WITH ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN AND FRIENDS

april 27, 2018 • 8PM A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER

On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am delighted to extend warm greetings to everyone attending Amici Chamber Ensemble’s 30th anniversary season fnal celebratory gala concert.

Music has the power to enrich our lives, lift our spirits and broaden our horizons. I want to thank the ensemble’s members for bringing the richness and beauty of chamber music to the community. For the past three decades, you have contributed to the vibrancy and vitality of Ontario’s cultural landscape.

I am confdent that today’s performance, with its line-up of distinguished performers, will be an unforgettable concert for the audience and a ftting fnale to Amici Chamber Ensemble’s anniversary season.

Please accept my best wishes for an enjoyable and inspiring concert, and for many more years of success.

KATHLEEN WYNNE PREMIER A MESSAGE FROM AMICI

On behalf of all of us at Amici Chamber Ensemble, welcome to tonight’s gala performance of A Legacy of Inspiration/ Amici Chamber Ensemble 30th Anniversary with Isabel Bayrakdarian. Join us in commemorating Amici’s Legacy of making extraordinary music and teaching the next generation of musicians. We are pleased to welcome back dazzling guest soprano Isabel Bayrakdarin, longtime friends violinist Yehonatan Berick and violist , friends from the TSO and students from the Glenn Gould School.

Amici has been making music for 30 wonderful years and we would like to also thank you for taking this journey with us. This season continues to be a great celebration of our legacy here in . We couldn’t be more pleased with JOAQUIN VALDEPEÑAS DAVID HETHERINGTON SEROUJ KRADJIAN the new Inspired by Canada/ Notre Pays recording as well as the diversity of the seasons programming and activities. As you know, it has always been our goal to produce inspiring programming combining the most revered classical compositions with more adventurous music to delight our audiences. Amici needs your help! Please consider making a donation commemorating Amici’s 30th anniversary season. The 2017-18 season has been one of As we began thinking of how to commemorate our anniversary, it was natural celebration and we are very proud of the new album we launched in November, to partner with The Royal Conservatory of Music and perform in the beautiful our season concert series, education initiatives and of course tonight’s fnal Koerner Hall. Building the next generation of musicians has always been very gala in Koerner Hall. It has been a very ambitious year and we need your help important to Amici. Both Joaquin and David are faculty members at the Glenn to fnish the year off strong. Please help us continue to bring the music to life Gould School and combining our 30th anniversary concert with a performance with a donation to Amici today. of the winners of the Glenn Gould School Competition provides a great way to involve students in our concert. We look forward to the next decade making outstanding music together. We are so pleased to count you as part of our family as we celebrate this momentous Get your subscription… visit one of the Amici desks in the lobby, call the box season together. Presenting our series, has been our life’s work and we are so offce at (416) 408-0208 or order online to get your tickets for next year! fortunate to have been able to work with so many talented friends over the years. We couldn’t have built this amazing legacy without our dedicated patrons at ANNOUNCING AMICI’S 2018/19 SEASON: our side, thank you! • L’INVITATION AU CHÂTEAU GALA - September 25, 2018 6:30PM We would also like to thank Dr. Peter Simon, Mervon Mehta and the team at • CONVIVENCIA - November 18, 2018 3PM the Royal Conservatory of Music for your support and partnership. We would • MOZART’S PARTY - February 10, 2019 3PM also like to thank the for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and • THE MYSTICAL AND THE MACABRE - March 31, 2019 3PM Toronto Arts Council for their ongoing operating support. We would also like • BEETHOVEN’S BEST - April 28, 2019 3PM to acknowledge and thank the OLG for their support of charities in the GTA.

Take Amici home… Be sure to get your copy of Amici’s newest album Inspired by Canada/ Notre Pays, Levant, or many others at the Amici desk in the lobby. INSPIRED BY A LEGACY PROGRAM AMICI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Ottorino Respighi Il tramonto, for voice and string quartet 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN Ernö Dohnányi Sextet in C Major, op. 37 (|) Allegro appassionato (||) Intermezzo: Adagio Joaquin Valdepeñas, (|||) Allegro con sentimento David Hetherington, cello (|V) Finale: Allegro vivace, giocoso Serouj Kradjian, piano

Guest Artists: INTERMISSION Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano Yehonatan Berick, violin

Katya Poplyansky, violin * Selection by winners of The Glenn Gould School Chamber Music Competition Steven Dann, Theodore Chan, bass Leonard Bernstein “A Simple Song” from Mass Kelly Zimba, fute (arr. John Greer) “A Julia de Burgos” from Songfest Gabriel Radford, horn “A Little Bit in Love” from Wonderful Town” Steven Woomert, trumpet “I Can Cook Too” from On the Town Bryn Lutek, percussion * Leonard Bernstein Clarinet Sonata *GLENN GOULD SCHOOL STUDENT Grazioso Andantino - Vivace e leggiero

Leonard Bernstein West Side Story medley (arr. Serouj Kradjian) IL TRAMONTO | THE SUNSET There late was One within whose subtle being, As light and wind within some delicate cloud That fades amid the blue noon’s burning sky, Genius and OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1792-1822) death contended. None may know The sweetness of the joy which made his breath Fail, like the trances of the summer air, In 1914, Respighi set to music for mezzo-soprano a poem by Percy Bysshe When, with the lady of his love, who then First knew the unreserve of mingled Shelley (1792- 1822), the great English poet and husband of Mary Shelley, being, author of the gothic novel Frankenstein. The work was composed specifcally for He walked along the pathway of a feld Chiarana Fino Savio, a friend of the to whom he also dedicated the Which to the east a hoar wood shadowed o’er, But to the west was open to work, and for string quartet or string ensemble. The poem itself embodies the the sky. purest Romantic tradition, with its depiction of a sunset symbolizing the death There now the sun had sunk, but lines of gold Hung on the ashen clouds, and on the points Of the far level grass and nodding fowers And the old of two lovers, much like Wagner’s Liebestod, which concludes Tristan and Isolde. dandelion’s hoary beard, Two other poems by Shelley were set by Respighi, whose output in the genre And, mingled with the shades of twilight, lay On the brown massy woods - and in the east The broad and burning moon lingeringly rose Between totals ffty: Aretusa (Arethusa, 1910) and La sensetiva (The Sensitive Plant, the black trunks of the crowded trees, While the faint stars were gathering 1914), though they are less well-known than Il Tramonto. For the latter, Respighi overhead. “Is it not strange, Isabel,” said the youth, chose a syllabic style in broad strokes, in a more post-Romantic than neo- “I never saw the sun? We will walk here To-morrow; thou shalt look on it Classical vein. Here, the strings effectively magnify the words and instrumental with me.” interludes punctuate the overall atmosphere, drawing out the lyri- cism inherent That night the youth and lady mingled lay in the text. Because of the intimacy between soloist and strings, the work has In love and sleep - but when the morning came The lady found her lover sometimes been described as a symphonic vocal poem. dead and cold. Let none believe that God in mercy gave CLAIRE VILLENEUVE That stroke. The lady died not, nor grew wild, But year by year lived on - in truth I think Her gentleness and patience and sad smiles, And that she did not die, but lived to tend Her agèd father, were a kind of madness, If madness ‘tis to be unlike the world. For but to see her were to read the tale Woven by some subtlest bard, to make hard hearts Dissolve away in wisdom-working grief;

Her eyes were black and lustreless and wan: Her eyelashes were worn away with tears, Her lips and cheeks were like things dead - so pale; Her hands were thin, and through their wandering veins And weak articulations might be seen Day’s ruddy light. The tomb of thy dead self Which one vexed ghost inhabits, night and day, Is all, lost child, that now remains of thee! “Inheritor of more than earth can give, Passionless calm and silence unreproved, Where the dead fnd, oh, not sleep! but rest, And are the uncomplaining things they seem, Or live, a drop in the deep sea of Love; Oh, that like thine, mine epitaph were - Peace!” This was the only moan she ever made. SEXTET IN C MAJOR, OP. 37 SONATA FOR CLARINET AND PIANO ERNÖ DOHNÁNYI (1877-1960) LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)

ALLEGRO APPASSIONATOW GRAZIOSO INTERMEZZO: ADAGIO ANDANTINO - VIVACE A LEGGIERO ALLEGRO CON SENTIMENTO The prodigious U.S. composer-conductor was 23 when he composed this sonata, FINALE: ALLEGRO VIVACE, GIOCOSO yet it is his frst acknowledged composition. It is certainly worth acknowledging - Ernö Dohnányi (1877-1960) was one of the founders of modern musical life a remarkable work, with an obvious debt to Hindemith, but with a lyricism more in . He was to exert great infuence as teacher and administrator, but natural than Hindemith’s and many jazzy devices clearly Bernstein’s own. Of he made perhaps his greatest contribution through his early decision to remain the two movements the Grazioso is full of easy-going charm, the more discursive in for his training - the frst Hungarian of notable talent to do so. and various Andantino gives us a spare, quiet opening, some jittery dance-like By example and infuence, he persuaded Bartók and others to do the same. quick music, a lovely nostalgic slow interlude, and a fnal return to the dance. However, unlike his younger contemporaries Bartók and Kódaly, and in spite of his nationalism, Dohnányi had no interest in Hungarian folk-music studies, nor in avant garde musical techniques of the twentieth century. As a virtuoso pianist, he followed in the tradition of Liszt, and as a composer he continued MEDLEY FROM WEST SIDE STORY the German style of Mendelssohn and Brahms. LEONARD BERNSTEIN (ARR. S. KRADJIAN) Indeed, it was Brahms who approvingly arranged the première in Vienna of the eighteen-year-old Dohnányi’s Op. 1 the Piano Quintet in c minor in 1895. Forty West Side Story, is not only one of the landmark achievements of American years later the SEXTET IN C MAJOR, OP. 37 (1935) opened with a Brahmsian musical theater, it also became a legendary success on Broadway at its opening horn-call that showed the composer still true to his youthful inspiration. The in September 1957. A modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet SEXTET, to be sure, shows a more advanced idiom than the Brahms style of that plays out in New York slums, it was called a “social music drama” by its the late nineteenth century, especially in the extended chromatic handling of creators, composer Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, and choreographer harmonies and tonalities, where unmistakably the lasting infuence of Wagner Jerome Robbins. Tonight’s medley highlights some of its most special moments. can be heard. In form too, the work remains true to Romantic traditions, including the integration of of musical ideas among the movements, such as the recurrence of the opening horn-call in the transition to the Finale and again towards the end. Nevertheless, eclectic and conservative as he may have been, Dohnányi spoke with his own voice and fashioned the SEXTET with imagination and brio.

CARL MOREY ABOUT AMICI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Amici Chamber Ensemble recently celebrated 30 years as one of Canada’s fnest and most distinguished chamber music ensembles. Co-Artistic Directors clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas, cellist David Hetherington and pianist Serouj Kradjian invite some of the fnest musicians to join them in innovative and eclectic programming, celebrating friendship through music.

Amici Chamber Ensemble’s annual concert series has featured world- renowned musicians as frequent guests and the ensemble has commissioned and premiered over thirty works by Canadian . Alongside numerous broadcasts of their concerts on national radio, Amici Chamber Ensemble’s recordings have placed them frmly among the world’s best chamber musicians and garnered the ensemble two JUNO awards and several nominations. For more information please visit www.amiciensemble.com.

1986 1993 1998 2007 First performances at U of T with Juno Award for “Among Friends”, Recording #5 “In Brahms’ First concert with Serouj Patricia, Joaquin and David Summit Records. Apartment”, Summit Records 2010 1988 1995 2001 Recording #10 “Armenian Chamber First concert series of the Amici Recording #2 “Quartet Recording #6 “Quartet for the End Music”, ATMA Classique Chamber ensemble for the End of Time”, of Time”, Naxos Summit Records 2012 1989 2003 Recording #11 “Levant”, Tour to Atlantic Provinces featuring 1995 Recording #7 “Amici and Jean ATMA Classics our frst commissioned work “Among Tour to Mexico Stilwell”, CBC Records Friends” by Chan Ka Nin 2012 1996 2005 Juno Award for “Levant” 1990 Recording #3 “Beethoven”, Recording #8 “D’Indy, Tour to Summit Records Bruch”, Naxos 2013 25th Anniversary concert 1993 1997 2005 Recording #1 “Amici”, Recording #4 “Contrasts”, Recording #9 “Majestic Flair”, 2017 Summit Records Summit Records CBC Records Recording #12 “Inspired by Canada/ Notre Pays”, Marquis Records INNOVATIVE AND ECLECTIC PROGRAMMING IS AT THE HEART OF AMICI’S ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING

AMICI IN THE RECORDING STUDIO! AMICI HAS WON TWO JUNO AWARDS AND RECEIVED SEVERAL NOMINATIONS AMICI HAS HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH MANY EXCEPTIONAL MUSICIANS. HERE IS A LIST OF THE MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS AMICI HAS WORKED WITH AND/OR PLAYED OVER THE YEARS:

Rabih Abou-Khalil Frank Bridge Andrew Downing John Adams Benjamin Britten Jamie Drake Max Bruch Mark DuBois Solhi Al Wadi Measha Henri Duparc Isaac Albéniz Brueggergosman Aaron Durand David Amram Glenn Buhr Henri Dutilleux Violet Archer Patrick Cardy Antonin Dvorák Anton Arensky Gian Carlo Menotti Phil Dwyer Alexander Arutiunian Elliott Carter Timothy Eddy Shmuel Ashkenasi John Cerminaro James Ehnes Mireille Asselin James Chatto Edward Elgar Arno Babadjanian Ernest Chausson Louise Farrenc Johanne Sebastian Gayaneh Chebotaryan Gabriel Fauré Bach Brian Cherney Vladimir Feltsman Peggy Baker Max Christie Alex Feswick Samuel Banks Rebecca Clarke Mark Fewer Béla Bartók Paul Coletti Zdenek Fibich Jeanne Baxtresser Gerald Finzi Isabel Bayrakdarian John Corigliano Malcolm Forsyth Martin Beaver Jonathan Crow César Franck Jeffrey Beecher Bernhard Crusell Harry Freedman Marie Bérard Carl Frühling Alban Berg Vincent D’Indy Robert Fuchs Yehonatan Berick Jin-shan Dai Jacob Gade Carlos Gardel Leonard Bernstein Steven Dann Reinhold Gliére Franz Berwald Franz Danzi Mikhail Glinka Franz Berwald Rivka Golani Luigi Boccherini Manuel de Falla Osvaldo Golijov William Bolcom Paco de Lucia Father Gomidas Giovanni Bottesini Allan Gordon Bell Benjamin Bowman Neil Deland Grisha Goryachev Douglas Boyd Edison Denisov Stéphane Grappelli Caitlin Boyle Rachel Desoer John Greer Sasha Djihanian Edvard Grieg Russell Braun Ernö von Dohnányi Dave Grusin Vasan Rajalingam Kyrylo Stetsenko Rachel Mercer Lakshmi Ranganathan Jean Stilwell Richard Ranti Richard Strauss Paul Meyer Vainika Ratna Darius Milhaud Michael Sweeney Darius Milhaud Edward Tait Alexander Mishnaevsky Man Ray Marko Tajcevic Joni Mitchell Max Reger Toru Takemitsu Xavier Montsalvatge Rennie Regher Phyllis Tate Oskar Morawetz Django Reinhardt John Taverner Jesse Morrison Frederick Rizner Steven Tenenbom Modest Moussorgsky Catherine Robbin John Thrower Wolfgang Amadeus Lesley Robertson Peter Tiefenbach Mozart Joaquin Turina Robert Muczynski Gioachino Rossini Victor Ullmann R. Murray Schafer Nino Rota Rosemarie Umetsu Sarah Nematallah Archduke Rudolph Galina Ustvolskaya Sofa Gubaidulina Chan Kan Nin Sarah Lewis Leslie Newman John Rudolph Ludvig van Beethoven Albert Guinovart Paul Kantor Teng Li Otto Nicolai Camille Saint-Saëns Heidi Van Hoesen Kathy Halvorson Mark Kaplan Wendy Limbertie Carl