Volume 21 Issue 2 - October 2015
Vol 21 No 2 is now available for your viewing pleasure, and it's a bumper crop, right at the harvest moon. First ever Canadian opera on the Four Seasons Centre main stage gets double coverage with Wende Bartley interviewing Pyramus and Thisbe composer Barbara Monk Feldman and Chris Hoile connecting with director Christopher Alden; Paul Ennis digs into the musical mind of pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, and pianist Eve Egoyan is "On the Record" in conversation with publisher David Perlman ahead of the Oct release concert for her tenth recording. And at the heart of it all the 16th edition of our annual BLUE PAGES directory of presenters profile the season now well and truly under way.
Vol 21 No 2 is now available for your viewing pleasure, and it's a bumper crop, right at the harvest moon. First ever Canadian opera on the Four Seasons Centre main stage gets double coverage with Wende Bartley interviewing Pyramus and Thisbe composer Barbara Monk Feldman and Chris Hoile connecting with director Christopher Alden; Paul Ennis digs into the musical mind of pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, and pianist Eve Egoyan is "On the Record" in conversation with publisher David Perlman ahead of the Oct release concert for her tenth recording. And at the heart of it all the 16th edition of our annual BLUE PAGES directory of presenters profile the season now well and truly under way.
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an internationally high standard. Its repertoire<br />
spans eight centuries, and provides a balanced<br />
diet of choral delights to congregations young<br />
and old, Christians and non-Christians, and those<br />
whose ears hold an insatiable curiosity for music.<br />
The Cathedral’s majestic pipe organ can be<br />
heard in recitals each Tuesday at 1pm and Sunday<br />
at 4pm throughout the year. One of the world’s<br />
finest organists and improvisers, David Briggs<br />
is the Artist-in-Residence and can frequently be<br />
found thrilling audiences at St. James.<br />
Choral Eucharist is also celebrated at 9am<br />
each Sunday and sung by a burgeoning group<br />
of volunteers. If you are interested in committing<br />
to the musical life of this vibrant Cathedral<br />
community, please contact the Director of Music,<br />
Robert Busiakiewicz.<br />
Robert Busiakiewicz<br />
416-364-7865 x224<br />
dom@stjamescathedral.on.ca<br />
stjamescathedral.on.ca<br />
● Chorus Niagara<br />
Chorus Niagara is the Niagara Region’s premier<br />
symphonic chorus. CN presents exciting, diverse,<br />
high calibre performance of choral classics, contemporary<br />
works, new commissions and littleknown<br />
treasures under the direction of Artistic<br />
Director Robert Cooper, C.M.<br />
The <strong>2015</strong>-2016 Season of Celebration is big and<br />
bold! Superb guest soloists Brett Polegato, Leslie<br />
Ann Bradley, Lucia Cesaroni, Gregory Dahl,<br />
Jennifer Krabbe, Anita Krause, Adam Luther,<br />
Gregory Sirett, Maria Soulis, Asitha Tennekoon<br />
and David Trudgen, join Chorus Niagara for performances<br />
of Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s Mass<br />
in B Minor, Bruckner’s Te Deum and Finzi’s Ode<br />
for St. Cecilia. Innovative guest artists including<br />
TorQ Percussion Ensemble and the Bravura Baritones<br />
will help us to make our inaugural season<br />
in the new First Ontario Performing Arts Centre<br />
one to remember.<br />
In addition to our own ‘Power of 100’, we are<br />
thrilled to be joined by the McMaster University<br />
Choir, the Orpheus Choir of Toronto, the Chorus<br />
Niagara Children’s Choir and Choralis Camerata,<br />
as well as the Niagara Symphony Orchestra and<br />
the Talisker Players.<br />
Don’t miss this exciting Season of Celebration<br />
in Partridge Hall!<br />
Diana McAdorey<br />
905-934-5575<br />
cnadmin@becon.org<br />
chorusniagara.ca<br />
● Christ Church Deer Park<br />
Music plays a very important part at this busy<br />
Anglican parish church. Music for services is led<br />
by the organist and choir director. The Choir of<br />
Christ Church Deer Park is an auditioned, mixedvoice<br />
choir that rehearses Thursday evenings<br />
and sings Sunday mornings and on special occasions<br />
from September to June.<br />
Christ Church has hosted its “Jazz Vespers”<br />
for over 15 years. At 4:30pm every second Sunday<br />
from September to June, this service offers<br />
a chance for reflection, prayers for our community<br />
and music by Toronto’s finest jazz musicians.<br />
With its Yonge St. location (at Heath St. near<br />
the St. Clair TTC station), fine acoustics, full modern<br />
facilities, flexible staging, Steinway grand<br />
piano, three manual tracker organ and seating<br />
for 450, Christ Church is an increasingly popular<br />
venue for concert presenters during the year.<br />
Matthew Otto<br />
416-520-9<strong>21</strong>1 x28<br />
motto@christchurhdeerpark.org<br />
