Don't forget about the Banff Summer Arts Festival!

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Every summer, The Banff Centre welcomes to its programs emerging and established professional artists from across Canada and around the world who create the Banff Summer Arts Festival. Their creative energy and high octane enthusiasm becomes supercharged in the high altitude and brisk mountain air of Banff National Park.

Check out the Music for a Summer Evening series which is a perennial audience favourite featuring the best young emerging and professional musicians from across Canada and around the world.

"Your Future Backstage" Learn about touring & performing (ages 10-17)

At the Winspear Centre ...

Your Future Backstage is an opportunity for young musicians aged 10-17 to gain a better sense of the life of a touring performer. Fans of all genres are encouraged to take this backstage tour, learning more about the Winspear Centre’s production facilities, the science of acoustics and audio engineering and the tribulations of life on the road.

Programs can be booked for individuals or groups and are usually offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays in July and on Wednesdays and Thursdays in August. To make a booking, please contact Anne Pasek at 780-401-2553 or apasek@winspearcentre.com

Celebrating One Year of Classical Music in Edmonton!

One year ago I started Classical Music in Edmonton so that classical music lovers and our musical community had a one-stop-shop for classical concert listings, news and reviews here in Edmonton.

Over 400 concert listings, thousands of visits to the site, hundreds of Twitter followers and tweets later, CME has been a great success!  And after collecting web site links for local classical music ensembles and associations who knew there was so much great music going on in Edmonton!

Hopefully this site has helped you to learn more about this great community and I hope you have been to more concerts this year than ever before. 

Please let me know how you think CME can be better and keep on sending me your listings!  Concert listings for the 2011-2012 season are now being collected so send me an email at classicalmusicinedmonton@gmail.com

Thank you for all your support!

Backstage Summer Tours at the Winspear Centre - FREE!

What does backstage at the Winspear Centre look like? Find out for FREE! 

Check out this page for booking summer tours at the Winspear Centre on:

Monday July 18 10am

Monday August 8 10am

Wednesday August 17 1pm

http://www.winspearcentre.com/all-events/2011-events/winspear-centre-tour/

Kokopelli Choirs are still accepting auditions!

All Kokopelli Choirs are still seeking singers for the 2011/2012 season.  For more information, click HERE.

BEAMS at The Works Festival in Churchill Square - FREE!

BEAMS to hit Churchill Square during The Works

EDMONTON — Continuing a partnership of presenting dynamic art in the city core, the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society and The Works Art & Design Festival will feature six days of BEAMS performances at Sir Winston Churchill Square. Admission to all BEAMS events is free.

The proceedings kick off Thursday, June 23 at noon with the Saint Crispin’s Improv Collective (Don Ross, clarinet; Will Cramer, strings; Thom Golub, bass and Thom Bennett, drums) teaming up with the Windrow Performance Dancers (Amber Borotsik, Jesse Gervais and Scott Shipley).

Sunday, June 25 at 5 p.m. will see MUGBAIT featuring performers Colin Labadie and Dan Brophy, whose previous performances include a stint at Ramshackle Day Parade and an Art’s Birthday celebration at the late, lamented Naked Cybercafe. The duo will be performing a new work, A Monument Unto Myself.

Making its official debut Tuesday, June 28 at 5 p.m. will be the duo Ativan Zoloft, featuring guitarist Bill Damur who will improvise guitar with a series of digital loops ranging from Erik Satie works to Swiss metal.

A double-bill takes place Saturday, July 2 at 5 p.m. with University of Alberta professor Scott Smallwood displaying his affinity for making sound pieces with various kinds of technologies (including non-electronic technologies) based on a personal practice of field recording, listening, and improvisation. Displaying his prowess on the laptop for the second half of the set will be sound artist Wayne Defehr.

The tandem combination continues Sunday July 3 at 5 p.m. with agaperaygunexeriment showing of its own brand of avant-garde expression, followed by Bill Damur leading three other musicians with his Canon for Four Guitars.

On Tuesday, July 5 at noon, closing off the electroacoustic element of The Works will be a performance featuring the BEAMS All-Stars with the Windrow Performance Dancers.

For more information call Don Ross at 780-444-3641 or email him at donross5@telus.net. Also visit www.beams.ca online.

Mercury Opera's Perogy Fundraiser for Madama Butterfly

Fundraising dinner and preview of Mercury Opera's Madama Butterfly

The silent auction and fundraiser will be held on June 17 at the Freemason's hall at 10318-100 Avenue with the doors at 5 p.m. and dinner from 6 p.m.

A "taste" of the upcoming production will be presented at 8pm.

Silent auction items include hand-crafted, opera-related jewelry, a pair of opening night tickets including a limousine ride, wine tasting tickets and restaurant gift cards.

