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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BLUE PAGES <strong>2015</strong>/16<br />
performers at every concert.<br />
It’s an exciting lineup for our <strong>2015</strong>/16 season!<br />
Visit our website for complete concert details and<br />
online ticketing.<br />
Sue Payne<br />
416-429-0007<br />
spo@spo.ca<br />
spo.ca<br />
● Show One Productions<br />
For over a decade, Svetlana Dvoretsky and Show<br />
One Productions have presented some of the<br />
world’s most sought after artists in Toronto, Montreal<br />
and Vancouver. Many of the greatest symphony<br />
orchestras, ballet companies, and dance<br />
and theatre productions have also come to Canada<br />
under the Show One banner. In <strong>2015</strong>-16, the<br />
company presents its most ambitious season yet<br />
at Koerner Hall, featuring world famous singers<br />
and instrumentalists: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sondra<br />
Radvanovsky, Mischa Maisky, Denis Matsuev,<br />
Igudesman and Joo and the two most talked about<br />
piano winners of the <strong>2015</strong> Tchaikovsky Competition<br />
– Lucas Debargue and Lukas Geniušas. Further<br />
compelling projects are continually added to<br />
the roster – check the website for details.<br />
Dvoretsky, whom the media has called “an<br />
icon in the making,” and “an intuitive impresario”,<br />
holds the Order of York Centre Award by the Government<br />
of Canada.<br />
416-737-6785<br />
showoneproductions.ca<br />
● SINE NOMINE Ensemble<br />
for Medieval Music<br />
The talented, versatile singers and instrumentalists<br />
of SINE NOMINE are passionate about the<br />
music of the Middle Ages and about bringing it to<br />
life for modern audiences. Based in Toronto since<br />
1991, the group has also performed in various<br />
other Ontario centres, as well as Alberta, Quebec,<br />
the Maritimes, the eastern USA and England.<br />
SINE NOMINE continues its third decade of<br />
inventive programming, blending vocal and<br />
instrumental music from medieval courts and<br />
churches with readings, drama and liturgical<br />
action to provide insight into the fascinating artistic<br />
and intellectual culture of the Middle Ages.<br />
Concerts take place on Fridays: December 18 (“In<br />
presepio: Medieval songs for the Christ-child”),<br />
February 26 (“Incendium amoris: Music<br />
from a mystical manuscript”), and April 29<br />
(“De animalibus: A Medieval Musical Bestiary”), all<br />
at Saint Thomas’s Church, 383 Huron St., at 8pm.<br />
The ensemble’s recordings include an<br />
independent cassette, the CD-ROM The Art of<br />
the Chant (PBS/Jasmine) and the CD A Golden<br />
Treasury of Mediaeval Music (Saydisc/AmonRa).<br />
SINE NOMINE is ensemble-in-residence at the<br />
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.<br />
Andrea Budgey<br />
Tickets: 416-978-8849<br />
uofttix.ca<br />
Subscriptions: 416-638-9445<br />
sinenominetoronto@gmail.com<br />
pims.ca/amici/sine-nomine<br />
● Small World Music Society<br />
Established in 1997, Small World Music Society<br />
is a charitable organization that has earned a<br />
cherished place within Toronto’s cultural fabric,<br />
with a reputation as the city’s premier presenter<br />
of culturally diverse music. Committed to<br />
supporting local artists, fellow presenters, community<br />
groups and audiences, Small World uses<br />
music to foster understanding and build cultural<br />
bridges.<br />
Small World has presented over 600 concerts<br />
and workshops in venues across the Greater<br />
Toronto Area, ranging from prestigious concert<br />
halls, to outdoor festival stages, and even their<br />
own stage and community hub inside Artscape’s<br />
Youngspace facility on Shaw Street, the Small<br />
World Music Centre.<br />
The annual signature program is the Small<br />
World Music Festival, which runs for 10 days in<br />
late September. Since its debut in 2002, the festival<br />
has brought international and Canadian artists<br />
representing a global range of diversity to<br />
share their cultural heritage, introducing audiences<br />
to sounds old and new. Small World is truly<br />
