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 />
late renaissance to the present day, including<br />
eight commissions of original work from Canadian<br />
artists.<br />
Our 12th season will feature masques classic<br />
and contemporary with a program that mixes<br />
mainstage productions with intimate salons. In<br />
December, we present Dean Burry’s fabulous<br />
contemporary Christmas classic, The Mummers’<br />
Masque, based on the 400-year-old Newfoundland<br />
tradition of mummering. In May, we present<br />
Henry Purcell’s “Restoration spectacular” The<br />
Fairy Queen (1692), an ideal introduction to baroque<br />
masque. Our salons will explore, in <strong>October</strong>,<br />
the masque work of the Jacobean poet and playwright<br />
Ben Jonson and, in February, the background<br />
and inspiration of our next commission.<br />
Andrew Templeton<br />
416-829-7196<br />
andrew@torontomasquetheatre.com<br />
torontomasquetheatre.com<br />
●Toronto Mendelssohn Choir<br />
Grand symphonic sound has been the trademark<br />
of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Canada’s<br />
world-renowned large vocal ensemble, for<br />
over 100 years. TMC concerts feature choral<br />
masterworks, music expressing hope, joy, desolation<br />
and faith – the drama of the human condition<br />
told through music and word. The 130-voice<br />
choir includes a professional core, auditioned volunteers<br />
and apprentices. The TMC has a five-concert<br />
subscription season and performs regularly<br />
with the TSO, including Handel’s Messiah.<br />
TMC’s <strong>2015</strong>/16 concerts include: “German<br />
Romantics” (music of Brahms, Liszt<br />
and Schubert) with pianist André Laplante,<br />
November 25 at Koerner Hall; “Festival of Carols”<br />
with the acclaimed Canadian Staff Band,<br />
December 9; the free Conductors’ Symposium<br />
concert, January 30; “Sacred Music for a Sacred<br />
Space” at St. Paul’s Basilica on Good Friday; and<br />
Haydn’s The Creation with orchestra, April 27 at<br />
Koerner Hall.<br />
The TMC’s education and outreach programs<br />
include the annual Conductors’ Symposium for<br />
emerging conductors, the Apprentice Program<br />
to support young singers and Singsation Saturday<br />
choral workshops for anyone who loves to<br />
sing.<br />
Noel Edison, artistic director<br />
Cynthia Hawkins, executive director<br />
416-598-0422 x2<strong>21</strong><br />
manager@tmchoir.org<br />
tmchoir.org<br />
●Toronto Operetta Theatre<br />
Toronto Operetta Theatre embarks upon its third<br />
decade as Canada’s only performing arts company<br />
dedicated to music theatre in all its variety.<br />
The season opens on November 1, <strong>2015</strong> with a<br />
tribute to Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore starring<br />
Charlotte Knight, Gregory Finney, Rosalind<br />
McArthur, Michael Nyby and Natasha Fransblow<br />
as music director. Our Holiday production will be<br />
The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg featuring<br />
Ernesto Ramirez, Jennifer Taverner, Curtis<br />
Sullivan, Stefan Fehr and Derek Bate as conductor,<br />
from December 27, <strong>2015</strong> to January 3,<br />
2016. The season closes with the Canadian premier<br />
of Jacinto Guerrero’s Spanish zarzuela, Los<br />
Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks), from April 27<br />
through May 1, 2016, featuring Miriam Khalil and<br />
Guillermo Silva-Marin with Larry Beckwith as<br />
conductor on April 27 to 30 and May 1, 2016. Performances<br />
are held at the St. Lawrence Centre<br />
for the Arts.<br />
Yuki Azuma<br />
Box Office: 416-366-7723<br />
torontooperetta.com<br />
●Toronto Singing Studio<br />
Welcome to a new season of singing! The Toronto<br />
Singing Studio offers many ways to improve and<br />
develop your voice and singing skills.<br />
Interested in private singing lessons? Discover<br />
the unique sound that is your singing voice. Are<br />
you more comfortable in a group class? The very<br />
popular “Singers’ Repertoire Class” for experienced<br />
singers (ages 18 and over) may be a perfect<br />
fit.<br />
The Toronto Singing Studio has four amateur<br />
adult choirs: Vocal Mosaic (60 voices, no audition),<br />
Celebration Choir (60 voices, no audition,<br />
for singers over age 55), Vivace Vox (chamber<br />
choir, by audition only), and Summer Singers (65<br />
