2013

2014 Welcome to ArtSpring’s 2013-14 season of great music, theatre, dance and spoken word programming. What’s new this year? • For the first time in several years we are offering a Theatre series, with the ArtsClub’s production of Driving Miss Daisy as a centrepiece, bracketed by two excellent one-actor plays.

• After two successful years, we will take a break from our Gallery Cabaret series in 2013-14. “From the moment she sat down at the piano, Rana sent chills through What hasn’t changed? the room. Throughout the recital, • Ticket pricing for all our events remains unchanged she demonstrated her power, from comparable shows last season. However, with the consistency, subtlety and remarkable reintroduction of GST, the effective price of our tickets has range of musical textures.” decreased by 7%, so you will see lower total amounts when - LA SCENA MUSICALE you buy either subscriptions or single tickets.

• We continue to offer $5 admission for all youth because we believe it important for young people to become exposed to fine and varied live performances.

• The basic subscription packages you have become accustomed to (Great Performers, On Stage, ArtSwings and Dance) continue as before. This brochure is colour coded to Photo: Julien Faugere make it easier for you to identify which performances are part of these series.

• We again offer the opportunity to create your own subscription package (Make Your Own Meal) since this has Beatrice Rana, piano proved very popular.

• The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts will continue, though there wasn’t enough room in this brochure to list next season’s operas. Please ask at the Box Office or check our Thursday, September 26 – 7:30pm website for a separate schedule. Tickets will go on sale Adults: $28, Youth $5 August 21.

• We have kept the organization of this brochure identical to At barely 20 years old, Beatrice Rana has shaken the last year, especially keeping the chronological organization st international classical music world first by winning 1 Prize that many of you have said you found both clear and useful. and all special prizes at the Montréal International Piano competition in 2011, and then by winning Silver (2nd Prize) and SERIES LEGEND the Audience Award a few months ago at the highly prestigious Van Cliburn competition. She brings us an exciting recital of Great Performers Schumann and Ravel, including Gaspard de la nuit which La On Stage Scena Musciale called “devastatingly hard” and which Rana played ArtSwings in Montréal “with remarkable fluidity – breathing, fluttering, never falling into rhythmic imprecision.” Dance Theatre

The cover image is a detail from a painting created for ArtSpring by students Uma McIninch, Sophie Gold, Calla Wilkie, Zama Szakacs, Casey Gillis, Layla GREAT PERFORMERS Anderson, Sebastian Niedziela & Sam Holmes Proudly supported by Joan Farlinger, Mouats Clothing Co. 3 “Mabern’s piano style is aggressive, very positive, crashing out chords that drop like pile drivers, and warming up and down the keyboard with huge, whooping bursts of action.” JOHN WILSON, NEW YORK TIMES

Harold Mabern Adi Braun Quartet with Cory Weeds Trio

Monday, September 30 – 7:30pm Saturday, October 12 – 7:30pm Adults: $23 Youth: $5 Adults: $23 Youth: $5

Harold Mabern is one of jazz’s most enduring and Trained classically at the Royal Conservatory and the University dazzlingly skilled pianists. Born in Memphis, he was of ’s Faculty of Music, Adi Braun began her singing an unsung hero of the 1960s hardbop scene, but only in career in operas and operettas alongside her brother, baritone recent years has he begun to garner appreciation for his Russell Braun. In the late ‘90’s she returned to the music she long-running legacy in jazz and the understated power loved, which she calls “cabarazz”, drawing on aspects from of his talent. During his over half-century on the scene both cabaret and jazz. She was soon recognized internationally as sideman and leader, he has played and recorded with as one of Canada’s leading jazz vocalists, nominated in 2007 such greats as Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, as “Best Major Jazz Vocalist of the Year” by the Manhattan Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, just to name a few. Association of Cabarets and Clubs. Mabern joins up with Vancouver’s Cory Weeds Trio for what promises to be one of the finest evenings of jazz “Her performance was terrific, her stage presence ArtSpring has heard in years. commanding, her singing sheer delight.” – GEOFF CHAPMAN, TORONTO STAR

4 ARTSWINGS ARTSWINGS 5 “As she celebrates a 40-year career, Gillis’ timing, her gestures, and her focus are fine-tuned to a perfect pitch. She performs as if the stage were her home, and there is no place she’d rather be.” DEBORAH JOWITT, VILLAGE VOICE

