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Friday, April 24, 2009

Laudate Singers present VIVA VIVALDI! May 22

Laudate Singers present

VIVA VIVALDI!


with

Nancy DiNovo, violin

and Baroque instrumentalists


Friday May 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm

St. David's United Church, West Vancouver

(Taylor Way @ Hwy 1)


Tickets $25 / $20 / Free for ages 17 & under (reservation required)

604.729.6814 or info@laudatesingers.com

www.laudatesingers.com


Laudate Singers and artistic director Lars Kaario bring their 14th season to an exhilarating close, as they join forces with violinist Nancy DiNovo and an ensemble of Vancouver’Äôs finest Baroque instrumentalists for Viva Vivaldi! The choir and orchestra will present such beloved Vivaldi masterpieces as the joyful Gloria, the refined Beatus Vir (both featuring soprano soloists Catherine Crouch and Heidi Ackermann and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Stephanson) and the Credo. DiNovo will also perform the glittering Spring movement from Vivaldi's most famous work, The Four Seasons.


Viva Vivaldi! provides a brilliant, spirited conclusion to a season that ’Äì in true Laudate fashion ’Äì has ranged from the very old to the brand new, including several world premieres of new pieces by Canadian composers. The choir’Äôs varied programming has spanned centuries, cultures and musical styles, taking audiences on a journey through the ancient mysteries of the medieval mass, the colourful sounds of the tango and, now, the beauties of a Baroque Venetian spring. Hearts will be lifted and ears dazzled, as Laudate Singers, Nancy DiNovo and friends give virtuoso performances of some of the most popular works in the Western classical canon.


www.laudatesingers.com

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Vivaldi's Four Seasons


Vivaldi’Äôs Four Seasons with the VSO and the Canadian debut of violinist/conductor Duncan Riddell

Vancouver BC ’Äì Vivaldi’Äôs Four Seasons is a timeless classic and a fundamental staple for the Holiday season. This year, Duncan Riddell will lead the orchestra from the violin in his interpretation of the piece, as well as chamber works by Mozart and Mendelssohn. The concerts take place on December 19th and 20th at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts and, NEW this year, the VSO returns to Massey Theatre in New Westminster on December 21st for one performance at 7:30pm.

Currently the Concertmaster of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Duncan Riddell has appeared as guest concertmaster with several prestigious orchestras around the United Kingdom including the London Symphony and London Philharmonic. Mr. Riddell is a chamber music specialist and will lead and perform in his element. The VSO welcomes Mr. Riddell in his Canadian debut.

Vivaldi’Äôs Four Seasons is of course one of the most popular works ever written. Vivaldi played a significant role in many important music developments, most notably the rise of the concerto. He wrote over five hundred concerti(!) for various instruments, the most popular of those being for the violin. Vivaldi was paid the tremendous compliment of having no less a musical titan as Johannes Sebastian Bach transcribe many of his concerti, such a fan of Vivaldi’Äôs music he was. The Four Seasons are of course Vivaldi’Äôs most enduringly popular works, probably due both to their exceptional quality and the programmatic, or descriptive, nature of the music. Vivaldi made pioneering efforts in the area of descriptive composition, and was explicit to a greater degree than any of his other compositions in terms of his elaborate description of what the music portrays. The Four Seasons has become an iconic work, standing alongside the likes of Beethoven’Äôs 9th as the most recognized and loved music ever written. It is now a beloved Lower Mainland music tradition, in its eight consecutive season at the Chan Centre in late December with the VSO.

