Thursday, June 28, 2012

Concert Listings July 2012 - See you next season!

July 4-14, 2012 8pm (Sunday matinee 2pm) The musical Nine. Kristin M. Finlay, director, Sally Hunt, musical director, Adam Mazerolle-Kuss, choreographer. Walterdale Playhouse, $14, $18. Tix on the Square or cash at the door (Thursday July 5 is 2 for 1, cash only)

Sunday July 8, 2012 4pm Classic Bronze 2012 - Canada's only advanced handbell festival closing concert (bells and choir). Dr. John Hooper, director. Concordia University College Robert Tegler Student Centre. $12, $10 and $25 per family, Tix on the Square or at the door. http://www.classicbronze.org/

July 8 – 15, 2012 Choralies Internationales 2012 – francophone festival of choral music. Various times and locations, concerts listed individually below. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.

Sunday July 8, 2012 2pm Alberta College Conservatory of Music Connections Concert Series. Emerging student musicians and faculty performances. Muttart Hall 10050 MacDonald Dr. $20, $10 Tix on the Square.

Sunday July 8, 2012 8:30pm Concert d'overture - Toi, moi, tout un monde! Choralies Internationales 2012 –Grand Opening concert featuring two professional choirs from Alberta and Quebec. Winspear Centre. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.

Friday July 13, 2012 8:30pm Concert Gala - Pleins feux en chanson! Choralies Internationales 2012 – Gala Concert featuring the massed choir from the festival. Winspear Centre. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.

Sunday July 15, 2012 3pm Choralies Internationales 2012 – Closing Concert. Concert de clôture - Célébrons le Grand choeur des Choralies! Winspear Centre. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.

Alberta College Conservatory Connections Final Concert July 8, 2012

Choralies Francophone Choral Festival July 8-15, 2012

Check out all the Choralies Concerts on our Concert Calendar!

Monday, June 25, 2012

Concert Listings June 25 - July 1, 2012

Friday June 29, 2012 7pm Lucernarium - Medieval Music of the Night. Chant, organum, polyphony and organ music from the 10th century. Leora Nauta, artistic director and organist, Dawn Bailey, soprano. St. Timothy's Anglican Church, 8420 145 St. Admission by donation to benefit the choral scholar program at St. Timothy's.

June 26, 28 and 30, 2012 7:30pm, July 1 1:30pm and 7:30pm. Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Alcina, Handel. Timms Centre for the Arts, UofA. Tickets $28-$40.

June 26, 29 and July 1, 2012 7:30pm, June 30 1:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. Timms Centre for the Arts, UofA. Tickets $28-$40.






Friday, June 22, 2012

Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society at the 2012 Works Festival this weekend - FREE!

Check out the many shows from our friends at the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) this year at The Works Festival of Art and Design all for FREE in Churchill Square!

Thursday June 21 noon

Saint Crispin’s Improv Collective with the Amy Kubanek dancers

Will Cramer, guitar, Cam Neufeld, violin and electronics, Don Ross, clarinet and electronics, Scott Whetham, tuba ‘n’ stuff, Lindsay Woolgar, bass

Friday June 22 2:30 pm

Wayne Defehr

Friday June 22 5:00 pm

Act 1: Skruntskrunt “Swarmed”

Act2: Don Ross

Saturday June 23

1:15- 2:00

agapéraygunexperiment

Saturday June 23 5:00 pm

Act 1: agapéraygunexperiment “earth sounds”

Act 2: storms from the north

Monday June 25 5:00 pm

Act 1: Wayne deFehr

Act 2: flEm “Dork Matter”

Saturday June 30

1:15 – 2:00

Condoleezza Rice Paddies

Saturday June 30 5:00 pm

Act 1: Dave Wall “Pure Data”

Act 2: Bill Damur “sound and poetry”

Tuesday, July 3 at noon

BEAMS All-stars, dancers TBA

Monday, June 18, 2012

Edmonton Chamber Music Society 2012 Summer Solstice Festival

Concert Listings June 18-24, 2012 Summer Solstice Music Festival!

