July 2011 (3)
Sunday July 3, 2011 1:30pm Tammy-Jo
Mortensen, organ. Canadian and Scandinavian organ music by Edmonton’s
own Allan Gilliland, Jacobus Kloppers, and Ontario composers Eleanor
Daley and Healey Willan. Also included is Danish composer Niels
Gade, Swedish-Canadian Bengt Hambraeus, and Norwegian composer Mons
Leidvin Takle. Robertson-Wesley United Church, admission by
donation. Fundraiser for the United Voices of Edmonton England tour.
Sunday July 3, 2011 3pm Edmonton Youth
Choir - Pre China Tour Concert. McDougall United Church, tickets $5.
Saturday July 16, 2011 7:30 pm Taiwan
Universities’ Alumni Association Chorus, Dreaming on a Mid-Summer's
Night. General admission $15. Winspear Centre.
Saturday July 16, 2011 8pm Olivia
Steimel, accordian (on tour from Germany) Music by Bach, Haydn,
Frescobaldi, Rameau, Lindberg and Gubaidulina, and a recent work by
Canadian composer, Anna Pidgorna. Edmonton Moravian Church, 9540 - 83
Avenue. For more information please contact: Anna Pidgorna
(anna@annapidgorna.com 902-495-9251)
August 2011
Sunday August 7, 2011 1pm Lukas Sulzer,
Felix Hornbachner, piano and organ (from Linz, Austria). Solo and Duo
works. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St. FREE will offering.
Saturday August 13, 2011 3pm
Singspiration Concert, Robert Tegler Student Centre, 73 St. south of
112 Ave, Concordia University College.
Sunday August 14, 2011 1pm "Duo
Majoya", Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger, piano. Duets.
First movement preview of a Ruth Watson Henderson RCCO commission and
the following Mahler works: "Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?"
(Who Thought up this Song?), Lob des hohen Verstandes (In Praise of
Lofty Judgement) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Adagietto from
Symphony No5 in c minor. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St.
FREE will offering.
Sunday August 14, 2011 4:30pm Leora
Nauta, organ. Celebrating a newly refurbished Dutch-style organ
imported from Holland. Early Baroque Dutch music as well as works by
Bach and Bruhns. Providence Canadian Reformed Church 12905 122
Avenue.
Monday August 15 to August 22, 2011 Il
Duo - Milking It! Ron Long, tenor, Clint Hagel, tenor, and Gail
Olmstead. Trinity Lutheran Church - 10014 81st Ave. Part of the
Fringe Festival. Tickets $12.
Tuesday August 16, 2011 12pm FREE ESO
Musician Showcase, Winspear Centre.
Saturday August 20, 2011 6pm Raga-Mala
Music Society – Kathak Dance. Kadamb Kathak Ensemble, Horowitz
Theatre Dance, UofA.
Saturday August 20, 2011 8pm Raga-Mala
Music Society – Hindustani Vocal. Vocal Pandits Rajan & Sajan
Misra. Horowitz Theatre, UofA.
Saturday August 20, 2011 8pm Ancient
Voices, New Song. Contemporary and traditional Indigenous music,
dance and song. Fundraiser for Tunisia's Global Rise of Indigenous
Languages conference. McDougall United Church, $25.
Sunday August 21, 2011 1pm "Duo
Majoya" Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger, organ and Alvin
Lowrey, trumpet. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St. FREE will
offering.
Tuesday August 23, 2011, 12pm FREE
Music of the Davis Concert Organ, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, organ. Music by
Canadian and Scandinavian composers. Winspear Centre.
Friday August 26, 2011 2pm Malcolm
Forsyth Memorial Celebration. Accepting donation to the Department of
Music's Fund in Memory of Malcolm Forsyth. Convocation Hall, UofA.
August 23-27, 2011 Madame Butterfly,
Mercury Opera. Via Italia- Giovanni Caboto Park, Edmonton 10878 95
Street. Contact Tix on the Square.
Sunday August 28, 2011 1pm "Duo
Majoya" Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger, organ. Duets.
First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St. FREE will offering.
September 2011
Monday August 29, 2011 7pm Hymn
Festival, Concordia University College, Robert Tegler Centre. FREE
will offering. 73 St and 112 Av.
Friday September 2, 2011, 7pm Edmonton
Symphony Under the Sky, Robert Bernhardt, conductor, Elizabeth
Faulkner, flute, Nora Bumanis, harp. Handel, Suite from Water Music,
Mozart, Concerto for Flute and Harp, BRAHMS, Second Symphony.
Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park. Grass seating for kids 12 and
under is FREE.
Saturday September 3, 2011, 2pm
Edmonton Symphony Under the Sky Robert Bernhardt, conductor. Rogers,
Selections from South Pacific, Bernstein, Selections from West Side
Story and Overture to Candide, Sondheim, Comedy Tonight, Styne,
Overture to Gypsy. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, Grass
seating for kids 12 and under is FREE.
Monday September 5, 2011 2pm Edmonton
Symphony Under the Sky, Rhapsody in Blue. Robert Bernhardt,
conductor, Sarah Ho, piano. Gershwin: An American in Paris and
Rhapsody in Blue, Márquez, Danzón No. 2, Assad, Brazilian Fanfare,
Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park,
Grass seating for kids 12 and under is FREE.
Thursday September 8-11, 2011 7:30pm A
Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim. Festival Players, Mary Jane
Kreisel and Barbarah Mah, directors. Festival Place Sherwood Park.
Friday September 9, 2011 8pm William
Joseph, piano. Benefit concert for the Stollery Children's Hospital
Foundation. Silent auction 6:30pm, Winspear Centre.
Saturday September 10, 2011 4:30pm
Ritchie Trombone Choir - Kaleido Family Arts Festival, 118 Av between
92 and 94 St.
Saturday September 10, 2011 8pm Trio
Voce, Patricia Tao, piano, Jasmine Lin, violin, Marina Hoover, cello.
Haydn Trio in e minor, Hob. XV:12, Rebecca Clarke Piano Trio,
Mendelssohn Trio in d minor, op. 49. $20,$15,$10 at door. Convocation
Hall, UofA.
Sunday September 11, 2011 Andre Rieu,
Rexall Place. http://www.ticketmaster.ca/
Friday September 16, 2011 8pm WindRose
Trio, L'influence francaise. Beth Levia, oboe, Jeff Campbell,
clarinet, Matthew Howatt, basson. Music by Milhaud, Tomasi, Francaix,
Ibert and Canteloube. Convocation Hall.
September 16 and 17, 2011 8pm Wicked
Divas - Steven Reineke, conductor, Julia Murney, vocalist, Stephanie
J. Block, vocalist. Including music from Wicked, Gypsy, Ragtime,
Titanic and George Bizet’s Carmen. Winspear Centre. Carnegie Hall
Info Session, Studio (enter through stage door) 6:30pm
Saturday September 17, 2011 8pm Leonard
Cohen Night 2011, La Cité Francophone.
Sunday September 18, 2011 2pm FREE
Edmonton Choral Fair 2011 Joyful Noise, Chanteuses, Edmonton
Christian Male Choir, Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus, Edmonton Youth
Choir, EKOSingers, Gateway Chorus, Lynne Singers, Richard Eaton
Singers, and Vocal Alchemy with special guests Anna Beaumont and
Wajjo Drummers. Edmonton City Hall.
September 19 and 20, 2011 7:30pm
Alberta Ballet, 60th Anniversary of the National Ballet of Canada.
Jubillee Auditorium.
September 21, 2011, 7:30pm Edmonton
Symphony, William Eddins, conductor, organ, and piano, Lucas Waldin,
conductor. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, Beethoven: Seventh
Symphony, Morawetz: Passacaglia on a Bach Chorale, Bach: Herzlich tut
mich verlangen. Winspear Centre. Carnegie Hall Info Session, Studio
(enter through stage door) 6pm.
Thursday September 22, 2011 7:30pm
Boris Krajný, piano. Presented by the Polish Cultural Society in
collaboration with the Czechoslovak Society for the Arts and Sciences
and the Wirth Institute. Music by Paderewski, Moszkowski, Mahler,
Liszt and Dvořák. Muttart Hall, Alberta College. $20-$10 from Tix
on the Square or at the door.
Friday September 23, 2011 7:30pm
Accordion Extravaganza! Opening night concert, Len Gadica, Anthony
Rolando, accordion, Valerie Vacco, vocalist. Tickets $18, Tix on the
Square, rush tickets at the door. Central Lions Seniors Recreation
Centre 11113-113 St.
Friday September 23, 2011 8pm Das Lied
von der Erde (G. Mahler) Benjamin Butterfield, tenor, Elizabeth
Turnbull, mezzo, John Hess, piano. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets
$20,$15,$10 at door.
Saturday September 24, 2011 7:30 pm
Edson Centennial Celebration William Eddins, conductor and piano,
Lucas Waldin, conductor, Alison Kilganon, piano. Music includes
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 (3rd mvt), Beethoven and orchestral
arrangements of great Canadian songs. Edson District Recreation
Centre. All tickets are $30 and are available at the Edson Town
Office, Thymes Two, Kwik Crests and the Chamber of Commerce Office.
Saturday September 24, 2011 7:30pm
Liasons – Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano. Anthony de Mare,
piano. Shell Theatre, Fort Saskatchewan 780.992.6400. Tickets: $25.50
Adults, $23.50, Seniors-Youth, $5
Saturday September 24, 2011 8pm FREE
His Name is Waldemar - An evening of Viennese Songs. Christina Bahlo,
soprano, and Jacques Despres, piano. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Sunday September 25, 2011 2pm
Homecoming 2011, University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Wind
Ensemble. Music by Janacek and Dvorak. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Admission by donation.
Sunday September 25, 2011 3pm A Poet's
Love - voice recital. Ron Long, Tenor and Alexandra Munn, Pianist
will perform Dichterliebe by Schumann, Adelaide by Beethoven,
Lenski's Aria from Eugene Onegin, To Julia by Quilter, Love, I Hear
by Sondheim, Blah, Blah, Blah by Gershwin, and On The Street Where
You Live by Lerner and Loewe. Admission is by donation. Reception to
follow. This concert is part of the Holy Trinity Recital Series, Holy
Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Avenue.
September 30 and October 1, 2011 7:30
pm and 8pm Edmonton Symphony, William Eddins, conductor, Karen Gomyo,
violin. Mozart, Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”, Beethoven, Violin
Concerto, Rival, Scherzo. Winspear Centre.
Saturday, October 1, 2011 7:30pm
Raga-Mala Music Society – Sitar. Shujaat Husain Khan, sitar, Samir
Chatterjee, tabla. John L. Haar Theatre, Macewan Centre for the Arts.
Tickets available at the door, $20,$15 Raga-Mala Patron Members
FREE.
October 2011 (38)
Saturday October 1, 2011 8pm Edmonton
Chamber Music Society, James Ehnes, violin, Andrew Armstrong, piano.
Tartini, Sonata in G minor, Beethoven Sonata No. 5 in F major,
Paganini, Caprices, Franck, Sonata in A major.McDougall United
Church. Contact Tix on the Square.
Sunday October 2, 2011, 2:30pm Pro
Coro, Dawn to Dusk. Magen Solomon, conductor. McDougall United
Church, $30 Adults, $25 Seniors, $20 Students
Sunday October 2, 2011 7:30pm Beata
Czernecka, vocalist, Michal Poltorak, violin, Pawel Pierzchala,
piano. A recital of Polish and Jewish songs. Yardbird Suite, 11 Tommy
Banks Way. $20-$10, Tix on the Square and at the door.
October 5, 2011 Strathcona Strings
Baroque Trio on period instruments. Mcdougall United Church basement,
10025-101 Street, Edmonton.
Free Noon Hour concertThursday October
6, 2011 8pm Edmonton Symphony, Robert Bernhardt, conductor, Lucas
Waldin, conductor, Canadian Guitar Quartet. Tchaikovsky, Capriccio
Italien, Rodrigo, Concierto Andaluz for Four Guitars,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio espagnole, Teehan, Dreams of Flying, Roux,
Au rhythmes des quartiers latins. Winspear Centre. Carnegie Hall Info
Session, Studio (enter through stage door) 6:30pm.
Saturday, October 8, 2011 7:30pm St.
Albert Chamber Music Recital Series – Onyx String Quaret. Aiyana
Anderson-Howatt, violin, Anna Kozak, violin, Rhonda Henshaw, viola,
Colin Ryan, cello. Mozart, Haydn Quartet No.15 in D minor K.421,
Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 59 No.1 in F Major, Brahms, String
Quartet No.3 Op. 67 in B flat Major. Tickets $25,$20 available at
Don’s Piano Warehouse (8 Riel Drive St. Albert ) or the Art Gallery
of St. Albert. Each concert will be catered with fine wine and “tasty
treats”.
Sunday October 9, 2011 3pm Scona
Chamber Singers presents An Afternoon Madrigal. Jolaine Kerley,
soprano, Sarah Schaub, soprano, John Brough countertenor, Jacques
Arsenault, tenor, Mark Wilkinson, baritone, Jeremy Spurgeon, organ
and harpsichord, Josephine van Lier, cello. Includes music by
Monteverdi (1610 Vespers) and Gesualdo. 1 hr, no intermission. Holy
Trinity Anglican Church $15,$20. 10037-84th Ave.
Wednesday October 12, 2011
12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, Amelia Kaminski and
Byron Myhre, fiddler. McDougall United Church, banquet hall, 101
street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald Drive
entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag lunch –
coffee and tea are also available.
Thursday October 13, 2011 7pm Drams and
Draughts, collection of whisky and beer, indulge in fine cuisine,
enjoy live music, and partake in live and silent auctions. All funds
raised will go to supporting the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s trip
to Carnegie Hall. Winspear Centre.
Friday October 14, 2011 8pm Molinari
Quartet – presented by Tonus Vivus and New Works Calgary. Different
Trains, Steve Reich, Salome Dances for Peace – the Gift, Terry
Riley, Quartet No. 3 Mishima, Philip Glass.
Friday, October 14, 2011 8pm Tanya
Prochazka, cello, Janet Scott Hoyt, piano. Brahms Sonatas Opus 120
for Clarinet and Piano arranged for cello by Tanya Prochazka and
Sonata in G (D) Major Opus 78 for Violin and Piano arranged for cello
and piano by Julius Klengel. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets
$20,$15,$10.
Friday October 14, 7pm FREE Masterclass
with Pavel Steidl, guitar. Room 421 Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald
Drive. For more information contact the Edmonton Classical Guitar
Society at 587 708 2044.