voices, no audition, meets June and July).<br />
The Toronto Singing Studio has locations downtown<br />
and midtown. For more information, visit<br />
the TTSS website.<br />
Linda Eyman, director<br />
416-455-9238<br />
linda@thetorontosingingstudio.ca<br />
www.thetorontosingingstudio.ca<br />
●TorQ Percussion Quartet<br />
Canada’s premiere percussion ensemble, TorQ<br />
Percussion Quartet continues to bring new vitality<br />
to percussion repertoire and performance in<br />
every situation and opportunity. Renowned for<br />
their engaging performances, members Richard<br />
Burrows, Adam Campbell, Jamie Drake, and Daniel<br />
Morphy are committed to making percussion<br />
music accessible to audiences that span generations,<br />
and as The Toronto Star states “[TorQ] can<br />
stand proud among the growing throng of chamber<br />
percussion ensembles around the world.”<br />
Since coming together in 2004, some of their<br />
international highlights include the International<br />
Percussion Quartet Festival (Luxembourg), Percussive<br />
Arts Society International Convention<br />
(Indianapolis) and with the Stuttgart Chamber<br />
Choir. At home, TorQ has made appearances at<br />
the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, PEI’s Indian<br />
River Festival, Toronto’s Soundstreams, and Kitchener’s<br />
Open Ears Contemporary Music Festival.<br />
In 2012, they launched their first annual concert<br />
series in Toronto where they collaborated with<br />
invited guest artists, composers, and dancers. As<br />
collaborative artists, the quartet has performed<br />
with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto<br />
Mendelssohn Choir, and the Hamilton Children’s<br />
Choir, as well as soloists Krisztina Szabo, Rivka<br />
Golani, and composer Nicole Lizée.<br />
Richard Burrows<br />
416-788-8272<br />
info@torqpercussion.ca<br />
torqpercussion.ca<br />
●Toyich International Projects<br />
Toyich International Projects (TIP) is a non-profit<br />
charitable organization devoted to developing the<br />
skills, professional training and musical education<br />
of music students, performers, mature amateur<br />
musicians and music teachers by providing<br />
them with opportunities to develop and present<br />
their talents nationally and internationally.<br />
Our acclaimed Monster Concerts (piano<br />
orchestras) have showcased many talented performers<br />
over the years and have been featured<br />
on radio, television and print media in Canada<br />
and Europe.<br />
TIP’s mandate is inclusive and we provide and<br />
support professional training on an ongoing<br />
basis to musicians of all ages, in the form of<br />
coaching, masterclasses and performance<br />
practice (contact Boyanna Toyich for information<br />
about participation).<br />
TIP, in collaboration with the University of<br />
Toronto’s Faculty of Music, is proud to present<br />
RomeSMARTS (Rome Summer Musical Arts) in<br />
Rome, Italy, each summer, offering performance<br />
programs, masterclasses with Canadian and Italian<br />
teachers, lectures, seminars, public performances<br />
and University of Toronto credit courses<br />
for eligible students. The dates for next year’s program<br />
in Rome are July 4 to 15, 2016.<br />
boyanna@sympatico.ca<br />
boyanna.toyich@utoronto.ca<br />
romesmarts.org<br />
●Trio Arkel<br />
Trio Arkel is a unique ensemble at the pinnacle of<br />
Canadian classical music. Formed in 2008, this<br />
string trio is comprised of three women who are<br />
not only highly-respected soloists and chamber<br />
musicians in their own right, but also orchestral<br />
leaders; Marie Bérard is the Concertmaster of<br />
the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Teng<br />
Li is the Principal Violist of the Toronto Symphony<br />
Orchestra, and Winona Zelenka is the Assistant<br />
Principal Cellist of the Toronto Symphony<br />
Orchestra. Brought together by their mutual<br />
love of chamber music as well as the fascination<br />
for new and unusual repertoire for small ensembles,<br />
the Trio began a concert series in the fall of<br />
2013, dedicated to the presentation of these great<br />
masterpieces to an enthusiastic audience. Along<br />
with playing both well-loved string trio repertoire<br />
and lesser known works for that combination,<br />
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