June 19, 20 and 21, 2012, 7:30pm, June 20 1:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Albert Herring, Benjamin Britten. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets $24-$40. http://www.vocalartsfestival.com/

Thursday June 21, 2012 7pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society - Summer Solstice Festival. Masterclass with Tara Helen O'Connor, flute, and Daniel Phillips, violin. Fine Arts Building, UofA Room 1-29 and 2-7. http://www.edmontonchambermusic.org/

June 22-24 and 27-30, 2012 Elope Musical Theatre presents Kiss Me Kate. John L. Haar Theatre 10045 156 St. $27.50, $22.50 Tix on the Square. For more information go to http://www.elopemusicaltheatre.ca/

Friday June 22, 2012 6pm gates open, 7pm performances start. Edmonton Opera presents Opera al Fresco, a summer garden party at Devonian Gardens. Robert Clark, tenor, Catherine Daniel, mezzo-soprano and Bertrand Malo. Featuring the debut of the Edmonton Opera Children’s Chorus. Located 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60. (51227 Hwy 60, Spruce Grove, T7Y 1C5) Tickets $49 adults, $20 children 12 and under.

Friday June 22, 2012 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society presents the Summer Solstice Music Festival – L’Esprit Francais. Music of Saint-Saens, Messiaen and Debussy. Jessica Linnebach, Jasmine Lin, Daniel Phillips, violin, Charles Pilon, viola, Shauna Rolston, Marina Hoover, cello, Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, Julianne Scott, clarinet, Nora Bumanis, harp, Stephen Prutsman, piano, Jacques Despres, piano, Patricia Tao, piano and festival director. Convocation Hall. Pre-concert talk begins 45 minutes prior to performance. $30, $20, $10. Tix on the Square or The Gramophone. http://www.edmontonchambermusic.org/

Saturday June 23, 2012 7:15pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society presents the Summer Solstice Music Festival. Pre-concert - ECMS Scholarship winner recital. Convocation Hall, UofA. http://www.edmontonchambermusic.org/

Saturday June 23, 2012 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society presents the Summer Solstice Music Festival – Intersections, Music for Film and Concert Stage. Chamber pieces by Nino Rota and Lalo Schifrin, and Stephen Prutsman’s score for Sherlock, Jr. plus a showing of the film. Jessica Linnebach, Jasmine Lin, Daniel Phillips, violin, Charles Pilon, viola, Shauna Rolston, Marina Hoover, cello, Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, Julianne Scott, clarinet, Nora Bumanis, harp, Stephen Prutsman, piano, Jacques Despres, piano, Patricia Tao, piano and festival director. Convocation Hall. $30, $20, $10. http://www.edmontonchambermusic.org/

Sunday June 24, 2012 3pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society presents the Summer Solstice Music Festival – Summer Passion. Assobio a Játo (The Jet Whistle) for flute and cello by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rebecca Clarke’s Piano Trio of 1921, and Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor. Jessica Linnebach, Jasmine Lin, Daniel Phillips, violin, Charles Pilon, viola, Shauna Rolston, Marina Hoover, cello, Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, Julianne Scott, clarinet, Nora Bumanis, harp, Stephen Prutsman, piano, Jacques Despres, piano, Patricia Tao, piano and festival director. Convocation Hall. Pre-concert talk begins 45 minutes prior to performance. $30, $20, $10. http://www.edmontonchambermusic.org/

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Lieutenant Governor Emerging Artist Award Winners 2012

June 14, 2012

Artists get "catalytic" boost on the road to success

Edmonton... Eight Alberta artists received the 2012 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award June 14, 2012 in a ceremony hosted by His Honour Col. (Ret’d) the Honourable Donald S. Ethell and Her Honour Linda Ethell.

“These artists represent the best of a community that challenges, enlightens and entertains us,” said Lieutenant Governor Ethell. “Creativity of this magnitude is infectious.”

The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Awards is among Canada’s most generous arts awards programs. Each recipient receives a medal and $10,000.

Susan Green, Chair of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards, says, “Ten thousand dollars to an emerging artist is a catalyst for great things.”