Nielsen Michael Schade Gorton Moshe Hammer Nikolai Kapustin Cho-Liang Lin Aisslinn Nosky Heather Schmidt Kim Kashkashian Franz Liszt Eric Nowlin Arnold Schoenberg Heitor Villa Lobos Daniel Hass Ida Kavafan Charles Loeffer Geoff Nuttall Allan Vogel Buster Keaton Patricia O’Callaghan Erwin Schulhof Andrew Wan Terence Helmer Aram Khachaturian Philip Loosemore Roberto Occhipinti Robert Schumann Joan Watson Harcus Hennigar Mi Hyon Kim Joseph Orlowski Ryan Scott Carl Maria von Weber Jacques Hétu Shane Kim Raymond Ludeke Niccolo Paganini Mayumi Seiler Anton Webern Sydney Hodkinson Soovin Kim José Luis Garcia Steven Page Alexander Sevastian Julia Wedman Susan Hoeppner Leslie Kinton Guy Maddin Louis Papachristos Orli Shaham Larry Weeks Toby Hoffman Gideon Klein Brian Mamker Arvo Pärt Bright Sheng Sharon Wei Arthur Honegger Lothar Klein Max Mandel Annalee Patipatanikoon Barry Shiffman Kurt Weill Marina Hoover Oliver Knussen Leslie Mann, Joseph Petric Dmitri Shostakovich Mieczyslaw Weinberg Jacques Ibert Min-Jeong Ko Tigran Mansurian Daniel Phillips Nora Shulman Linda Ippolito Zoltán Kodály Arturo Márquez Todd Phillips Stephen Sitarski Dan Welcher Jacques Israelievitch Joanne Kolomyec Lois Marshall Astor Piazzolla Dianne Werner Charles Ives Franz Krommer Bohuslav Martinu Alice Ping Yee Ho James Sommerville Edith Wiens David Jaeger Henry Kucharzyk Richard Mascall Brett Polegato Timothy Ying Leoš Janáček Gary Kulesha James Mason Francis Poulenc Lara St. John Neil Young Sarah Jeffrey Aline Kutan Andrew McCandless André Previn Scott St. John Winona Zelenka Beverley Johnston André Laplante Brian McDonagh André Previn Andrew Staniland Alexander Zemlinsky Paul Juon Jaime Laredo Robert McDuffe Sergei Prokofev Arnold Steinhardt Beste Kalender Claude Lavallée Kathleen McLean Joel Quarrington Victor Steinhardt Ilya Kaler Ernesto Lecuona Douglas McNabney Sergei Rachmaninoff Cynthia Stelges THE EARLY YEARS - CELEBRATING 20 WONDERFUL YEARS WITH FOUNDING MEMBER PATRICIA PARR “In 1988, I was involved in forming the Amici Chamber Ensemble. I’d been organizing the Faculty Artist Series for almost ten years when my friend and colleague Joaquin Valdepeñas - principle clarinetist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra - approached me with the idea of forming an ensemble. I’d had occasion to play with Joaquin several times, and we had even recorded a CD together. I was delighted at the thought of being the pianist of such an ensemble. This would mean regular concerts and fexibility in programming; we agreed that cellist David Hetherington would be an ideal choice and together the three of us formed the core of Amici, meaning “friends” in Italian.

