Scarborough Society of Musicians

Scarborough Musicians want to keep the Music Alive

A quartet of Scarborough graduates have formed the Scarborough Society of Musicians with the mission of keeping music alive for post-secondary students who are not pursuing professional studies in music. They plan to provide an environment for the members to continue developing and exercising their talent.

Their goal is to involve those graduates who would like to keep involved in music but do not have the time to be involved in community groups that practise weekly and in most cases meet on week nights. Musicians will meet twice a month for practices and the quartet hopes that students who are now studying out of town will be able to attend the practices on Saturday
mornings. The tentative rehearsal location is Dr. Norman Bethune C.I. which has an award winning music programme and fostered the musical interests of some of these students who now want to give back to the community.

Because they benefited from participation in music studies in elementary and high schools, the group also plans to contribute to the community by helping to keep music alive in the community and fostering links.

For further information about this new venture check the website:
www.continuingmusic.ca or e-mail ssm@continuingmusic.ca.

Concert d'inauguration de l'orgue Casavant

À l'heure où plusieurs de nos églises catholiques ferment, de nombreux et valeureux orgues quittent le pays ou sont abandonnés avec l'édifice ou pire, destinés à la démolition. C'est avec fierté que les paroissiens de Sainte-Angèle vous invitent au concert d'inauguration de leur orgue Casavant. L'instrument, récemment installé à Sainte-Angèle et qui provient du Couvent des Franciscains du boulevard René-Lévesque, est composé de 17 jeux, répartis sur deux claviers et un pédalier. Ce concert qui réunira trois grands noms du monde de l'orgue montréalais, Hélène Dugal, Christopher Jackson et Réjean Poirier, se tiendra le dimanche 8 juin à 16h, à l'église Sainte-Angèle, au 5275, boul. Lavoisier, à Saint-Léonard (entre Viau et Lacordaire, au nord du boulevard Métropolitain). Le programme musical est composé d'œuvres de Poulenc, Bonnet, Pierné, Capocci, Durante et Boëlmann. Un vin d'honneur suivra. L'entrée est libre. Pour se procurer les laisser-passer, vous être priés de téléphoner au 514-321-3644. Un événement à ne pas manquer.

PROGRAMME

Hélène DUGAL

Francis POULENC (1899-1963)

« Priez pour paix », Texte de Charles D'Orléans *

Joseph BONNET (1884-1944)

- Trois versets sur l'hymne Ave Maris Stella (op.5, nº 5)
- Rêverie (op.5, nº6)
- Moment musical (op.10, nº 4)
- Consolation (op. 10, nº 5)

Gabriel PIERNÉ (1863-1937)
- Prélude en sol mineur, op. 29, nº1

Réjean POIRIER

Filippo CAPOCCI (1840-1911)

- Meditazione

- Andante con moto

- Preludio e Fuga

Christopher JACKSON

Francesco Durante (1684-1755)

"Vergin tutto amor" *

Léon BOËLLMANN (1862-1897)

Suite Gothique, opus 25

- Introduction et Choral

- Menuet Gothique

- Prière à Notre Dame

- Toccata

* chanté par le baryton Jean-Pierre Couturier

The award-winning Mississauga Waterfront Festival

The Mississauga Waterfront Festival is again celebrating Great Canadian Music at Port Credit's Memorial Park, June 13 - 15 Father's Day Weekend with Matthew Good June 13th Colin James June 14th & Suzie McNeil & Rik Emmett June 15th.

At Festivals & Events Ontario the festival won numerous awards including being one of Ontario's Top 100 Festivals for the 5th year in a row and winning the prestigious Best Overall Media, Marketing and Promotional Campaign Award. They also won Best Fundraising Idea for Full Circle, a fundraiser for their Sponsor a Child Program. The Mississauga Waterfront Festival is again proud to present an exciting festival weekend with four of Canada's most popular artists: MATTHEW GOOD, COLIN JAMES, SUZIE MCNEIL AND RIK EMMETT who are enjoying record-breaking CD and video success and appearing in concert worldwide. Supporting acts include JOHNNY MAX, THE SPADES, CRASH PARALLEL, BACKDRAFT & Australian newcomer, MARTA. Attractions include extreme jet-ski & water-ski shows, Purina dog show, petting zoo, pony rides, carnival, great food, First Nations Stage, McDonald's Sports Zone, crafters, vendors, BMX competition, YTV WOW, Mississauga Future Stars Finals, Pizza Nova & Home Depot workshops & World Vision's One Life Experience. Children's stage highlights include TOOPY & BINOO, MISS SPIDER, MEET & GREETS WITH MAX FROM MAX & RUBY and DORA THE EXPLORER, RONALD MCDONALD AND TRIBUTES TO HANNAH MONTANA AND HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.