Saturday October 15, 7pm A Prairie
Guy's Life in Music - So you think you can stump the Quiz Master!
with Stuart Hamilton (and some audience participation!) Convocation
Hall, UofA. Admission by donation to support student ensembles.
Saturday October 15, 2011 8pm Edmonton
Classical Guitar Society, Pavel Steidl, guitar. Music - Bardenklänge,
op.13 (selections) Johann Kaspar Mertz, Chaconne, BWV 1004, J.S.
Bach, 10 Menuetts, op.11 Fernando Sor. Muttart Hall, Alberta College.
Tix on the Square.
Saturday October 15, 2011 8pm Edmonton
Symphony, Mei-Ann Chen, conductor, Ilya Yakushev, piano. Mendelssohn,
First Piano Concerto, Franck, Symphony in D minor, Allan Gordon Bell
(Calgary), Serenity. Winspear Centre.
Sunday October 16, 2011 11am brunch,
12:15pm recital. Edmonton Opera's Opera Brunch. Intimate recital by
the artists starring in each of the mainstage productions. Westin
Edmonton hotel 10135 100 St, $70. Call the Box Office 780 429 1000.
Sunday October 16, 2011 3pm Organigami
- 6th Annual Edmonton Charity Recital for the Alberta Cancer Society.
Alissa Cheung, violin, Sarah Ho, piano, Leanne Dammann Maitland,
viola. Works by Rolla, Grella-Mozejko, Tchaikovsky, Ysaye, Mozart and
Poulenc. Muttart Hall, Alberta College. Admission by donation.
Sunday October 16, 2011 5:30pm Opera
Nuova Dinner Cabaret Series - Bountiful Bel Canto. Catherine
Bergeron, Aaron Hutton, Giovanni Spanu, Amanda Hillestad, Sarah
Staples and Simon Marc de Freitas, piano. Music by Rossini, Donizetti
and Bellini. Oliveto Trattoria, contact http://www.operanuova.ca/ for
tickets.
Monday October 17, 2011 UofA Monday
Noon Music FREE 45 min. Visiting artists Federic Bednarz, violin and
Natsuki Hiratsuka, piano featuring works by Franck, Ravel &
Kreisler. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday, October 17, 2011 8pm UofA
Celebrating the Leaders of Tomorrow: Award Winning Graduate Student
Performers and Composers. Performances by Wendy Niewenhuis, Chee Meng
Low, Sandra Joy Friesen, Colin Labadie, Yoana Kyurkchieva and
Viktoria Rieswich-Dapp. Classical to the experimental, and includes
works for organ, piano, live music and painting collaboration and
prototype guitar. Works by Widor, Schmitt, Kasemets, Labadie and
Bartók. Winspear Centre. Tickets $20,$15,$10 from UofA Music or at
door.
Wednesday October 19, 2011
12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, Kerri McGonigle,
cello and Leanne Regehr, piano. McDougall United Church, banquet
hall, 101 street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald
Drive entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag
lunch – coffee and tea are also available.
Friday October 21, 2011 7:30pm
Raga-Mala Music Society – Carnatic Percussion. Percussion Heartbeat
Ensemble, Dr. Ghatam Karthick - Ghatam, Konnakol, Vocal, Embar Kannan
- Silent Violin, Poongulam Subramanian – Mridangam Keyboard Sathya
– Keyboard, BS Arunkumar – Rhythm Pads, Shree Sundar – Kanjira.
Royal Alberta Museum. Tickets available at the door, $20,$15
Raga-Mala Patron Members FREE.
Saturday October 22, 2011 7:30pm The
Music Carries On - Edmonton Chinese Philharmonia 10th Anniversary
Concert, Convocation Hall, UofA.
Saturday October 22, 2011 7:30pm
Edmonton Opera Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) and I Pagliacci
(Leoncavallo). Jubilee Auditorium.
Sunday October 23, 2011 2:30 pm Pro
Coro - Musical Dialogue Through the Ages, Mark Bailey, guest
conductor. Music by Tallis, Bach, Brahms, Vedel, Rachmaninoff, and
more. McDougall United Church. $30 Adults, $25 Seniors, $20 Students.
Tickets at the Winspear Box Office and at the door.
Sunday October 23, 2011 3pm Alberta
Baroque Ensemble, Baroque Masters. Virginie Gagné and Hermine Gagné,
violin, Mikiko Kohjitani, viola. Handel, Concerto Grosso in D,
Stamitz, Concerto for Viola in G, Teleman, Don Quichotte Suite, Bach,
Concerto for Two Violins in D minor. Robertson-Wesley United Church.
Tix on the Square or the Gramophone.
Sunday October 23, 2011 7:30pm Daniel
Taylor, countertenor. Festival Place, Sherwood Park.
Monday October 24, 2011 UofA Monday
Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to
world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall,
UofA.
Monday, October 24, 2011 12pm FREE
Location? Noon Hour Organ Concert at the U of A sponsored by the RCCO
Edmonton. Featuring works by Bruhns, Couperin, Mendelssohn and others
on the gallery organ and the new Krapf Memorial Positive Organ in its
first public performance with works by Frescobaldi and Zipoli.
Tuesday October 25, 2011 7:30pm
Edmonton Opera Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) and I Pagliacci
(Leoncavallo). Jubilee Auditorium.
Wednesday October 26, 2011
12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, Hiromi Takahashi,
oboe and Jeremy Spurgeon, piano. McDougall United Church, banquet
hall, 101 street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald
Drive entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag
lunch – coffee and tea are also available.
Thursday October 27 Friday November 4,
2011 Pinocchio - Alberta Opera Musical Theatre for Young People.
Fringe Festival, Westbury Theatre. Contact the theatre for showtimes.
Thursday October 27, 2011 7:30pm
Edmonton Opera Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) and I Pagliacci
(Leoncavallo). Jubilee Auditorium.
Thursday October 28 to November 4, 2011
Chicago. La Cite Francophone, 8627 - 91 Street. Tix on the Square.
Saturday October 29, 2011 6pm Annual
fundraising dinner for the Anne Burrows Music Foundation.
Performance by Michelle Yelin Nam, piano. Faculty Club.
Saturday, October 29, 2011 7pm The
Contempo New Music ensemble presents works by Godin, Hannah, Csapo,
Levy & Xenaxis. Featuring a special performance by professor
Roger Admiral, piano. Admission by donation. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Sunday October 30, 2011 7:30pm Edmonton
Recital Society, Ivan Zenaty, violin. Sponsored by the Czech and
Slovak Society of Arts and Sciences of Alberta. Muttart Hall, Alberta
College. Contact Tix on the Square.
Sunday October 30, 2011 7:30pm Sacred Music Festival – Concordia School of Music ensembles. Winspear Centre.
November 2011 (65)
Tuesday November 1, 2011 7pm Maclab Centre for the Arts, Faust: A German Folk Legend. F.W. Murnau's 1926 silent film with live piano score by composer Robert Bruce. Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, 4308 50 St, Leduc. Tix on the Square.
Wednesday November 2, 2011 12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, Charles Austin, piano. McDougall United Church, banquet hall, 101 street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald Drive entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag lunch – coffee and tea are also available.
Friday November 4, 2011 8pm Richard Eaton Singers 60th Anniversary Gala Concert. Missa Solemnis, Op.123, L.v.Beethoven, Te Deum in C, Haydn. Laura Whalen, soprano, Anita Krause, mezzo, Michael Colvin, tenor, Nathan Berg, bass, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Len Ratzlaff, conductor. Winspear Centre.
Friday November 4, 2011 8pm Kilburn Memorial Concert Series, Afiara Quartet. Yuri Cho, violin, Adrian Fung, cello, David Samuel, viola, Valerie Li, violin. Works by Haydn, Abigaña and Dvorak. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door only.
November 4 and 5, 2011 7:30pm Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Wonderland (a reinterpretation of Lewis Carroll). Jubillee Auditorium.
Saturday November 5, 2011 Sound. Body. Space. I: tu:la Gerry Morita, dancer, Shawn Pinchbeck, sound artist. Artery Noiselab, 9535 Jasper Av.
Saturday November 5, 2011 7:30pm A Tribute to Malcolm Forsyth, Mill Creek Colliery Band. McDougall United Church.
Saturday November 5, 2011 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society, Ensemble Masques - Sophie Gent, Tuomo Suni, violin, Kathleen Kajioka, viola, Mélisande Corriveau, bass viol, Benoît Vanden Bemden, violone, Olivier Fortin, harpsichord. Convocation Hall, UofA. Contact Tix on the Square.
Sunday November 6, 2011 3pm Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Baroque Chamber Music Treasures – A fundraising event for the Alberta Baroque Music Society. Susan Flook, Heather Bergen, Virginie Gagné, violin, Lidia Khaner, oboe, Colin Ryan, Ronda Metszies, cello, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, harpsichord and organ. Music by Corelli, Buxtehude, Handel and Telemann. Robertson-Wesley United Church. Tix on the Square or the Gramophone
Sunday November 6, 2011 3pm FREE (donations welcome) Pergolesi Brass Quintet, Ken Read, Director. Holy Trinity Anglican Church Concert Series, 10037-84th Ave
Sunday November 6, 2011 7:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society – Lest We Forget Remembrance Day Concert. Winspear Centre, tickets $20.00.
Monday November 7, 2011 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Wednesday November 9, 2011 12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, Megan Kan, harp. McDougall United Church, banquet hall, 101 street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald Drive entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag lunch – coffee and tea are also available.
November 11 and 12, 2011, 7:30pm and 8pm Edmonton Symphony, William Eddins, conductor, Jens Lindemann, trumpet, Richard Eaton Singers. Rachmaninoff, Second Symphony, Meechan, Apophenia for Trumpet (premiere), Forsyth, A Ballad of Canada. Winspear Centre.
Saturday November 12, 2011 7:30pm Kokopelli Choirs – Voices West. First Western Canada Youth Choir Festival. McDougall United Church. Tix on the Square.
Sunday November 13, 2011 2pm Edmonton Youth Orchestra, Senior Orchestra. Michael Massey, conductor. Les Preludes, Liszt, Taras Bulba (Symphonic Rhapsody ), Janacek. Banff Centre for the Arts, Eric Harvie Theatre. Tickets are available from members or from Tix on the Square.
Sunday November 13, 2011 3pm Admission by donation. Tanya Prochazka, cello, Magdalena Adamek, piano. Music - Chopin's Grand Duo Concertante, Sonata in E minor and Sonata in F major by Brahms, and an arrangement of Liszt's piano works for cello and piano to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. Holy Trinity Anglican Church Concert Series, 10037-84th Ave.
Sunday November 13, 2011 3pm Alberta Registered Music Teacher’s Association Edmonton, Contemporary Showcase Young Composers Final Concert. Room 409, Alberta College.
Sunday November 13, 2011 3pm In Good Company with Jens Lindemann, Mill Creek Colliery Band. St. Albert United Church 20 Green Grove Drive, St. Albert, Alberta Tickets: Tix-on-the-Square or at the door Tickets are now on sale Tickets available at the door, The Bandstand, The Windshoppe, St. Johns Music.
Sunday November 13, 2011 2pm Concordia Symphony Orchestra, David Hoyt, guest conductor. Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Blvd.
Sunday November 13, 2011 3pm The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, Czech and Slovak Society for the Arts and Sciences, Mazurka Musik and Art present “Legends of Central Europe” on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of Dvorak's birth. Piano duos and trios by Dvorak, Smetana, Brahms performed by Mikolaj Warszynski - Zuzana Simurdova Piano Duo from Montreal, Tatiana Warszynski-violin, Joanne Yu- cello. Muttart Hall, Alberta College. Tickets: $25 regular, $15 students and seniors at the Gramophone 780 428 2356, Camelot Travel 780 477 8747 or at the door.
Sunday November 13, 2011 3pm Da Camera Singers Living Sound. John Brough, conductor. Music by Durufle, Brahms, Thompson and Raminsh and works selected by the Tonus Vivus Society for new music and favourite Da Camera Singers commissions from the past 50 years. First Baptist Church, 10031 - 109 St, $20 - $15.
Wednesday November 16 to Saturday November 19, 2011 Alberta College Conservatory Fall Music Festival. Contact Alberta College for more information 780 633 3725
Wednesday November 16, 2011 12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, Suzanne Langor, horn, Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, piano. McDougall United Church, banquet hall, 101 street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald Drive entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag lunch – coffee and tea are also available.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:30pm New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia - Made In Canada. Myer Horowitz Theatre, UofA. $20-$15. Friday November 18, 2011 8pm Kevin Fox, cello. Art Gallery of St. Albert, 19 Perron St. Contact the Arden Theatre for ticket information.
Friday November 18 and Saturday November 19, 2011 Department of Music Opera Workshop – A Night of One Act Operas. Old Maid and the Thief, Trouble in Tahiti and Signor Deluso. Leanne Regehr, musical director, Kim Mattice Wanat, director. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Friday November 18, 2011 8pm Sea of Sound Festival - new electroacoustic performances from Alberta featuring Jacek Sobieraj, The DADA Police, MUGBAIT, Gene Kosowan, Allison Balcetis, Zachary Polis, Wayne Defehr, and Shawn Pinchbeck and Gerry Morita. Catalyst Theatre, $8,$5
Saturday November 19, 2011 4pm FREE Sea of Sound Festival - Sound installation exhibit by Shawn Pinchbeck, Scott Smallwood and Ken Gregory. Ortona Armoury, 9722 102 St.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 Time? FREE The King's University College Chamber Choir - The Downtown Tree Lighting. Sir Winston Churchill Square.
Saturday November 19, 2011 4pm “Music
at First” – Four Saturdays at Four. Early music with Josephine
van Lier, piccolo-Baroque cello, Eila Peterson, recorder, Marnie
Giesbrecht, harpsichord, special guests “The Sackbone Express”
sackbut ensemble. Music by Boccherini and Handel. First Presbyterian
Church.
Saturday November 19, 2011 7:30pm I Coristi Chamber Choir, Muses. Whitacre, Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine, Britten, Hymn to St. Cecilia, Burak, The Muses of Mount Helicon. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av. Tix on the Square.
Saturday November 19, 2011 7:30pm St. Albert Chamber Music Recital Series, Magda Adamek, piano, Tanya Prochazka, cello. Tickets $25,$20 available at Don’s Piano Warehouse (8 Riel Drive St. Albert ) or the Art Gallery of St. Albert. Each concert will be catered with fine wine and “tasty treats”.