CONCERT INFO

Bach & Beyond & Specials:

Vivaldi’Äôs Four Seasons

Friday & Saturday, December 19 & 20, 8pm, Chan Centre

Sunday, December 21, 7:30pm, Massey Theatre

Duncan Riddell, leader/violin

Mozart Divertimento, K.136

Mendelssohn Sinfonia No.9 in C Major

Vivaldi Four Seasons

Tickets for December 19 & 20 at the Chan Centre:

Tickets $35 to $59 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available ONLY through Ticketmaster outlets, Charge-by-Phone at 604.280.3311 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca

Tickets for December 21 at the Massey Theatre:

Tickets $37 (Student, Senior and Subscriber discounts available)

Tickets available by phone at 604.876.3434 or online at www.vancouversymphony.ca as well as the Massey Ticket Centre 604.521.5050

The VSO’Äôs Bach & Beyond Series Endowed By:

The Chan Foundation of Canada

The presentation of this series is made possible in part through the generous assistance of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts of the University of British Columbia.

Radio Sponsor:

CHQM-FM

BIOGRAPHIES

Duncan Riddell, leader/violin

British born violinist Duncan Riddell studied with Professor Nicholas Roth from the age of eleven and subsequently as a student at Trinity College of Music in London. During this time he became Concertmaster of both the European Community Youth Orchestra under the baton of Claudio Abbado and the International Festival Youth Orchestra with C M Giulini, as well as winning internal college prizes and the silver medal at the first Shell/London Symphony Orchestra scholarship for string players in1978. On leaving Trinity College, he founded the Roth String Quartet with whom he won international prizes, performed extensively around Britain and in Europe and made many recordings for BBC Radio as well as on disc. In 1989, the quartet disbanded and Duncan accepted a principal position in the North German Radio Philharmonic in Hannover which led to recordings and performances as a soloist and with chamber groups in Germany. At the beginning of 1994, he was appointed co-concertmaster of the London Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he also made recordings and concert appearances as a soloist and director.

’ÄúDuncan Riddell assumes the mantle of [Wolfgang] Schneiderhan with no mean success.’Äù

(Gramophone Magazine, Maria Trypticon-Frank Martin)

Duncan Riddell is currently Concertmaster of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with which he has appeared many times as soloist including a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Beethoven’Äôs Triple Concerto with Andrew Litton. His increasingly frequent appearances as director of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in both chamber and string orchestra form have elicited considerable critical acclaim.

He also continues to appear as guest concertmaster with many of the orchestras around the UK including the London Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras and was invited to lead a joint orchestra of the members of the London Philharmonic and Orchestre National de France for Maestro Kurt Masur’Äôs 80th birthday concert at the BBC Promenade Concerts in the summer of 2007.

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Orchestre Symphonique de Laval



Une soirˆ©e sous le signe des grands maˆÆtres du baroque allemand et italien


Bach et Vivaldi sont ˆÝ l'honneur ˆÝ l'OSL!


Laval, 27 octobre 2008 ’Äì L'Orchestre symphonique de Laval vous propose une fˆ�te baroque haute en couleur pour cˆ©lˆ©brer le gˆ©nie de J.-S. Bach, l'effervescence des Quatre Saisons de Vivaldi et la beautˆ© du Concerto pour hautbois et cordes de Marcello. L'orchestre est trˆ®s heureux d'accueillir ˆÝ son pupitre pour ce fabuleux concert Mark Fewer, qui se fera ˆ©galement violon solo le temps des Quatre saisons de Vivaldi et du Concerto pour violon, hautbois et cordes en rˆ© mineur de Bach. Chambriste extrˆ�mement prisˆ© en Amˆ©rique du Nord, Mark Fewer ˆ©tait, jusqu'ˆÝ tout rˆ©cemment, violon solo de l'Orchestre symphonique de Vancouver. Ce concert mettra ˆ©galement de l'avant le talent de Lise Beauchamp, la superbe hautbois solo de l'OSL, qui sera ˆÝ l'honneur lors des concertos de J.-S. Bach et Marcello. Offerte dans le cadre de la sˆ©rie LES CLASSIQUES DE L'OSL, cette grande fˆ�te baroque sera prˆ©sentˆ©e, le mercredi 5 novembre ˆÝ 20 h, ˆÝ la salle Andrˆ©-Mathieu. Mark Fewer et Lise Beauchamp vous invitent ˆÝ la confˆ©rence d'avant-concert, dˆ®s 19 h 15.