Till Death Do We Part

Friday, October 25 – 7:30pm Bulletins from Immortality Adults: $20 Youth: $5 Margie Gillis with actress Elizabeth Parrish Tara Travis (The Shakespeare Show) returns to ArtSpring Post-concert reception hosted by Country Grocer with a hilarious solo play in which Henry VIII’s six wives Saturday, October 19 – 7:30pm meet in heaven to compare notes about their ill-fated Adults: $28 Youth: $5 marriages. Travis plays all six wives (simultaneously) in a feat of theatrical dexterity that defies belief till you see it done on stage to rip-roaring effect. The play is nothing short of stunning. For forty years, Margie Gillis has been one of Canada’s best known and most original dancers and choreographers. This new creation was born from a collaboration with the Stella “Wildly funny, wonderfully crafted and brilliantly acted. Adler Studio in New York City with Gillis combining forces Flawless!” with American acting icon Elizabeth Parrish to reveal the – CBC revolutionary, innovative, and modern in the work of poet Emily Dickinson. A prisoner of the straight jacket imposed on women of her era, Dickinson broke free of her bindings with atypical verses, unbridled punctuation, and approximate rhymes. Parrish narrates, bringing life to the interior world of the poetess, while Gillis reveals her psyche through movement.

DANCE THEATRE 6 Proudly supported by Joan Farlinger Proudly supported by Victoria Olchowecki 7 Italy Invades Poland ¡Sacabuche!

Sunday, November 3 – 2:30pm Pre-concert chat – 1:30pm Adults: $28 Youth: $5

¡Sacabuche! is North America’s premiere sackbut ensemble (no kidding). Based at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, Linden String Quartet they perform the beautiful and lesser-known repertoire of baroque trombones, organ and voice. At ArtSpring they bring us a programme of 17th Century court music from Poland, highlighting the early-Baroque influences of Italian music Sunday, November 10 – 2:30pm throughout Europe. This is early music at its best. Adults: $28 Youth: $5

“¡Sacabuche!’s opening night performance set the One of the most exciting young quartets in the US (though standard for all that followed. The program was beautifully two of the musicians are Canadian), the Linden String arranged, the playing inspired, and the sound glorious. Quartet was the Graduate Quartet at Yale from 2010 to This gifted young ensemble will go far.” 2012 working under the tutelage of the Tokyo Quartet. BERKELEY EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL At ArtSpring they will play quartets by Schubert (D 57), Bartok (Quartet #3) and Beethoven (Op. 132). In the crowded world of string quartets, the Linden stands out as fresh, exciting and hugely talented.

“…polished, radiant and incisive…” THE STRAD

ON STAGE GREAT PERFORMERS 8 Proudly supported by Mouats The Housewares Store Proudly supported by Joan Farlinger, Mouats Clothing Co. 9 Linda Tillery Raphael Wallfisch, cello & the Cultural Heritage Choir Rena Sharon, piano

Thursday, November 14 – 7:30pm Tuesday, December 3 – 7:30pm Adults: $23 Youth: $5 Adults: $28 Youth: $5

Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir is a One of the leading cellists of our times, Raphael Wallfisch Grammy nominated, percussion driven vocal ensemble is celebrated for his vast repertoire and peerless, expressive whose mission is to preserve and share the rich musical performance technique. He is much in demand around the traditions of African-American roots music. Through stick, world as an orchestral and recital soloist. We are fortunate song, dance and story, they transport us to a place in time that he will be performing with the Vancouver Symphony when the foundations of American popular music were just on November 30 and were thus able to invite him to being laid by the “involuntary immigrants” from Africa’s ArtSpring a few days later. western regions. Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir have become world renowned for their breathtaking Rena Sharon, professor of Collaborative Piano Studies at performances and commitment to the authenticity of UBC, ranks among Canada’s foremost chamber musicians African-American roots music. and soloists. She has collaborated in recital with many renowned artists including Ben Heppner, Steven Isserlis, “Consisting primarily of a bunch of amazing voices and James Somerville and James Ehnes, and is a favourite slew of eclectic African and South American percussion, performer with CBC Radio audiences. it’d be easiest to lump them in with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Zap Mama, but that would be selling “… glorious tone, finely gelled musicianship and a them short.” beautiful combination of sparkiness, sensuality and JOHN BUTLAND, EARTHBEAT! intelligence.” JESSICA DUCHEN BLOGSPOT

