WSO to play Carnegie Hall
January 24, 2012 Filed in: Press
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra announced Monday that
it is one of six major regional orchestras heading to
the famous New York City venue in 2014 for the fourth
annual Spring for Music (S4M)
festival.
The orchestra plans to perform pieces from its New Music Festival, including Derek Charke’s 13 Inuit Throat Song Games featuring throat singer Tanya Tagaq, WSO Composer-in-Residence Vincent Ho’s The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie as well as R. Murray Schafer’s Symphony No. 1.
The full article can be found at the Winnipeg Free Press
The orchestra plans to perform pieces from its New Music Festival, including Derek Charke’s 13 Inuit Throat Song Games featuring throat singer Tanya Tagaq, WSO Composer-in-Residence Vincent Ho’s The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie as well as R. Murray Schafer’s Symphony No. 1.
The full article can be found at the Winnipeg Free Press
5-Penny New Music
January 24, 2012 Filed in: Press
The 5-Penny New Music Ensemble, a group comprised of
some of Sudbury’s leading musicians, will be giving the
next concert in the 5-Penny Concert Series. The concert
is on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 8 pm at St. Peter’s United
Church, Sudbury. General admission for each concert is
$20 and $15 for students and seniors. Tickets are
available at Black Cat, 96 Durham Street, Sudbury, or
at the door.
The debut of this ensemble, which includes violinists Christian Robinson and Geoff McCausland, violist Jane Russell, cellist Alexandra Lee, flautist Myriam Valley, and pianist Yoko Hirota, represents a new phase in programming for the series. It will serve as a core unit that will perform masterworks of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in future seasons.
For its inaugural concert, the ensemble will perform music by Canadian composers. Works will include “Surface” for solo flute by Brian Harman (World premiere), “Five Pieces” for flute and cello by Alice Ho (Canadian premiere), “Piano Piece No. 1” by Brian Current, “Adagio and Rondo, op. 3” for string quartet by Jacques Hétu, “Rolling” for solo piano by Laurie Radford, “Flute Quartet” for flute and strings by Derek Charke, and “Territoires intérieurs” for piano and strings by Robert Lemay.
www.5pennynewmusic.ca
The debut of this ensemble, which includes violinists Christian Robinson and Geoff McCausland, violist Jane Russell, cellist Alexandra Lee, flautist Myriam Valley, and pianist Yoko Hirota, represents a new phase in programming for the series. It will serve as a core unit that will perform masterworks of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in future seasons.
For its inaugural concert, the ensemble will perform music by Canadian composers. Works will include “Surface” for solo flute by Brian Harman (World premiere), “Five Pieces” for flute and cello by Alice Ho (Canadian premiere), “Piano Piece No. 1” by Brian Current, “Adagio and Rondo, op. 3” for string quartet by Jacques Hétu, “Rolling” for solo piano by Laurie Radford, “Flute Quartet” for flute and strings by Derek Charke, and “Territoires intérieurs” for piano and strings by Robert Lemay.
www.5pennynewmusic.ca
First posting 2012!
January 12, 2012 Filed in: Music
Happy New Year!
Here are a few highlights from January 2012:
On January 12 Janice Jackson performs Oikos/Ecos at the Open Waters Festival in Halifax.
January 18, 19 and 20: Carmen Braden (an Acadia University Composition Alumni) is presenting a paper on 'Tundra Songs' at the conference Music and the Imaginary of the North and the Cold in Montreal, at L'Université du Québec à Montréal. Three Studies for Flute (which was written in Inuvik, NWT) will also be performed by flutist MariÈve Lauzon during the conference.
On January 21 Cercle du Nord I receives a performance by the Quebec group Erreurdetype27 at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Disturbances of Circadian Rhythm was selected as an official selection for the 2013 ISCM World Music Days in Košice, Bratislava and Vienna.
Here are a few highlights from January 2012:
On January 12 Janice Jackson performs Oikos/Ecos at the Open Waters Festival in Halifax.
January 18, 19 and 20: Carmen Braden (an Acadia University Composition Alumni) is presenting a paper on 'Tundra Songs' at the conference Music and the Imaginary of the North and the Cold in Montreal, at L'Université du Québec à Montréal. Three Studies for Flute (which was written in Inuvik, NWT) will also be performed by flutist MariÈve Lauzon during the conference.
On January 21 Cercle du Nord I receives a performance by the Quebec group Erreurdetype27 at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Disturbances of Circadian Rhythm was selected as an official selection for the 2013 ISCM World Music Days in Košice, Bratislava and Vienna.