Volume 23 Issue 2 - October 2017
In this issue: several local artists reflect on the memory of composer Claude Vivier, as they prepare to perform his music; Vancouver gets ready to host international festival ISCM World New Music Days, which is coming to Canada for the second time since its inception in 1923; one of the founders of Artword Artbar, one of Hamilton’s staple music venues, on the eve of the 5th annual Steel City Jazz Festival, muses on keeping urban music venues alive; and a conversation with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, as he prepares for an ambitious recital in Toronto. These and other stories, in our October 2017 issue of the magazine.
In this issue: several local artists reflect on the memory of composer Claude Vivier, as they prepare to perform his music; Vancouver gets ready to host international festival ISCM World New Music Days, which is coming to Canada for the second time since its inception in 1923; one of the founders of Artword Artbar, one of Hamilton’s staple music venues, on the eve of the 5th annual Steel City Jazz Festival, muses on keeping urban music venues alive; and a conversation with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, as he prepares for an ambitious recital in Toronto. These and other stories, in our October 2017 issue of the magazine.
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●●Church of St. Mary Magdalene<br />
Steeped in musical heritage and assisted by a<br />
generous acoustic, the Church of St. Mary Magdalene<br />
offers a music program strongly rooted in<br />
the musical tradition established by Healey Willan.<br />
Every Sunday at the 11am Solemn Mass, the Gallery<br />
Choir sings a mass and motet from the west<br />
gallery while the Ritual Choir sings the Gregorian<br />
propers from the east end. At the 9:30am Sung<br />
Mass, the SMM Singers sing a motet and lead<br />
congregational singing. One Sunday per month<br />
at 4:30pm, the meditative Solemn Evensong and<br />
Benediction is sung, preceded by an organ recital<br />
at 4pm. For more information including music<br />
schedules and upcoming engagements, please<br />
visit the Church website.<br />
Andrew Adair, director of music<br />
416-531-7955<br />
andrew.timothy.adair@gmail.com<br />
www.stmarymagdalene.ca<br />
●●Contact Contemporary Music<br />
Contact combines 21st-century classical/experimental<br />
music with the sensibilities of rock and<br />
jazz to form a hybrid chamber ensemble that<br />
defies genres. Praised by The Globe and Mail as<br />
“thought-provoking” and “highly entertaining,”<br />
and by The New York Times as “mesmerizing,”<br />
Contact has premiered works by emerging and<br />
established Canadian and international composers<br />
and has performed at venues and new music<br />
festivals around the world. Contact is dedicated<br />
to interdisciplinary collaborations, nurturing and<br />
facilitating the creation, production, presentation<br />
and engagement with new music in all contexts,<br />
forms and variations and creating outreach<br />
opportunities with Canada’s diverse communities<br />
in order to enrich people’s experience with sound.<br />
In addition to concerts, recordings and touring,<br />
Contact hosts Music From Scratch, a music creation<br />
workshop for youth, and co-presents Intersection,<br />
an annual festival of experimental music.<br />
Jerry Pergolesi<br />
416-902-7010<br />
info@contactcontemporarymusic.org<br />
www.contactcontemporarymusic.org<br />
●●Continuum Contemporary Music<br />
Widely acclaimed for its inspired and innovative<br />
programming, Continuum presents chamber<br />
works by the most exciting established and<br />
emerging composers from Toronto, Canada and<br />
around the world. Continuum has performed<br />
across Canada and Europe, commissioned over<br />
175 works, recorded CDs, generated interdisciplinary<br />
projects, and built an invaluable online<br />
archive of performance videos.<br />
For <strong>2017</strong>/18, artistic director Ryan Scott has<br />
programmed cross-disciplinary projects in collaboration<br />
with internationally acclaimed friends.<br />
“Urgent Voices” (December 8 and 9 at Aki Studio)<br />
CHORUS NIAGARA<br />
commemorates Canada’s 150th with world premieres<br />
by Anna Hostman, Scott Wilson and<br />
James Rolfe. “Time Travels Light” (January 21<br />
at 918 Bathurst) celebrates all things percussion<br />
with TorQ and Rob Power. And for “Hockey<br />
Noir” we team up with Ensemble Contemporain<br />
de Montreal and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival<br />
for a multimedia opera centering around the<br />
classic Toronto/Montreal hockey rivalry – with<br />
a side order of love, lust, scandal and the mafia.<br />
Other programming includes the fifth edition of<br />
Continuum in the Classroom, our collaboration<br />
with the Toronto District School Board, and the<br />
second annual Toronto Teen Composer Award.<br />
Josh Grossman, operations manager<br />
416-924-4945<br />
info@continuummusic.org<br />
www.continuummusic.org<br />
●●Counterpoint Community<br />
Orchestra<br />
Founded in 1984, Counterpoint Community<br />
Orchestra is an inclusive LGBTQ orchestra. As the<br />
first gay positive orchestra in the world, Counterpoint<br />
has been in the vanguard for gay rights and<br />
bringing awareness to the community’s struggle<br />
for equality and acceptance for more than 33<br />
years. A non-profit, member-run, full symphony<br />
orchestra for amateur and professional musicians,<br />
Counterpoint welcomes all. Drawing its<br />
programming from Baroque to contemporary<br />
repertoire, Counterpoint is committed to sharing<br />
the magic of orchestral music with audiences<br />
across the country. Counterpoint’s homebase<br />
is in the heart of Toronto’s Gay Village, The 519<br />
Church Street Community Centre. Rehearsals<br />
are held there every Monday night at 8pm.<br />
Administrator<br />
info@ccorchestra.org<br />
www.ccorchestra.org<br />
●●<br />
DaCapo Chamber Choir<br />
DaCapo Chamber Choir…giving ideas voice.<br />
Founded in 1998 by director Leonard Enns,<br />
DaCapo is dedicated to exploring unaccompanied<br />
music, primarily of the 20th century and later,<br />
with a mandate to champion music of Canadian<br />
and local composers. Each year, the choir offers<br />
NewWorks, a national choral composition competition,<br />
and is currently recording a CD based<br />
on entries to this competition.<br />
The <strong>2017</strong>/18 concert season will focus on the<br />
theme of “displacement” and will feature collaborators<br />
such as Iranian-Canadian singer Amir<br />
Haghighi (November 11 and 12), pianist Catherine<br />
Robertson (March 3 and 4), and the Orpheus<br />
Choir of Toronto (April 28). Concerts are held in<br />
Kitchener-Waterloo – full details and tickets on<br />
our website. Like us on Facebook or follow us on<br />
Twitter @DaCapoChoir!<br />
Sara Martin<br />
519-725-7549<br />
info@dacapochamberchoir.ca<br />
www.dacapochamberchoir.ca<br />
●●Don Wright Faculty of<br />
Music, Western University<br />
The Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western<br />
University in London, Ontario is situated in a<br />
research-intensive university on a campus that<br />
is inviting and striking. It is an environment that<br />
enables students to grow artistically and academically.<br />
Our students are among 650 of the<br />
brightest and most talented young artist scholars,<br />
who come to study in one of our many undergraduate<br />
and graduate programs. With the<br />
faculty and staff, they are committed to excellence<br />
in creative and scholarly work.<br />
In our <strong>2017</strong>/18 season, we invite you to experience<br />
the incredible diversity of musical styles<br />
and genres our students and faculty have to<br />
offer, including continued Canadian content<br />
theWholeNote <strong>2017</strong>/18 PRESENTER PROFILES | B7
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