ARTSWINGS ON STAGE 10 Proudly supported by Kate Merry Proudly supported by Mouats The Housewares Store 11 “Not only is the musicianship world- class, but the players also convey a combination of pomp and dancing physicality that draws on English folk traditions. This is Englishry at its best, comparable with the native genius of Shakespeare and the King James Bible.” TOM MOORE - EARLY MUSIC AMERICA Johanne Mercier Photo:

Perchance To Dreame Photo: Rory Earnshaw Les Voix Humaines Driving Miss Daisy with Charles Daniels, tenor

Friday, February 7 – 7:30pm Monday, February 10 – 7:30pm Pre-concert chat – 6:30pm Tuesday, February 11 – 7:30pm Adults: $28 Youth: $5 Salt Spring Vineyards wine tasting – 6:30pm (Feb 11) Adults: $25 Youth: $5

The brothers Lawes and their colleague Christopher Simpson were on the cutting edge of England’s musical life in the first half The beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Alfred Uhry of the 17th century. Virtuoso viols and voice were their medium. follows the charming adventures of a Southern matriarch Paradise was lost when Charles I was executed in 1649, leaving and her chauffeur over a 25-year friendship, and reveals the a drab stage and a musical moratorium to the Puritans. After a power of the human heart to overcome prejudices and open decade, the Merry Monarch, Charles II, returned from Europe up to new possibilities. bringing a new musical dream to the Fairest Isle. The stage was set for Henry Purcell and a new golden age of English music. This Arts Club production tours selected theatres in BC starting January 10 before opening for Vancouver audiences Les Voix Humaines is one of Canada’s best known early on the Granville Island stage February 13. We are delighted music ensembles. Charles Daniels, a renowned English soloist to be able to present two performances at ArtSpring. particularly noted for his performances of baroque music, has made over 25 recordings with The Kings Consort.

THEATRE GREAT PERFORMERS Proudly supported by Victoria Olchowecki 12 Proudly supported by Joan Farlinger, Mouats Clothing Co. 13 Elektra Women’s Choir

Sunday, February 23 – 2:30pm Intermission reception hosted by Country Grocer Eve Egoyan, piano Adults: $28 Youth: $5

Friday, February 21 – 7:30pm With a mandate to inspire and lead in the choral art Adults: $28 Youth: $5 form through excellence in performance and through the creation, exploration and celebration of women’s repertoire, Vancouver’s renowned Elektra Women’s Choir has taken a leadership role in the international classical women’s choir Toronto pianist Eve Egoyan performed a wonderful movement. Founded in 1987, the choir is now under the concert of new music in our 2011-12 season. In leadership of Artistic Director Morna Edmundson and August 2013 she is working with distinguished continues as one of the most important champions of choral Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith on a music in Canada new commission as part of an ArtSpring creative residency. We will hear the world premiere of this new work in February, along with a full concert of “Elektra Women’s Choir has the ability to reach into your music by contemporary Canadian composers. heart, touch your soul and send you soaring. It is an honour to hear and to know Elektra.” SHELAGH ROGERS “Egoyan’s remarkable playing balances delicacy with intense focus, holding all in a net…the spaces in between the notes still charged with presence.” GLOBE & MAIL

ON STAGE 14 Proudly supported by Mouats The Housewares Store Proudly supported by Lyle Eide 15 Photo: Blaine Truitt Covert

North West Dance Project

Monday, March 10 – 7:30pm Metamorphosis Salt Spring Vineyards wine tasting – 6:30pm Figura Theatre Adults: $23 Youth: $5

Sunday, March 2 – 2:00pm Based in Portland, Oregon and headed by Canadian Adults: $22 Youth: $5 Artistic Director Sarah Slipper, NWDP is one of the most dynamic and innovative contemporary dance companies in the US. Their Canadian debut tour includes Figura is an amazing one-man theatre company based in Iceland a newly commissioned work from Wen Wei Wang, and which, since 1986, has created work for puppets unlike anything from other renowned European and American dance you have ever seen. Bernd Ogrodnik’s creations are influenced by makers. his background as a classical musician, illustrator, woodworker and martial artist. He describes his extraordinary performances as “food for the soul, not chewing gum for the eyes.” “The ‘it’ company…one of the hottest dance troupes in the country” While on Salt Spring, he will present two shows: OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING Metamorphosis, a collection of short works for an adult and family audience on Sunday afternoon, and Peter and the Wolf for school audiences on Monday.