We began modestly and took no fee for ourselves, mostly because in the beginning there was no money to do so. Fortunately, the CBC producer Neil Crory got involved. He was instrumental in establishing us by recording our concerts and facilitating the commission of new works… We remained committed to performing works by Canadian composers and included one on every program. “We all agreed that our ensemble was Our collaboration with the CBC started with a remarkably the fun part of being musicians”. successful three- concert series that soon grew to four. Moving Patricia Parr on to larger and more desirable venues, we received additional fnancial backing through grants and donations and were able to invite performing friends from the US and abroad. The CBC recorded all of these concerts, up until the last few years when cutbacks reduced their coverage.

Planning programs was exhilarating, particularly within the realm of works available to us. From Messiaen’s Quartet for the end of Time to Schubert’s Octet, we continually expanded and contracted the ensemble to reach a wider and more unusual range of works. Strings and wind players, singers and even dancers joined us on stage, adding an extra-musical dimension to our concerts. In this way, we always attempted to do something new and innovative.”

Excerpt from Patricia Parr’s book Above Parr, Memoir of a Child Prodigy GUEST ARTISTS Ottawa. He has been invited as teacher and artist-in-residence at many festivals, Isabel Bayrakdarian’s performing career was and is featured in masterclasses worldwide. His students hold leading positions launched in 1997, the year she was a winner of the in major orchestras, ensembles, and music schools worldwide. Yehonatan Berick Metropolitan Opera Auditions, and the same year is currently plays a 1761 violin by Carlo Ferdinando Landolf, generously on she graduated from the cum loan from the University of Ottawa. laude with a biomedical engineering degree. Since then, she has performed in major opera houses across the globe and with many of the world’s fnest orchestras. Her versatility is also refected in being the featured vocalist on the Grammy Award-winning Canadian violinist Katya Poplyansky is currently soundtrack of the blockbuster flm The Lord of The pursuing her Artist Diploma at the Glenn Gould Rings: The Two Towers, and on the soundtrack of Atom Egoyan’s Ararat. School, with Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman. She completed her Masters at the Guildhall School of Dr. Bayrakdarian is the winner of many prestigious awards, including four Music and Drama in 2016, with David Takeno, and consecutive Juno Awards (her latest CD Mother of Light was nominated for her Bachelors at the Curtis Institute of Music in a 2018 Juno Award), the Queen Elizabeth II Golden & Diamond Jubilee 2014, with Shmuel Ashkenasi, Victor Danchenko, Medals, and most recently, she was awarded the “Movses Khorenatsi” Medal— Ida Kavafan, and Joseph Silverstein. She has Republic of Armenia’s highest cultural award. She has received an Honorary participated in numerous festivals including, among Doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal others, the Festival Jong Talent Schiermonnikoog, Conservatory of Music. She is Assistant Professor of Voice at UC Santa Barbara. Banff Master Class Program, and IMS Prussia Cove Master Class Program and Open Chamber Music Sessions. She also received second prizes at the Isabel Bader Violin Competition and Tunbridge Wells International Competition, and will be a semi-fnalist at the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition in May, 2018. Katya is a grateful recipient of the Temerty Family Prizewinner at the 1993 Naumburg competition and Foundation Scholarships. a recipient of the 1996-97 Prix Opus, Yehonatan Berick is in high demand internationally as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. Performances as soloist include Quebec, , Ann Arbor, and Jerusalem Symphonies, and the Steven Dann was born in Vancouver, Canada. His Israeli, Cincinnati, Montreal and Manitoba Chamber foremost teacher and mentor was the late Lorand Orchestras. He has collaborated with many world Fenyves. Upon graduation from university he was renowned artists. Festival and chamber series named Principal Viola of the National Arts Centre include Marlboro, Ravinia, Seattle, Ottawa, and Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada, a position he has Music@Menlo. He tours extensively worldwide, and is featured in the world’s subsequently held with the Tonhalle Orchestra most important venues, including Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall. His in Zurich, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in recordings have won rave reviews in the press. Equally sought after as violin and Amsterdam, the Vancouver Symphony and the chamber music mentor, Berick serves as Professor of Violin at the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Steven Dann has collaborated as a soloist with such Maestri as Sir Andrew Ms. Zimba has performed around the world in such Davis, Rudolph Barshai, Jiri Belohlavek, Sir John Elliott Gardiner, Jukka- Pekka venues as Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Beijing’s Saraste and . National Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Teatro del Lago in Frutillar, Chile. In 2017, she Since 1990 Mr. Dann has been a member of the Smithsonian Chamber Players performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony on its in Washington D.C. and was a founding member of the Axelrod String Quartet. European Festivals Tour. He is currently violist of both the Zebra Trio (with violinist Ernst Kovacic and cellist Anssi Karttunen) and Toronto’s twice Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble. In addition to performing, Kelly served for two years on the faculty of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Sitka, Steven Dann teaches viola and chamber music at the Glenn Gould School in Alaska, where she was an artist-in-residence in Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. January 2018. She was recently a Toronto Summer Music Festival’s Community Academy mentor, and also taught instrumental music at Belvoir Terrace in Lenox, Massachusetts in addition to teaching privately across the United States.

Ottawa native Theodore Chan joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) bass section in the 2012. Prior to the TSO, Theodore was a tenured Gabriel Radford is currently Third Horn of the member of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held as Assistant Principal Bass, a position he won since 2002. immediately following graduate studies at the University of Southern California (USC). Over the course of his career, Gabriel has played with many orchestras, including several guest appearances Theodore has performed with the and Carnegie Hall performances with the Boston Philharmonic, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra and Les Violons du Roy. He has Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Santa also played with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Symphony. Major mentors include Dennis Trembly, David Moore, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Kirov Orchestra Joel Quarrington. In 2008, Mr. Chan was awarded a commendation from the and l’Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec. He frequently records for movies, TV City of Los Angeles for his “extraordinary commitment to the great tradition of shows and commercials such as Hockey Night in Canada, the Olympics, Murdoch classical music.” Mysteries, and the feature flm Burn Your Maps.

