young musicians results in frequent invitations from across the country for workshops, masterclasses and competition juries.
Muttart Hall
Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Drive, Edmonton AB
$35 adults/$25 seniors/$10 students
tickets available from Tix on the Square (780-420-1757)