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MUSIC TO YOUR EARS MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY CONSERVATORY PRESENTS CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 Soundscape Series Wyatt Series S Chantal Kreviazuk 4 W Zukerman Trio 21 Jan Lisiecki 5 Kronos Quartet 22 Wu Man & Friends 6 Andrés Cárdenes and the 23 Calgary Youth Orchestra Journey Live! 7 Land’s End Ensemble 8 F Family Portrait Series 20th Anniversary Celebration with The Secret Life of Suitcases 24 guest percussionist Evelyn Glennie The Queen, the Bear 25 and the Bumblebee T Travelers Series Ziggy Marley 9 Festive Favourites Brian Blade and 10 Winter Fantasia 26 The Fellowship Band Sounds of the Season 27 Antigona 11 Soledad Barrio and Spotlight Series 28 Noche Flamenca Avital meets Avital 12 Salon Series 28 Pedrito Martinez & Guests 13 N Northern Lights Series Become a Sponsor 29 Raghav 14 Wild West New Music Ensemble 15 Tickets 30 Chris Hadfield 18 Canadian Guitar Quartet 19 Instrumental Society 20 of Calgary featuring Neil Cockburn Welcome to the Mount Royal University Conservatory Concert Season 2016/17 Message from the Mayor Message from On behalf of the citizens of Calgary and my Mount Royal University Conservatory City Council colleagues, it is my pleasure to When Mayor Nenshi declared 2016 the welcome you to the launch of the 2016/17 year of music, we at Mount Royal University Concert Series for Mount Royal University Conservatory heard it as a clarion call to Conservatory. invite performers and audiences alike to 2016 is the Year of Music in Calgary and experience Calgary’s newest musical crown what better way to celebrate than to launch jewel: the Bella Concert Hall. seven concert series for all Calgarians in Join us this season as we revel in the Mount Royal University‘s Taylor Centre for beauty of soloists and ensembles, resonate the Performing Arts. with acoustic and electric, embrace MRU Conservatory continues to be contemporary energy together with historic ambassadors of excellence in music perspective and delve into the innovative and speech arts education. Now, with while relishing the familiar. Whether your award-winning facilities like the TransAlta passion is the richness of storytelling Pavilion and the acoustically impressive through spoken word, dance, imagery, or Bella Concert Hall, the MRU Conservatory song, the doors are open for everyone to offers unique and diverse concert events hear music to your ears. to our city. Welcome to the Bella! This inaugural season, Music to Your Ears, brings a world of talent to our community and showcases our local talent to the world. I hope you all enjoy! Elaine Danelesko William van der Sloot Director Manager, Academy, Sincerely, Advanced Performance & Choral Programs Mark DeJong Artistic Program Coordinator Naheed K. Nenshi S Chantal Kreviazuk Photo by Raphael Mazzucco TUE • November 8, 2016 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canadian-born singer and songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba who began playing piano from ear at the age of three. Now a multiple JUNO® Award winner, Chantal Kreviazuk has become one of Canada’s most beloved artists. Offstage, Chantal and her husband, Raine Maida, frontman for Our Lady Peace, have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to human rights causes. In recognition of Chantal and Raine’s longstanding dedication to the world community, they received the 2014 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award in addition to being jointly appointed to the Order of Canada. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 4 S Jan Lisiecki “…A pianist who makes every note count” – New York Times Photo by Ben Wolf FRI • January 20, 2017 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Calgary-born Jan Lisiecki’s insightful interpretations, refined technique, and natural affinity for art give him a musical voice that belies his age. In 2013 he received the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and was also named as Gramophone magazine’s Young Artist of the Year. Recent highlights include his 2013 performance with Claudio Abbado and Orchestra Mozart, his BBC Proms debut with Sir Antonio Pappano, and engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. To rave reviews, Jan Lisiecki made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin in January 2016. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 5 S Wu Man & Friends Photo by Stephen Kahn FRI • March 3, 2017 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Recognized as the world’s premier pipa virtuoso and leading ambassador of Chinese music, GRAMMY® Award-nominated musician Wu Man has carved out a career as a soloist, educator and composer giving her lute-like instrument—which has a history of over 2,000 years in China—a new role in both traditional and contemporary music. Through numerous concert tours Wu Man has premiered hundreds of new works for the pipa, while spearheading multimedia projects to both preserve and create awareness of China’s ancient musical traditions. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 6 S Journey Live! Interactive Video Game Concert Performance by Chicago’s Fifth House Ensemble “conviction, authority and finesse” –New York Times SAT • May 6, 2017 - 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Never the same each time it is played, Journey is an interactive parable, an anonymous online adventure to experience a person’s life passage and their intersections with others. In this unprecedented collaboration, live musicians respond to the actions of game players in real time on stage. The Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble teams up with composer Austin Wintory to present an original, interactive live performance of his GRAMMY®- nominated score to the video game Journey. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 7 S Land’s End Ensemble 20th Anniversary Celebration with guest percussionist Evelyn Glennie Photo by Bo Huang Photo by Jim Callaghan FRI • May 26, 2017 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts JUNO®-nominated Land’s End Ensemble of Calgary (John Lowry, violin; Beth Root Sandvoss, cello; Susanne Ruberg-Gordon, piano; Vincent Ho, Artistic Director) is dedicated to introducing audiences to new music by Canadian and international composers, and to performing landmark chamber works of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Land’s End Ensemble is proud to be celebrating their 20th Anniversary as a part of the Soundscape Series. Presented in partnership with the Land’s End Music Society. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 8 T Photo by Roxanne Haynes THU • October 13, 2016 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Throughout the course of his three-decade career and 16 albums, Ziggy has built a music legacy worthy of his legendary family name. With seven GRAMMY® Awards and an EMMY® to his credit, the humanitarian, singer, songwriter and producer continually progresses at every turn. Ziggy’s musical history dates back to ten-years-old when he would watch his father Bob Marley record in the studio. Ziggy remains receptive to the countless muses and magnetic flurries of creativity surrounding him on his musical journey. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 9 T Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band Photo by John Abbott SUN • January 29, 2017 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Easily one of the most versatile and soulful musicians in jazz, drummer and composer Brian Blade moved to New Orleans at age 18 to study and perform with Crescent City stars, including Ellis Marsalis, Johnny Vidacovich and Harold Battiste. As Blade was developing his own musical identity as a bandleader, he formed The Fellowship Band in New Orleans with Jon Cowherd and Chris Thomas. In 2000, Blade became a member of jazz legend Wayne Shorter’s all-star quartet, touring the world and recording four albums with the saxophonist, including the GRAMMY® Award-winning 2013 release, Without a Net. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 10 T Antigona Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Photo by Chris Bennion FRI • March 10, 2017 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts The story of Sophocles’ classic play Antigone resonates with the roots of flamenco, which is based not in any one culture or region, but on the strength of family. Noche Flamenca’s Artistic Director Martín Santangelo was inspired to create a flamenco interpretation focusing on her humanity and her quest to bury her brother, regardless of the circumstances. The mission of Noche Flamenca is to create a diverse theatrical body of performance through song, music and dance that expresses a rigorous, spell-binding aesthetic in the form of flamenco. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 11 T Avital meets Avital WED • March 15, 2017 • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Avital meets Avital is a dialogue between two musicians who come from different worlds but share a common richness of musical heritage. GRAMMY®-nominee mandolinist, Avi Avital, comes from a classical tradition whilst award-winning bass virtuoso and oud player, Omer Avital, is an acclaimed jazz performer and composer. In Avital meets Avital, these two musicians, joined by Omer Klein on piano and Itamer Doari on percussion, draw on the diverse influences of Moroccan and North African sounds, folkloric and classical traditions, Israeli harmonies and Mediterranean rhythms creating a musical melting pot where the finesse of chamber music meets the raw emotional energy of jazz. MRU CONSERVATORY CONCERT SEASON 2016/17 MUSIC TO YOUR EARS 12 T Pedrito Martinez & Guests SAT • April 22, 2017 • Concert & Dance Party • 7:30 PM Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba.