OUTLINE OF ACTIVITIES

h Daily master classes for singers and pianists with Rudolf Jansen h Chamber music coachings with Anton Kuerti h Six concerts presented over 8 days; mixed programmes of art song and chamber music with and without voice h Professional Development Program participants will receive private coachings and be encouraged to participate in all the concerts

he Mountain View International Festival of Song and Chamber Music hosts three programs: the Master Classes for sing- ers and pianists, the Chamber Music Apprenticeship program and a new Professional Development program. The Master T Classes and Chamber Music Apprenticeship Program are geared towards young professional musicians who are nearing the end of their studies or are about to embark on a professional career while the Professional Development Program is geared towards established musicians. MASTER CLASS PROGRAM

Master classes are a daily feature of the 2013 Mountain View Festival.

Conducted by master musician, pedagogue and Lied accompanist Rudolf Jansen from the Netherlands, these classes are an outstand- ing opportunity for singers and pianists to workshop the German Lieder with a focus on the texts of Heinrich Heine and the French melodies of Henri Duparc and Francis Poulenc.

This is an intensive program focusing on the interpretation and performance of art song. These classes will be given in connection with daily discussion seminars and literary studies.

To enhance the music and poetry in the master classes, there will be workshops and discussions about the cultural and literary significance of the song texts and their place in history given by Dr. Sandra Hoenle, and Artisitic Director, Kathleen van Mourik. CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAM

In addition, the Festival offers a unique chamber music apprenticeship program for young professionals under the artistic direction of Canadian pianistic icon Anton Kuerti which focuses on interpretation and performance of the chamber music repertoire, specifically piano trios, quartets, quintets, and chamber music with voice, allowing young musicians the invaluable opportunity of performing, rehearsing and coaching the chamber music literature with our guest artists.

With enrollment limited to six singers, six pianists and selected instrumentalists, young artists find a close-knit, collegial atmosphere as they work with a distinguished faculty of internationally recognised guest artists for private coaching and chamber music. Together they search for approaches to learn and master works from a broad repertoire. The Festival fosters a noncompetitive environment for study and performance with participants from around the world creating a distinctive artistic community on the University of Calgary campus.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