“The Beat of the Globe in the Heart of Toronto.”<br />
Visit Small World’s website for upcoming<br />
concerts.<br />
Alan Davis<br />
416-536-5439<br />
info@smallworldmusic.com<br />
smallworldmusic.com<br />
● Sony Centre for the<br />
Performing Arts<br />
The Sony Centre, Toronto’s first performing arts<br />
centre, has played a defining role in the cultural<br />
life of Toronto for more than 50 years. Today,<br />
Sony Centre’s mission is to unite the global citizens<br />
of Toronto through great artistic experiences.<br />
The Sony Centre presents year-round<br />
programming including concerts, musical theatre,<br />
family entertainment, comedy and dance.<br />
With in-house catering and many completely customizable<br />
spaces, Toronto’s iconic Sony Centre<br />
has also proven to be an ideal venue for product<br />
launches, town halls, holiday parties and fundraisers<br />
– it is truly where the world comes to play!<br />
1-855-872-7669<br />
info@sonycentre.ca<br />
sonycentre.ca<br />
● Soundstreams<br />
Led by artistic director Lawrence Cherney and<br />
executive director Susan Worthington, Soundstreams<br />
is a Toronto-based music presenter that<br />
commissions, develops and showcases the work<br />
of contemporary Canadian composers and their<br />
international counterparts. These innovative collaborations<br />
are performed by the finest artists<br />
from Canada and around the world, and are presented<br />
in an annual concert series, in national<br />
and international tours and through a variety<br />
of education and outreach activities. To mark<br />
our 30th anniversary season in 2012/13, Soundstreams<br />
also launched SoundMakers, an innovative<br />
website and iPad app that invites music lovers<br />
to explore and create with Soundstreams’ commissioned<br />
works. In the <strong>2015</strong>/16 season, we are<br />
pleased to present two exciting new collaborations<br />
with Canadian Stage and Massey Hall (the<br />
opera, Julie, and Steve Reich at 80, respectively),<br />
as well as Canadian soprano legend Adrianne<br />
Pieczonka, a celebration of the global accordion<br />
family, and a choral feast with Scottish composer/<br />
conductor James MacMillan.<br />
Susan Worthington, executive director<br />
416-504-1282<br />
info@soundstreams.ca<br />
www.soundstreams.ca<br />
● Southern Ontario Chapter<br />
of the Hymn Society<br />
Southern Ontario Chapter of the Hymn Society<br />
(SOCHS) is a non-denominational organization<br />
supporting congregational song and offering<br />
three events each season in the Barrie, Kitchener-<br />
Waterloo and Pickering triangle. Anyone interested<br />
in hymns and congregational song may join<br />
us or participate in our activities. John L. Bell and<br />
James Abbington have brought exciting songs to<br />
our gatherings. Internationally recognized hymn<br />
writers Mary Louise Bringle, Carl Daw, Michael<br />
Hawn and Brian Wren have also been guests.<br />
Sunday <strong>October</strong> 18, <strong>2015</strong> 2:30-4:00, distinguished<br />
Canadian composer Ruth Watson Henderson<br />
will collaborate with David McKane,<br />
United Church pastor and hymn text writer, to<br />
illustrate the interplay of words and music in<br />
hymn creation.<br />
Saturday February 27, 2016, 9:30-3:30,<br />
renowned hymn writer, jazz musician and composer<br />
Dan Damon will lead a lecture-workshop on<br />
Justice in Hymnody at Emmanuel College Chapel,<br />
Victoria University in the University of Toronto.<br />
Sunday April 10, 2016, 2:30-4:00, well-known<br />
church musician and clinician Lydia Pedersen<br />
will present some of the findings of her extensive<br />
work with congregations creating their own<br />
hymn traditions.<br />
Donald Anderson<br />
416-342-6034<br />
info@sochs.org<br />
www.sochs.org<br />
● St. Andrew’s Church<br />
St. Andrew’s Church is a dynamic historic congregation<br />
located at 73 Simcoe St., opposite Roy<br />
Thomson Hall. Founded in 1830, this Presbyterian<br />
church has a rich history of musical innovation<br />
and excellence. A professional eight-voice<br />
B20 | theWholeNote <strong>2015</strong>/16 PRESENTER PROFILES
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