Saturday November 19, 2011 8pm Sea of Sound Festival - New electroacoustic performances from Alberta part 2 featuring Jeannie Vanderkerkhove and Adam Tindale, Agaperaygunexperiment, Philip Dickau and Ryan Sowiak, Raylene Campbell, Clinker, Will Scott, and D. Andrew Stewart. Catalyst Theatre. $8-$5, festival passes $20-15, tickets available at YEGLive.
Saturday November 19, 2011 10pm Sea of Sound Festival - Late Night Electronic Music Concert featuring Trio Latitude, BEAMS All-Stars, and Wijit. New City Legion, 8130 Gateway Blvd. $8-$5, festival passes $20-15, tickets available at YEGLive.
Sunday November 20, 2011 2pm A Trip to Brazil – WindRose Trio. Beth Levia, oboe, Jeff Campbell, clarinet, Matthew Howatt, bassoon. Music by Koechlin, Escher, Mignone, Villa-Lobos and the world premiere of a new reed trio by Ian Crutchley. Robertson-Wesley United Church.
Sunday November 20, 2011 2pm UofA University Strings. Copland, Appalachian Spring - the original version for 13 instruments. Convocation Hall, UofA, admission by donation.
Sunday November 20, 2011 2pm Edmonton Symphony William Eddins, conductor, Benjamin Beilman, violin, Jeremy Spurgeon, organ. Dvořák Violin Concerto, Resphighi, Suite for Organ and Strings, Reznicek, Overture to Donna Diana, Thomas, Overture to Mignon. Winspear Centre. Carnegie Hall Info Session, Studio (enter through stage door) 6:30pm.
Sunday November 20, 2011 12pm FREE Sea of Sound Festival - special seminar with Kevin Austin on recent trends in Canadian electroacoustic music. Catalyst Theatre.
Sunday November 20, 2011 2:30pm Pro Coro - Path of Wonder. Michael Zaugg, conductor. McDougall United Church. $30 Adults, $25 Seniors, $20 Students.
Sunday November 20, 2011 3pm Wendy Markosky, organ and harpsichord, and the Early Music Alberta Society. First Presbyterian Church.
Sunday November 20, 2011 7pm Sea of Sound Festival - Canadian Electroacoustic Community meet and greet with artists and CEC personalities in the lobby of the Catalyst Theatre. Performance includes works from the Jeu de Temps - Times Play Competition featuring Maxime Corbeil-Perron, Marc-Andre Perron, Dave Arango Valencia, Jullian Hoff, Guillaume Barrette and Guillaume Campion. $8-$5, festival passes $20-15, tickets available at YEGLive.
Wednesday November 23, 2011 12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, David Grainger Brown, guitar. McDougall United Church, banquet hall, 101 street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald Drive entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag lunch – coffee and tea are also available.
Sunday November 20, 2011 5:30pm Opera Nuova Dinner Cabaret Series – Vibrant Verismo. Andrew Love, baritone, Michael Marino, tenor, Jessica Strong, soprano. Music by Puccini, Verdi, Bizet and Gounod. Location - Normands, contact www.operanuova.ca for tickets.
Monday November 21, 2011 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
November 23 and 24, 2011 7:30pm Moscow Ballet Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky). Jubillee Auditorium.
Thursday November 24 to Sunday December 4, 2011 Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure. Based on J.M. Barrie’s original play with permission from Great Ormand Street Hospital for Children. Music by George Stiles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe, book by Willis Hall. St. Albert Children’s Theatre.
Friday November 25, 2011 All Aboard for 104 Underground with Mercury Opera. Pre-performance party at 6pm with various reception sites on 104 St and Jasper Av, performance on the platform of the Bay/Enterprise Square LRT Station. Darcia Parada, Artistic Director, Alicia Wojnarski, mezzo, Lauren Woods, soprano, Nevada Collins and Jill Hoogewoonink. Music from Saint-Saen's Samson and Delilah, Mozart's The Magic Flute, Delibes' Lakme, and a unique performance of Nessun Dorma by Puccini. Tickets $25 available from Devine Wines and Spirits, Eyecare Group and Armstrong 29 with $2.85 from each ticket to benefit the ETS Donate a Ride Program.
Friday, November 25, 2011 8pm UofA Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Wind Music from Around the World. Admission by donation. Works by Yasuhide Ito, Darius Milhaud, Johann de Meij and Roger Nixon. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Friday November 25, 2011 Time? Location? Cantilon Choirs 11th Annual Dessert Auction and Concert.
Friday November 25, 2011 8pm Edmonton
Classical Guitar Society, Johannes Moller, guitar. Winner of the
Guitar Foundations of America competition. Muttart Hall, Alberta
College. Contact Tix on the Square.
Saturday November 26, 2011 9am-4:30pm Workshop with Canadian recorder virtuoso Alison Melville exploring consort music from 16th century Europe. Registration 8:30am, hall of the Parish Church of Saints Faith and Stephen the Martyr, 11725 93 St. $50 for Edmonton Recorder Society members, and $60 for the general public.
Saturday November 26, 2011 1pm Fall Music Festival Concert - MacEwan University Music. Reception to follow. Muttart Hall, Alberta College.
Saturday November 26, 2011 2pm Edmonton Symphony for Kids, Lucas Waldin, conductor. Pre-concert Activities from 1 - 1:45 pm. Winspear Centre.
Saturday November 26, 2011 3pm Alberta Registered Music Teacher’s Association Edmonton, Contemporary Showcase Gala Concert. Muttart Hall, Alberta College.
Saturday November 26, 2011 4pm Music at First - Four Saturdays at Four. Music for bagpipes, organ and hand bells with David Trew, Joachim Segger, and the Hand Bell Ringers of First Presbyterian Church. Fundraiser to repair the historic stained glass window - admission by donation. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St.
Saturday November 26, 2011 8pm World Music Sampler featuring the Indian Music, West African and Middle Eastern and North African Ensembles. Admission by donation. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Saturday November 26, 2011 8pm Edmonton Symphony, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor , Juliette Kang, violin. Elgar, “Enigma” Variations, Hétu, Légendes. Winspear Centre. 2011Carnegie Hall Info Session, Founder's Room, 6:30pm.
Sunday November 27, 2011 2pm The Bird Fancyer's Delight - Alison Melville, recorder. Music by J.S. Bach, Telemann, Boismortier, van Eyck, and traditional Scandinavian tunes. Parish Church of Saints Faith and Stephen the Martyr, 11725 93 St. $15 for Edmonton Recorder Society members, seniors and students, and $20 for everyone else.
Sunday November 27, 2pm Edmonton Youth Orchestra, Senior and Intermediate Orchestras. Michael Massey, conductor. Double Concerto , Bach, Overture to Der Freischutz, Weber, Two Fairy Tales, Medtner-Massey, Symphony no 5 (Excerpts), Schubert-Massey, Springtide, Forsyth, Les Preludes, Liszt, Taras Bulba, Janacek. Winspear Centre, tickets $15 and $10. Tickets available from Tix on the Square or orchestra members.
Sunday November 27, 2011 8pm UofA Madrigal Singers - The Rose in the Middle of Winter. Dr. Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor, Dr. Marnie Giesbrecht, organ, Josephine van Lier, cello. Featuring music by Brahms, Britten, Chilcott, Hammerschmidt, Schütz, Sweelinck and Willian. Convocation Hall, UofA, admission by donation.
Monday November 28, 2011 noon FREE Enterprise String Quartet. Music includes the 'Lobkowicz' Quartets, Beethoven op.18 no. 3 and 1. Introductory remarks by Dr. Frank Szabo, Dept of History. Winspear Centre.
Tuesday November 29 and Wednesday November 30, 2011 Winter Harp, celtic, medieval and world music for Christmas. Horizon Stage, Spruce Grove.
Wednesday November 30, 2011 12:10-12:50pm FREE McDougall Concert Association, John Mahon, clarinet, Hiromi Takahashi, oboe and English horn and Janna Olson, piano. McDougall United Church, banquet hall, 101 street and one block south of Jasper Avenue (use Macdonald Drive entrance, faces the river). Bring your friends and your bag lunch – coffee and tea are also available.
Wednesday November 30, 2011 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor, Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano. Respighi, Trittico Botticelliano, Berlioz, Les nuits d’été, Elgar, “Enigma” Variations. Winspear Centre.
December 2011
Thursday December 1, 2011 7pm Alberta College Honour Band, Rita Burns, Director. Solo performances by woodwinds and brass students. Muttart Hall, Alberta College.
Thursday December 1, 2011 7:30pm Cheryl and Bruce Harding, An Advent Evening. Trinity United Church,
Thursday, December 1 and Friday, December 2, 2011 Time? The King's University College Chamber Choir - The Festival of Trees, Shaw Conference Centre.
Friday December 2 and Saturday December 3, 2011 The Tonus Vivus Festival of New Music. Performances by Allison Balcetis, saxophone, Daniel Gervais, violin, Catherine Norris, flute, Moni Mathew, viola, Don Ross, clarinet, Janet Smith, soprano, Andriy Talpash, conductor, Scott Smallwood, sound artist, Wijit, DJ, Reinhard von Berg, electronic artist, MUGBAIT, electronic artists. Alberta College, Muttart Hall. $20, $15 per night, $30, $20 festival pass. Day and evening events. For a full listing of the performance schedule, go to http://www.tonusvivus.com/ or CLICK HERE.
Friday December 2, 2011 8pm UofA Concert Choir - Winter Dances. Works by Britten, Daunais, Jasperse, Tormis and Whitacre. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Friday December 2 and Saturday December 3, 2011 8pm A Merry Pops Christmas Bob Bernhardt, conductor, Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano, Greenwood Singers , University of Alberta Handbell Ringers, Tap dancers from Victoria School of the Arts. Winspear Centre.
Saturday December 3, 2011 4pm Il Duo - Ron Long, tenor, Clint Hagel, tenor and Gail Olmstead, piano. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St. Fundraiser to fix the large stained glass window at the back of the church. $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Saturday December 3, 2011 4pm Winter Treasures - from Chopin to Piazzola. Jerzy Kaplanek, violin, Stephan Sylvestre, piano. Presented by the Polish Culture Society. Music includes Chopin, Wjeniawski, Bacewicz, Piazzolla and "Omaggio a Johann Sebastian Bach by local composer Piotr Grella-Mozejko. All Saints Anglican Cathedral, 10035 103 St. Tix on the Square $22, $11.50.
Sunday December 4, 2011 2pm UofA
Concert Band - Mostly Mediaeval for Winds. Admission by donation.
Works include Variants on a Mediaeval Tune, Norma Dello Joio,
Praetorius Suite, Jan Bach, Rhosymedre, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Come
Sweet Death, J.S. Bach arranged by Alfred Reed, and Of Sailors and
Whales, Francis McBeth. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Sunday December 4, 2011 2pm The Royal Canadian Artillery Band and the Richard Eaton Singers. Capt Eric Gagnon, director of music. $10 adults, $5 children. In support of the Make-A-Wish Northern Alberta. http://www.rcaband.ca/
Sunday December 4, 2011 2:30pm Edmonton Columbian Choirs, Celebration of Christmas. McDougall United Church. Tickets $15, call 780 430 6808.
Sunday December 4, 2011 3pm Concordia Christmas Concert – Concordia Concert Choir, Concordia Ringers, Concordia Community Chorus Chamber Ensemble. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St.
Sunday December 4, 2011 3pm and 7:30pm Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Music for a festive season. Jolaine Kerley, soprano, Mark Wilkinson, bass, Robin Doyon, trumpet, and the Da Camera Singers. Handel, The Trumpet Shall Sound, Torelli, Christmas Sinfonia, Bach, Cantata Jauchzet Gott, Mozart, Missa Brevis in D. Robertson-Wesley United Church. Tix on the Square or the Gramophone.
Sunday December 4, 2011 3pm and 7:30pm Carols and Lullabies - Vocal Alchemy. Music by Victoria, Lauridsen, Gjeilo and Chatman. Saint Andrew's United Church, 9915 148 St. Tix on the Square.
Sunday December 4, 2011 7:30pm Edmonton Recital Society, New Orford String Quartet. Jonathan Crow, Andrew Wan, violin, Eric Nowlin, viola, Brian Manker, cello, with guest violinist Aaron Au. Music includes Blanc Dominant, by Canadian-Serbian composer Ana Sokolovic, Beethoven String Quartet op. 135 in F major, and Brahms String Quintet in G major, op. 111. Muttart Hall, Alberta College. Tix on the Square. $30-$20 and $10 student rush tickets one hour before the concert.
Monday December 5, 2011 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday December 5, 2011 5pm FREE Hear's to Your Health concert series featuring Andrew Wan, violin, Brian Manker, cello and Patricia Tao, piano. Music includes Beethoven Trio in E-flat, op. 1, no. 1 and Ravel Sonate for violin and cello. Foyer to the Bernard Snell Auditorium, Walter MacKenzie Health Science Centre.
Monday December 5, 2011 7pm Masterclass with the New Orford String Quartet including Andrew Wan, violin and Brian Manker, cello. Room 3-46: Violin Masterclass with Andrew Wan, Room 1-29: Cello Masterclass with Brain Manker. Open to Dept of Music students.
Monday, December 5, 2011 8pm The King’s University College Choirs -"The King of Love". Dr. Melanie Turgeon, conductor, King's University College Concert, Chamber and Community Choirs with Vocal Alchemy, featured soloists and brass. Winspear Centre, $20, $15, $5 (children 12 and under).
Wednesday December 7 2011 7pm Location? St. Albert Community Band - Christmas Concert.
December 9, 10 and 11, 2011 7pm and 1:30pm Alberta Ballet, The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky). Jubillee Auditorium.
Saturday December 10, 2011 2pm and 7pm Kokopelli Choirs – Wintersong. McDougall United Church.
Saturday December 10, 2011 4pm Advent and Christmas Concert with special guests the UofA Faculty of Education Handbell Ringers, Robert de Frece, conductor. Admission by donation to benefit Edmonton Christmas Charities. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St.
Saturday December 10, 2011 7pm Salvation Army's Festival of Carols - a family Christmas concert. Free admission - ticket required for entry. Tickets available at Salvation Army Offices - 780 423 2111
Saturday December 10, 2011 7:30pm and Sunday December, 11 2011 2:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society - Tuesday and Wednesday Band Christmas Concert . Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvd. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7.00 for students/seniors and children five and under are FREE when purchased in advance.
Saturday December 10, 2011 7:30pm Festival City Winds Music Society, Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Blvd.
Sunday December 11, 2011 1pm Schola Cantorum Choirs Festival of Light Concert. Muttart Hall, Alberta College.