thereslifehere.org<br />
● Church of St. Mary Magdalene<br />
Steeped in musical heritage and assisted by<br />
generous acoustics, the Church of St. Mary<br />
Magdalene offers a music programme strongly<br />
rooted in the tradition established by Healey Willan.<br />
Every Sunday at the 11am Solemn Mass the<br />
Gallery Choir sings a mass and motet from the<br />
west gallery while the Ritual Choir sings Gregorian<br />
chant from the east end.<br />
At the 9:30am Sung Mass the SMM Singers<br />
sing a motet and lead congregational singing.<br />
Membership is informal.<br />
One Sunday per month at 4:30pm the meditative<br />
Solemn Evensong and Benediction is sung,<br />
preceded by an organ recital at 4pm. Please<br />
check listings for details.<br />
For information, please contact Andrew Adair.<br />
Andrew Adair, director of music<br />
416-531-7955<br />
andrew.timothy.adair@gmail.com<br />
stmarymagdalene.ca<br />
● Church of the Ascension<br />
The Ascension Choir is a medium-size choir that<br />
sings at the 10:30am Sunday service from the end<br />
of September through the end of June. Repertoire<br />
spans from Gregorian chant to the 20th century.<br />
Special services include a Family Remembrance<br />
in November featuring the Fauré Requiem as the<br />
music for the service, two Lessons and Carols services<br />
(first and last Sundays of Advent), our Christmas<br />
Pageant, a family-style Ash Wednesday and<br />
all of Holy Week. The Ascension Choir rehearses<br />
on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm.<br />
The Contemporary Choir is a small group of<br />
the congregation that participates in the Sunday<br />
service by performing some of the modern<br />
church music and sings in some of the other services<br />
with the Ascension Choir. The Contemporary<br />
Choir rehearses on Mondays at 7:30pm.<br />
Anyone wishing to join either choir please contact<br />
the church by phone or by email.<br />
Lawrence Green, director of music<br />
416-444-8881<br />
ascension@ca.inter.net<br />
ascensiontoronto.ca<br />
● Contact Contemporary Music<br />
Praised by the Globe and Mail as “thought-provoking”<br />
and “highly entertaining”, and by the<br />
New York Times as “mesmerizing” Contact has<br />
premiered works by emerging and established<br />
Canadian and international composers and has<br />
performed at some of the world’s most prestigious<br />
venues and new music festivals.<br />
Contact is dedicated to nurturing and facilitating<br />
the creation, production and presentation of<br />
new music in all contexts, forms and variations<br />
– including interdisciplinary collaborations – as<br />
well as creating outreach opportunities that<br />
engage Canada’s diverse communities in order<br />
to enrich people’s experience with sound. To that<br />
end, in addition to concerts, recordings and touring,<br />
Contact hosts Music From Scratch, a summer<br />
workshop for youth, and Intersection, an interdisciplinary,<br />
multi-genre music festival presented<br />
in the heart of downtown Toronto that engages<br />
thousands of people with new music in one day.<br />
info@contactcontemporarymusic.ca<br />
contactcontemporarymusic.ca<br />
● Continuum Contemporary Music<br />
Widely acclaimed for its inspired and innovative<br />
programming, Continuum presents contemporary<br />
chamber music by established and emerging<br />
composers from around the world. Continuum<br />
has performed across Canada and Europe, commissioned<br />
over 175 works, recorded CDs, generated<br />
interdisciplinary projects, and built an<br />
invaluable online archive of performance videos.<br />
Our 31st season is one of our most exciting yet.<br />
For “At the Seams” (September 19 at Harbourfront<br />
Centre Theatre), the 2014 Jules Léger Prize<br />
was presented to Thierry Tidrow and three world<br />
premieres were on the bill. We perform as part of<br />
SMCQ’s series celebrating John Rea (December 5,<br />
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), then tour British<br />
Columbia (April <strong>21</strong>-May 6) with Ballet Kelowna.<br />
Two spring concerts feature UK-based Okeanos<br />
- contemporary music specialists who perform<br />
on traditional Japanese instruments: “Enliven<br />
the Ma” (May 24, Gallery 345) and “Japan:NEXT”<br />
(May 26, Mazzoleni Concert Hall, part of the <strong>21</strong>C<br />
Music Festival), the latter featuring works by the<br />
next generation of acclaimed Japanese composers.<br />
Plus - an educational collaboration with the<br />
TDSB, New Music 101, and more.<br />
Ryan Scott, artistic director<br />
Josh Grossman, operations manager<br />
416-924-4945<br />
info@continuummusic.org<br />
continuummusic.org<br />
● Counterpoint Community<br />
Orchestra<br />
Counterpoint Community Orchestra was formed<br />
in 1984 by gay and lesbian musicians. Together<br />
we provide fine music and create a deeper sense<br />
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