For the first time the Festival will be offering established musicians an opportunity to design their own collaborative project and work together with established pedagogues Anton Kuerti and Rudolf Jansen. VENUES All concerts of the Mountain View Festival take place at Calgary’s historic Lougheed House, Christ Church, one of Calgary’s oldest and most beautiful settings for classical music, and the Rozsa Centre on the University of Calgary campus, one of the premiere music recital facilities in Western Canada. The Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is a 384 seat acoustic gem and the Hall also has a recently acquired Bach organ built by Jürgen and Hendrik Ahrend. GUEST ARTISTS ianist Anton Kuerti was born in Austria, grew up in the U.S., and has lived In Canada Kuerti has appeared in 140 communities from coast to coast, and has played with every professional orchestra, including in Canada for most of his adult life. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, 39 concerts with the Toronto Symphony. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received numerous honorary doctorates. Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. At the age of 11 he performed theP Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fiedler, and, while still a student, he won the fa- Recent engagements included concerts with the orchestras of Ottawa, St. Louis, Houston, Denver and Philadelphia, and concerts mous Leventritt Award. in Germany, New Zealand, China, Australia and Malaysia. After a recent recital at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, critics were in rapture: “Kuerti played [the Diabelli Variations] so flawlessly that you could have made it into a CD. And, much more importantly, Anton Kuerti has toured 39 countries, including Japan, Russia, and most European it was more poetically refined than you will ever hear anywhere else.” - de Volkskrant; the Noord-Hollands Dagblad raved “ The countries, and has performed with most major U.S. orchestras and conductors, such great imagination Kuerti brought to the works elevated the performance to an absolutely top level. What perfection!” as the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony (Menuhin), Cleveland Orches- Kuerti has participated in leading festivals, and on many occasions has shown remarkable stamina, performing all 5 Beethoven tra (Szell), and the orchestras of Honolulu, Seattle, Montreal and San Francisco. His Concertos plus the Choral Fantasy, or the last 5 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, in one extended concert. As a chamber musician, he vast repertoire includes some 50 concertos, including one he composed himself. has performed the major repertoire with such artists as Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and the Cleveland, Guarneri, St. Lawrence and Tokyo Quartets. His Beethoven Emperor Concerto with the Boston Symphony was hailed by the Boston Globe: “Kuerti is one of the best interpreters of Beethoven around….. His Anton Kuerti is one of today’s most recorded artists, having put on disc all the Beethoven Concertos and Sonatas, the Brahms and playing is strikingly individual….. a focus on line and touch, a clear and flexible Schumann concertos, the Schubert Sonatas and works by many other composers. His recordings are heard almost daily on the CBC. rhythm, a deeply analytical and exploratory approach. … not a note had been taken Kuerti’s newest CD features six Haydn Sonatas. Gramophone magazine called his recent CD of the Schumann Piano Concerto, “a for granted, with even the most prosaic passages refracted through a powerful intel- deeply memorable contribution to this concerto’s recorded history”. lectual prism….. Beethoven’s explosive juxtapositions were not merely jolts, but the sudden release of coiled tension…… the piano positively detonated the blaz- CD Review (London) called him ‘one of the truly great pianists of this century...stunningly played...poignantly beautiful...a superb ing coda……emphasizing spontaneity over smoothness, inquiry over indulgence, Schubert player’, while the Montreal La Presse wrote “Kuerti possesses this music - the “Third” [Beethoven] and all the other con- father and son showed why some warhorses deserve their status -- how, with enough certos - as though he had written it, even to the point of visually suggesting the composer.” intelligence and daring, even familiar music can seem new.” [3/12/08] Anton Kuerti has recently been honored with three additional prestigious awards: The Schumann Prize of the Schumann Gesell- schaft in Germany (2007), the National Arts Prize of the Banff Centre