A weekend wristband will get you to all concerts, attractions and events! Prices are $15 for adults and $10 for children and seniors Advance price: $13 for adults and $8 for children and seniors available on our Web site: www.mississaugawaterfrontfestival.com

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Festival Montréal Baroque

Photo : directrice artistique : Suzie Napper

FESTIVAL MONTRÉAL BAROQUE

PROGRAMMATION

CONCERTS

LA TRAVERSÉE MIRACULEUSE

Charbonniers de l’Enfer, Meredith Hall (soprano), La Nef, Lisa Ornstein (fiddle québécois) et David Greenberg (fiddle néo-écossais)

Musiques traditionnelles néo-écossaises et québécoises

Vendredi 20 juin à 19h30 – Grand Concert - Hangar 16, Quais du Vieux-Port (vis-à-vis la rue Bonsecours)

CHINOISERIES - Première montréalaise

Qian Yi et Samantha Louis-Jean (sopranos), Ensemble Tsuni Shou, Les Voix Humaines

Chansons d’amour françaises et chinoises du XVIIe; extraits d’un opéra Kun banni en Chine lors de la Révolution culturelle.

Vendredi 20 juin à 21h30 – Grand Concert - Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (400, rue Saint-Paul Est)

I MERCANTI DI VENEZIA!

Les Boréades de Montréal, Consort des Voix Humaines

Musique vénitienne du XVIIe siècle pour vents, cordes, violons et violes de Bassano, Rossi, Cima et Fontana

Samedi 21 juin à 17h30 - Grand Concert - Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (400, rue Saint-Paul Est)

KLEZMER : VENEZIA-VARSOVIE / CONCERT BÉNÉFICE

Ensemble Budowitz

De Budapest, Berlin et New-York, Budowitz est un des rares groupes à interpréter le Klezmer sur instruments du XIXe siècle. Concert suivi d’une soirée dansante avec la ‘caller’ Avia Moore.

Samedi 21 juin à 20h00 – Grand concert - Cirque Éloize/Gare Dalhousie (417, rue Berri)

LETTRES CHINOISES

Wen Zhao (pipa), Lucas Harris (luth), 2 comédiens

Luth et pipa sur les écrits de la canadienne Ying Chen : les lettres d’amour entre Yuan, immigré à Montréal, et Sassa à Shanghai.

Dimanche 22 juin à 7h – Concert intime matinal - Tour de Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (400, rue Saint-Paul Est)

Note : 90 marches à monter

CANTATES DE BACH : HOMMAGE À GOULD

Monika Mauch (soprano), Daniel Taylor (contre-ténor), Bande Montréal Baroque, Eric Milnes, direction.

Point culminant de la journée consacrée à Glenn Gould, les Cantates BWV 170 et 210

Dimanche 22 juin à 17h30 – Grand Concert - Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (400, rue Saint-Paul Est)

PLANXTY O’CAROLAN

Ensemble La Cigale, Sara Lackie (harpe)

Musique irlandaise du XVIIIe siècle, dont celle du bien connu O’Carolan!

Lundi 23 juin à 15h – Concert intime - Galerie Pangée (40, rue Saint-Paul Ouest)

SOIRÉE SAFRAN

OHSO SQUARE, OU LE MARCHÉ DE CALCUTTA!

Ensemble Notturna (nouvel ensemble montréalais)

Les soirées musicales des employés de la British East India Company telles que relatées dans des lettres datant du XVIIIè siècle.

Dimanche 22 juin à 19h30 – Concert intime - Cirque Éloize/Gare Dalhousie (417, rue Berri)

TABLA D’HAUTE!