Sunday December 11, 2011 2pm Location? St. Albert Community Band Christmas Concert
Sunday December 11, 2011 3pm Concert de Noël - Chorale Saint-Jean with Les Chantamis d'Edmonton, Marie-Josée Ouimet, director. McDougall United Church, $25 and $15. Tickets available from members of both choirs and at the Librairie Le Carrefour (Cité francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury). Benefit for the Choralies internationales Edmonton 2012.
Sunday December 11, 2011 3pm Silent Night - the Wirth Institute's annual Christmas concert. UofA, Convocation Hall.
Sunday December 11, 2011 4pm Music of Hope and Light - Lessons and Carols. Choir of Robertson-Wesley, soloists, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, Director, Belinda Chiang, accompanist. Music by Mark Sirett, Lydia Adams, and W.H. Anderson. Free will offering.
Sunday December 11, 2011 6pm FREE Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night. An outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts recorded on cassettes, CDs and MP3s played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets. Some boomboxes are available, but bring your own if you can (boomboxes, iPod speakers or other sound blasters). Participants meet at 5:45pm at the mini pyramids in front of the Timms Centre (112 St and 87 Av). Unsilent Night moves down Whyte Avenue to Gazebo Park on 104 St by the Old Strathcona Farmers Market.
Sunday December 11, 2011 7:30pm Steve Bell, guitar - Advent Solo Concert. All Saints Anglican Cathedral 10035 103 St. Tickets $15 available at the Cathedral, Universal Church Supplies or at http://www.stevebell.com/ 1800 854 3499.
Sunday December 11, 2011 7:30pm Greenwood Singers, Hymns and Readings for Christmas. St. Joseph’s Basilica 10044 113 St. Tickets $10, at the door and from St. Joseph’s College, 780 492 7681 ext 231.
Sunday December 11, 2011 2:30pm Cantilon Choirs, Ceremony of Carols. Heather Johnson, artistic director. Winspear Centre, $20, $17. Tix on the Square.
Monday December 12, 2011 8pm Greenwood Singers, The Many Moods of Christmas. Helen Stuart, piano, Marnie Giesbrecht, organ, UofA Faculty of Education Handbell Ringers. Tix on the Square.
Tuesday December 13, 2011 7pm UofA music - Graduate Student Composers Concert featuring the Enterprise Quartet. Dr. Andriy Talpash, conductor. Admission by donation. Studio 27, Fine Arts Bldg, UofA.
December 16 - 30, 2011 (various times) The Wizard of Oz. Written by L. Frank Baum, Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. Directed by Richard Winnick, Music Direction by Sally Hunt. Festival Place, Sherwood Park.
Friday December 16, 2011 12pm Christmas Bureau Sing-along with Edmonton's talented choir community. Admission is FREE and volunteers will be accepting donations. Winspear Centre. Donations can also be made online at http://www.christmasbureau.ca/
Friday December 16, 2011 8pm FREE The University of Alberta Guitarists. Works by Albinoni, Albeniz, Bach, Dyens, Gagne, Piazzola, Rameau, Roman and others. Studio 27, Fine Arts Building, UofA.
Friday December 16 and Saturday
December 17, 2011 7:30pm Handel's Messiah William Eddins, conductor,
Linda Perillo, soprano, Frances Jellard, mezzo-soprano, John Tessier,
tenor, Nathan Berg, baritone, U of A Madrigal Singers, i Coristi
Chamber Choir. Winspear Centre.
Friday December 16 - 18, 2011 The Singing Christmas Tree - Jubillee Auditorium.
Saturday December 17, 2011 7:30pm Mill Creek Colliery Band – Festive Brass. David Hoyt, conductor. Robertson-Wesley United Church, $18, $14 available at the door or Tix on the Square.
Saturday December 17, 2011 7:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society - Monday and Chorus Christmas Concert. Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvd. Tickets $10 adults, $7 students/seniors and children five and under are FREE when purchased in advance.
Saturday December 17, 2011 7:30pm Jubiloso Bells of Concordia and Concordia Community Chorus. First Presbyterian Church, 10025 105 St.
Sunday December 18, 2011 2:30pm A Pro Coro Christmas, Pro Coro Canada, with Da Camera Singers, Dr. John Brough, conductor. Winspear Centre.
Sunday December 18, 20117:30pm 2nd Annual Community Carol Sing at Riverbend United Church, 14907-45 Av. Refreshments to follow.
Sunday December 18, 2011 7pm Night of
Wonder – A Family Night of Music. St. Thomas More Catholic Church,
201 Haddow Close (Terwillegar Drive and 23 Av). Free will offering,
reception to follow.
Wednesday December 21 and Thursday
December 22, 2011 7pm Amahl and the Night Visitors - an hour long
Christmas opera by G.C. Menotti. Presented by A Little Opera Company.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av. $15-$5.
Wednesday December 21, 2011 7:30pm and December 22 at 8pm A Lightly Classical Christmas, Edmonton Symphony. Stuart Chafetz, conductor, Nathan Berg, baritone, Richard Eaton Singers. Winspear Centre.
Tuesday December 27, 2011 6:30pm Christmas Fundraising Concert for the Anne Burrows Music Foundation. Vocalists Alexandra von der Ohe and Carrie Dimaculangan, Angelina Weber and Ewald Cheung, violin, Taddes Korris, double bass, and Karl Schwonik, percussion. Michael Massey, music director. $25 at door or from Fran Armstrong 780 487 5567 or farmstrong@shaw.ca. Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Edmonton Food Bank. Tax deductible donation can be mailed to PO Box 76115 RPO Southgate, Edmonton T6H 5Y7 or online via http://www.canadahelps.org/. Giovanni Yamaha Concert Hall, 10528 Mayfield Rd.
January 2012
Sunday January 1, 2012 2:30pm Salute to Vienna - Neujahrskonzert. The Strauss Symphony of Canada. Niels Muus, conductor, Katarzyna Dondalska, soprano, Alexander Kaimbacher, tenor, Dancers from Ballet St. Pölten. Winspear Centre.
Saturday January 7, 2012 2pm A Wild Symphonic Ride, Edmonton Symphony for Kids. Lucas Waldin, conductor. Edmonton composer Allan Gilliland incorporates the unique sounds of shovels, pails, empty water bottles, and even squeaky shoes into his work, A Wild Symphonic Ride, to create a rhythmic afternoon of percussive sounds. Pre-concert Activities from 1 - 1:45 pm, Winspear Centre.
Sunday January 8, 2012 10:30am – 2:30pm Rosette Guitar Duo. Mike Lyngstad and Kevin Marsh, guitar. The Blue Chair café.
Sunday January 8, 2012 3pm Annual tribute concert to Stuart Davis, Michael Unger, organ. Winspear Centre. Sundays at Three – Royal Canadian College of Organists Edmonton. Tickets from Tix on the Square or the Winspear Centre. For information contact http://rcco.edmonton.ab.ca/
Sunday January 8, 2012 Time? 31st Annual Northern Alberta Concerto Competition Final Round. Muttart Hall, Alberta College. Tickets $10 at the door
Sunday January 8, 2012 3pm Holy Trinity Concert Series with the Edmonton Recital Society. Dongkyun An, cello, Sarah Ho, piano. Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037 84 Av, admission by donation.
Friday January 13, 2012 12pm Ciaccona! Italian and English Baroque music. Dawn Bailey, soprano, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, harpsichord, Josephine Van Lier, cello plus surprise guest performers. Includes music by Monteverdi and Purcell. Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209 123 St. Admission by donation.
Friday January 13, 2012 7:30pm TorQ Percussion Quartet. Morinville Community Cultural Centre, 9502 100 Av Morinville. $25-$20
Friday January 13, 2012 9:30pm Edmonton Symphony, Late Night Romantics. William Eddins, conductor, Kemal Gekić, piano. Music includes excerpts from: R.Strauss, Don Juan, Liszt, Fantasia on The Ruins of Athens, Rachmaninoff, Adagio from Second Symphony, Rossini, William Tell Overture (Arr. Liszt) and Berlioz. Winspear Centre.
Saturday January 14-29, 2012 Seussical (the musical). Young People's Theatre, Shoctor Theatre, Citadel
Saturday January 14, 2012 8pm Art’s Birthday 2012 – The End of Time (part of a global celebration). Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) – Agaperaygunexperiment, Phil Jagger, Pocket Universe, Don Ross, Bill Damur, Zombies and Gene Kosowan. Ortona Armoury, 9733 102 St. $5. www.artsbirthday.net
Saturday January 14, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony, William Eddins, conductor, Kemal Gekić, piano. R. Strauss, Don Juan and Death and Transfiguration, Liszt, First Piano Concerto and Fantasia on the Ruins of Athens. Winspear Centre.
Sunday January 15, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Bill Eddins, conductor, Kemal Gekic, piano. Music, Berlioz, Rossini, Liszt and R. Strauss. Arden Theatre, St. Albert.
Sunday January 15, 2012 3pm Music at Language - Richard Van Camp, UofA Faculty of Arts Writer in Residence, William Street, saxophone soloist and conductor, Roger Admiral, piano, Brian Thurgood, percussion, Kayla Chambers, saxophone, the University of Alberta Saxophone and Percussion Ensembles, live electronics performed by Mark Hannesson, improvisation developed by composers Andriy Talpash and Mark Hannesson. Works include Music as Language by Richard Van Camp, Les 7 Iles for piano soloist and Saxophone Ensemble by Christian Lauba; Smoking Mirrors for solo saxophone by John M Kennedy. Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Sunday January 15, 2012 3pm Early Music Alberta - Scona Chamber Singers, Holy Trinity Church Concert Series. Music from the Sistine Chapel - Italian sacred music of the high Renaissance. 10037 84 Av, tickets at the door, $15 for members, students and seniors, $20 for non members.
Monday January 16, 2012 UofA Monday
Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to
world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall,
UofA.
Thursday January 19, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony, Gold Medal Skates - Lucas Waldin, conductor, Toller Cranston, host. Bizet, Excerpts from Carmen, Khatchaturian, Sabre Dance, Steiner, Excerpts from Casablanca, Stravinsky, Infernal Dance. Winspear Centre.
Friday January 20, 2012 7:30pm Maclab
Centre for the Arts, Montreal Guitar Trio. Glenn Lévesque, Marc
Morin and Sébastien Dufour, guitar. Maclab Centre for the Performing
Arts, 4308 50 St, Leduc. Tix on the Square.
Saturday January 21, 2012 9am Alberta Baroque Ensemble Scholarship Competition. Endowed by the Alberta Baroque Music Society. Location TBA – contact UofA Music.
Saturday January 21, 2012 1pm Early Music Alberta – Masterclass with Gilbert Martinez, harpsichord. Auditors – members $10, non members $15, student members are free. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av.
Saturday January 21, 2012 8pm Eve Egoyan, piano. Music includes Simple Lines of Enquiry, Ann Southam. Arden Theatre, St. Albert. 7pm pre-show wine tasting and readings from Poets Ink.
Sunday January 22, 2012 11am Edmonton Opera Brunch. Intimate recital by the artists starring in each mainstage production. The Westin Edmonton, $70 Adult, $50 Child. Tickets available at the Edmonton Opera Box Office 780 429 1000 http://www.edmontonopera.com/
Sunday January 22, 2012 2pm All Broken Up - WindRose Trio. Beth Levia, oboe, Jeff Campbell, clarinet, Matthew Howatt, basson, Sarah Ho, piano. Music by Steinmetz, Franz Reizenstein, Joan Tower, Desire Dondeyne, Jeanine Rueff and Jenni Brandon. Robertson-Wesley United Church, Tix on the Square, $20 - $15.
Sunday January 22, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony, Lucas Waldin, conductor, Scott MacIsaac, piano, Robin Doyon, trumpet. Haydn, Trumpet Concerto, Liszt, Second Piano Concerto, Sibelius, Valse triste and Schumann, Fourth Symphony. Winspear Centre.
Sunday January 22, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Recital Society Gala Concert. Amanda Forsyth, cello, Angela Cheng, piano. Ledcor Theatre, Art Gallery of Alberta. Contact Tix on the Square, or tickets available at the door. $40 - $35. Concert in memory of Malcolm Forsyth.
Tuesday January 24, 2012 7pm Opera - Sublime and Ridiculous. Opera scenes by Alberta College Conservatory's Vocal Arts Program. Music includes excerpts from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan. Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Drive. Admission by donation to support the student scholarship fund.
Wednesday January 25, 2012 12pm
Edmonton Opera presents their 2012-13 Season Launch with musical
excerpts by next season artists Teiya Kasahara and Ileana
Montalbetti. Go to the pedway between City Centre Mall east and west
near Tim Hortons. jelenabojic@edmontonopera.com
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8pm Rossetti String Quartet – Henry Gonnier, violin, Sara Parkins, violin, Thomas Diener, viola, Eric Gaenslen, cello, with Rina Dokshitsky, piano. Dvorak, Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 5, Franck, Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets - Tix on the Square, The Gramophone, or the Edmonton Chamber Music Society. $20, $15, $10.
Friday January 27, 2012 7:30pm and January 28 8pm Edmonton Symphony, Gregory Vajda, conductor, Alexander Korsantia, piano. Rachmaninoff, Third Piano Concerto, Mahler, Adagietto from Fifth Symphony, Shostakovich, First Symphony. Winspear Centre. 2011Carnegie Hall Info Session, Studio (enter through stage door) 6pm (Jan 27) and 6:30pm (Jan 28).
Friday January 27, 2012 8pm UofA Music – Contempo New Music Ensemble. Convocation Hall, UofA, admission by donation.
Friday January 27, 2012 8pm Early Music Alberta – Gilbert Martinez, harpsichord, Josephine van Lier, viola da gamba. Music - Pièces de clavecin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, la Reveuse et l’Arabesque, Marin Marais. $15 for members, students and seniors, $20 for non members, $5 for student members. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av. The church will be lit by candlelight for a more authentic performance.
Saturday January 28, 2012 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society presents Joseph Lambert Massart and His Time. Guillaume Tardif, violin, Roger Admiral, piano. Convocation Hall, UofA. $20, $15, $10 tickets available at the door.
Sunday January 29, 2012 2pm Maclab Centre for the Arts, TorQ Percussion. Richard Burrows, Jamie Drake, Adam Campbell and Daniel Morphy. Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, 4308 50 St, Leduc. Tix on the Square.
Sunday, January 29, 2012 3pm Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble presented by Tonus Vivus. Music – Claude Vivier, Pulau Dewata and Aikea, John Cage, Third Construction, and Iannis Xenakis, Pleiades – Peaux. Victoria School for the Performing Arts 10210-108 Av.