In 2017, Gabriel joined the Boston Symphony in Boston, and on tour in Japan, and this year, he will perform at Tanglewood and join the BSO on a tour of the fnest concert halls in Europe. Kelly Zimba is the newly appointed Principal Flute of the Toronto Symphony Gabriel often plays the great chamber works written for Horn. Recently he has Orchestra. Previously a Flute Fellow at the New World Symphony, she has worked with artists such as André Laplante, Jonathan Crow, David Louie, Frank performed with the Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Palm Beach Symphony Orchestras Morelli, Joaquin Valdepeñas, the Penderecki String Quartet, James Campbell and was a two-time Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. In October 2017, and many others. she was Flute Talk Magazine’s featured cover story. Steven Woomert joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Associate Principal Trumpet in the 2014– 2015 season. Steven has appeared as the RECORDING Acting Principal Trumpet of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and also performed with the SPOTLIGHT: Barbados Classical Pops All Star Orchestra, New Inspired by Canada/ Notre World Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Calgary Pays, Amici’s newest recording Philharmonic Orchestra, Thunder Bay Symphony project celebrates both our Orchestra, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. 30th anniversary season and Steven completed his Bachelor of Music degree at Northwestern University, Canada’s 150th anniversary. where he primarily studied with Barbara Butler. He continued his studies at the Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto where he studied with Andrew McCandless. In 2013 Steven was the winner of the International Trumpet Guild Orchestral Excerpts Competition. Steven has participated in many summer festivals, including the National Youth Orchestra of Canada; National Academy Orchestra; Banff Festival Orchestra; National Orchestral Institute, National Repertory Orchestra, and Spoleto Festival USA. AMICI ARTISTS Steven completed his Bachelor of Music degree at Northwestern University, where he primarily studied with Barbara Butler. He continued his studies at the Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto where he studied Joaquin Valdepeñas, considered one with Andrew McCandless. In 2013 Steven was the winner of the International of the most distinguished clarinetists Trumpet Guild Orchestral Excerpts Competition. Steven has participated in many of his generation was recently summer festivals, including the National Youth Orchestra of Canada; National appointed Resident Conductor at the Academy Orchestra; Banff Festival Orchestra; National Orchestral Institute, Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn National Repertory Orchestra, and Spoleto Festival USA. Gould School and has conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on many occasions. A prolifc recording artist, he has won two Juno Awards, for his recording of Jacque Hetu’s clarinet My name is Bryn Lutek. I began percussion at the concerto and most recently with age of seven, playing drumset. I came to orchestral Amici Chamber Ensemble’s Levant. music while I was in high school, largely through the His latest CD with the ARC Ensemble music of Bach, Mahler, and Messiaen. I earned my on the Chandos Label was released undergraduate degree in Percussion Performance last season and features the Clarinet from McGill University where I studied with Aiyun Quintet of Paul Ben-Haim. Another Huang, Andrei Malashenko, and Fabrice Marandola. Chandos disc has just been recorded for release in 2016. Mr. Valdepeñas I’m currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Glenn was a Grammy Award nominee three consecutive years in the chamber music Gould School, where I study with Charles Settle. category—the latest nomination for a recording featuring the music of Julius Rontgen on Sony BMG. Mr. Valdepeñas was appointed principal clarinet of the Toronto Symphony as well as recitals at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory Orchestra upon graduation from Yale University and appears as soloist, chamber of Music. As chamber musician, he has toured Canada, the United States, musician, and conductor. He has performed at international festivals including Mexico and Europe, appeared at the Ottawa, Elora, Sweetwater and Kincardine Banff, Casals, Curitiba Brazil, Marlboro, Nagano Japan, and Korea’s Great Music Festivals and performed with many internationally renowned artists Mountains Music Festival and has collaborated with the American, Calder, such as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Emmanuel Ax, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Measha Emerson, Muir, Orion, St. Lawrence, Takács, Ying, and Zemlinsky string quartets, Brueggergosman, James Ehnes, Heinz Holliger and Arnold Steinhardt. as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The International Sejong Soloists and the Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio. Mr. Valdepeñas made In addition to Amici, Mr. Hetherington is also a founding member of the string his European debut with the BBC Welsh Symphony which was televised