Six different Instrumental Chamber Ensemble groups of three to five members will play a lovely selection of classical music.
Pieces will include:
Soprano Bethany Hörst and pianist Mary Castello perform a selection of German lieder. Exploring themes of birth, love and death, this concert features works by Brahms, Wolf and Schumann.
Cellist Tom Wiebe and pianist Chiharu Iinuma will perform pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Takemitsu. Thomas Wiebe is Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University in London.
This concert is dedicated to the female singers and singer-songwriters who have been influential both to Joni and I as artists, but also to the culture at large. For Joni and I, as female leaders in this music business, paying tribute the female musical heroes who have come before us is both an honour, and feels extremely important and relevant in this current awakening of women's voices, with #metoo and #timesup.
THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHERA native of Belgium, Steven Vanhauwaert was hailed by the Los Angeles Times’ Mark Swed for his “impressive clarity, sense of structure and monster technique.” Since then, Mr.
Violinist Jerzy Kaplanek & pianist Leopoldo Erice will be performing Schubert’s Grand Duo Sonata in A Major, and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 in f minor.
Flautist Wendy Wagler, cellist Ben Bolt-Martin, and pianist Boyd McDonald together have formed the Springdale Trio. In this concert, they will perform "The Voice of the Whale", by American avant-garde composer George Crumb.
On Saturday, March 9, 2019, Dr. Ysaÿe Barnwell, appointed as the College’s Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar, will offer a workshop on "Building a Vocal Community: The Power of Song in Community."
This is a free public event, but registration is required.
Well known and beloved by local music patrons, the Andromeda Trio consists of Marcus Scholtes, Violin; Miriam Stewart-Kroeker, Cello; and Heidi Wall, Piano.
Their repertoire for this concert will be Sergei Rachmaninoff's
Trio élégiaque in D minor, Opus 9.
Well known local composer and retired Grebel professor Carol Ann Weaver will launch her Songs for my Mother CD, playing a selection of songs along with soprano Mary Catherine Pazzano and Willem Moolenbeek on sax.