Sunday, January 29, 2011 3pm Trial by Fire - University Symphony Orchestra. Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C. Also featuring the winner of the University of Alberta Concerto Competition (to be announced). $20,$15,$10 at door. Winspear Centre.
Sunday January 29, 2012 3pm Hymn Festival with the Concordia Concert Choir. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av.
Sunday, January 29, 2012 3pm Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus Celtic Connections. With the Keri Lynn Zwicker Celtic Band. Music of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany & Canada. Myer Horowitz Theatre, UofA.
Sunday January 29, 2012 7:30pm Les Voix de Ghent, a concert of instrumental music composed by the Loeillet Family in 18th century Flanders. Henri Gauci, baroque flute, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, harpsichord. $15, $10 from The Gramophone, Robertson-Wesley Church office or at the door. All proceeds in support of the Robertson-Wesley Music Society. Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209 123 St.
Monday January 30, 2012 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
February 2012
Thursday February 2, 2012 7pm FREE Masterclass with Duo Aperio, Andrew Mah, guitar, Renée-Paule Gauthier, violin. Alberta College, Room 421 10050 MacDonald Dr.Tuesday February 7, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Opera The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan). Jubillee Auditorium.
Thursday February 2, 2012 7:30pm Brass Quintery - Robin Doyon and Russell Whitehead, trumpets, Hallene Hackleman, horn, Kathryn Macintosh, trombone, Scott Whetham, tuba. Music by Gabrieli,
Samuel Scheidt, Symphony for Brass,
Victor Ewald, and Four Pieces for Brass Quintet, Malcolm Forsyth.
Convocation Hall, UofA. $20, $15, $10
Friday February 3, 2012 8pm Edmonton Classical Guitar Society, Duo Aperio, violin and guitar. Andrew Mah, guitar, Renée-Paule Gauthier, violin. Ms. Gauthier plays on the Taft Stradivari, on loan from the Canada Council. Muttart Hall, Alberta College. Contact Tix on the Square, $25, $20.
Saturday February 4, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Opera The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan). Jubillee Auditorium.
Saturday February 4, 2012 7:30pm St. Albert Chamber Music Recital Series – Five of a Kind, brass quintet. Wendy Grasdahl, Clarence Samuelson, trumpets, Laura Snyder, horn, Eila Peterson, trombone, David Wiley, tuba with guest Chris Miller, trombone. Tickets $25,$20 available at Don’s Piano Warehouse (8 Riel Drive St. Albert ) or the Art Gallery of St. Albert. Each concert will be catered with fine wine and “tasty treats”.
Sunday February 5, 2012 2pm Made in Canada. Alissa Cheung, violin. Music from Canada includes Still Meanders and Groove 2.0, Alissa Cheung, Bellatrix, Jeffrey Ryan, and Sonate, Raymond Daveluy. PCL Hall, 5th floor, Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr. $15, $10.
Sunday February 5, 2012 3pm Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Central European Gems. Elizabeth Koch, flute. Biber, Battalia, Muffat, Concerto Grosso in A, Fux, Suite in D minor, Benda, Concerto for Flute in E minor. Robertson-Wesley United Church. Tix on the Square or the Gramophone.
Sunday February 5, 2012 5:30pm Opera Nuova Dinner Cabaret Series – Romantic Miniatures. Frederic Beaudoin, Natalie Fagnan, and Adam Fisher. Music by Strauss, Hahn, Brahms. Location – The Marc, contact http://www.operanuova.ca/
Sunday February 5, 2012 8pm FREE Mayron Tsong, piano. Works by Haydn, Chopin, Scriabin and Rzewski. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday February 6, 2012 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday February 6, 2012 8pm Poulenc for Winds - Dept of Music Faculty Recital Series. Shelley Younge, flute, Janet Scott Hoyt, piano, Allene Hackleman, horn, Julianne Scott, clarinet, Lidia Khaner, oboe, Matthew Howatt, bassoon. Convocation Hall, UofA. $20, $15, $10.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 7:30pm Patricia O'Callaghan, The Heart of the Song. Arden Theatre, St. Albert.
Thursday February 9, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Opera The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan). Jubillee Auditorium.
Friday February 10 to 18, 2012 Merrily We Roll Along Stephen Sondheim. MacEwan University, John L. Haar Theatre.
Friday February 10, 2012 7pm Craig
Humber, organ. First Presbyterian Church. 10025 105 St.
$21.75-$19.75. Contact Tix on the Square.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 7pm Looking Forward: New Works by Faculty Composers. Acoustic and Electroacoustic Music by Bashaw, Hannesson, Smallwood and Talpash performed by Roger Admiral, piano, William Street, baritone saxophone, Ken Read, bass trombone, Alden Lowrey, tuba. Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Sunday February 12, 2012 2:30pm Pro Coro: Canada, meet Scandinavia. Erik Westberg, conductor. McDougall United Church.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 2:30pm New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia - For Band Lovers. Myer Horowitz Theatre, UofA. $20-$15.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 3pm Variations for Winds – UofA Symphonic Wind Ensemble with special guests The Northern Alberta Honour Band. Music by Mozart, Charles Ives and Canadian Michael Colgrass. Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door. Winspear Centre.
Monday February 13, 2012 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE 45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday February 13, 2012 8pm Edmonton Chamber Music Society, Theatre of Early Music presents Dido and Aeneas. Noemi Kiss (Dido), Grace Davidson (Belinda), Julia Doyle (2nd woman), Alexander Dobson (Aeneas), Daniel Taylor (Sorceress and Artistic Director), Benjamin Butterfield (sailor). Convocation Hall, UofA. Tix on the Square
Tuesday February 14, 2012 6:30pm Edmonton Opera Valentine's Gala at the Shaw Conference Centre. To reserve a table click here or contact Mary Cousineau at 780 497 3261.
Friday
February 17, 2012 8pm UofA
Music - University Symphony Orchestra featuring performances by the
2011-12 Concerto Competition winners Emilie
Schutz, saxophone, Legende
by Schmitt, and Mark
Wilkinson, baritone, Let us
Garlands Bring, by Finzi. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Friday
February 17, 2012 8pm Beth Levia, oboe, Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, piano.
Presented by Tonus Vivus. Paul Steenhuisen, Copralite Culture and
Analysis #21-X for oboe, piano and live electronics commissioned by
Tonus Vivus, Harrison Birtwistle, Pulse Sampler, John Beckwith,
Arctic Dances, Makato Shinohara, Obsession, Malcolm Forsythe, Tre
Toccate. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84th Av.
February
17 and 18, 2012 7:30pm
Alberta Ballet, Cinderella
(Prokofiev). Jubillee Auditorium.
Saturday
February 18, 2012 2pm and 7pm
Kokopelli Choirs – Stories.
Location
Saturday
February 18, 2012 2pm and 7:30pm Linda
Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir (African-American roots
music). Horizon Stage, Spruce Grove.
Wednesday
February 22 to Sunday February 26, 2012
Cats
– presented by Broadway Across Canada. Jubilee Auditorium.
Thursday
February 23, 2012 to March 4 Hairspray
- Stageworks Academy of the
Performing Arts. MacLab
Centre for the Performing Arts,
4308 50 St, Leduc. $15 in advance, $18 at the door available from
http://www.stageworkstheatre.com/
Friday
February 24, 2012 7:30pm Guitar
Republic - Pino
Farstiere, Stefano Barone, Sergio Altamura, guitar. Arden
Theatre, St. Albert.
Friday
February 24, 2012 7:30pm and Saturday February 25 8pm
Edmonton Symphony - Glorious Voices. William
Eddins, conductor, organ and harpsichord, Jeanine De Bique, soprano,
Christopher Mayell, tenor, Da Camera Singers, Cantilon Chamber Choir,
Ukrainian Male Chorus of Edmonton.
Mozart, Ave verum corpus,
Poulenc, Gloria,
JS Bach, Cantata 55 “Ich
armer Mensch”, Mendelssohn,
Psalm 42 “Wie der Hirsch
schreit”, Cherubini,
Offertorium,
Schubert, “Intende voci”.
Winspear Centre.
Friday
February 24, and Saturday February 25, 2012 7:30pm
I Coristi Chamber Choir, Glorious Voices. Edmonton Symphony
Orchestra, Bill
Eddins, conductor. Bach
Cantata 55, Ich armer Mensch,
ich Südenknecht, Poulenc,
Gloria.
Winspear Centre.
Saturday
February 25 and Sunday February 26, 2012
2:30pm Arden Theatre, St. Albert. $40, $20. Tix on the Square.
Cantilon Choirs, Broadway Gala featuring the music of “Oliver”.
Sunday
February 26, 2012 2pm
Concordia Symphony Orchestra, Dr.
Joy Berg, conductor, Alfredo Villanueva, conductor, Rev. Lorne
Manweiler, organ. Music -
Frenergy, John
Estacio, Academic Festival
Overture, Brahms, Symphony
No. 3 - Organ Concerto, Saint-Saëns. Robert
Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Blvd. Tickets $12, $10, Tix on the
Square or at the door.
Sunday
February 26, 2012 2pm
Edmonton Youth Orchestra, Senior and Intermediate Orchestras.
Michael
Massey, conductor, Lee Smith, violin. Two
Tales Op. 54 with Micki, Nicholai Medtner, Intermezzo, waltz
from “Eugene Onegin”, Tchaikovsky, Prelude a l’apres midi
d’un faune and “Fetes” from Nocturnes, Debussy, Symphony
no. 2 in D Major Op. 43, Sibelius. Winspear Centre, tickets $15
and $10. Tickets available from Tix on the Square or orchestra
members.
Sunday
February 26, 2012 7:30pm Vocal
Alchemy (including the Men of Vocal Alchemy with special guests) and
Edmonton Youth Choir, Jordan
Van Biert, conductor. Music
includes Randall Thompson's Alleluia.
McDougall United Church,
10025 101 St. Tickets $15-$12 in advance, $17-$15 at the door. Tix on
the Square.
Tuesday
February 28, 2012 8pm The Department of Music, King’s College
University and Tonus Vivus Ensemble – Nikel. Muttart Hall, Alberta
College 10050 MacDonald Drive.
March 2012
Thursday March 1, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony - Behind the Silver Screen. William Eddins, conductor, Ashu, saxophone. Korngold, Saxophone Concerto (Cello Concerto in C Major, arr. Hemke) Waxman, Music from Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun, Bock, Music from Fiddler on the Roof and Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Winspear Centre.
Friday
March 2, 2012 7pm
Cosmopolitan Music Society – Monday Band Community Concert with the
Junior High Honour Band, Garry
Silverman and Bill Wahl, conductors.
For more information email info@cosmopolitanmusic.org Beulah
Alliance Church 17504 - 98A avenue $10 at the door.
Friday
March 2, 2012 8pm FREE Steinway
Artist Alan
Chow. Convocation Hall,
UofA.
Saturday
March 3 2012, 7pm Location?
St. Albert Community Band and the Athabasca Community Band.
Saturday March
3, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton
Columbian Choirs, Spring Bouqets. McDougall United Church. Tickets
$15, call 780 430 6808.
Saturday,
March 3, 2012 8pm UofA
Kilburn Memorial Concert Series presents Afiara Quartet. Yuri
Cho, violin, Adrian Fung, cello, David Samuel, viola, Valerie Li,
violin. Works by Beethoven,
Nielsen and Sibelius. Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door. Convocation Hall,
UofA.
Sunday
March 4, 2012 2pm A Country
House Weekend - An English Idyll in four days and a prologue.
Catherine
Abele, soprano, Elizabeth Turnbull, mezzo, Mark Wilkinson, baritone,
Stephen Ralls, piano, Bruce Ubakata, piano. Convocation
Hall, UofA. $20, $15, $10 at the door only. Refreshments at
intermission.
Sunday
March 4, 2012 2pm Edmonton
Symphony - A Symphonic Guide to New Music. William
Eddins, conductor, Brian Current, composer and narrator, Victor
Pipkin, cello. Current, A
Symphonic Guide to New Music,
Korngold, Cello Concerto, Waxman, Sunset
Boulevard and The
Ride of the Cossacks.
Winspear Centre.
Sunday
March 4, 2012 3pm Da Camera
Singers 50th
Anniversary Gala Concert with alumni choir. Carmina
Burana, Carl Orff. First
Presbyterian Church 10025 – 105 St. $20-$15.
Sunday
March 4, 2012 7pm FREE John Sampen, saxophone, Roger Admiral, piano.
Studio 27, Fine Arts Bldg,
UofA.
Sunday
March 4, 2012 7pm (cocktails-dinner
5pm) If My Friends Could See
Me Now! - celebration of the
35th anniversary of Edmonton Musical Theatre. Featuring Susan
Gilmour, Vance Avery, Marleigh Rouault, Bernard Quilala, Byron
Leffler and EMT Show Group. Yardbird Suite, 11 Tommy Banks Way, $70
in advance, $80 at the door. Tix on the Square.
Monday
March 5, 2012 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE
45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t
forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday
March 5, 2012 8pm 15th
Annual Salute to the Bands - a tribute to the great swing bands of
the 30s and 40s. UofA and Grant MacEwan Jazz Bands, Bryan Hall, MC.
Convocation Hall, UofA. Admission by donation.
Tuesday
March 6, 2012 7:30pm
Edmonton Symphony, William
Eddins, conductor, Benjamin Grosvenor, piano.
Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and solo piano recital. Winspear
Centre.
Wednesday
March 7 to 10, 2012 Teatro
Makes Music - an evening of song. Jocelyn
Ahlf, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, vocalists, Ryan Sigurdson, piano. Music
from shows like Annie Get Your Gun, Rose Marie, Anything Goes, On the
Town, State Fair, Babes in Arms, and Spamalot! $25, $20 for
Teatro subscribers, Tix on the Square. Varscona Theatre.
Thursday
March 8, 2012 7:30 NEW -
E-Town Singers, vocal band - Under
Pressure. Edmonton
Metropolitan Chorus in cooperation with Eastglen High School. South
African freedom songs, some Caribbean “steel drum” flavour, pop
tunes, and Freddie Mercury's Under
Pressure. $10,
$5, under 12 are FREE. Tix on the Square. Eastglen High School, 11430
– 68 St.
Friday
March 9, 2012 8pm German
Baroque Chorale Partitas, Marnie
Giesbrecht, organ, Josephine van Lier, violoncello piccolo and gamba,
Guillaume Tardif, violin, Eva Bostrand, soprano, Madrigal Singers,
Len Ratzlaff, conductor.