Mark Fewer, violon

Originaire de Saint-Jean, Terre-Neuve, oˆ¼ son pˆ®re s'est taillˆ© une rˆ©putation enviable en tant que chanteur et musicien, Mark Fewer joue du piano ˆÝ quatre ans, du violon ˆÝ six et du saxophone ˆÝ dix. Ayant arrˆ�tˆ© son choix sur le violon, il a ˆ©tudiˆ© ˆÝ Toronto, Londres et Budapest, notamment auprˆ®s de David Zafer, Jose-Luis Garcia et Ferenc Rados.


Musicien polyvalent, Mark Fewer a occupˆ© jusqu'en 2008 le poste de violon solo ˆÝ l'Orchestre symphonique de Vancouver. Il est directeur artistique du Scotia Festival of Music d'Halifax et du SweetWater Music Weekend ˆÝ Owen Sound (Ontario). Comme chambriste, il est membre fondateur du Trio Duke et membre du quatuor ˆÝ cordes SuperNova. Il s'est rˆ©cemment illustrˆ© dans l'intˆ©grale des sonates et partitas pour violon seul de Bach. En plus de sa carriˆ®re de musicien, il enseigne le violon et la musique de chambre ˆÝ titre de professeur adjoint au dˆ©partement de musique de l'Universitˆ© McGill.


Lise Beauchamp, hautbois

Nˆ©e ˆÝ Montrˆ©al, Lise Beauchamp a dˆ©couvert la musique ˆÝ l'ˆ¢ge de neuf ans. ˆâtudiante au Conservatoire de musique de Montrˆ©al, sous la direction de Bernard Jean, elle obtient en 1985 son diplˆ¥me d'ˆ©tudes supˆ©rieures et un premier prix. Elle s'est ensuite perfectionnˆ©e avec Elaine Douvas ˆÝ la cˆ©lˆ®bre Juilliard School of Music de New York, y terminant sa maˆÆtrise en 1990. Hautbois solo ˆÝ l'Orchestre Mˆ©tropolitain du Grand Montrˆ©al et ˆÝ l'Orchestre symphonique de Laval, Lise Beauchamp est reconnue comme une excellente hautboˆØste.


Depuis 1985, Lise Beauchamp a jouˆ© au sein des ensembles les plus rˆ©putˆ©s du Quˆ©bec : l'Orchestre Mˆ©tropolitain du Grand Montrˆ©al, les Violons du Roy, I Musici de Montrˆ©al, l'Orchestre Baroque de Montrˆ©al et plusieurs autres. Elle fut hautbois solo de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Mexico en 1988 et elle a reprˆ©sentˆ© le Canada au sein de l'Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales ˆÝ trois reprises. Elle enseigne ˆÝ la Facultˆ© de musique de l'Universitˆ© de Montrˆ©al et au Conservatoire de musique de Montrˆ©al.


AU PROGRAMME

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Concerto Brandebourgeois en sol majeur, BWV 1048

Les six Concertos Brandebourgeois tirent leur appellation de l'oncle du roi de Prusse, le Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandeburg, une dˆ©dicace de la main de Bach, accompagnant la partition, lui ˆ©tant adressˆ©e. Le troisiˆ®me Concerto Brandebourgeois en sol majeur, BWV 1048, a ˆ©tˆ© composˆ© selon le schˆ©ma traditionnel des concertos italiens (vif-lent-vif). Les cordes sont divisˆ©es en trois groupes qui dialoguent (violons, altos et violoncelles), accompagnˆ©s et soutenus par la basse continue. L'adagio, le deuxiˆ®me mouvement, est formˆ© d'une courte succession d'accords, qui sert traditionnellement de support ˆÝ une cadence pour le clavecin.