in Canada (2007), and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, the most illustrious artistic honor conferred upon Canada’s performing artists (2008). erman-born mezzo-soprano Christa Pfeiler studied singing and piano at the Berlin udolf Jansen was born in Arnhem (the Netherlands). He studied piano, organ and Conservatory, completing her musical education at the Sweelinck Conservatory harpsichord simultaneously at the Amsterdams Conservatorium with Nelly Wagenaar, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she received her soloist’s diploma. She his father Simon C. Jansen and Gustav Leonhardt. Gcontinued her studies with Elisabeth Freitag in Berlin (opera) and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf R In 1964 he won the Prix d’Excellence for organ, in 1966 the Prix for piano. He later gradu- in Bern, Switzerland (Lieder-interpretation). From 1983 to 1986, at the Studio of the ated as an accompanist with Felix de Nobel. In 1965 he won the Toonkunst Jubileumprijs Netherlands Opera, she interpreted lead roles in operas by Mozart, Rossini, Händel and and in 1966 the Friends of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw awarded him with the Zilveren others. Vriendenkrans. In addition to his solo career Rudolf Jansen has concentrated more and more Christa Pfeiler has appeared in concerts and oratorios throughout Europe, Russia, South on Lied-accompaniment and chamber music. Concert tours took him all over the world to the America, Canada and the Asian continent with conductors Edo de Waart, Lev Markiz, main halls of prominent cities and the famous Music- Festivals, together with artists of great Klaus-Peter Flor, Hans Vonk, Ton Koopman, Kenneth Montgomery, Kees Bakels, Jean- reputation: Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Andreas Schmidt, Olaf Bär, Christiane Oelze, Barbara Paul Penin, Nicholas Kraemer, Salvador Mas, Fabio Pirona and Reinbert de Leeuw. Bonney, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Monica Groop, Tom Krause, Edith Wiens, Birgit Finnilä, Irina With her husband, pianist Rudolf Jansen, she appeared on many stages around the world, Arkhipova, Brigitte Fassbänder and Jean-Pierre Rampal. including several international music festivals, and made a great number of radio- and Rudolf Jansen regularly gives masterclasses for singers and accompanists in, among others, CD-recordings. the Netherlands, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Danmark, Italy, the United States, Canada and Japan. In November 1996 he was invited by the Juilliard School of Music to give She made her Holland Festival debut in 1992 performing Prokofieff’s opera “War and Peace.” a masterclass in New York. He made more than a hundred recordings with songs and chamber music for, among others, Philips, DGG, The repertoire of this versatile singer includes operas, oratorios, concert-arias and songs from baroque to contemporary music. EMI, CBS and Erato, two of which were awarded with an Edison: with oboe player Han de Vries (1973, EMI) and with Dorothy Dorow (Webern-Lieder complete, 1987, Etcetera). Christa Pfeiler can be heard on CD recordings such as Grieg’s Complete Songs (Victoria Records, Oslo), Complete Songs of Alphons Diepenbrock (CNM, Netherlands), the French première of the “Messe Solennelle” by Hector Berlioz and a CD with In 1993 he completed the recording of all songs of Edvard Grieg, with four different singers, released on seven compact discs by songs by Schumann, Brahms and Korngold (Vict.Rec.,Oslo). Victoria (Norway). In 1996 a series of three cd’s appeared at the Dutch label NM-Classics with the complete song-oeuvre by Alphons Diepenbrock, for which Rudolf Jansen worked with five singers. In 1999 the label RCA released a cassette, including eight cd’s with the Christa Pfeiler regularly gives masterclasses for Lied-duos. complete songs with piano by Richard Strauss, with baritone Andreas Schmidt and soprano Juliane Banse. A compact disc with Dietrich For the upcoming season concert tours and masterclasses have been planned in Germany (Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival), Fischer-Dieskau and the Nederlands Kamerkoor received the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis 1992. Canada and Indonesia. Rudolf Jansen is professor at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and at the Musikhochschule of Nürnberg/Augsburg, Germany. She was prize-winner at the International Vocal Competition in ’s Hertogenbosch (Netherlands) and the International Opera and Belcanto Competition of the Belgian Broadcasting Company. ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