Pandit Sharda Sahai (tabla), Ramesh Mishra (sarangi)

Récital de musique « classique » indienne par des artistes de renommée internationale. Le Pandit Sharda Sahai compte parmi ses ancêtres le premier virtuose de tabla, né en 1775 à Bénarès en Inde.

Dimanche 22 juin à 21h30 – Grand Concert - Cirque Éloize/Gare Dalhousie (417, rue Berri)

SOIRÉE DES CARAÏBES

LE COULICAM, ROI DE PERSE !

Ensemble Masques

De talentueux jeunes montréalais interprètent l’intégrale des « Pièces de clavecin en concert » de Rameau, compositeur très populaire chez les colons français d’Haïti au XVIIIe siècle.

Lundi 23 juin à 17h30 – Concert intime - Galerie Pangée (40, rue Saint-Paul Ouest)

VERSAILLES VAUDOU!

Samantha Louis-Jean (soprano), Chris Coyne (ténor) Ensemble Diolkidi (percussions), Oswald Duran (flûte haïtienne), Ensemble Caprice; Jeanty, Jocelyne Leger, Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière (chorégraphes)

L’histoire fascinante d’Haïti, pays où la France et l’Afrique se croisent... en musique et

en danse. Oeuvres du Chevalier de St-George, Rousseau, Rameau, Grétry; danses et musiques vaudous.

Lundi 23 juin à 20h – Grand Concert - Hangar 16, Quais du Vieux-Port (quai vis-à-vis la rue Bonsecours)

ACTIVITÉS D’ANIMATION ET PÉDAGOGIQUES

DÉFILÉ

Vendredi 20 juin à 18h45 - Départ de la Place Jacques-Cartier

avec des artistes des Quatre Coins du Globe, dont des joueurs de raras haïtiens

FOIRE

Samedi 21 et dimanche 22 juin, de 11h à 21 h - Place de La Dauversière

Concerts gratuits, produits artisanaux, souvenirs, billetterie

Free concerts, crafts, souvenirs, box office

SOIRÉES AU CAFÉ

Du vendredi 20 au lundi 23 juin de 23h à ... au Café à propos

Ateliers d’improvisations et rencontres amicales avec les artistes et les festivaliers.

Improvising with, learning from & meeting with the artists and festival goers.

ATELIERS ET CONFÉRENCES

MUSIQUES DU MONDE

Samedi 21 juin - Château Ramezay

10h Chinoiseries : musique classique chinoise

Atelier-conférence avec Qian Yi et Shuni Tsou

11h Musique classique haïtienne?

Conférence de Claude Dauphin

12h Fiddlers’ Fayre

Class with David Greenberg

14h What’s this Klezmer?

Class with Tamas Gombei & Joshua Horowitz of Budowitz

15h An Indian improvisation

Class with Pandit Sharda Sahai and Shawn Mativetski, tabla

JOURNÉE GLENN GOULD ET LE BAROQUE

Dimanche 22 juin - Château Ramezay

10h Espace Goldberg

Table-ronde animée par Rachelle Taylor, experte en matière Gould, avec des conférenciers internationaux.

Round Table : Gould-berg Variations.

14h Gould, the Renaissance Man!

Rachelle Taylor (virginale) interprète et commente des pièces préférées de Gould : Byrd et Gibbons.

Rachelle Taylor will perform, and comment on, some of Gould’s favourite music by Byrd, Gibbons

15h Gould au cinéma

Archives rares CBC et LAC

Extasis (SRC)

Glenn Gould : Au-delà du temps (ARTE)

Glenn Gould L’Alchemiste (ORTF)

La journée Gould se termine avec le concert des Cantates de Bach à 17h30, à la Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours

BILLETTERIE

AVANT LE FESTIVAL, ON PEUT SE PROCURER DES BILLETS :

Via le site Web : www.montrealbaroque.com

Par la poste : Montréal Baroque, 3589, rue Sainte-Famille, Montréal (Québec) H2X 2L2

Par téléphone : 514.845.7171 ; 1.866.845.7171

PENDANT LE FESTIVAL

Billetterie à la Foire (Place de la Dauversière), samedi le 21 juin et dimanche le 22 juin de 13h à 16h30; et à l’entrée des salles de spectacles, une heure avant le concert.