Allessandro Marcello (1684-1750)

Concerto pour hautbois et cordes en do mineur

Compositeur assez mˆ©connu, et surtout moins cˆ©lˆ®bre que son frˆ®re Benedetto, Allessandro Marcello consacra sa vie tant ˆÝ la musique qu'aux mathˆ©matiques, ˆÝ la peinture et ˆÝ la philosophie. Son Concerto pour hautbois est sa plus grande ‰ìuvre; elle fut attribuˆ©e ˆÝ quelques autres compositeurs, dont son frˆ®re, et mˆ�me ˆÝ Vivaldi. Bach en fit une traduction pour clavecin solo (BWV 974). L'‰ìuvre vous sera interprˆ©tˆ©e dans sa tonalitˆ© originale, mais elle est aujourd'hui plus souvent jouˆ©e en rˆ© mineur. Le premier mouvement est un andante d'un style un peu austˆ®re. Le deuxiˆ®me mouvement laisse toute la place ˆÝ la soliste, dans une cantilˆ®ne d'une grande beautˆ©. Le finale est un ˆ©change endiablˆ© et trˆ®s vivant entre la soliste et l'orchestre.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Concerto pour violon, hautbois et cordes en rˆ© mineur, BWV 1060

Bach a ˆ©crit une version de ce concerto pour deux clavecins. Le style d'ˆ©criture nous laisse cependant croire qu'il a d'abord ˆ©tˆ© ˆ©crit pour deux instruments diffˆ©rents et mˆ©lodiques, ce qui appuie l'hypothˆ®se que l'‰ìuvre originale a ˆ©tˆ© ˆ©crite pour violon et hautbois. On retrouve comme dans le Concerto Brandebourgeois la forme vif-lent-vif. Les premiers et troisiˆ®mes mouvements sont ˆÝ la fois ˆ©nergiques et dynamiques, mettant en valeur la virtuositˆ© des deux solistes. Le mouvement lent leur permet, quant ˆÝ lui, un dialogue d'une grande beautˆ©.

ENTRACTE

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Les Quatre Saisons

Considˆ©rˆ©e par plusieurs comme une des premiˆ®res ‰ìuvres de musique ¬´ ˆÝ programme¬ª, illustrant des ˆ©vˆ©nements ou sentiments, Les Quatre Saisons Opus 8, no 1 ˆÝ 4, ouvrent le recueil de ¬´ La bataille entre l'harmonie et l'invention ¬ª. L'‰ìuvre est accompagnˆ©e de quatre sonnets attribuˆ©s ˆÝ Vivaldi dˆ©crivant le dˆ©roulement des saisons. Sur la partition, le compositeur note avec exactitude certains dˆ©tails du texte (noms d'oiseaux : coucou, tourterelle et pinson dans les partitions de trois violons solistes, au 1er mouvement du printemps ; aboiements de chien dans la partie d'alto au 2e mouvement du printemps). Ces quatre concertos pour violons et orchestre ˆÝ cordes sont parmi les ‰ìuvres les plus aimˆ©es et jouˆ©es du rˆ©pertoire.


En rˆ©sumˆ©

Concert : le mercredi 5 novembre ˆÝ 20 h, ˆÝ la salle Andrˆ©-Mathieu

Confˆ©rence d'avant-concert avec Mark Fewer et Lise Beauchamp : dˆ®s 19 h 15 ˆÝ la salle Andrˆ©-Mathieu. Ce concert fait partie des Grandes Soirˆ©es Hydro Quˆ©bec.


Les billets pour ce concert sont disponibles

En ligne : www.salleandremathieu.com

Au guichet de la salle Andrˆ©-Mathieu : 475, boul. de l'Avenir, Laval

Par tˆ©lˆ©phone, billetterie de la salle Andrˆ©-Mathieu : (450) 667-2040

Via le Rˆ©seau admission : (514) 790-1245

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Rappel Concerts populaires de Montrˆ©al


Orgue et couleurs

prˆ©sente

La 44e saison des CONCERTS POPULAIRES DE MONTRˆâAL

Cinquiˆ®me et sixiˆ®me concerts ˆÝ 19h30,

Les mercredis 23 juillet et 30 juillet 2008

au Centre Pierre-Charbonneau

3000, rue Viau, Montrˆ©al (mˆ©tro Viau)

Renseignements et billetterie : 514.899.0938

www.orgueetcouleurs.com


Montrˆ©al, vendredi 18 juillet 2008 - La 44e saison des concerts populaires de montrˆ©al se poursuit le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 ˆÝ 19h30. Laissez-vous conter fleurette et porter par les ˆ©motions de certaines des plus belles pages classiques et romantiques en compagnie de l'Ensemble Appassionata et du chef Daniel Myssyk. L'ensemble sera ˆ©galement accompagnˆ© par Olivier Thouin au violon.