lberta-born pianist Kathleen van Mourik earned a Bachelor of Music de- gree at the University of Calgary in Piano Performance before moving to the Netherlands, where she studied lied and chamber music at the Hil- versumA Conservatory under Hans Broekman, receiving the Uitvoerend Musicus degree. Upon returning to Canada, she received a Master of Music degree in piano performance under the tutelage of Vladimir Levtov at the University of Calgary. Other important teachers include the late Greta Kraus and Rudolf Jansen. She also studied with the late Martin Isepp at the Banff Centre and completed a two piano residency there with her husband, pianist Charles Foreman. As a two- Juno-nominated Canadian composer Brian Current for national CBC radio during the 2008 Juno Awards weekend. She also performs piano team, they commissioned works by several composers, and recorded a CD of regularly as orchestral pianist with the Red Deer Symphony. French two-piano music released on the Arktos label, En blanc et noir, which was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award in 2008. She has developed a reputation as an outstanding chamber musician and vocal accompanist, collaborating with such artists as violinists Edmond Agopian, Donovan Seidle and Olivier Thouin, cellists Yegor Dyachkov and Kirill Kalmykov, mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, Ms. Van Mourik is the founder and co-artistic director of the Mountain View In- dancer Denise Clarke, soprano Allison Angelo and and flautist Christie Reside. She can be heard on the Laura Taler DVD Love Songs ternational Festival of Song, Canada’s only summer master class programme and featuring soprano Tracy Smith Bessette recorded by Bravo!FACT. Her work is regularly broadcast on national and regional CBC Radio, concert festival combining art song and chamber music, as well as the Mountain and she has also appeared on radio and television in the Netherlands. View Connection, Calgary’s only concert series devoted to presenting emerging artists in concert. She was a soloist with the Kensington Sinfonia in 2007, playing Mozart and Schumann, and performed For the Time Being by Juno- nominated Canadian composer Brian Current for national CBC radio during the 2008 Juno Awards weekend. In addition to her work with Mountain View, she maintains an active performing schedule, and has appeared across Canada, as well as in the United States, Belgium She has developed a reputation as an outstanding chamber musician and vocal accompanist, collaborating with such artists as violinists and the Netherlands. She is also in demand as an adjudicator, and has been a jury Edmond Agopian, Donovan Seidle and Olivier Thouin, cellist Yegor Dyachkov, baritones Allan Monk and Peter Barrett, dancer De- member for the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition in Brandon, Manitoba. She has nise Clarke, sopranos Allison Angelo and Frédérique Vézina, and flautist Christie Reside. Her work is regularly broadcast on national been a soloist with the Kensington Sinfonia, and performed For the Time Being by and regional CBC Radio, and she has also appeared on radio and television in the Netherlands. ianist Charles Foreman was born near Chicago, where he was a scholar- As a chamber musician, Charles Foreman has performed repeatedly with artists such as Edmond Agopian, Robert Aitken, Allison ship student of Rudolph Reuter at the American Conservatory. His under- Angelo, Donald Bell, Jeremy Brown, James Campbell, Karen Cargill, Stephen Dann, Yegor Dyachkov, Anthony Elliott, Lea Foli, P graduate degree, awarded with high distinction, is from Indiana University, Phil Hansen, Phyllis Mailing, Jason Nedecky, János Négyesy, Wendy Nielsen, Päivikki Nykter, Per Øien, Anita Dusevic Oliva, Carol where he studied piano with Abbey Simon and Joseph Battista and conducting with Plantamura, Gerald Stanick, Olivier Thouin, Kathleen van Mourik, Carol Wincenc, and Tanya Dusevic Witek. In 1982, he won the Julius Herford and Fiora Contino. He also holds the Artist Diploma and Master of Canada Music Council Award for best recorded chamber music with Aitken and Øien. He was a founding member of the Shawni- Music degrees from the University of Toronto, where he studied with Anton Kuerti gan Trio from 1990 to 1998, concertizing extensively in Germany to rave reviews, and making two recordings for Antes Edition. and Katharina Wolpe. Foreman has done postgraduate work with William Aide, and also at the Juilliard School with Abbey Simon. He began a cycle of the complete works of Chopin for solo piano in the fall of 2006, and became the first Canadian pianist ever to complete the cycle in March, 2009. In 2001, Foreman concluded his “Sounds of a Century” project, ten recitals of twentieth-century Foreman made his debut in 1972 with the Chicago Civic Orchestra conducted by piano music, one for each decade. He completed his – and Calgary’s – first cycle of the thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas in 2005, David Gilbert, playing the Brahms B-flat Concerto. Since then, he has won prizes to sold-out houses and standing ovations. His six-concert series of important solo works by Franz Liszt was just completed in the in Canadian and U.S. piano competitions, received two Canada Council grants 2012 – 2013 season. for study and performance in Europe, performed over 30 times with orchestras in North America (including eight repeat engagements with the Calgary Philharmon- As a chamber musician, Charles Foreman has performed repeatedly with artists such as Edmond Agopian, Robert Aitken, Allison ic), under conductors such as Edmond Agopian, Mario Bernardi, Boris Brott, Rolf Angelo, Donald Bell, Jeremy Brown, James Campbell, Karen Cargill, Stephen Dann, Yegor Dyachkov, Anthony Elliott, Lea Foli, Bertsch, Stephen Franse, Stewart Grant, Arpad Joo, and Gerhardt Zimmermann, Phil Hansen, Phyllis Mailing, Jason Nedecky, János Négyesy, Wendy Nielsen, Päivikki Nykter, Per Øien, Anita Dusevic Oliva, Carol and played over 650 solo and chamber recitals in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Plantamura, Gerald Stanick, Olivier Thouin, Kathleen van Mourik, Carol Wincenc, and Tanya Dusevic Witek. In 1982, he won the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, and the U.S. He has been equally praised Canada Music Council Award for best recorded chamber music with Aitken and Øien. He was a founding member of the Shawni- for his superb musicianship, his formidable technique, his vast repertoire, and gan Trio from 1990 to 1998, concertizing extensively in Germany to rave reviews, and making two recordings for Antes Edition. his imaginative programming. His multi-faceted career has included professional Indeed, Foreman’s discography is continually growing, and includes four solo albums and five duo albums (with violinist Edmond broadcasting, professional acting, musical direction, and arts administration. Agopian, baritone Donald Bell, saxophonist Jeremy Brown, pianist Kathleen van Mourik, and flautist Tanya Dusevic Witek). In ad- Professor of piano at the University of Calgary from 1973 – 2009, Foreman also dition, Foreman has appeared as both artist and host on radio and television stations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. served at various times as Assistant Dean of Fine Arts and as Head of the Perfor- He began a cycle of the complete works of Chopin for solo piano in the fall of 2006, and became the first Canadian pianist ever mance Area. Foreman was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann to complete the cycle in March, 2009. In 2001, Foreman concluded his “Sounds of a Century” project, ten recitals of twentieth- Arbor, in 2002, and, since 2008, is a faculty member of the Mount Royal University century piano music, one for each decade. He completed his – and Calgary’s – first cycle of the thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas in Conservatory. He was appointed Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of 2005, to sold-out houses and standing ovations. He is also currently President of the Mountain View International Festival of Song, Calgary in May, 2010. OTHER DISTINGUISHED GUEST ARTISTS INCLUDE:

h Diane Lane, Anita Dusevic Oliva, Rebecca Whitling, violin h Michael Bursey, Liza Scriggins Lowry, viola h Olena Kilchyk, cello h Matt Heller, double bass h Christie Reside, flute

Thank You to Our Generous Sponsors Canada’s first summer music workshop and festival to focus primarily on art song, and of the Mountain View Connection, Calgary’s only concert series dedicated to presenting young professional classical musicians in recital. His six-concert series of important solo works by Franz Liszt will conclude in the 2012 – 2013 season. Master Class Repertoire Settings of poems by Heinrich Heine Checklist: French melodies by Henri Duparc and Francis Poulenc m $50 non-refundable fee included with this m A complete list of Poulenc and Duparc songs and application Heinrich Heine Texts chosen by the applicant Concerts for the Master Classes m One publicity photo and biography (CV) There will be opportunities for young artists to perform in concert the music they have prepared in the mas- m For participants interested in the Professional ter classes. All festival performances and master classes are open to the public. emailed to [email protected] Development Program, a collaborative m Two letters of recommendation chamber music or art song project is required Application Guidelines (email acceptable) m I would like to apply for a full tuition scholarship (optional) Tuition Fees (Canadian Dollars) m CD, DVD, or cassette of 20-25 minutes $1000 master class program of music (see Application information) $1000 chamber music program The Master Classes may be taken for undergraduate or graduate course credit through the University of Calgary. $1000 professional development program Select musicians accepted into the Master Class Program, the Chamber Music Program and the Professional Development Program will receive full tuition scholarships. There are also some travel grants available. Housing The Festival will provide free billets with local families in Calgary. Payment Schedule Application fee: $50 (non-refundable) with application by May 1, 2013 (postmarked) Application Form Please select which programs you are applying for: m MASTER CLASS PROGRAM m CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAM m BOTH m PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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