The show will be performed in a tent in Giovanni Caboto Park at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the dinner are $20 for adults and $15 for children 12 and younger and can be purchased by calling 780-637-5829 or by visiting http://www.mercuryopera.com/

The full opera, Madama Butterfly is playing from August 23-27, 2011 on Via Italia- Giovanni Caboto Park, Edmonton.  See you there!

Updated: Concert Listings Jun15-July 3 Last one of the season!

Wednesday June 15, 2011, 7pm Vocal Arts Festival Song Soiree – Folk Songs from Far Away. Convocation Hall, UofA. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

June 10 – 19, 2010 7:30 pm Edmonton Musical Theatre Ladies in Lights. Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns. Tickets available at Tix on the Square or at the door.

Sunday June 12, 2011 1:30pm Vocal Arts Festival Edmonton Journal Intro to Opera. An opera primer featuring excerpts from each production.

Sunday June 12, 2011 7pm Vocal Arts Festival Masterclass with John Fanning. Room I-29 UofA Fine Arts Bldg. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

Sunday June 12 2011 Opera Nuovo Dinner Cabaret Series "Celebrate" at Sabor Divino including 10 artists performing at the Vocal Arts Festival.

Friday June 17, 2011, 7:30 pm and Saturday June 18, 2010 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre. William Eddins, conductor and piano, Lucas Waldin, conductor. de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé.

June 21, 23, 25, 2011 7:30pm, June 26 at 1:30pm Vocal Arts Festival Marriage of Figaro Mozart. Timms Centre for the Arts, UofA. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

Friday June 24, 2011 6:30pm to 10pm Edmonton Opera - Opera al fresco at the Devonian Botanic Garden. For tickets contact http://www.edmontonopera.com/

Friday June 24, 2011 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society - Summer Solstice Festival - Gypsy Voices. Lara St. John, violin. Works by Haydn, Brahms, Bartok, Leo Weiner and Gene Pritsker. Convocation Hall. Pre-concert talk with Dr. David Gramit, 7:15. Tickets at Tix on the Square, the Gramophone and at the door.

Saturday June 25, 2011 7:30pm Viter Ukrainian Dancers and Viter Ukrainian Folk Choir present Fusion: Harmony in Motion In celebration of the Dancers’ 15th Anniversary. Jubilee Auditorium, tickets from Ticketmaster.

Saturday June 25, 2011 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society - Summer Solstice Festival - Liszt, Revolutionary Romantic. Works include Vallee d'Obermann and Mephisto Waltz. Host-narrator Michael Roeder. Pre-concert talk with D.T. Baker, 7:15. Tickets at Tix on the Square, the Gramophone and at the door.

June 22, 24, 26 2011 7:30pm, June 25 at 1:30pm Vocal Arts Festival Rusalka, Dvořák. Timms Centre for the Arts, UofA. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

Sunday June 26, 2011 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society - Summer Solstice Festival - Summer Passion. Convocation Hall. Works include Anton Arnesky, Piano Trio no.1 and Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat major. Tickets at Tix on the Square, the Gramophone and at the door.

Sunday July 3, 2011 3pm Edmonton Youth Choir - Pre China Tour Concert. McDougall United Church, tickets $5.

Concert Listings Jun 8-12 Second last posting of the season!

June 10 and 11, 2011 7:30pm Vocal Arts Festival Light in the Piazza, Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel. Convocation Hall, UofA. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

Wednesday June 15, 2011, 7pm Vocal Arts Festival Song Soiree – Folk Songs from Far Away. Convocation Hall, UofA. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

June 10 – 19, 2010 7:30 pm Edmonton Musical Theatre Ladies in Lights. Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns. Tickets available at Tix on the Square or at the door.

Sunday June 12, 2011 1:30pm Vocal Arts Festival Edmonton Journal Intro to Opera. An opera primer featuring excerpts from each production.

Sunday June 12, 2011 7pm Vocal Arts Festival Masterclass with John Fanning. Room I-29 UofA Fine Arts Bldg. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

Sunday June 12 2011 Opera Nuovo Dinner Cabaret Series "Celebrate" at Sabor Divino including 10 artists performing at the Vocal Arts Festival.

Opera al Fresco at the Devonian Garden with Edmonton Opera

Auditions for Da Camera Singers

Da Camera Singers is holding auditions!!

Two audition dates: June 20, 2011 and August 22, 2011.

7:00pm - 10:00pm

Holy Trinity Anglican Church

10037 - 84 Ave

Edmonton, Alberta

 
In 2011-12, Da Camera Singers will be celebrating our 50th anniversary! Through the season, we will be partnering with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Pro Coro Canada, Spiritus Chamber Choir, the Edmonton Junior Children's Choir and Tonus Vivus. Featured works during the season will include the Poulenc Gloria, Carmina Burana, and the Rachmaninoff All Night Vigil.

We welcome auditions for all sections! Auditions will be comprised of a work of your choice and some musicianship testing. An accompanist will be provided.

Please email info@dacamera.ab.ca to schedule an audition.