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The JUNO nominated Orchid Ensemble is Lan Tung on the erhu/Chinese violin, Xiao Mei Zhu on the zheng/Chinese zither, and Jonathan Bernard on percussion. The ensemble blends ancient musical instruments and traditions from China and beyond, creating a beautiful new sound. 

This concert will explore chamber music repertoire by two Canadian composers: Seven Tableaux from the Song of Songs by Srul Irving Glick, and Selections from Trio, composed by Grebel alumna Erica de la Cruz, setting poetry by University of Waterloo Professor Sarah Tolmie.

Earth Peace, by Carol Ann Weaver, recently composed and compiled in South Africa and Namibia, tells global stories of conflict, pain, resolution and joy.  The work contains choral music, string quartet, and readings which represent various troubled parts of our world.  
Performers include:

Renaissance Singers, directed by Gordon Burnett

​Factory Arts String Quartet

Cello student Vince (Tianren) Gao will be playing works by Ligeti, Beethoven, and Lalo.  Free Admission, reception to follow.

Three amazing student musician Chamber groups perform a selection of classical music pieces.  Music will include the following:

On the island of Bali, Indonesia the idea of community and the spirit of interaction are highly valued and extend to music-making. Being an aural/oral tradition, repertoire—from ritual pieces to modern compositions, instrumental or dance—is learned through imitation and repetition, by listening and watching (i.e., without the use of notation). Students experience this communal process of creating a unified sound on a gamelan semara dana (one of several types of gamelan found in Bali) consisting of gongs, metallophones, drums, and flutes. 

Music and Business student, Laura Janzen (soprano), will perform her final grad recital for Music 428. Come hear some lovely singing; songs by Mozart, Vivaldi, Schubert, Fauré, Copland, Barber, and more.

Reception to follow.

Music students participating in the Winter 2016 Music Studio program perform music they have studied this term. 

Music students participating in the Spring 2016 Music Studio program perform music they have studied this term.