“We’ve seen careers blossom in previous recipients and we know today’s awards will strengthen these artists and Alberta’s performing, literary and visual arts culture in the process.”

About the awards

The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation was established in 2003 to celebrate excellence in the arts and to underline the importance of the arts in Alberta.

The Emerging Artist Awards, offered in alternate years, gives up to 10 awards of $10,000 each to support and encourage promising artists early in their careers, who have created a modest body of work, and are recognized by established artists in the same field of endeavour as having potential to achieve excellence in their discipline. Recipients also receive a medal designed by Wei Yew. The 2012 adjudication panel included Charlie Austin, Denise Clarke and Nancy (Tousley) Cameron.

Winners

His Honour Col. (Ret’d) the Honourable Donald S. Ethel presented the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artists Awards to the following individuals at Government House in Edmonton, June 14, 2012:

Emma Parkinson, mezzo-soprano, Lethbridge

According to adjudicators, “She rose to the top of the ‘ear’ chart with the quality of her exquisite voice.” Mezzo-soprano Emma Parkinson calls Lethbridge home, but her voice belongs to the world. She made her solo debut as Siebel in Faust with Opera de Montreal this spring and will debut in Europe as Mercedes this summer in a new production of Carmen with Seefestspiele Berlin. Winter will see her back at Opera de Montreal playing Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.

Parkinson completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Lethbridge and master’s degree at McGill University. In 2010, she was selected as a young artist in the Atelier Lyrique of the Opera de Montreal, a training program designed to develop professional singers, and is in her final season with this program. Parkinson says the award money will support ongoing training and an audition tour, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in November 2012.

Kyle Armstrong, filmmaker, Edmonton
Naomi Brand, contemporary dancer and choreographer, Calgary
Mitch Holtby, emcee, producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, Edmonton
Kristopher Karklin, photographer/sculptor, Fort McMurray/Calgary
Chris Millar, painter/sculptor
Diane Mae Robinson, children’s author, St. Paul
Eric Rose, theatre director

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

This Week at Opera Nuova's Vocal Arts Festival 2012


Banff Summer Arts Festival June 21-August 25, 2012

It's that time again!  Check out all the details for the Banff Summer Arts Festival here:


Check out the opera performances (Don Giovanni by Mozart) and the "Music for a Summer Evening" series - where musicians in residence perform with their distinguished faculty in this perennial favourite.



Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Concert Listings June 12 - 18, 2012

Tuesday June 12, 2012 7:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival Song Soirees at the AGA. German artsong. Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre. Tickets $14-$20. http://www.operanuova.ca/

June 14-16 and June 19-23, 2012 7:30pm (check Tix on the Square for showtimes) Edmonton Musical Theatre - The Time of Our Lives. Celebrating 35 years. Randy Mueller, Director-Music Director, Marie Nychka, Adam Blocka and Steffni Ault, choreographers, Geoff Emery, Jen Magel, Set Designers. Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns 10330 84 Av. $25 Tix on the Square

Friday June 15, 2012 7:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Opera Extravaganza with Improvaganza. Operatic scences with improvs of opera scenes. $16 - $22. http://www.operanuova.ca/

Sunday June 17, 2012 5:30pm Opera Nuova – L’Invitation du Voyage, A Father’s Day Event featuring artists from the Vocal Arts Festival 2012 including the music of R.V. William’s Songs of Travel. Sabor Divino 10220 103 St NW. For tickets contact http://www.operanuova.ca/

Sunday June 17, 2012 7pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Behind the Scenes Masterclass. Room 1-29 Fine Arts Building, UofA. Tickets $14-$20. http://www.operanuova.ca/

Monday June 18, 2012 7:30pm FREE Organ Information Evening - Organ Building and Restoration with Bruce Shull. Royal Canadian College of Organists - Edmonton. Providence Church, 12905 122 Av.

Edmonton Musical Theatre 35th Anniversary Celebration

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Pro Coro Canada Announces New Members for 2012-2013

Pro Coro Canada announces core membership for the 2012–2013 season

After several days of auditions with 50 singers participating, Pro Coro is happy to announce the voices that will make up Pro Coro Canada in 2012–2013.