Georg Böhm, Freu dich sehr,
o meine Seele
(Rejoice greatly, o my soul), Johann Gottfried Walther, Jesu,
meine Freude, J.S. Bach, Sei
gegrusset, Jesu gütig BWV
768, Gerhard Krapf, Die
güldene Sonne (The golden
sun), Boccherini, Purcell and Leclair. Inaugurating the 2011 James
Louder positive organ. Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door. Convocation Hall,
UofA.
Friday
March 9, 2012 7:30pm and March 10 8pm
Edmonton Symphony, William
Eddins, conductor, James Campbell, clarinet.
Copland, Music for the Theatre and Clarinet Concerto, Bernstein,
Fancy Free,
Ballet Suite, Gilliland, Dreaming
of the Masters I for
Clarinet. Winspear Centre.
Saturday
March 10, 2012 1pm Alberta
Early Music Society. Masterclass – Adam
Wead, lute. Musicians
interested in participating can book by phone or email. Members
$10, non-members $15, student members FREE. Holy Trinity Anglican
Church, 10037 84 Av.
Saturday
March 10, 2012 7:30pm Liona Boyd, guitar. Festival
Place, Sherwood Park.
Saturday
March 10, 2012 8pm Edmonton
Chamber Music Society, Ebène
Quartet. Pierre Colombet, violin, Gabriel Le Magadure, violin,
Mathieu Herzog, viola, Raphaël
Merlin, cello.
Convocation
Hall, UofA. Contact Tix on the Square.
Sunday
March 11, 2012 2pm Connections
Concert Series, Alberta College Conservatory of Music. Featuring
faculty, student, and alumni performers. Muttart Hall, Alberta
College 10050 MacDonald Dr. $20, $10 Tix on the Square. All proceeds
to support student scholarships. To be broadcast on CKUA.
Sunday
March 11, 2012 3pm Early
Music Alberta – English Art Songs of the Renaissance. Jolaine
Kerley, soprano, Adam Wead, lute, Josephine van Lier, viola da gamba.
Admission by donation. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av.
Sunday,
March 11, 2012 3 pm Julie-Anne Derome, sound artist.
Presented by Tonus Vivus. Music - David Eagle, Soundplay 2, Serge
Provost, Journal d’une enfant reveuse… 1935, Laurie Radford,
Tracking, Pierre Boulez, Anthèmes IIL’uni Théâtre, La Cité
francophone. 126, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gabourey.
Sunday
March 11, 2012 7pm Raga-Mala
Music Society. Rakesh
Chaurasia, bansuri, Pt. Abhijit Banerjee, tabla. Royal
Alberta Museum, 12548-102 Av, $20, $15.
Tuesday March
13, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton
Columbian Choirs, Spring Bouqets. McDougall United Church. Tickets
$15, call 780 430 6808.
Wednesday
March 14, 2012 7:30pm
Edmonton Symphony, Jean-Philippe
Tremblay, conductor, Susan Hoeppner, flute.
Haydn, Symphony No. 85 “La
Reine”, Devienne, Seventh
Flute Concerto, Godard, Suite for Flute, R Strauss, Divertimento
after Couperin. Winspear Centre.
Wednesday
March 14, 2012 8pm Richard
Eaton Singers present Stuttgart Kammerchor (chamber choir), Frieder
Bernius, conductor. Music
includes Singet dem Herrn ein
neues Lied, Bach, Te
Deum, Mendelssohn, Lux
aeterna, Ligeti, Nunc
dimittis, Pärt, and newly
commissed work by Canadian composer Paul Frehner featuring the
TorQ Percussion Ensemble. Robertson Wesley United Church, 10209 - 123
St.
Sunday March 18, 2012 3pm Spring
Chamber Music Concert - Joachim Segger, piano and Alissa Cheung,
violin. Sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms and Grieg. The King's
University College, Knoppers Hall. $20, $15. Free to King’s
students upon presentation of a valid student card.
Sunday
March 18, 2012 3pm Kathy Chi, piano.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church in conjunction with the Edmonton Recital
Society. 10037 84 Av. Admission by donation.
Sunday
March 18, 2012 3pm Mill
Creek Colliery Band, guest conductor Russell
Whitehead, with Edmonton
Children's Choir, Susan
Farrell and Adam
Robertson, conductors. -
Youthful Voices and Brass.
$18, $14. Tix on the Square
or at the door. McDougall United Church 10025 101 St.
Sunday
March 18, 2012 3pm Robin Doyon, trumpet, Sarah Ho, piano. Holy
Trinity Anglican Church in conjunction with the Edmonton Recital
Society. 10037 84 Av. Admission by donation.
Sunday
March 18, 2012 5:30pm Opera
Nuova Dinner Cabaret Series – Operatic Lassies. Whitney
Sloan, soprano, Aidan Ferguson, mezzo, Shannon Hiebert, piano.
Location – That’s Amore, contact www.operanuova.ca for tickets.
Monday
March 19, 2012 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE
45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t
forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday
March 19, 2012 7pm UofA
music - Contempo New Music Ensemble. Dr.
Andriy Talpash, Director. Convocation
Hall. Admission by donation.
Friday
March 23, 2012 12pm FREE Enterprise
String Quartet and the Calgary String Quartet. Enescu octet op.7 and
movements from the Mendelssohn octet op.20. Winspear Centre.
Friday
March 23, 2012 7:30pm Early
Music Alberta Fundraiser – An evening at the court of Louis XIV.
Cocktail reception and concert. Music by Lully, Chambonnieres,
Couperin and Marais. Jolaine
Kerley, soprano, Adam Wead, lute, Josephine van Lier, viola da gamba.
Tickets (in advance only) $100 per person which includes the
reception. Upper Hall, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84
Av.
Friday
March 23, 2012 8pm
Connected: Celebrating Three Pivotal Composers, Jacques
C. Després, piano.
Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, op. 2, No. 1 Liszt, Nuages
gris, Élégie no. 1, S. 196,
En rêve,
S. 207, Années de pèlerinage,
deuxieme année: Italie,
Après une Lecture du Dante:
Fantasia quasi Sonata, S. 161/7, Debussy, Préludes,
deuxième livre, L 123.
Convocation Hall, UofA.
Friday
March 23, 2012 8pm Celebrating
Mozart - Choral concert of
music for the season of Lent and Easter. Choirs of Robertson-Wesley
United Church, Knox-Metropolitan United Church and the Willan Chorale
with chamber orchestra and soloist. Warren
Mack, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, conductors and organists.
Music includes Ave Verum
Corpus, Laudate Dominum, Exsultate Jubilate, and
Missa Brevis in D Major,
K.194. Robertson-Wesley
United Church, 10209-123 St. $15, $10.
Friday
March 23 and Saturday March 24, 2012 7:30pm
Alberta Ballet, Swan Lake
(Tchaikovsky). Jubillee Auditorium.
Saturday
March 24, 2012 2pm Platypus
Theatre's Bach to the Future
- Symphony for Kids. Lucas
Waldin, conductor and Platypus Theatre.
Corky accidentally combines the ingredients of a magical musical
spell and she finds herself on an adventure with some of the world’s
most fascinating composers – Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvořák,
Shostakovich, and more! Pre-concert Activities from 1 - 1:45 pm.
Winspear Centre.
Saturday
March 24, 2012 6pm UofA
Madrigal Singers 25th
Annual Dinner Concert and Silent Auction. Sutton Place Hotel 10235 –
101 St. $75 or $500 for a table of 8, contact awhitney@ualberta.ca
or 780 492 5306.
Saturday
March 24, 2012 7:30pm
Festival City Winds Advanced Band and Concordia Community Chorus.
Stephen
Stone, marimba., Dr. John Hooper, Wendy Grasdahl, and Debbie
Rice, conductors. Canticle
of Praise, Beck, The
Tender Land, Copland, Marimba
Concerto, Ney Rosaura.Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Blvd.
$12, $10, Tix on the Square.
Sunday
March 25, 2012 3pm Orphée
aux Enfers (Orpheus in
Hades), Offenbach. University of Alberta Opera Performance. Petar
Dundjerski, conductor, Kim Mattice Wanat, director.
Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door or from the department of music. Winspear
Centre.
Sunday
March 25, 2012 3pm Alberta
Baroque Ensemble - Bach and
Sons. Anna
Kozak, violin, Aidan Ferguson, mezzo soprano. J.C.F.
Bach, Sinfonia in D Minor, J.S. Bach, Concerto for Violin in A minor,
W.F. Bach, Suite in G minor, J.S. Bach, Cantata, Vergnugte
Ruh. Robertson-Wesley United
Church, 10209-123 St. $25, $20, Tix on the Square, Gramophone.
Monday
March 26, 2012 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE
45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t
forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Thursday
March 29, 2012 7pm UofA
music. West African Music Ensemble. Convocation Hall. Admission by
donation.
Friday
March 30, 2012 7pm UofA
music. Indian Music Ensemble. Convocation Hall. Admission by
donation.
Friday
March 30, 2012 7:30pm Potpourri
- Edmonton's finest emerging artists present a variety of classical
works. Alissa
Cheung, Neda Yamach, violin, Michael Massey, piano. Works
by Alissa Cheung, Double
Silk, Prokofiev, Sonata
No.1, Szymanowski, Notturno e
Tarantella, and
Moszkowski, Suite for Two Violins and Piano. Muttart Hall, Alberta
College, $25, $20.
Saturday
March 31, 2012 7pm UofA
music. Middle Eastern and North African Ensemble. Convocation Hall.
Admission by donation.
Saturday
March 31, 2012 8pm Julian Kuerti, conductor, Shauna Rolston, cello.
Music - Dvorak, Cello
Concerto, Tchaikovsky, Sixth Symphony “Pathétique”,
Rival, Achilles & Scamander (World premiere of an ESO
commission) Winspear Centre.
April 2012
Sunday
April 1, 2012 2pm
Transcriptions for Winds - U of A Concert Band. Music - Colas
Breugnon Overture by Kabalevsky arranged by Walter Beeler, The Hounds
of Spring by Alfred Reed, Divertimento for Band by Vincent
Persichetti. Convocation Hall, UofA.
Sunday
April 1, 2012 2pm WindRose
Trio has Seven Players. Beth
Levia, oboe, Jeff Campbell, clarinet, Matthew Howatt, bassoon,
Chenoa Anderson, flute, Elizabeth Koch, flute, Diane Persson,
bassoon, Kathryn Macintosh, trombone, and Sarah Ho,
piano. Works by
Paul Pierné, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Raymond Premru, Paul Pierné,
Bucolique Varieé,
Jean Françaix, Quartet for Winds, and Bohuslav
Martinu, Sextet for Piano and Wind Instruments. Robertson-Wesley
United Church. $20, $15 Tix on the Square.
Sunday
April 1, 2012 3pm UofA
World Music Sampler Featuring the Indian, West African and Middle
Eastern and Northern African Music ensembles featuring special guest,
Grammy nominated Rahim
Alhaj. Tickets $20,$15,$10
at door. Winspear Centre.
Monday
April 2, 2012 UofA Monday Noon Music FREE
45 min, student concerts from western classical to world music. Don’t
forget to bring your lunch! Convocation Hall, UofA.
Monday
April 2, 2012 6pm Mayor's
Celebration of the Arts 25th Anniversary, presented by the
Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton (PACE). Winspear Centre.
Tuesday
April 3, 2012 8pm A
Celebration of Winds and Voices - Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Madrigal
Singers and Concert Choir Featuring works by Brahms, Grainger,
Holsinger, Purcell and Whitacre and Brahms’ Begräbnisgesange, op.
13 and American composer David Holsinger’s A Song of Moses.
Tickets $20,$15,$10 at door. Winspear Centre.
Wednesday, April 4 2012, 7:30pm, Thursday, April 5, 2012, 11am (School Matinée) and 7:30pm. Titanic. Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus. Winspear Centre.
Wednesday, April 4 2012, 7:30pm, Thursday, April 5, 2012, 11am (School Matinée) and 7:30pm. Titanic. Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus. Winspear Centre.
Friday
April 6, 2012 10:15 (Robertson-Wesley
United Church) and 12pm
(City Room at City
Hall) FREE
Enterprise Quartet. Music
features Haydn's The Seven
Last Words of Christ on the Cross (Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres
Erlösers am Kreuze).
Friday
April 6, 2012 7:30pm Pro
Coro Good Friday Concert with Jolaine
Kerley, soprano, Dr.
Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor. Works
by Bruckner, Caldara, Canadian composer Jeff Enns, and Nystedt,
Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, Latvian composer Eriks Esenvald’s new
work, Passion and Resurrection.
Saturday
April 7, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton
Raga-Mala Society presents Sharanagathi
(to surrender) Bharathanatyam
performance. Mythili
Prakash, Aditya Prakash, vocals, Kasi Aysola, nattuvangam, Rajna
Swaminathan, mridangam, Krisha Kumar, violin. Royal
Alberta Museum Auditorium. Tickets at the door, $20, $15, Free for
Raga-Mala patrons.
Monday
April 9, 2012 8pm Soweto
Gospel Choir. Winspear Centre.
Tuesday
April 10, 2012 8pm
On
This Shining Night
- The King's University College Concert, Chamber and Community
Choirs, Calgary and Immanuel Christian High School Choirs. Dr.
Melanie Turgeon, conductor.
$15, $12, $5. Winspear Centre.
Thursday April 12, 2012 7:30pm New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia - Traditions. Convocation Hall, UofA. $20, $15.Friday, April 13, 2012 8pm The Warszynski Trio, presented by Tonus Vivus. Music - Piotr Grella-Mozejko, new piece, Alfred Schnittke, Piano Trio, Thom Golub, Exteroceptions, commissioned by the Warszynski Trio, Dan Brophy, Piano Trio, Jonathan Maywood, Apprehension, Ana Sokolovic, Portrait Parle, Guiseppe Lupis, 8 Variations, One Crazy, on Ah! Vous Dirai-je, Maman, Arvo Part, Fratres, Witold Lutoslawski, Subito. Muttart Hall, Edmonton, 10050 Macdonald Drive.
Friday April 13, 2012 8pm Greenwood Singers, All Things English. All Saints Anglican Cathedral, 10035 103 St. Elgar, Vaughan Williams, English folk songs, and selections from Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate. Tix on the Square.
Friday April 13 and Saturday April 14, 2011 8pm Cosmopolitan Music Society – Pops Concert, Tuesday and Wednesday Bands. Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvd. Tickets $10 adults, $7 students/seniors and children five and under are FREE when purchased in advance.