	ADULTES	AÎNÉS (60+)	ÉTUDIANTS
PASSE GRANDS CONCERTS	220 $	160$	70 $
GRANDS CONCERTS	35 $	25 $	10 $
[#1] La Traversée Miraculeuse, 20/06 à 19h30
[#2] Chinoiseries, 20/06 à 21h30
[#3] I Mercanti di Venezia!, 21/06 à 17h30
[#4] Klezmer: Venezia-Varsovie, 21/06 à 20h
[#6] Cantates de Bach, Volume V, 22/06 à 17h30
[#9] Tabla d’Haute!, 22/06 à 21h30
[#11] Versailles Vaudou!, 23/06 à 20h
CONCERTS INTIMES	20 $	15 $	10 $
[#5] Lettres chinoises, 22/06 à 7h
[# 8] Ohso Square..., 22/06 à 19h30
[#7] Planxty O’Carolan, 23/06 à 15h
[#10] Le Coulicam, roi de Perse ! 23/06 à 17h30
PROGRAMME SOUVENIR : 10 $

Romeo et Juliette July 24 and 26 at Merrill Auditorium

PORTLAND, Maine – PORTopera will present Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at Portland's Merrill Auditorium on Thursday, July 24 and Saturday, July 26, under the direction of Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic and Stage Director, with guest conductor Israel Gursky. Tickets for this romantic opera, based on Shakespeare's classic tragic drama Romeo and Juliet, are on sale now through PortTix, 207-842-0800. For more information about Roméo et Juliette visit www.portopera.org. Tickets are available online at www.porttix.com, by phone, 207-842-0800 or in person at the 20 Myrtle St. box office in Portland, Maine between noon and 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. About PORTopera: PORTopera is Maine's only opera company performing fully staged operas with nationally and internationally acclaimed singers. PORTopera will be celebrating its 14th season in 2008 with two performances of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette in late July.

Music of the Mediterranean in Westben Jazz Series

Canadian multicultural artists perform Music of the Mediterranean in the

Jazz Out of This World series at Westben – Concerts at The Barn

August 2 – 3, 2008

Campbellford, Ont… Three of Canada’s highly-renowned multicultural artists perform Music of the Mediterranean in Westben – Concerts at The Barn’s Jazz Out of This World series on August 2 and 3, 2008, featuring performances of Portuguese Fado, Spanish Flamenco and Greek Rembetika.

On August 2, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. vocalist Catarina Cardeal and guitarist Mike Siracusa of Musica 15 Fado Blues present Portuguese Fado with a contemporary twist. Fado, considered amongst the oldest urban folk music in the world is described as music played for pleasure and to relieve the pain of life. In 2000, Cardeal was the co-winner for best interpretation in Portugal’s first annual Festival de Communidades, broadcast by RTP – Porto Portuguese National. The group collaborated with Jane Bunnett and the Spirits of Havana performing a sold out concert at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio in 2004.

Robert Michaels, double Juno winner and Canada’s foremost Spanish Flamenco style guitar player returns to Westben on August 2, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. Michaels guitar playing has exceeded gold and platinum sales on all five of his recordings. In 2006 he released his sixth recording The Spanish Guitar Collection that includes a sampling of music from all five of his previous CDs that give the listener a summary of his exquisite style.

Calgary’s nationally-acclaimed Greek artists Rembetika Hipsters close Westben’s 9^th season on August 3, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Since 1996, the group has thrilled audiences across Canada with their unique blend of Greek, Balkan and Middle Eastern music, ranging from belly-dance instruments to jazz-influenced bouzouki pop. The Hipsters write and record original songs in the rembetika tradition, coloured by their backgrounds in jazz, rock and experimental music. They have recorded two acclaimed CDs during a busy touring schedule that has taken them from the Maritimes to the Yukon.

Tickets for Jazz Out of This World! – Music of the Mediterranean, range from $10 - $33 and can be purchased by calling 1-705-653-5508 or 1-877-883-5777, or online at www.westben.on.ca

Westben Concerts at The Barn’s season runs from Saturday, June 28 through Sunday, August 3, 2008. For a complete schedule of performances log on to www.westben.on.ca. Tickets can be purchased by calling 1-705-653-5508 or 1-877-883-5777 or online.