Au programme :

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Serenata Notturna ; Edvard Grieg : Heart's Wound et The last Spring ; Guillaume Lekeu : Adagio ; Leo¬ö Janˆ°Ÿçek : Idyla ; Antonio Vivaldi : Concerto no 10 pour violon en mi majeur L'amoroso RV 271.


Le 6e et dernier concert de la sˆ©rie se dˆ©roulera quant ˆÝ lui le mercredi 30 juillet 2008 ˆÝ 19 h30. Une soirˆ©e royale ˆÄ la cour d'Angleterre en compagnie de l'Orchestre Mˆ©tropolitain du Grand Montrˆ©al et de son chef invitˆ© Julian Wachner. Deux grands maˆÆtres, deux ˆ©poques; sans rˆ©vˆ©rences, ni courbettes !

Au programme :

Edward Elgar : Pomp and Circumstance Opus 9 no1 en rˆ© majeur ; Sˆ©rˆ©nade en mi mineur, Opus 20 ; Variations sur un thˆ®me original, Opus 6, ¬´ Enigma ¬ª

Georg Friedrich Handel : Music for the Royal Fireworks, Ouverture - Bourrˆ©e - Sicilienne ¬´ la Paix ¬ª - La Rˆ©jouissance - Menuets I et II

27$ (rˆ©gulier) et 23$ (rˆ©duit) pour la section parterre

22$ (rˆ©gulier) et 18$ (rˆ©duit) pour la section gradin

Service aux tables (boisson et repas lˆ©ger) au parterre en sus

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

New music for international summer music festival

Calgary, AB ’Äì Throughout the thirty days of the Morningside Music Bridge festival, works by famous composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Igor Stravinsky and Antonio Vivaldi will be performed at Mount Royal College and around the city.

But this year, newly-written music is also on the agenda. John Abram, an instructor at the Mount Royal Conservatory and music consultant for Morningside Music Bridge, has written a piece especially for the young musicians who will perform in the festival’Äôs final gala, taking place July 31 at the EPCOR Centre’Äôs Martha Cohen Theatre, starting at 7 p.m.

’ÄúEvery year Morningside Music Bridge invites really excellent young musicians from around the world to take part, and you can basically throw the most difficult pieces from the classical repertoire at them. My goal was to write a new piece for string orchestra that will challenge them in a different way, based on ensemble playing versus solo playing,’Äù says Abram.

The result is Pluck ’îÄ a modern and fun composition of four movements. Abram describes the first movement as being very intense because of some unusual playing techniques that create a sense of tension; the second, he says, is very easy going at the beginning but becoming frenzied at the end; in the third movement, the music slows down and is quiet, featuring solo playing; the last movement follows without a break and is very fast and energetic, and rhythmically quite complicated.

Abram chose the title with equal deliberation. ’ÄúAt it’Äôs most basic, Pluck refers to the plucking of the strings, but I also wanted a name that reflects the gusty nature of the students and the courage it takes to follow a career path in music,’Äù Abram explains.

According to Paul Dornian, director of the Mount Royal Conservatory, Abram’Äôs piece is the first of many organizers hope to commission with other composers over the coming years. ’ÄúWe, along with the sponsors, decided that it is part of our responsibility to upcoming generations of performers to encourage engaging new works of music that complement the historical repertories of Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart.’Äù

As for Abram, he hopes the students and audience will enjoy his work. ’ÄúI had an absolute blast composing the piece and hope everyone who hears it becomes lost in the music.’Äù

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