FACULTY OF MUSIC

Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:10 pm. Walter Hall

THURSDAYS AT NOON Tunes and Sonorities Lori Gemmell, harp Sarah Jeffrey, oboe Camille Watts, flute Ritesh Das,

program

Duo for Flute and Oboe, op. 13 (1945) Alberto Ginastera I. Sonata (1916-1983) II. Pastorale III. Fuga

Small Rooms (2006) Margaret Ashburner (b. 1985)

Vouvray (1986) Bruce Mather (b. 1939)

Trio of the Young Ishmaelites from L’Enfance du Christ, op. 25 Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

L’Aube Enchantée (1990) (b. 1920) 09|10 www.music.utoronto.ca BIOGRAPHIES

Lori Gemmell has been harpist with the Kitchener- oboe and violin with James Ehnes, as part of the Toronto Waterloo Symphony since 1999. Before joining the KWS Symphony Orchestra’s 2007-2008 season. she played with Orchestra London and with the Calgary During the 2010-2011 season, she will perform Phillharmonic Orchestra. She received her Master of Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with the Hamilton Philharmonic Music degree from the University of Toronto where she Orchestra, and as part of the TSO’s Mozart Festival in studied with eminent harpist, Judy Loman. Lori also January 2011. studied with Catherine Michel in Paris, France and Alice Ms. Jeffrey is on the faculties of the University Chalifoux in Camden, Maine. of Toronto and the Glenn Gould School at the Royal She has been a regular performer with the Ottawa Conservatory of Music. International Chamber Music Festival, Belladonna and Le NEM, a contemporary chamber group in Montreal with Camille Watts has been a flutist and solo piccoloist whom she toured through Europe and Japan. She has had of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 1990, positions solo concerto performances with the National Arts Centre she held previously with the Atlanta and Denver Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies. Camille attended the Cincinnati College- Symphony and Orchestra London, among others. Conservatory of Music as a National Merit Scholar, in Lori teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University, Redeemer the studio of Kyril Magg, graduating summa cum laude University College and has a private studio in Toronto. She with honors. At twenty-one, she became the youngest is a member of the Four Seasons Harp Quartet, and has player in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert played on recordings with singer-songwriters Kevin Fox, Shaw, touring, recording, and performing as a soloist. She and the Grammy-nominated The Reminder by Feist. She continued her studies with Keith Underwood, Robert Dick, also enjoys creating performances of music and story with Jack Wellbaum and Walfrid Kujala. her husband Tom Allen. Camille is Adjunct Professor at the University of In 2002, Lori released her first solo CD entitled Toronto Faculty of Music, where she teaches flute and Prelude, solo harp, and in 2009, a harp duo recording with piccolo, coaches chamber music, and leads seminars in Jennifer Swartz, The Garden of Peacocks, on the Atma the graduate program. She has also served as piccolo label. faculty at the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. As a massage therapist working with musicians, she joined Sarah Jeffrey is principal oboe of the Toronto a group of Toronto artists in creating the Artists’ Health Symphony Orchestra. Centre at Toronto Western Hospital, and serves on the A native of Toronto, Ms. Jeffrey holds a Bachelor Foundation Board of Directors. of Music degree from the University of Toronto where she studied with former principal oboe of the Toronto Ritesh Das, composer and musician, has studied tabla Symphony Orchestra, Richard Dorsey. As a recipient of with gurus Pandit Shankar Ghosh, Ustad the Chalmers Award from the Ontario Arts Council, she and most extensively with Pandit . continued her studies at the New England Conservatory of He has toured throughout the US, Canada and India, and Music in Boston. performed with many of India’s great music and dance Ms. Jeffrey has performed as recitalist, chamber innovators. Since moving to Canada, he has established musician, and as soloist with numerous orchestras. In himself as an extraordinary teacher of tabla and founded May 2008, Ms. Jeffrey performed Bach’s Concerto for the Toronto Tabla Ensemble in 1991.