PDF file - Nathan Brock, Conductor

LEGENDS INLITTLE ROOMSTHE INTIMATE VENUES TOURMARCHSTRUNZ & FARAH≠ 14 Hugh's Room, Toronto. Tickets: 416-531-6604≠ 15 Capitol Theatre, Port Hope.Tickets: 905-885-1071≠ 16 Hamilton Studio, Hamilton. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.ca≠ 17 Aeolian Hall, London. Tickets: 519-672-7950≠ 18 Market Hall, Peterborough. Tickets: 705-742-9425APRILOTTMAR LIEBERT≠ 25 Market Hall≠ 26 Capitol Theatre≠ 27 Hamilton Studio≠ 28 Aeolian Hall≠ 29 Hugh's RoomMAYJORGE MARTINEZ≠ 23 Hugh's Room≠ 24 Capitol Theatre≠ 25 Hamilton Studio≠ 26 Market HallBeat by Beat / In With the NewThe New Creatorsdavid perlmanPETER EötvösIf you are a follower of new music but didn’t know the name ofHungarian composer/conductor/educator Peter Eötvös till now,don’t be too hard on yourself. According to Robert Aitken, “Thereare many like him, with huge careers in Europe, and correspondinglybusy, but they have no reputation on this side, until someoneinvites them here, and sometimes not even after that.” New MusicConcerts artistic director Aitken extended such an invitation toEötvös more than three years ago to come and do a concert, ofEötvös’ own devising, for NMC. “I’d have liked him to come in2011,” Aitken says, “but when I reached him I was told there werealready plans under way for him to come in 2012, and there was avery slim chance he would have time for both.”Those “plans under way” were for Eötvös to play a leadingcuratorial role in this year’s TSO New Creations Festival, a series ofthree concerts, March 1, 3 and 7 at Roy Thomson Hall.With the same blend of pragmatism and cooperation that manifesteditself between Soundstreams and the Canadian Opera Company duringcomposer Kaaija Saariaho’s visit last month, Aitken hitched theNMC wagon to the TSO calendar. The upshot is that three days afterthe March 7 final concert of New Creations, Eötvös will also do aconcert with NMC, on March 10, at the Glenn Gould Studio.Aitken’s connections with Eötvös come from Aitken’s many yearsteaching in Freiburg, Germany, with Eötvös based in Karlsruhe,“one town away.” Aitken is looking forward immensely to the wholevisit, not just the NMC leg of it. “He [Eötvös] is well respected asEmergents IIIna Henning (accordion) andMarc-Olivier Lamontagne (guitar)performing works by Wolpe, Quell, Höstman and othersPart of the Emerging Artist SeriesMar 9 | $10/$5Lisa Cay Miller:Telling StoriesPart of the Jazz Avant SeriesMar 23 | $30/$15 | $25 adv TW/SS/RTSt George the Martyr Church • 197 John St. • Toronto416-204-1080 • www.musicgallery.org18 thewholenote.com March 1 – April 7, 2012