Stratford Summer season Music Inventive Director — and JUNO-nominated artist — Mark Fewer and an all-star forged of musicians will carry out on the competition in a program titled The Soul of Strings on July 27. They’ll be performing a program of Beethoven, Osvaldo Golijov, and Tchaikovsky.
Tom Allen performs host, with Pageant Inventive Director and violinist Mark Fewer, violinists Keith Hamm, Bénédicte Lauzière and Aysel Taghi-Zada, and cellists Amahl Arulanandam and Leana Rutt.
Personnel
Tom Allen | host
Tom Allen has a singular profession as a storyteller and live performance host, creator, broadcaster, and musician. He’s maybe greatest identified for his work with CBC Music, the place he’s been the host of Music and Firm, Shift, Contemporary Air (on Radio One), and different exhibits over a 4 decade profession. A graduate of Boston College and Yale, Tom can also be a proficient trombonist.
Mark Fewer | violin
The Inventive Director of Stratford Summer season Music has a busy profession as soloist, conductor, arranger, and chamber musician, and his repertoire extends from Early Music to modern and jazz. He’s carried out on phases from Carnegie Corridor to Wigmore Corridor, throughout Canada, Australia, and in Europe. He’s additionally the founding Inventive Director of the SweetWater Music Pageant, and a devoted instructor.
Keith Hamm | violin
Keith Hamm studied violin on the Glenn Gould Faculty of the Royal Conservatory, and the Mount Royal Conservatory. Whereas he was nonetheless a scholar, he was named Principal Violist of the Canadian Opera Firm Orchestra, and carried out with the COC Orchestra for eight seasons. He now holds the identical place with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Bénédicte Lauzière | violin
A graduate of The Juilliard Faculty, Lauzière is a a number of first prize winner on the Canadian Music Competitors, and is a laureate of the Stulberg Worldwide String Competitors. She has carried out as a soloist with the Elora Pageant, the Nationwide Academy Orchestra of Canada and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, amongst many others. Bénédicte was the concertmaster and frequent soloist of the previous Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. She is a devoted chamber musician, and has collaborated with the Penderecki String Quartet, Emanuel Ax, and pianist Angela Park, amongst others.
Aysel Taghi-Zada | violin
Aysel is a graduate of the Artist Diploma Program on the Glenn Gould Faculty, and later studied at McGill College with Jonathan Crow. Her music apply is devoted to each conventional and modern repertoire, and he or she based Ensemble Paramirabo whereas nonetheless a scholar. She is a founding member of the Vaso String Quartet, and has carried out with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Opera Firm, Windsor Symphony, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Live performance Orchestra, amongst different ensembles.
Amahl Arulanandam | cello
Cellist Amahl Arulanandam is certainly one of Toronto’s most wanted artists, identified for performances that vary from Baroque to heavy metallic. He’s carried out in all kinds of venues as a soloist and chamber musician, and has recorded with Sarah Slean, Laila Biali, Adi Braun, and plenty of others. He’s collaborated with composers reminiscent of Ana Sokolovic, Luna Pearl Woolf, and Bekah Simms. He frequently performs as a member of the Venuti String Quartet and VC2 Cello Duo, and sometimes with ensembles reminiscent of Soundstreams, New Music Live shows, Tapestry Opera, FAWN Chamber Inventive, and Skinny Edge New Music Collective.
Leana Rutt | cello
Toronto-based cellist Leana Rutt is the principal cellist of The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, and affiliate principal cellist of the Canadian Opera Firm orchestra. She’s a graduate of McGill College and The Juilliard Faculty, and has carried out throughout Canada in addition to in Europe. She performs on a Spanish cello attributed to Joannes Guillami of Barcelona, Spain and bearing a label dated ca. 1769, with a ca. 1830 Shaw Adam cello bow on mortgage from the Musical Instrument Financial institution.
Stratford Summer season Music
The Pageant continues till August 10. Upcoming performances embrace:
- Accordionist Michael Bridge performing together with movies for the youthful set;
- The Maria Soulis Trio performing her signature mix of worldwide and classical music;
- Pianist John Novacek performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue;
- Pianist, singer and songwriter Michael Kaeshammer;
- The Vocal Academy contributors in live performance on the MusicBarge and different venues;
- Famous jazz vocalist Diana Panton;
- And far more.
Discover particulars and tickets for the Classical Superstars: The Soul of Strings live performance on July 27 [HERE].
Discover particulars and tickets for different Stratford Summer season Music occasions [HERE].
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