DANCE 16 Proudly supported by Alan & Mary Coombes, Joan Farlinger 17 The ARC Ensemble

Thursday, March 27 – 7:30pm

Jovita Nathania Pre-concert chat – 6:30pm Adults: $28 Youth: $5 Photo:

The Rite of Spring The ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) has rapidly become one of Canada’s pre-eminent cultural Ballet Victoria ambassadors. Its members are senior faculty with distinguished individual careers. For its first tour of Western Canada the ARC Ensemble features Benjamin Bowman, Sunday, March 16 – 2:30pm violin; Stephen Dann, viola; Bryan Epperson cello; Joaquin Adults: $23 Youth: $5 Valdepeñas, clarinet and Simon Wynberg, the ensemble’s artistic director, guitar. The program features musical rarities by Paganini, Beethoven, Bernard Henrik Crusell, François de Fossa and a specially commissioned work for the ensemble 2013 is the hundredth anniversary of the premiere of by Benjamin Bowman. Stravinsky’s famous ballet Le Sacre du Printemps. Ballet Victoria has been working all year on a new choreography for what is the 20th century’s most daring dance score. It “An impressive group of musicians…” will be ready to perform in early 2014 and we are thrilled THE WASHINGTON POST to bring it to ArtSpring. This is a very fine young company “Passion, polish and vitality” and choreographer Paul Destrooper consistently produces THE NEW YORK TIMES excellent productions.

DANCE GREAT PERFORMERS 18 Proudly supported by Joan Farlinger Proudly supported by Joan Farlinger, Mouats Clothing Co. 19 “Min creates the kind of musical experience which transcends instrument and player both...this performance was unforgettable.” HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD

Tam breaks through interpretation to find and to bring back to the listener a musical landscape where everything is new, fresh” HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD

Terence Tam, violin Lorne Elliott Comedy Show 2014 Lorraine Min, piano

Sunday, March 30 – 2:30pm Wednesday, April 2 – 7:30pm Adults: $28 Youth: $5 Adults: $23 Youth: $5

One of Canada’s finest violinists, Terence Tam, April 2 was as close as we could get to April Fools Day concertmaster with the Victoria Symphony, has to have Lorne Elliott back at ArtSpring for a record- performed around the world, starting with his Carnegie breaking sixth engagement. Nobody has had as long and Hall debut in 1994. His wife, Lorraine Min, a native as successful a run in Canadian comedy as Lorne. And of Victoria with an undergraduate degree from like a fine vintage of Chateau Turtle Pond, he just keeps Peabody and a masters and doctorate from Julliard, has getting better. Is it really seven years since Maddly Off In established an international career as a much sought All Directions left the airwaves? You’d never know it from after piano recitalist. Lorne’s continually new, continually funny stage shows. “… delightfully quirky and unrelentingly hilarious” STEVE MAZEY OTTAWA CITIZEN

ON STAGE 20 Proudly supported by Mouats The Housewares Store 21 “… Rebecca Caine slips effortlessly between artful flirtation and artless candour, looking a million dollars , and singing with a sweet , delicate soprano.” ANNA PICARD, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Rebecca Caine, soprano Karoshi Robert Kortgaard, piano Shay Kuebler Dance

Friday, April 4 – 7:30pm Monday, April 7 – 7:30pm Post-concert reception hosted by Country Grocer Adults: $23 Youth: $5 Adults: $23 Youth: $5

Shay Kuebler has been an independent dance artist in Rebecca Caine divides her time between Opera and Musical Vancouver and Montreal for the past eight years. As a Theatre. She is perhaps best known for creating the role of dancer he has performed at ArtSpring with Wen Wei Cossette in the Royal Shakespeare Companys production of and with 605 Collective. Karoshi is his first full-length Les Miserables, from which she went on to play Christine choreography. The work places six men in the emotional opposite in the original West End cast and physical situations of a society where format and of Phantom of the Opera, and then repeated the part in the protocol overweigh personal fulfillment and exploration. Canadian premiere of Phantom. Since then she has sung Derived from his study of the extreme pressures brought many operatic roles with the , in on individuals in modern Japan, the dance, accompanied addition to pursuing an extensive cabaret career. in part by a Taiko drummer, is physical, compelling and ultimately cathartic. Karoshi is touring the province as Teaming up with pianist Robert Kortgaard, Ms Caine part of the Made in BC Dance on Tour project. brings us a delightful evening of favourites from , especially in its British setting. “… vocabulary that melds the flow of contemporary dance, the physicality of hip-hop, and the tension and release of martial arts …” GEORGIA STRAIGHT