on the quartet Accordes which performs regularly for New Music Concerts and other BBC and has recorded the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the English Chamber contemporary music organizations. In 2001, the Canadian Music Centre, through Orchestra. Centrediscs, released Accordes’ recording of Harry Somers’ String Quartets, for which it received a Juno Award nomination. Accordes has also recorded works by He has been a member of the artist/faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and several other Canadian composers such as , David Eagle, Harry School for many years and was featured in a PBS documentary about the Freedman, Hope Lee, Alexina Louie and Jean Papineau-Couture. festival. Last season his love of chamber music took him to performances at Wigmore Hall in London and The Royal Concertgbeouw Hall in Amsterdam. Mr. Hetherington has appeared on several recordings for the CBC and for Centrediscs with whom he made the Canadian première recording of Talivaldis As an exclusive Yamaha artist he was instrumental in the design of the CSG Kenins’ prize-winning cello sonata. He has been active in performing and clarinet combining the french and german traditions into a unique voice. recording much contemporary music and has recorded solo cello pieces by Alice Ho, Chan Ka Nin (CBC Records) and Elliot Carter (Naxos). In addition, he has collaborated personally with many other composers such as Brian Cherney, Henri Dutilleux, Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann, Magnus Lindberg and Alexina Louie for performances of their works for solo cello. All of these performances A native of St. Catharines Ontario, were recorded for broadcast by the CBC. David Hetherington was for many years Mr. Hetherington plays a cello made in 1695 by Giovanni Battista Grancino. the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Principal Cellist. He received his musical training at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto, and furthered Canadian pianist and composer Serouj his cello studies in New York, Kradjian has established himself as a and with Claus Adam, André versatile artist whose readiness to break Navarra and Paul Tortelier. new boundaries and explore different styles has made him an exciting voice Mr. Hetherington teaches at the on the international music scene. Glenn Gould School at the Royal The New York Times has described Conservatory, coaches the cello section Juno-award-winning and Grammy- of the National Youth Orchestra of nominated Kradjian’s playing as a Canada and is Music Director of the Inter-Provincial Music Camp near Parry “persuasive balance between elegance Sound, Ontario. and spirit,” while the Frankfurter Allegemeine noted that he has “a fery As soloist, Mr. Hetherington has performed with the Toronto Symphony temperament and elegant sound” with Orchestra, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, the Niagara Symphony, the “technique to burn.” Mr. Kradjian has Symphony Orchestra of Canada, New Music Concerts and Soundstreams Canada appeared with the Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Madrid and Göttingen Symphonies, the Russian National Orchestra, the Armenian Philharmonic and the Thailand Philharmonic. Solo, chamber music recitals and premieres of his compositions have taken Mr. Kradjian from all major Canadian cities, via the U.S – New York (Carnegie Hall), Boston (Jordan Hall) , San Francisco , Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles – to European concert halls in , Munich, Salzburg, Trondheim, Lausanne, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao, to the Far East in China and Japan and to Latin America (Mexico & Brazil). He is regularly invited to the Ottawa, Bergen, Savannah, Colmar and Cortona music festivals. Congratulations on thirty years Serouj Kradjian’s discography includes the acclaimed Transcendental Etudes of brilliant musical performance. and Piano Concerti by Franz Liszt, and Robert Schumann’s three sonatas for violin and piano (with Ara Malikian). With Isabel Bayrakdarian he recorded songs by Pauline Viardot-Garcia (2006 Juno award for Classical Album of the Year). With the Amici Chamber Ensemble, he has recorded Armenian Chamber Music and Levant which won the Juno for Best Classical Recording in 2013.

Works composed or arranged by Serouj Kradjian have been performed by I Musici de Montréal, the Toronto & Vancouver Symphonies, the & Elektra Women’s Choir. His orchestral arrangements of Armenian folk songs , featured in the Nonesuch release Gomidas Songs earned him a Grammy award nomination. Trobairitz Ysabella, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, was a commission by the CBC and premiered by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in 2011 and included in the Juno-nominated recording “Troubadour and the Nightingale”. His “Cantata for Living Martyrs”, dedicated to the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, was premiered by the Fresno Philharmonic and Chorus. “Mother of Light”, a new album of medieval sacred music entirely arranged by Kradjian was recently nominated for a 2018 Juno for Best Classical Recording.

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