Founded by internationally renowned musicians, soprano Donna Bennett and pianist Brian Finley, Westben is where music and nature come wonderfully to life in each other’s company. Audiences of all ages continue to enjoy an array of musical styles from classical to Broadway and jazz to world music at The Barn, Westben’s main performance venue. This 400-seat custom-built, timber-frame theatre is located 3 km outside of Campbellford. Ontario. Situated on a fifty acre farm, The Barn is 40 minutes from Peterborough, Belleville and Cobourg, or 100 minutes east of Toronto.

Shakespeare season opens with aboriginal theme

The work of Shakespeare will prove its timelessness once again this summer when Mount Royal's Shakespeare in the Park (SITP) stages a fresh and strikingly relevant production of The Tempest with an aboriginal theme.

"I have always loved and wanted to do The Tempest, and I've been looking for the right context for the play," says Martin Fishman, artistic director of SITP, which kicks off its 21st season on July 3 at Prince's Island Park.

"We ended up going with an aboriginal theme in order to explore the different images we have of aboriginal people, and to showcase the best talent in the aboriginal community," he says.

A co-production with Mount Royal's Iniskim Centre — dedicated to supporting aboriginal students and promoting their cultures — the play tells the story of Prospero, an exiled duke who takes over an island and enslaves its native inhabitants.

Fishman's interpretation will feature aboriginal dancers and drummers, as well as actor Telly James in the role of Prospero's slave, the downtrodden Caliban.

"I'm pretty excited because, essentially, native theatre and mainstream theatre are coming together in this production," says James, a graduate of Mount Royal's Theatre Arts Performance Diploma program. "And as a native person, I definitely see relevance in Shakespeare's story. It's relevant because he deals with human nature. The settings can change, the times change, but human nature doesn't change."

Fishman adds that Shakespeare is extraordinary partly because his plays are open to a vast array of interpretations. "The language is remarkable, the characters so rich and the stories so universal that they speak to your heart.

"I think a lot of people still come to Shakespeare with fear and trepidation but, when we present it in a way that makes sense to them, the audience comes away with total understanding."

This season, SITP will also bring a new perspective to The Merry Wives of Windsor by setting the comedy in the 1950s. "If Shakespeare wrote a sit-com, this would be it," Fishman says, laughing. A noon-hour production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) will also run from August 6–16, starting at 12:10 p.m.

Mount Royal's 2008 Shakespeare in the Park season
The Tempest
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Dates: July 3–August 23 (no Sunday performances)
Time: 7 p.m. nightly
Location: Prince's Island Park

For more information, visit www.myshakespeare.ca or call 440-6374.

The VSO's Season Finale with cellist Daniel Muller-Schott!

The VSO’s Blockbuster Season Finale with renowned

cellist Daniel Müller-Schott

Vancouver BC – The VSO’s blockbuster 2007/2008 season finale features one of the finest young musicians in the world. Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott will play the lavish Dvorák Cello Concerto – one of Müller-Schott’s personal favourites. Other highlights of the concert are Shostakovich's monumental Symphony No. 5, one of the most important symphonies ever written, and Delius’s enchanting Song of Summer. There will be three finale performances which take place from Saturday to Monday, June 7^th to 9^th at the Orpheum Theatre. VSO contrabassoonist Sophie Dansereau will deliver a pre-concert talk on the Saturday and Monday evenings, and Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts.

Daniel Müller-Schott has found international acclaim for his high degree of musicality, the wealth of nuances in his playing, and his uncompromising passion for music. Mr. Müller-Schott, although a virtuoso in his own right, has also absorbed influences from his many great teachers and mentors, including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Steven Isserlis, and Heinrich Schiff.

“Daniel Müller-Schott has the power and dramatic fire to bewitch the audience.”

- Uwe Mitsching

“A fearless player with technique to burn…”

- The New York Times

Daniel Müller-Schott was recently featured on live television performing the Brahms Double Concerto with violinist Julia Fischer and Mozart’s Piano Trio No. 5 with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Sir André Previn. In high demand world-wide, Mr. Müller-Schott will be featured in concerts in Germany, Norway and Mexico in the month leading up to his performance in Vancouver. This epic season finale concert will mark Daniel Müller-Schott’s debut with the VSO.

