Volume 21 Issue 2 - October 2015

● Exultate Chamber Singers
Over a 35-year history, the Exultate Chamber
Singers have garnered praise from all quarters
for sensitive, precise and seamless performances.
Founded by conductor John Tuttle, the choir is
enriched not only by the excellent musicianship
of its members but also by their varied academic
and professional backgrounds. Now led by Dr. Hilary
Apfelstadt, the ensemble continues to share
its affinity for Canadian repertoire, as well as other
music for chamber choir. Our new CD, Winter Paths,
features works for the Christmas season by Canadian
composers. We engage audiences through
a four-concert subscription concert in Toronto, and
collaborate with other groups in the community.
Elana Harte
416-971-9229
exultate@exultate.net
exultate.net
● Flato Markham Theatre
Flato Markham Theatre is one of Canada’s premier
theatre houses serving the GTA and Markham residents.
With over 300 live performances each year,
the Theatre presents a performance calendar that
showcases the cultural diversity of the community.
Live theatre, concerts, comedy shows and
family entertainment provide an ever-changing
array of performing arts. Flato Markham Theatre
continues to honour respected international artists
and Canadian talent in performances offered
throughout the annual professional entertainment
season held September through May.
“Live Arts Matter”
Duncan Fletcher
905-415-7537 x5580
markhamtheatre.ca
● Flute Street
Flute Street is Toronto’s Professional Flute Choir,
comprised of the full range of instruments from
piccolo through treble, concert, alto, bass and
contrabass flutes, performing music from the
rapidly expanding flute choir repertoire of exciting
original compositions, sprinkled with a few
transcriptions and well-crafted settings of folk
songs, jazz and popular tunes.
In our first season we delighted our audiences
with world and Canadian premieres and
featured international guest soloists, piccoloist,
Jean-Louis Beaumadier and low flutes specialist,
Peter Sheridan.
The 2015-16 season will be a two-concert series,
“All About the Bass,” in February, with a spotlight
on Flute Street’s lower flute section (including a
surprise appearance), and a concert in May featuring
Atlanta composer and piccolo virtuoso
Kelly Via. Check with WholeNote for details.
Allan Pulker
416-778-7535
allanpulker@gmail.com
ETOBICOKE CENTENNIAL CHOIR
● Gallery Players of Niagara
Now in its 21st season, the Gallery Players of Niagara
has become one of Niagara’s most prominent
presenters of classical chamber music. Each season
the organization presents a huge variety of
music from Vivaldi & Brahms to improvised music
for silent movies. This season the Gallery Players
presents baritone Brett Polegato, the Eybler
Quartet, Glissandi, and many other exciting performers
from around the Golden Horseshoe. The
season typically runs November to June and subscriptions
can be purchased, offering significant
savings over single tickets.
To celebrate its first 20 seasons the group
released Transformation, a CD featuring three
new transcriptions of Beethoven, Schumann and
Ravel, performed by Brett Polegato, the Eybler
Quartet, Joseph Phillips, Timothy Phelan, Carol
Lynn Fujino, Douglas Miller, James Mason, Julie
Baumgartel, Peter Shackleton, & Lelsie De’Ath.
The group’s musical depth, and its ability to
communicate with audiences is it’s huge appeal.
The Gallery Players commissions new Canadian
works, presents baroque repertoire on period
instruments, and covers the standard chamber
music repertoire in between! Please see the website
for more information
905-468-1525
info@galleryplayers.ca
galleryplayers.ca
● Georgetown Bach Chorale
The Georgetown Bach Chorale, now in its 16th
season, continues not only to perform choral
music at its highest level, but also to present
orchestral works and intimate chamber music
as experienced by listeners long ago. Rehearsals
take place on Tuesday evenings with 24 auditioned
choristers circled around a harpsichord,
led by their fearless leader Ronald Greidanus.
Highlights of this year’s concert program
include: Our first house concert, “Chamber Music
for clarinet, cello and piano”, featuring music by
Brahms, Bruch and Scriabin. This is followed by
Advent Cantatas by Bach and a Double Harpsichord
Concerto. House concerts then continue
with, “Christmas and All that Jazz” and “Romantic
Piano for a Winter’s Day” featuring RG and the
music of Rachmaninoff and Chopin. 2016 begins
with a programme of Romantic choral music.
Bach, Leo and Allegri provide “Music for Good
Friday”. Edwin Huizinga will join us for Vivaldi’s
Four Seasons interspersed with choruses from
Bach cantatas. In short, a wonderful and varied
collection of authentically performed instrumental
and choral music.
Ronald Greidanus
905-873-9909
info@georgetownbachchorale.com
georgetownbachchorale.com
● Glionna Mansell Corporation
Glionna Mansell Corporation is a music marketing
agency, organ dealer and concert producer
in the organ and choral performance genre. As
a respected leader in the industry, the company
is an active supporter/promoter of emerging artistic
talent alongside experienced world-stage
performers. The activities operating under the
Glionna Mansell banner include: Glionna Mansell
Arts Foundation for Performance Excellence,
ORGANIX Concerts Inc., Allen Organ Company in
Ontario and Mosaic Canadian Vocal Ensemble.
Glionna Mansell is the exclusive Ontario dealer
of Allen digital and digital-pipe organs and enjoys
a well established reputation for profound quality
– seen and unseen. President and artistic director
Gordon Mansell is Music Director and Organist
at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church where
he directs a large music program and presides
over a world-renowned Casavant Frères mechanical-action
pipe organ, Op.2805. Regarding this
organ, famed English organist Peter Hurford pronounced
it to be one of the finest baroque-styled
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