I±∏IMA∏E MUSIC D I± A SPEC∏ACULA‰ ± SE∏∏I±G Opening Night at the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, the Festival of the Sound’s new home on the Parry Sound waterfront. SOU 1-866-364-0061 Festival of the Sound of πhe Box Office/Information If you receive more than one copy of this brochure, kindly pass one on to a friend. FESTIVAL OF THE SOUND P.O. Box 750 o≠πario sou≠d, parry Parry Sound, Ontario 21 ~ july augusπ 13, 2006 P2A 2Z1 james campbell, james arπisπic directo® charles w. sπockey ce≠πre fo® πhe performi≠g arπs arπs performi≠g πhe fo® ce≠πre sπockey charles w. FES∏IVAL fesπival of πhe sou≠d july 21 ~ augusπ 13, 2006 DIREC∏OR’S MESSAGE CO±∏E±∏S parry sou≠d, o≠πario summer 2006 Box Office/ 8 Information 1-866-364-0061 06 4 Festival Highlights Dear Friends, the 300th birthday of Denis Brott’s cello, made 10 12 4 Festival Musicians & Ensembles Mailing Festival of the Sound, Box 750, Composers’ anniversaries can be a programmer’s 50 years before Mozart was born! Address Parry Sound, ON P2A 2Z1 7 Festival Special Events dream, and this year we have three very different Time and again you ask for opportunities to Box Office 8 Opening Weekend: July 21 ~ 23 Festival Office, composers marking important years. W.A.Mozart interact more closely with the music and musicians. Address 42 James Street, Parry Sound, ON 9 Week One: July 24 ~ 30 Phone 705-746-2410 is 250 years old this year, Dimitri Shostakovich Join us for Interlude and Overture and note our new 12 Week Two: July 31 ~ August 6 is 100, and it has been 150 years since the death of Music Scores for Adults and live onstage chats with 14 Week Three: August 7 ~ 13 Fax 705-746-5639 Robert Schumann. Music Around Us host Keith Horner. 16 Calendar E-mail [email protected] Each of the three composers represents more than I wonder how many of you say to yourselves, Website spri≠g 2006 www.festivalofthesound.ca his music. Mozart lived in 18th century Vienna, one “I like music but I don’t know anything about it.” 9 The Festival of the Sound’s website has of the greatest centres of music. Schumann epitomized Judging from the attentive listening and warm response 18 The Gryphon Trio been totally redesigned. Visit it often to keep in touch with the Festival family. the Romantic spirit of the 19th century, and Shostakovich you show our performers each summer, you already 19 Prelude struggled to express himself during the darkest days of know a great deal about what really matters in music. fesπival i≠formaπio≠ on πhe cover the 20th century. This summer we pay homage to these 20 Music Scores The delightful illustration shows our great artists. 21 Play a Supporting Role in our Festival Season “anniversary composers” W.A. Mozart, We will also celebrate the 30th anniversary 22 Charles & Lois Stockey Endowment Fund Robert Schumann and Dimitri Shostakovich of Anagnoson and Kinton, the piano duo, the 20th enjoying the wonders of Georgian Bay. 24 Sponsorship Thanks to Sara Tyson, a designer and illustrator, anniversary of the Lafayette String Quartet and James Campbell, Artistic Director 25 Ticket Information working from a home studio in Parry Sound 30 Ticket Order Form for clients throughout North America. Quartetto fesπival Gelato highlighπs Peter James Ehnes McGillivray FESTIVAL MUSICIANS Rivka Golani, viola Lydia Adams, conductor Gala Opening Concert July 21 Painted Sound July 26, 30, August 9, 10 Stockey Young Artist August 3 ~ 4 Jazz Canada August 5 ~ 7 Erica Goodman, harp Michael Guttman, violin Robert Aitken, flute James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton mark their 30th Painted Sound is a series of concerts celebrating the Charles Stockey loved young performers and often On the Civic Holiday weekend, the Festival of the Tommy Ambrose, vocalist Moshe Hammer, violin Anagnoson and Kinton, piano duo anniversary as Canada’s premiere piano duo and begin relationship between visual art and music. In honour expressed his hope that they would have the opportunity Sound hosts the fifth annual Jazz Canada. This year, Andrea Hansen, violin Brian James, oboe Julian Armour, cello our celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday with his of the 95th birthday of the great Canadian artist Doris to perform in “his” acoustically wonderful hall. The sec- it has an international flavour: Brazilian Nights with Guido Basso, flugelhorn Beverley Johnston, percussion Linda Beaupré, conductor Sonata for Two Pianos. Two outstanding young Canadian McCarthy, the Amadeus Choir and the Bach Children’s ond Stockey Young Artist is baritone Peter McGillivray, soloist Guido Basso, a Latin American Tour with Katerina Juraskova, cello David Bourque, clarinet pianists join them: Winston Choi, 2003 Honens Chorus present Amadeus and the Artist, a programme of an emerging Canadian talent on concert and operatic Canada’s Quartetto Gelato and Holland’s