The Dvorák Cello Concerto has taken its place as the greatest cello concerto ever written, as well as the most popular. Written during Dvorák’s three-year stint as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, the piece received its premiere in London on March 16^th, 1896.

Forty-one years after Dvorak’s Cello Concerto, Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 received its first public performance in Leningrad, to a resoundingly positive reception. The composer needed to have a “bounce back” piece after his emotionally brutal opera Lady Macbeth” which was met with harsh criticism by Soviet officials as the kind of “formalist” and pessimistic music that composers should not be writing. Much was at stake here, as Shostakovich would likely have been subject to a “disappearance” the like of which were commonplace in the Stalinist purges of the time. Although there was some mild grumbling by officials suspicious about the sincerity of the “apology” symphony, Shostakovich came through with flying colours. When the work had become entrenched the following year, Shostakovich had this to say about the piece: “The theme of my symphony is the making of a man. I saw man with all his experiences at the centre of the composition… In the Finale, the tragically tense impulses of the earlier movements are resolved in optimism and the joy of living.”

Of course, Shostakovich was no fan of Stalin and his regime, to say the least, and one wonders if in fact he was pulling something. Later on, Shostakovich’s book of memoirs (published after his death in 1975) offers a much different story than what he had said about the work in 1938 while still living under the Stalinist yoke: “The rejoicing is forced, created under threat. It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,’ and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, ‘Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.’ What kind of apotheosis is that? You have to be a complete oaf not to hear that.” But is the finale of this piece actually triumphant? Much depends on the conductor’s view of the work, and their approach to the conclusion – a faster tempo indeed makes the music sound positive, festive – a slower tempo, favoured by the composer himself (and this perhaps reveals the real answer) makes it sound like an agonized funeral march. This music says different things to different people, but its message is an important and relevant one. Shostakovich’s reaction to oppression is a complex one, resulting in complex music. It is impossible to hear it in a live concert with a full symphony orchestra and not be affected by it at an emotional level, especially such a powerful and relevant work as Symphony No.5.

This concert features a Pre-Concert Talk at 7:05pm on June 7th & 9th, free to ticketholders. The Pre-Concert Talk features VSO orchestra member Sophie Dansereau speaking about the evening’s program, as well as her role in the orchestra.

CONCERT INFO

Masterworks Diamond Series / Beltone Symphony Sundays Series

The VSO’s Blockbuster Season Finale!

Saturday & Monday, June 7 & 9, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre

Sunday, June 8, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre

Bramwell Tovey conductor

Daniel Müller-Schott cello

Sophie Dansereau bassoon

Delius Song of Summer

Dvorák Cello Concerto

Shostakovich Symphony No.5

Ticket prices for June 7 & 9: $25 - $78 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Ticket prices for June 8: $20 - $55 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets Available at VSO Customer Service, 604.876.3434; Ticketmaster Charge-by-Phone, 604.280.3311; online at www.vancouversymphony.ca

Symphony Sundays Series Generously Sponsored By:

Beltone

Radio Sponsor:

CKNW AM 980

BIOGRAPHIES

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

A musician of striking versatility, Bramwell Tovey is acknowledged around the world for his artistic depth and warm, charismatic personality on the podium. Tovey’s career as a conductor is uniquely enhanced by his work as a composer and pianist, lending him a remarkable musical perspective.

His tenures as Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras have been characterized by his expertise in the opera, choral, and British repertoire. Tovey recently garnered a 2007 Grammy Award and a 2007 Juno Award for his recording with violinist James Ehnes and the Vancouver Symphony. Recently named Principal Guest Conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, he works frequently with the Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, among many others. He has presided as host and conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall since its founding in 2004.

A champion of contemporary music, Tovey developed the highly regarded New Music Festival in Winnipeg, during his tenure as Music Director. As a composer, he was honored with the Best Canadian Classical Composition Juno Award in 2003 for his Requiem for a Charred Skull. Upcoming new works include a co-commission for the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics’ respective 2008 summer seasons as well as a full-length opera for the Calgary Opera, The Inventor, to premiere in January of 2011.

