Faculty

Join soprano Bethany Horst and pianist Charmaine Fopoussi for a February Recital of loves songs, featuring the Song of Songs by Canadian Srul Irving Glick as well as selections by Strauss and Delibes.  

Using songs of Gilles Binchois and John Bedyngham, with their associated parody Masses — and new adaptations of poetry by Christine de Pizan — this program tells a late-medieval transition story, which is also a story of the progress of love, both sacred and profane.

Arab & Iraqi Classical music performed by the Maqamat Orchestra

Jung Tsai, the accomplished 2^nd Associate Concertmaster of the KW Symphony, will perform 20^th Century violin works.  Franz Waxman’s virtuoso violin showpiece will be featured, entitled Carmen Fantasie.  Other pieces include a work by eminent Canadian composer Elizabeth Raum, called Les Ombres.  

Written by Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf is a "symphonic fairy tale for children". The narrator tells a children's story, while the musicians illustrate it by using different instruments to represents each character in the story.

Poland Parables, music by Carol Ann Weaver, is a set of pieces based on text by Canadian Mennonite writer Connie Braun who recounted difficult, impossible, and heart-rending stories from her own family members during WWII, Poland — stories of displacement, trauma, loss, and hardship. 

Students in the Spring 2024 Music Studio courses perform music they have studied this term in three end-of-term recitals.

All are welcome.