Saturday April 14, 2012 3pm Kokopelli – Songquest. Kokopelli's youngest choirs pursue a wayward feline around the world through music. St. Timothy's Anglican Church, 8420 145 St. $16, $13, Tix on the Square or at the door.
Saturday April 14, 2012 7:30pm Festival City Winds Music Society with guest ensemble the Edmonton Sackbone Express. Dr. Eila Peterson and Wendy J. Grasdahl, conductors with Patricia Gauci, guest soloist. Music includes works by Tielman, Praetorious, Banchieri, and Palestrina.
Saturday April 14, 2012 7:30pm Festival City Winds Intermediate Band. Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Blvd.
Saturday April 14, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, conductor and Robert Belinić, guitar. Bach: Chaconne in D minor, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, First Guitar Concerto, Márquez, Danzón No. 2, Dvořák, A Hero’s Song. Winspear Centre.
Saturday April 14 and Sunday April 15, 2012, 8pm Julie Nesrallah, mezzo-soprano, The Divine Miss N and Men. Arden Theatre, St. Albert.Sunday April 15, 2012 11am Edmonton Opera Brunch - Fidelio. Meal and recital of music from the opera. $70, $50, Sutton Place Hotel. 780 429 1000.
Sunday April 15, 2012 3pm Pro Coro Canada. Morinville Community Cultural Centre 9502 100 Av, Morinville. $30 - $25, Tix on the Square. Dessert and coffee reception at intermission.
Sunday April 15, 2012 5:30pm Opera Nuova Dinner Cabaret Series – A tribute to Julie Andrews and Judy Garland. Dawn Sadoway and Kim Mattice Wanat. Location – Century Grill, contact www.operanuova.ca for tickets.Monday April 16, 2012 7:30pm RCCO Edmonton Centre, recital to showcase this year's Scholarship Winners. First Presbyterian Church.
Thursday April 12, 2012 7:30pm New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia - Traditions. Convocation Hall, UofA. $20, $15.Friday, April 13, 2012 8pm The Warszynski Trio, presented by Tonus Vivus. Music - Piotr Grella-Mozejko, new piece, Alfred Schnittke, Piano Trio, Thom Golub, Exteroceptions, commissioned by the Warszynski Trio, Dan Brophy, Piano Trio, Jonathan Maywood, Apprehension, Ana Sokolovic, Portrait Parle, Guiseppe Lupis, 8 Variations, One Crazy, on Ah! Vous Dirai-je, Maman, Arvo Part, Fratres, Witold Lutoslawski, Subito. Muttart Hall, Edmonton, 10050 Macdonald Drive.
Friday April 13, 2012 8pm Greenwood Singers, All Things English. All Saints Anglican Cathedral, 10035 103 St. Elgar, Vaughan Williams, English folk songs, and selections from Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate. Tix on the Square.
Friday April 13 and Saturday April 14, 2011 8pm Cosmopolitan Music Society – Pops Concert, Tuesday and Wednesday Bands. Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvd. Tickets $10 adults, $7 students/seniors and children five and under are FREE when purchased in advance.
Saturday April 14, 2012 3pm Kokopelli – Songquest. Kokopelli's youngest choirs pursue a wayward feline around the world through music. St. Timothy's Anglican Church, 8420 145 St. $16, $13, Tix on the Square or at the door.
Saturday April 14, 2012 7:30pm Festival City Winds Music Society with guest ensemble the Edmonton Sackbone Express. Dr. Eila Peterson and Wendy J. Grasdahl, conductors with Patricia Gauci, guest soloist. Music includes works by Tielman, Praetorious, Banchieri, and Palestrina.
Saturday April 14, 2012 7:30pm Festival City Winds Intermediate Band. Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Blvd.
Saturday April 14, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, conductor and Robert Belinić, guitar. Bach: Chaconne in D minor, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, First Guitar Concerto, Márquez, Danzón No. 2, Dvořák, A Hero’s Song. Winspear Centre.
Saturday April 14 and Sunday April 15, 2012, 8pm Julie Nesrallah, mezzo-soprano, The Divine Miss N and Men. Arden Theatre, St. Albert.Sunday April 15, 2012 11am Edmonton Opera Brunch - Fidelio. Meal and recital of music from the opera. $70, $50, Sutton Place Hotel. 780 429 1000.
Sunday April 15, 2012 3pm Pro Coro Canada. Morinville Community Cultural Centre 9502 100 Av, Morinville. $30 - $25, Tix on the Square. Dessert and coffee reception at intermission.
Sunday April 15, 2012 5:30pm Opera Nuova Dinner Cabaret Series – A tribute to Julie Andrews and Judy Garland. Dawn Sadoway and Kim Mattice Wanat. Location – Century Grill, contact www.operanuova.ca for tickets.Monday April 16, 2012 7:30pm RCCO Edmonton Centre, recital to showcase this year's Scholarship Winners. First Presbyterian Church.
Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 2:00 pm Edmonton Recorder Society Gala Concert 20112 Trinity United Church, 8810 Meadowlark Road, Edmonton Admission to the concert is free.
Monday April 16, 2012 1pm UofA Music. Trumpet masterclass with Allen Vizzutti. Convocation Hall. Free and open to the public.
Monday April 16, 2012 8pm FREE UofA Music. XiME (Experimental Improvisation Music Ensemble) with Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy and Werner Friesen (visual artist). Convocation Hall.
Tuesday April 17, 2012 6pm UofA Music – Undergraduate Composers Concert featuring the Contempo New Music Ensemble. Convocation Hall. Admission by donation.
Wednesday
April 18, 2012 7:30pm New
Edmonton Wind Sinfonia – Traditions.
Convocation Hall, UofA.
Friday
April 20, 2012 8pm Early
Music Alberta Festival – Scona Chamber Singers. Medieval Chant and
sacred polyphony of the Renaissance. Performances of chant from the
Montserrat Codex and Hildegaard Von Bingen, and works by Vittoria,
Palestrina and Morales. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av.
Friday
April 20, 2012 8pm Edmonton
Classical Guitar Society presents Berta
Rojas, guitar. Alberta
College, Muttart Hall, 10050 MacDonald Dr. $25, $20.
Saturday
April 21, 2012 9:30am Early
Music Alberta Festival – workshop. Renaissance dance music reading
session, Bill
Damur. Recorders, oboe
players and sackbuts welcome. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84
Av.
Saturday
April 21, 2012 11:15am
Early Music Alberta Festival – lecture. Urbs
Orbis Miraculum, Venice –
Miracle City of the World. Life in 17th and 18th century Venice.
Nadir
Aslam. Holy Trinity
Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84
Av.
Saturday
April 21, 2012 3pm Early
Music Alberta Festival – Afternoon at the Early Music Festival.
Henry
Gauci, baroque flute, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, harpsichord, Julie Harris,
soprano, Judy Loewen, harpsichord.
Music of Handel, Louillet, Chedeville, Purcell and others. Holy
Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av.
Saturday
April 21, 2012 4:15pm Early
Music Alberta Festival – workshop. Jon
Helm, sackbut.
Saturday
April 21, 2012 7:30pm
Concordia University College, Concordia Ringers and Jubiloso! Bells
of Concordia concert. Robert Tegler Student Centre, Concordia campus.
Saturday
April 21, 7:30pm Edmonton
Vocal Minority – Capital
Cabaret, with special guests
EKOSingers. Unitarian Church of Edmonton, $15, $12.
Saturday
April 21, 2012 7:30pm St.
Albert Chamber Music Recital Series. Bianca
Baciu, piano, Frank Ho, violin, Katianne Bargen, piano.
Don’s Piano Showroom, 8 Riel Dr, St. Albert. Fine wine and tasty
treats! $25, $20. Advance tickets available at Art Gallery of St.
Albert. (this venue is not wheelchair accessible)
Saturday
April 21, 2012 7:30pm
Edmonton Opera – Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, sung in German with English
surtitles.
Saturday
April 21, 2012 8pm Early
Music Alberta Festival. Nadir
Aslam,
baroque violin, Josephine van Lier, baroque cello, Marnie Giesbrecht,
harpsichord. Violin sonatas
of Pandolfi, Biber, Vivaldi and Leclair. Holy Trinity Anglican
Church, 10037 84 Av.
Sunday
April 22, 2012 11am Early
Music Alberta Festival – The
Baroque Violin – a masterclass. Nadir Aslam, baroque violin. Holy
Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av.
Sunday
April 22, 2012 2pm Ritchie
Trombone Choir’s Spring Concert – Swingin’
an’ Slidin’. Millwoods
Community Church, 2304 38 St, Edmonton. $20, $15.
Sunday
April 22, 2012 3pm Richard
Eaton Singers – Perfect
Pitch. Handel’s Israel
in Egypt. Catherine
Abele, Erika Vogel, soprano, Rebecca Claborn, alto, Timothy Shantz,
tenor, Michael Kurschat, Mark Wilkinson, baritone, Alberta Baroque
Ensemble, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor.
Winspear Centre. $35 to $47, RES office, Tix on the Square, or
Winspear Centre Box office.
Sunday
April 22, 2012 3pm Ordo
Virtutum - the Way of the
Virtues (a 12th century musical drama by Hildegaard Von Bingen)
performed by the Ordo Collective, Eva
Bostrand, Director.
Providence Centre Chapel 3005 119 St.
Sunday
April 22, 2012 8pm Early
Music Alberta Festival –
Famous String Concertos. Nadir
Aslam, Jennifer
Bustin, Shannon Johnson, Allyson Lyne, Adam Pappas, baroque violin,
Charles Pilon, Ronelle Schaufele, baroque viola, Janet Kuschak,
Josephine van Lier, baroque cello, Judy Loewen, harpsichord, Marnie
Giesbrecht, positive organ.
Convocation Hall, UofA.
Tuesday
April 24, 2012 7:30pm
Edmonton Opera – Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, sung in German with English
surtitles.
Thursday
April 26, 2012 7:30pm
Edmonton Opera – Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, sung in German with English
surtitles.
Saturday
April 28, 2012 9:30am
Gospel workshop with Louise
Rose presented by Eva
Bostrand, artistic director
of A Joyful Noise. St. Andrew’s United Church 9912 148 St. $25 at
the door includes the workshop and an invitation to perform at the
April 29 concert.
Saturday
April 28, 2012 3pm Mr.
Majeika and the Magic Organ by
Bob Chilcott. A short magical story for children with a pipe organ
"show and tell" and other activities afterward. Timothy
Anderson, narrator, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, organ. Admission
is pay-what-you-can. Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209 123 St.
Saturday
April 28, 2012 7pm Mill
Creek Colliery Band – Prairie Brass Band Festival. William Gordon,
guest conductor. Music includes Where
Eagles Sing (Lovatt-Cooper),
Maori melody Hine e Hine
and Fanfare for the Common Man and Hoedown from Rodeo
by Aaron Copland. All Saints Anglican Cathedral 10035 103 St. $20,
$15, children under 12 are free.
Sunday
April 29, 2012 3pm Alberta
Baroque Music Society – Alla
Corda. Mark
Fewer, violin. Scarlatti,
Avison Concerto Grosso in G major, Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin Il
riposo, Locatelli, Concerto
Grosso in D major, Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin Il
mogul grosso.
Robertson-Wesley United Church. $25, $20, Gramophone, Tix on the
Square, or at the door.
Sunday
April 29, 2012 3pm Louise Rose
and A Joyful Noise Choir in a performance of gospel music. St.
Andrew’s United Church 9915 148 St. Tix on the Square, $12 in
advance, $15 at the door.
Sunday
April 29, 2012 Cocktails
5:30pm, Dinner 6:30pm, Concert 8pm Resound!
Spring Dinner and Concert celebrating 110 years in Old Strathcona.
Robert
King, tenor, Mark Eeles, cello, Janet Smith, soprano, Cherie Larson,
piano, The Schoen Duo and
string and choral groups. Proceeds will benefit renovation work in
the sanctuary interior. Trinity Lutheran Church 10014 81 Av. $50 ($20
concert only) available from the Trinity Office or Tix on the Square.
Sunday
April 29, 2012 7:30pm
Edmonton Recital Society presents Katherine Chi,
piano (first ever Canadian
winner of the Esther Honens International Piano Competition). Music
includes Tombeau de Couperin,
Ravel, Sonata no. 27 in e minor, Beethoven and other works by Chopin,
Griffes and Canadian Composer Alexina Louie. McDougall United Church
10086 MacDonald Dr. $30, $20, Tix on the Square or at the door.
Monday
April 30, 2012 12pm FREE Enterprise
Quartet – Great Patrons of Central European Music. Sponsored by the
Wirth Institute at the UofA. Beethoven String Quartets no. 4 and 6,
Op.18 (Lobkowicz quartets). Introductory remarks by Dr. Franz Szabo,
Dept of History, UofA. Winspear Centre Lobby.
Monday April 30, 2012 7:30pm The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences Alberta and the Wirth Institute present Whitney-Leigh Sloan, soprano, and Sylvia Shadick-Taylor in a program of Czech songs and arias. Timms Centre for the Arts (UofA) 112 87 Av.
May 2012
Friday May 4, 2012 7:30pm and Saturday May 5 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – Dreaming of Carnegie. William Eddins, conductor, Jens Lindemann, trumpet, Angela Cheng, piano, Juliette Kang, violin, Denise Djokic, cello. Estacio, Triple Concerto, Gilliand, Dreaming of the Masters III for Trumpet, Martinu, First Symphony, and Rival, Lullaby. Winspear Centre.
Friday May 4, 2012 8pm Excentrica Women’s Choir – 10th Anniversary Concert. All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral 10035 103 St. Tickets available at Tix on the Square and from choir members.
Saturday May 5, 2012 7:30pm Festival Singers – Puttin’ on the Ritz. Broadway and TV tunes. Heather Bedford-Clooney, conductor, Linda Steinbring, accompanist, Colin McLean, MC. OLPH Parish, 13 Brower Dr, Sherwood Park, lower level. $30 tickets available from choir members. Hors d’oeuvres with a cash bar.
Saturday May 5, 2012 7:30pm Concordia University College School of Music Concert Choir Home Concert. Robert Tegler Student Centre, Concordia Campus.
Saturday May 5, 2012 7:30pm A Joyful Noise – Sanctuary. Music by Bach, Mozart, Karl Jenkins and Allister MacGillivray. $10, $8 in advance from info@ajoyfulnoisechoir.ca $15,$12 at the door.
Sunday May 6, 2012 2pm Edmonton Youth Orchestra and the Northern Alberta Concerto Competition Winners. Michael Massey, conductor, Mairi Irene McCormack, soprano, Tong Wang and Louisa Lu, piano. Music – Piano Concerto in c minor, Allegro con brio, Beethoven, selections from The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart and Songs of Auvernge, Canteloube, Piano Concerto no.1 in b flat minor, Tchaikovsky, and Symphony No.9 in E flat major, Shostakovich. Winspear Centre. $15, $10, Tix on the Square or at the door.