Tovey has been awarded honorary degrees, including a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music in London, honorary Doctorates of Law from the universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba, and Kwantlen University College, as well as a Royal Conservatory of Music Fellowship in Toronto. In 1999, he received the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Artistic Direction, a Canadian prize awarded to artists for outstanding contributions in the performing arts.

Daniel Müller-Schott, cello

In only a few years, Daniel Müller-Schott has succeeded in establishing himself on the world’s important concert stages. With his technical brilliance and authority, coupled with great intellectual and emotional esprit, he fascinates his audiences. In recent years, Daniel Müller-Schott has found international acclaim for his high degree of musicality and the wealth of nuances in his playing, his constant search for a musical vision, and his uncompromising passion for music. It is especially important for him to discover unknown works and to extend his repertoire on the cello, for example through his own transcriptions, in particular to work closely with composers and to perform the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

He created a furore internationally by winning first prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. It was after this win that his steady and remarkable career began. Since then he has appeared in concerts all over the world with such renowned conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Alan Gilbert, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Andrew Litton, Mario Venzago, Gianandrea Noseda, Yakov Kreizberg, Michail Jurowski, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and Sir André Previn. Furthermore, he plays with internationally famous orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra London.

During the 2006/07 season, Daniel Müller-Schott performed recitals and appeared with renowned orchestras in many European countries and also in North America, South Africa and Japan. The real highlight was his debut at the Tanglewood Music Festival before an audience of 10,000 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Sir André Previn, a performance which was lauded by the New York Times. In August he will be performing Ligeti's Cello Concerto at the Schleswig-Holstein festival of music, with Peter Ruzicka conducting the NDR-Sinfonieorchester.

During the autumn of 2007, further concerts are planned with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra under Michail Jurowski, with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra under Carlos Prieto – when Daniel Müller-Schott can again be heard playing Ligeti's Cello Concerto – and the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Davis, and the Tapiola Sinfonietta under Olli Mustonen. In Germany, audiences can also enjoy the cellist together with Julia Fischer and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken under Christoph Poppen, and with the Potsdam Kammerphilharmonie, also with Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen under Michael Sanderling. In November he will be making guest appearances in Germany and neighbouring countries with the Nationales Sinfonieorchester of Polish Radio under Daniel Raiskin. Over the next two years, Daniel Müller-Schott will be performing together with Angela Hewitt in connection with the release on Orfeo in the spring of 2007 of Bach's Gamba Sonatas.

Major concert appearances scheduled for 2008 include another invitation to perform at the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, his appearance with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra at the Roskilde Festival (Northern Europe's biggest music festival) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival when - with Daniel Müller-Schott as the "resident artiste", various orchestral and chamber music concerts and workshops are planned. In addition, Daniel Müller-Schott will be appearing with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg under Simone Young, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Yakov Kreizberg, the Strassbourger Philharmoniker under Marc Albrecht, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey and the Wiener Symphoniker under Yakov Kreizberg in Vienna's Musikvereinssaal. Together with the Brabant Orchestra, and with Reinhard Goebel conducting, Daniel Müller-Schott will be playing Haydn's Cello concerto in several cities in the Netherlands. A tour is being planned for July with Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchester.

Recitals, solo evenings and trio concerts will find him performing, among other venues, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Philharmonie München, the Salzburg Mozarteum, London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, for the Vancouver Recital Society, and in Zürich's Tonhalle. His chamber music partners include Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer, Jonathan Gilad, Angela Hewitt, Steven Isserlis, Robert Kulek, Olli Mustonen, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir André Previn, Denys Proshayev, Quatuor Ebène, Vadim Repin, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the Vogler Quartett and Lars Vogt.

Daniel Müller-Schott is a regular guest at international festivals of music, for example in Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Schwetzingen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Festival Lucerne, the Ravinia Festival Chicago, the Saratoga Festival, the Festival of Chamber Music in Vancouver and the City of London Festival.

Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He benefited from the personal sponsorship and support of Anne-Sophie Mutter as the holder of a scholarship from her Foundation.

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