ARTSWINGS DANCE 22 Proudly supported by Kate Merry Proudly supported by Joan Farlinger, Made in BC Dance on Tour 23 Tommy Douglas Ivan Coyote The Arrows of Desire

Wednesday, April 16 – 7:30pm Wednesday, April 30 – 7:30pm Adults: $20 Youth: $5 Adults: $23 Youth: $5

In 2004 Tommy Douglas was voted the Greatest Canadian Vancouver writer, singer, comedian, poet, Ivan Coyote is above in a nation-wide CBC poll. Actor John Nolan brings the all a natural-born storyteller. Born in Whitehorse, Ivan grew father of Medicare and leader of the CCF to life on the up with the tradition of long cold nights of rambling tales stage. This theatre performance is infused with the beliefs, in the kitchen while the blizzard raged outside. Ivan was passions, battles, dreams and humanitarian accomplishments 2011’s Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence at the University of of a man who spent 44 years as premier of Saskatchewan Winnipeg, and is an award-winning author of six collections and as a member of parliament. With humour and anecdotes, of short stories, one novel, three CD’s, four short films. A speeches and poems, recollections of the past, attention to renowned performer, Ivan’s first love is live storytelling, and the present and consideration of the future, this is Tommy over the last seventeen years she has become an audience Douglas - raw and refined and masterfully unplugged. favourite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer’s festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam. At ArtSpring Ivan performs with long-time collaborator, guitarist Jon Wood. “I marvel at the brilliant characterization of Tommy Douglas delivered at a level beyond any I have ever had the pleasure to witness.” “Coyote is to CanLit what k.d. lang is to country music: a LORNE CLAVERT, FORMER PREMIER OF SASKATCHEWAN beautifully odd fixture.” OTTAWA X PRESS

THEATRE 24 Proudly supported by Victoria Olchowecki 25 How to Buy Tickets Fixed Menu 1 – Great Performers Beatrice Rana (Sept 26) Perchance to Dreame (Feb 7) Linden Quartet (Nov 10) ARC Ensemble (Mar 27) 1 CHEF’S SPECIAL FIXED MENUS One Fixed Menu purchased = 15% discount If you subscribed to any of the series listed below last year, (You save $16.80) we invite you to renew your subscription starting Monday, Two or more Fixed Menus purchased = 20% discount August 12. As an added benefit, if you purchase any of (You save $22.40) these series and would like to add tickets to any of the other shows listed in this brochure at the same time, we Fixed Menu 2 – On Stage will give you the same discount on those tickets as well. Italy Invades Poland (Nov 3) Eve Egoyan (Feb 21) 2 MAKE YOUR OWN MEAL Raphael Wallfisch (Dec 3) Terence Tam (Mar 30) One Fixed Menu purchased = 15% discount Starting August 26 (if you are an ArtSpring member) or (You save $16.80) starting September 3, we invite you to put together your Two or more Fixed Menus purchased = 20% discount own series subscription to any shows you like and save money. (You save $22.40)

You will receive a 15% discount on all tickets you buy at one Fixed Menu 3 – ArtSwings time if you buy tickets to 6 or 7 or 8 different performances. Harold Mabern (Sep 30) Linda Tillery (Nov 14) You will receive a 20% discount on all tickets you buy at one Adi Braun (Oct 12) Rebecca Caine (Apr 4) time if you buy tickets to 9 or more different performances. One Fixed Menu purchased = 15% discount There are 23 different events to choose from, so we are sure (You save $14.10) you will find this an attractive option. Two or more Fixed Menus purchased = 20% discount 3 A LA CARTE (You save $18.80)

Fixed Menu 4 – Dance Individual tickets for all events in this brochure go on sale in two stages: starting Monday, August 26 if you are an Bulletins from Immortality (Oct 19) Rite of Spring (Mar 16) ArtSpring member, or starting Tuesday, September 3 if NW Dance Project (Mar 10) Karoshi (Apr 7) you are not. You can buy as few or as many as you like any time from these dates on. One Fixed Menu purchased = 15% discount (You save $14.55) Two or more Fixed Menus purchased = 20% discount

Please note that GST will be added to all prices shown in this brochure. (You save $19.40) Fixed Menu 5 – Theatre

Till Death Do We Part (Oct 25) Driving Miss Daisy (Feb 10 & 11) Tommy Douglas (Apr 16)

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