Sunday May 6, 2012 3pm Cantilon Choirs – Come Ye Singers of Song. New commissioned work by Margaret King. McDougall United Church, 10025 101 St. $15, $12, Tix on the Square.
Sunday May 6, 2012 3pm Da Camera Singers and Spiritus Chamber Choir (Calgary) present Sergei Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil. First Baptist Church, 10031 109 St. $20, $15 at the door or from choir members.
Monday
May 7, 2012 6:30pm Wagner's
Dream - Metropolitan
Opera Live in HD at Cineplex
Theatres.
Wednesday
May 9, 2012 6:30pm Das
Rheingold - Metropolitan
Opera Live in HD at Cineplex
Theatres.
Wednesday
May 9, 2012 7:30pm The
Marek Jablonski Endowment Fund presents Stéphane Lemelin, piano.
Music includes Schubert's G major Sonata and Debussy's Preludes, Book
1. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets at the door, $20, $10. All
proceeds support the scholarships offered by the Marek Jablonski
Endowment Fund.
Thursday
May 10, 2012 7pm FREE Raga-Mala
Music Society workshop with Kumaresh (violin) and Jayanthi (Veena).
Presented in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for
Ethnomusicology, UofA. Humanities Centre Lecture Theatre 1 University
of Alberta Campus 11487 89 Av.
Friday
May 11, 2012 7:30pm
Raga-Mala Music Society. R.
Kumaresh, violin, Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena, with Neyveli Narayanan,
mridangam and Trichy Krishnaswami, ghatam.
Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Way. $20 and $15 at
the door.
Friday
May 11 and Saturday May 12, 2012
cocktails 6pm, show 6:30pm, dinner 8pm. Columbian Choirs present
Night on Broadway Dinner and Cabaret. Royal Glenora Club 11160 River
Valley Road. For tickets and additional information contact Beth at
780-430-6806.
Saturday
May 12, 2012 10am Die
Walkure - Metropolitan
Opera Live in HD at Cineplex
theatres.
Saturday
May 12, 2012 7pm Mill Creek
Colliery Band - Salute to the
Proms. David
Hoyt, conductor, Cam Martin, soprano cornet, Paul Buckingham, E flat
bass, Chris Diaper, euphonium.
Music includes Where Eagles Sing, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Royal
Parks, and other favourites from the British music tradition. World
premiere of a new commissioned arrangement by Geoff Colmer on the
Entrance of the Knights of St. John (Strauss). Robertson-Wesley
United Church, 10209 123 St. $18, $14, Tix on the Square (children
under 12 are free).
Saturday
May 12, 2012 7pm
Cosmopolitan Music Society, Monday Band and St. Albert Community
Band. Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvd.
Tickets available from the Cosmopolitan Music Society 780 432 9333 or
info@cosmopolitanmusic.org
Saturday
May 12, 2012 7pm Kokopelli
Choirs – Colours of Spring.
Convocation Hall, UofA.
Saturday
May 12, 2012 7:30pm St.
Albert Chamber Music Recital Series. David
Grainger Brown, guitar, Hiromi Takahashi, oboe, Joel Kristiansen,
guitar. Don’s Piano
Showroom, 8 Riel Dr, St. Albert. Fine wine and tasty treats! $25,
$20. Advance tickets available at Art Gallery of St. Albert. (this
venue is not wheelchair accessible)
Saturday
May 12, 2012 7:30pm I
Coristi Chamber Choir – Spirits.
Dr.
Debra Cairns, conductor, Josephine van Lier, baroque cello, Dr.
Marnie Giesbrecht, organ.
Bach, Der Geist hilft unsrer
Schwachheit auf, Fauré, Les
Djinns, Martin, Songs
of Ariel from Shakespeare’s
The Tempest and
music by Beethoven, Canadian composers Eleanor Daley, Imant
Raminsh, and Mark Sirett. Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037 84
Av. Tix on the Square, $21.75, $16.75. Donations will be accepted for
the Edmonton Food Bank.
Sunday
May 13, 2012 2pm (1hr
duration) Alberta College Conservatory of Music Connections Concert
Series. Brittney Jette, mezzo,
Eric Meier, guitar, Jocelyn Anselmo, soprano, Katia Paskevich,
soprano, Michelle Powell, piano, Rachel Johns, mezzo, Bianca Baciu,
piano, Don Ross, clarinet, Frank Ho, violin, Simon-Marc de Freitas,
piano. Works by Liszt
(Spanish Rhapsody), Offenbach (Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman),
Joaquin Turina (Sonata in D Major), Delibes (Flower Duet from Lakme),
Astor Piazzolla (Tango Etudes), Grieg (Solveig's Lied from Peer Gynt)
and George Enescu (Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano). Muttart Hall
10050 MacDonald Dr. $20, $10 Tix on the Square and Acquired Taste Tea
(children under 12 are free). Series aired on CKUA and proceeds from
ticket sales go directly to support student scholarships.
Sunday
May 13, 2012 2pm Esquire
Men’s Chorus – A Concert
for Mother’s Day. Michael
Zaugg, conductor, Joachim Segger, accompanist.
Winspear Centre.
Sunday
May 13, 2012 2pm Edmonton
Philharmonic Orchestra Annual Concert. Spring Symphonie - Music for
Mothers and Others. Murray
Vassjo, conductor, Anni Yu, violin. Music
by Lalo, Mozart, R.V. Williams, Gainger and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Old
Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 103 St. $10, children 10 and
under are free.
Sunday
May 13, 2012 2:30pm
Edmonton Youth and Children’s Choir Spring Concert. Primary Choir,
Boys’ Choir, Girls’ Choir and Youth Choir. Music includes Aaron
Copland’s I Bought Me a Cat
and Ching-a-ring Chaw,
Rossini’s Duetto buffo di
due gatti, Martin Shaw’s
the Song of the Music Makers
and Neil Ginsberg’s Two
Poems of Emily Dickenson.
McDougall United Church 10025 101 St. Suggested donation $10.
Sunday
May 13, 2012 7:30pm Vocal
Alchemy – This Shining Night
– 10th Anniversary Concert. Jordan
Van Biert, conductor, Satomi Tozawa, piano, David Wilson, guest
conductor, Adam Pappas, violin, Brett Ludwig, piano, Keith Rempel,
bass, Thom Bennett, drums, Dan Davis, saxophone, Janet Smith,
soprano, Adrienne Sitko, alto, Caleb Nelson, tenor, Kyle Carter,
bass and special guest
singers. Music of Lauridsen, Vaughan Williams, Faure, Chatman,
Stanford and Whitacre (Five Hebrew Love Songs), plus jazz standards
and folk favourites. St. Andrew’s United Church 9915 148 St. $17,
$15 or $15, $12 in advance. Available from choir members,
http://www.vocalalchemy.com/ or
Tix on the Square.
Sunday
May 13, 2012 5:30pm Opera
Nuova, Enchanted Evenings
– A Mother’s Day Special Event. Theodore
Baerg, baritone, Irena Welhasch Baerg.
Highlights from their 2007 CD “Enchanted Evenings”. The Edmonton
Petroleum Club 11110 108 St. For tickets contact www.operanuova.ca
Monday
May 14, 2012 6:30pm Manon
- Metropolitan
Opera Live in HD at Cineplex Theatres.
Tuesday
May 15, 2012 7pm 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 Geoffrey Ridout. New members welcome. Stanley A.
Milner Library Auditorium. Donations to the Food Bank will be
accepted.
Thursday
May 17, 2012 1-4pm 6:30-9:30pm FREE The
Shean Piano Competition - solo piano
programs http://www.sheancompetition.com/ Artists
- Benjamin Chapman (Sydney, Australia), Rich Coburn, (Nelson, BC),
Steven Massicotte (Montreal, PQ), Michelle Powell (Grande Prairie,
AB), Lisa Tahara (Vancouver, BC), and Adam Zukiewicz (Jawor, Poland).
Muttart Hall, Alberta College Conservatory 10050 MacDonald Dr.
Thursday
May 17,2012 6:30pm Siegfried
- Metropolitan
Opera Live in HD at Cineplex theatres.
Friday
May 18, 2012 2-4pm 6:30-8:45pm FREE
The Shean Piano Competition - piano concertos.
http://www.sheancompetition.com/
Artists - Benjamin Chapman (Sydney, Australia), Rich Coburn, (Nelson,
BC), Steven Massicotte (Montreal, PQ), Michelle Powell (Grande
Prairie, AB), Lisa Tahara (Vancouver, BC), and Adam Zukiewicz (Jawor,
Poland). Muttart Hall, Alberta College Conservatory 10050 MacDonald
Dr.
Saturday
May 19, 2012 10am Götterdämmerung
- Metropolitan
Opera Live in HD at Cineplex theatres.
Saturday
May 19, 2012 8pm Boreal
Electoacoustic Music Society – The Saturn Sessions (artists will
perform to a bedtrack consisting of radio signals from Saturn,
recorded in 1981 by the Voyager 2 probe). Artists - Moonfrye, Will
Truchon, Bill Damur, Don Ross, and Stanis Coleslaw R.E.M. Ortona
Armoury 9722 103 St.
Wednesday
May 23, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Lucas Waldin,
conductor, Marc Destrubé, violin. Haydn, The Creation,
Representation of Chaos, LeClair, Violin Concerto, Bach, Violin
Concerto, Beethoven, Sixth Symphony, Pastorale.
Friday
May 25, 7:30pm, Saturday May 26 7:30pm and Sunday May 27 at 2pm 2012
Chat Blanc – Shadows and Light on Erik Satie – an exploration of
Satie’s music during La Belle Epoque. Shadow play, original art and
historic images. Animateur-Musical Director, Roxanne Classen,
Image-Shadow Play Director, Eva Colmers, Performers – Timothy
Anderson, Mireille Rijavec and Laura Jones, Illustrations, Caitlin
Richards, Ambient Music, Bill Richards. Campus Saint-Jean Auditorium,
McMahon Pavillion 8406 91 St. $20, $15, Tix on the Square or Le
Carrefour Bookstore, or at the door.
Friday
May 25, 2012 7:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Vocal Gems
Concert. Kimberly Barber, J. Patrick Raffery, Irena Welhasch Berg and
Theodore Berg. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets $16-$22.
Saturday
May 26, 2012 10:55am La Traviata - Metropolitan Opera Live in HD at
Cineplex Theatres.
Saturday
May 26, 2012 7pm Kokopelli Choirs – Life’s a Happy Song – Ten
Years of Oran. St. Andrew’s United Church.
Saturday
May 26, 2012 7:30pm Concordia University College Spring Concert with
the Festival CityWinds Music Society (four concert bands). Works by
Tielman Susato, Jay Chattaway, Fergal Carroll, Stuart Johnson, Jacob
de Haan and Christiaan Venter. Robert Tegler Student Centre 7128 Ada
Blvd. $8, Tix on the Square.
Sunday
May 27, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Lucas Waldin,
conductor, David Requiro, cello, Stefan Jungkind, viola. Beethoven,
Sixth Symphony, Pastorale, Schumann, Cello Concerto, Georges Enesco,
Concertpiece for Viola. Winspear Centre.
Sunday
May 27, 2012 2:30pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Best of the
Fest. The most promising vocal artists from the Kiwanis Music
Festival. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets $14-$20.
Sunday
May 27, 2012 7pm Opera Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - Behind the Scenes
Masterclass. Room 1-29 Fine Arts Bldg, UofA. Tickets $14-$20.
Tuesday
May 29, 2012 7:30pm Opera
Nuova Vocal Arts Festival -
Song Soirees at the
AGA. English Artsong. Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre. Tickets
$14-$20.
Tuesday
May 29, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins,
conductor and piano, Elliot Madore, baritone
(winner of the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions).
Arias and songs from Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, Die Tote
Stadt and Carousel and music by Ravel, Poulenc, and de Falla.
Winspear Centre.
Thursday
May 31, 2012 Noon FREE Opera
Nuova Vocal Arts Festival -
Music at Noon. Winspear Centre Lobby.
Friday
June 1, 2012 7:30pm Opera
Nuova Vocal Arts Festival -
Classic Broadway Concert. Music from Brigadoon, Company, She Loves
Me, and The Music Man. Convocation Hall, UofA. Tickets $16 - $22.
Saturday
June 2, 2012 10am-3pm FREE Oliver
Community Festival. Family
entertainment including the Nova Bells Hand Choir, Choir of
Robertson-Wesley United Church, Choral Morphosis, Edmonton Musical
Theatre and the Edmonton Police Pipe and Drum Band. 102 Av between
121 and 123 Streets.
Saturday
June 2, 2012 7:30pm
Cantate! Edmonton Youth Choir Year End Concert. Jordan
van Biert, conductor. St.
Timothy’s Anglican Church 8420 145 St, admission at the door.
Saturday
June 2, 2012 7:30pm
Raga-Mala Music Society – Pandit
Ajoy Chakrabarty, Patiala Gharana, vocals.
Royal Alberta Musem 12845 102 Av.
Sunday
June 3, 2012 4pm Kokopelli
Choirs – Colours of Sping Encore. Sacred Heart Church of the First
Peoples.
Sunday
June 3, 2012 4:30pm Opera
Nuova Vocal Arts Festival - An
Afternoon of Sacred Song. Excerpts from oratorios by Bach, Haydn and
Handel. Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Av. Tickets $14 - $20.
Sunday
June 3, 2012 7pm Opera
Nuova Vocal Arts Festival -
Behind the Scenes Masterclass. Room 1-29 Fine Arts Bldg, UofA.
Tickets $14-$20.
Sunday
June 3, 2012 7pm The
Edmonton Mozart Festival - Perspectives. James
Bures, organ and conductor, Tara Plamondon, french horn, Anders
Muskens, harpsichord and conductor. Epistle
Sonata No 14 in C, Serenade for Winds in C minor, Nacht
Musique, Horn Concerto No 3
in E flat major, Allegro Molto in C major (a newly discovered work),
Harpsichord Concerto No 3 in E flat major, and Six German Dances KV
509. Muttart Hall, Alberta College Conservatory 10025 MacDonald Dr.
$15 ($20 at door), $25 festival pass.
http://www.edmontonmozartfestival.com/
Sunday
June 3, 2012 7:30pm
Cosmopolitan Music Society All Bands and Chorus Season Finale.
Winspear Centre.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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