ZAPP and George Koller, double bass Laurie Bower, trombone Anton Kuerti, piano The American Songbook Russell Braun, baritone Laureate and 2005 Stockey Young Artist and Todd great choral works by Canadian composers. The music stages and winner of top prizes in Canadian and standards from on the Island Guylaine Lemaire, viola Paul Brodie, saxophone Yaniw, winner of the Roy Thomson Hall First Prize at and the visuals were chosen to portray the Canada International Competitions. Meet Peter in the Charles Queen. On Sunday night, clarinetist Bob DeAngelis Kolja Lessing, violin and piano Judy Loman Denis Brott, cello the 2005 Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee’s that Doris loves. Into the Labyrinth is a new work, W. Stockey Memorial Concert on August 3 and the transports you back to the Swing Era in a tribute to , harp Nora Bumanis, harp James Mason, oboe James Campbell, clarinet TD National Piano Concerto Competition. Hear all composed in honour of the 30th anniversary of piano morning recital on August 4. the great Benny Goodman. Carolyn Maule, piano Koni Choi, harp four pianists in works for four pianos by Saint-Saëns duo Anagnoson and Kinton by Canadian composer Danny McErlain, piano Winston Choi, piano Mozart Gala August 4 Oh What a Night! August 12 James McKay, bassoon Terry Clarke, drums and Gottschalk. Raymond Luedeke, with visuals by Jarek Obsadny. Peter McGillivray, baritone Andrew Dawes, violin Parry Sound artist Alan Stein is assembling a collection The Festival of the Sound celebrates Mozart’s birthday Music Scores is the Festival of the Sound’s exciting John McLeod, trumpet Bob DeAngelis, clarinet Strings Attached July 23 ~ 25 Douglas McNabney, viola Rian de Waal, piano of slides of Georgian Bay sunsets to enhance the with a gala concert of concertos and arias. The soloists new educational program that brings Festival musicians Raphael McNabney, double bass Gene DiNovi, piano Strings Attached is a festival within a festival, three days experience of listening to Haydn’s string quartet, are James Ehnes playing two violin concertos, baritone to Parry Sound schools for two sessions each year at Mike Murley, tenor sax Luba Dubinsky, piano celebrating harps and the great musicians who play, tune, The Seven Last Words of Christ. In an After Hours concert, Russell Braun singing Mozart arias with the Festival no cost to the children, their schools or their families. Joel Quarrington, double bass James Ehnes, violin Graham Oppenheimer, viola Mary Lou Fallis, soprano move and watch over them with a mother’s love. Hear pianist Paul Stewart performs Goyescas, the piano Winds and our own James Campbell playing the first Oh What a Night is a gala concert with Festival musicians Eric Robertson, piano Guy Few, trumpet the Celtic harp on the Island Queen, the romantic harp masterpiece of Enrique Granados with images of the choice of CBC listeners in the Mozart Countdown, offering their music in support of this important cause. Reg Schwager, guitar Colin Fox, actor Christian Sharpe, bassoon Allan Gilliland, composer at the Inn at Manitou and six harps on stage together. Goya paintings and tapestries that inspired the work. the Adagio movement of the Clarinet Concerto in A. Julia Shaw, harp 4 fesπival of πhe sou≠d 2006 www.festivalofthesound.ca 705-746-2410 fesπival of πhe sou≠d 2006 5 fesπival whaπ’s special evenπs ≠ewπhis Stockey Centre The Ridge At Manitou The Inn At Manitou year? Robert Silverman, piano MUSIC SCORES FOR ADULTS! James Sommerville (Festival Highlights continued) Musical Society cast a unique spell on this special , horn Canada Day Cruise July 1 Inn at Manitou Gala August 8 JULY 26, 27, AUGUST 2, 3 Neil Spaulding, horn evening and Russell Braun performs Schumann songs Listening to music is a lot like drinking Paul Stewart, piano Music from the Inside Out Celebrate Canada’s birthday with the “down east” music This intimate evening at The Inn and Tennis Club set to poems by Robert Burns. Dessert and coffee are wine – you know what you like but you Jeffrey Stokes, lecturer and double bass In this series of free lectures, discussions and open of the Maritimes and Newfoundland. There is no such at Manitou, one of Canada’s most elegant resorts, Kevin Turcotte, trumpet rehearsals, you are invited to nourish your mind as well included in the ticket price. don’t always know how or why. Music Todd Yaniw, piano thing as smooth sailing when Shores of Newfoundland are includes a full-course, haute cuisine dinner with wines. Scores for Adults workshops are designed as your soul, to grow in your understanding and appre- Gregory Vajda, conductor aboard since feet are stomping on all three levels of Jazz Riffs at The Ridge August 1 Guests then adjourn to the Tea Room for a concert to provide general knowledge to enhance Marion van den Akker, mezzo-soprano ciation of the music you are hearing.