P2 Parry P o Festival . July 16 – August 8, 2010 o a . Box 750 2Z1 s ound, F the sound o ntario James Campbell, Artistic Director Where the world’s 1.866.364.0061 Annual Summer Classical Music Festival great musicians Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts www.festivalofthesound.ca come to play. 2010 Parry Sound, Ontario New Zealand String Quartet Stockey Young Artists Mark DuBois Afiara String Quartet Denis Brott Orford Six Pianos Opera Gala Angela Cheng Michel Strauss Mary Lou Fallis Janina Fialkowska Chopin Celebrated Adam György André Laplante Trio Désirée The Glory of the Cello Classic Primadonna Guy Few Leslie Fagan Mosaique James Campbell Anagnoson & Kinton Elmer Iseler Singers Big Band Weekend Dave Young Big Band Toronto All-Star Big Band Scandinavian Suite Gene DiNovi Bach Mass in B minor Sound the Trumpet Penderecki String Quartet Judy Loman Festival Chamber Orchestra Sharlene Wallace James Sommerville Festival Winds Swiss Piano Trio The Schumann Letters Harp Festival Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Pirates of Penzance Frederieke Saeijs The Naiscoot Rocks John hartman has established a reputation across Canada John Hartman and abroad for his large scale landscape paintings. his early work was animated by both the mythical and the mundane stories of the painted locales. Most recently hartman has been painting aerial views of cities, presenting them as living organisms entwined with the natural terrain of their geographic sites. hartman’s studio is in lafontaine at the south end of Georgian Bay and each summer he makes small landscape paintings in the islands surrounding his camp, south of Britt, on the eastern Director’s shore of the Bay. This Summer James Campbell, Artistic Director Annual Summer Classical Music Festival Message Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts Dear Friends 2010 Parry Sound, Ontario Gryphon Trio Welcome to the 31st Festival of the Sound! 4 2010 Highlights / Musicians & Ensembles I thought when beginning this message that I would 6 Jazz Canada Weekend / Special Events once again list many of the highlights of the 2010 season. 7 RBC Stockey Young Artists But I soon came to realize that for me the entire Festival experience is the highlight. So rather than singling out 8 Opening Weekend: July 16 to July 18, 2010 a particular event, I want to invite you to enjoy as 10 Week 1: July 19 – July 25, 2010 much of that experience as you can. 12 Week 2: July 26 – August 1, 2010 Listen to much loved chamber music 14 Week 3: August 2 – August 8, 2010 performed with the excitement and intensity 16 Calendar that only a live concert can bring. Chat with New Zealand String Quartet friends on the deck of the Stockey Centre 18 Essence of Austria – Fundraising Gala while enjoying the magical sunsets that 20 Play a Starring Role regularly appear over Georgian Bay. Challenge your mind 23 Music Scores with new music and lectures, discover new talent, or enjoy 24 Thank You the friendly hospitality of our Festival family. 25 Ticket Information This is our 8th season in one of the world’s most wonderful chamber music venues. For those of you reading 30 Ticket Order Form this who have not yet experienced the incredible acoustics and intimate warmth of the Charles W. Stockey Centre for Box office information the Performing Arts, perhaps now is the time. Join us for 1.866.364.0061 Mailing Festival of the Sound, Box 750, great concerts in a spectacular Georgian Bay setting. address Parry Sound, ON P2A 2Z1 Box office Festival Office, 42 James Street, address Parry Sound, ON P2A 1T5 Phone 705-746-2410 Fax 705-746-5639 James Campbell e-mail [email protected] Artistic Director Janina Fialkowska Website www.festivalofthesound.ca & Jan Lisiecki 2 3 From left: Leopoldo Erice, Oxford Six Pianos, 2010 Highlights Elmer Iseler Singers Musicians Musicians lydia adams, conductor 31st Season of Firsts Nora Bumanis of the Edmonton Symphony and Celtic and James Mason, oboe Colin ainsworth, tenor traditional harpist Sharlene Wallace in most of the best Peter McGillivray, baritone emmanuelle Beaulieu We begin the fourth decade of the Festival of the Sound James McKay, bassoon & conductor Bergeron, cello with a season of firsts: repertoire for harp. Erica Goodman, the Festival’s long-time douglas Mcnabney, viola Macha Belooussova, piano • The first Festival performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor, resident harpist, is heard three times between July 23 and 28. Bob Mills, bass Coenraad Bloemendal, cello Glen Montgomery, piano david Bourque, clarinet our most ambitious production ever! Chopin Celebrated! – July 22 to 24 John novacek, piano denis Brott, cello • The first performance of a Beethoven Symphony by Gabrielle Prata, mezzo-soprano Janina Fialkowska hosts a festival of music by her favourite nora Bumanis, harp the Festival Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Joel Quarrington, double bass andrew Burashko, piano composer, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth John Rice, storyteller James Sommerville. Graham Campbell, guitar of Chopin. She is joined by André Laplante, Angela Cheng, Frederieke saeijs, violin James Campbell, clarinet • Family Fare: the first time we have repeated portions of Roy schatz, baritone Jan Lisiecki and Glen Montgomery in the solos, chamber works laura schatz, alto angela Cheng, piano our Friday evening gala concerts for a family audience on terry Clarke, drums and concertos of Chopin and his contemporaries. sybil shanahan, cello Gene dinovi, piano Saturday – six-piano concert on July 17 and five-harp Christian sharpe, bassoon Chloe dominguez, cello concert on August 7. And they are free! Schumann Celebrated! – August 4 Barry shiffman, viola luba dubinsky, piano suzanne shulman, flute • The first time the Elmer Iseler Singers have performed When he encountered Chopin’s Variations on La Ci Darem Mark duBois, tenor James sommerville, horn & conductor Yegor dyachkov, cello Gilbert and Sullivan – the Pirates of Penzance on August 8. La Mano, Robert Schumann wrote “Hats off, gentleman, a neil spaulding, horn leopoldo erice, piano Genius!” Schumann, also born in 1810, composed some of the vicki st. Pierre, alto leslie Fagan, soprano The Glory of the Cello Jeffrey stokes, lecturer greatest masterpieces of Romantic music. The Festival of the Michel strauss, cello Mary lou Fallis, soprano Outstanding cellists perform the greatest works for their Guy Few, trumpet & piano Sound celebrates his own genius in a full day of concerts, Jennifer swartz, harp instrument. Meet Denis Brott, Artistic Director of the Montreal Mark Fewer, violin including The Schumann Letters, a musical biography sharing stéphan sylvestre, piano Janina Fialkowska, piano Chamber Music Festival, Michel Strauss, Professor at the Peter tiefenbach, piano the story of the love and tragedy of Robert and Clara Schumann. désirée till, soprano Colin Fox, actor Conservatoire de Paris, Coenraad Bloemendal, born in susan Gilmour Bailey, soprano sara traficante, flute Music from the Inside Out aimeetsuchiya, piano erica Goodman, harp Amsterdam and now performing in Canada, Yegor Dyachkov, elizabeth volpé Bligh, harp victoria Gydov, soprano a young Russian/Canadian virtuoso, Chloe Dominguez, a rising The Festival’s series of free lectures, interviews and open sharlene Wallace, harp adam György, piano star from Montreal, Marc Johnson, retired after 35 years with rehearsals gives you opportunities to better appreciate the dave Young, double bass allene hackleman, horn the Vermeer String Quartet, Roman Borys of the Gryphon Trio, Jason hales, tenor music being heard. Join Jeffrey Stokes’s Overtures introducing Moshe hammer, violin Adrian Fung of the Afiara String Quartet (and his alter-ego Chopin, Bach and jazz and Conversations with Keith Horner, andrea hansen, violin rapper 8W), Jacob Braun, new cellist with the Penderecki String inviting you to get to know the performers in a series of Ensembles Keith horner, interviewer Quartet, Rolf Gjelsten of the New Zealand String Quartet, Julian afiara string Quartet new Zealand Brian James, oboe personal interviews. anagnoson & string Quartet Marc Johnson, cello Armour of the Chamber Players of Canada and young cellists Island Queen Cruises Kinton, piano duo orford six Pianos Beverley Johnston, percussion Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron and Sybil Shanahan. Graham Campbell Penderecki Band string Quartet Bruce Kelly, baritone Enjoy Georgian Bay sunsets as the cruise ship Island Queen Chamber Players sinal aberto Michael Kim, piano Harp Heaven takes a wandering three-hour route through the wild and rugged of Canada piano strings across andré laplante, Climax Jazz Band the sky baritone Canada’s leading harpists gather this summer to honour their beauty of the 30,000 Islands, a region recently designated Johnathan liebich, Festival Chamber swiss Piano trio soprano sasha tait liebich, teacher. On August 6, Judy Loman, formerly principal harpist of by the United Nations as the Georgian Bay Littoral Biosphere orchestra trio désirée Jan lisiecki, piano the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and teacher of all the others, Reserve. These cruises blend wonderful music with Festival Winds toronto all-star Judy loman, harp Gryphon trio is joined by principal harpists Jennifer Swartz of the Montreal breathtaking scenery. Performances are on the lower deck Big Band Ken Macdonald, horn elmer iseler singers dave Young stephanie Mara, piano Symphony, Elizabeth Volpé Bligh of the Vancouver Symphony, of the Island Queen and can be heard throughout the ship. Mosaique Big Band 4 1.866.364.0061 705.746.2410 www.festivalofthesound.ca 5 Clockwise from left: Dave Young, Afiara String Quartet, Adam György, Charles & Lois Stockey, July 31 – August 2 Sinal Aberto RBC Stockey Special Events Young Artists Canada Day Cruise — July 1 Afiara String Quartet Charles stockey loved young artists and often expressed his desire for them Celebrate Canada’s birthday with the Shores of Newfoundland, The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet (Valerie Li and to perform in the acoustically wonderful Jazz a “down east” band that specializes in the music of the Yuri Cho, violins; David Samuel, viola; and Adrian Fung, cello) concert hall that he helped to build.