The individual and ensemble auditions with new Artistic Director Michael Zaugg proved to be a great starting point for the creation of an outstanding and virtuoso ensemble.

Thank you all the choristers who invested their time and effort in preparing for the audition process.

The 2012–2013 core roster of Pro Coro Canada (alphabetical order):

Soprano

Gillian Brinston-Kurschat, Jolaine Kerley, Catherine Kubash, Carole Kube, Annette Martens, Sonia Oppenheim, Sarah Schaub

Alto

Sable Chan, Wendy Grønnestad-Damur, Mireille Rijavec, Adrienne Sitko, vacant, vacant

Tenor

Brett Ludwig, John Brough, Casey Edmunds, Caleb Nelson, vacant, vacant

Bass

Rob Curtis, Michael Kurschat, Peter Malcolm, Alex McCune, Simon Noster, Gordon Ritchie, Jordan Van Biert

Additional singers will be engaged from among the following to augment the Pro Coro core voices (alphabetical order):

Jane Berry, Raimundo Gonzalez, Catherine Lippitt, Kirstin Piehl, Nola Shantz, Janet Smith, Justin Strand, Russ Wilkinson, and Anthony Wynne.

Edmonton Mozart Festival - Sunday June 10, 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012

Concert Listings June 4 - 11, 2012

Tuesday June 5, 2012 7:30pm Nova Musica Community Orchestra. Bill Dimmer, conductor. Music Der Freischutz Overture, Carl Maria von Weber, Academic Festival Overture, Brahms, Peer Gynt Suite 1, Grieg, My Fair Lady, F. Loewe, and Music for a Young Prince, Canadian Composer Godfrey Ridout. New members welcome. Royal Canadian Legion Hall 4815 47 St Calmar. Donations to the Christmas Elves will be accepted.

Tuesday June 5, 2012 7:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival Song Soirees at the AGA. French artsong. Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre. Tickets $14-$20.

Wednesday June 6, 2012 7pm St. Albert Community Band Spring Concert. Arden Theatre, St. Albert.

Thursday June 7, 2012 Noon FREE Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Music at Noon. Winspear Centre Lobby.

Thursday June 7, 2012 8pm Edmonton Vocal Minority Choir – A Touch of Goth. Special guest Darrin Hagen. Westbury Theatre. $15, $12.

Friday June 8, 2012 7:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Opera Extravaganza with Improvaganza. Operatic scences with improvs of opera scenes. $16 - $22. Convocation Hall, UofA.

Friday June 8, 2012 9:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – Late Night Brahms. William Eddins, conductor, Angela Cheng, piano, Members of Oran and Kokopelli Choirs. Excerpts from Brahms’ First Piano Concerto, Third Symphony and the Liebeslieder Waltzes. Winspear Centre.

Saturday June 9, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Angela Cheng, piano. Brahms’ First Piano Concerto and the Third Symphony. Winspear Centre.

Sunday June 10, 2012 2pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Opera for 'New-ova-ites', Keeping the stories straight. Learn more about the operas, composers and the artists. Upper Crust Cafe. Tickets $14-$16.

Sunday June 10, 2012 4:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival An Afternoon with a Merry Widow. Old Timers Cabin 9430 99 St. Tickets $14-$20.

Sunday June 10, 2012 7pm The Edmonton Mozart Festival - A Little Night Music. Irina Konavalov, Marlena Muskens, Anders Muskens, Elliot Kam, and Brenda Lam, piano. Aleasha Pawluski, trumpet, and the Wild Rose String Quartet. Sonata No.2 in D major for Piano Duet, Allegro Molto in C major (a newly discovered work), Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, Piano Sonata No. 62 in E flat major (Haydn), Piano Sonata Op. 79 No. 24 in F sharp major (Beethoven), Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (Haydn), and Serenade for Strings, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr. $15 ($20 at door), $25 festival pass. http://www.edmontonmozartfestival.com/

Sunday June 10, 2012 7pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Behind the Scenes Masterclass. Room 1-29 Fine Arts Building, UofA. Tickets $14-$20.