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Beginnings (27 Sep 2019) BEGINNINGS Vancouver Chamber Choir Kari Turunen, Conductor 7:30PM | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 PACIFIC SPIRIT UNITED CHURCH, 2205 W 45TH AVE AT YEW ST VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR Artistic Director Kari Turunen began leading the Vancouver Chamber Choir - one of Canada’s premier professional choral ensembles - in Board of Directors September 2019, its 49th concert season. George Laverock Jon Washburn founded the choir in 1971 and it has President become an amazing success story, ranking with Dr. Jeanette Gallant (Oxford) the handful of North America’s best professional Vice President choruses and noted for its diverse repertoire and Adam J. Garvin, CPA, CMA performing excellence. The choir has presented Treasurer concerts at home in Vancouver and on tour across Brent Hunter Canada. International excursions have taken them Secretary to the USA, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Finland, France, Germany, Matthew Baird the Czech Republic, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Anne Bonnycastle Honoured with the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence by Chorus America, the choir Dr. Donna Hogge Wendy Kish has performed countless concerts and broadcasts, released 36 recordings and received numerous Colin Miles awards. Foremost supporters of Canadian music, they are responsible for 334 choral works by 145 Dr. Robert Rothwell composers and arrangers, most of whom are Canadian. Over the years the choir has sung over Dolores Scott 4,000 performances of works by Canadian composers, in addition to their extensive international Anthony G.V. Tobin repertoire. Cara Ventura Marianne Werner The choir’s award-winning educational programs include the National Conductors’ Symposium Jennifer Wilnechenko for advanced choral conductors, Interplay interactive workshops for choral composers, Focus professional development program for student singers, OnSite visitations for school choirs, the Honorary Patrons biennial Young Composers Competition, and many on-tour workshops and residencies. John Bishop Stephen Chatman Tama Copithorne David Cousins KARI TURUNEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dr. Stephen Drance, O.C. Sam Feldman Kari Turunen is the new Artistic Director of the Vancouver Chamber Charles Flavelle Choir and the former artistic director of the male chorus Akademiska Violet Goosen Sångföreningen, Kampin Laulu chamber choir, the choir of the cantors Janis Hamilton of the Finnish Lutheran Church, Chorus Cantorum Finlandiae, the all- Ben Heppner, O.C. Don Hudson male Ensemble Petraloysio and the Spira Ensemble. He has won numerous Doris Luking prizes at national and international festivals with his groups. He was Dr. John MacDonald, O.C. named choral conductor of the year in Finland in 2008. Viviane Nitting Dr. Turunen was educated at the University of Helsinki and the Sibelius Imant Raminsh Academy. He has a Master’s degree in choral conducting and a Doctorate in Elizabeth Rathbun R. Murray Schafer early music performance practice from the University of the Arts, Helsinki. He tries to balance scholarly activities with his artistic work and firmly Administrative Staff believes that scholarship and performance can greatly benefit each other. Dr. Kari Turunen He is a sought-after guest conductor, adjudicator, clinician and teacher of choral conducting, both in Artistic Director Finland and abroad. He has also acted as the chairman of the Finnish Choral Directors’ Association Steven Bélanger from the mid-90s until 2017 and is the artistic director of Aurore, an annual Renaissance music Executive Director festival in Helsinki. Jon Washburn, C.M. Founder & Conductor Emeritus Before becoming a full-time conductor, Dr. Turunen taught choral conducting and was the head Nat Marshik of choral activities at the School of Music of the Polytechnic University of Tampere from 2001 to Bookkeeper/Office Coordinator 2011. He is also a founding member of Lumen Valo, a professional vocal ensemble of eight voices. Karen Seaboyer Lumen Valo has been a driving force on the early music scene in Finland since its conception in Manager, Communications & Production 1993 and has made a name for itself in almost 250 concerts around Finland and Europe. The group has recorded nine CDs, all of them critically acclaimed for their fresh programming and quality of Vancouver Chamber Choir singing. 1254 West 7th Avenue Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6H 1B6 Tel: 604.738.6822 • Fax: 604.738.7832 The Vancouver Chamber Choir acknowledges that it operates and performs on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh [email protected] (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful for this privilege. www.vancouverchamberchoir.com 2 VANCOUVER VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR CHAMBER CHOIR KARI TURUNEN, CONDUCTOR s o p r a n o s Emily Cheung Christina Cichos Beth Currie (Buono) BEGINNINGS Lorraine Reinhardt Madeline Lucy Smith a l t o s The Campers at Kitty Hawk Michael Dellaira Dinah Ayre (b. 1949) Martina Govednik Hilary Ison Fabiana Katz Virgo prudentissima Heinrich Isaac Dolores Scott (c. 1450-1517) t e n o r s Ian Bannerman Eric Biskupski Alouette Meets Her Maker Chris Sivak (b. 1982) Tom Ellis Eric Schwarzhoff Christina Cichos, soprano Taka Shimojima b a s s e s Four Songs of Love Sven-David Sandström Steven Bélanger (1942-2019) Jacob Gramit Paul Nash George Roberts Wim Vermeulen INTERMISSION Sonnet No. 76 Alfred Janson (1937-2019) Steven Bélanger, baritone Icarus Kristopher Fulton (b. 1978) Piedzimšana (Birth) Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946) Fabiana Katz, drum Please turn off all phones. Recording devices of any kind are strictly prohibited. James Ong Stage Management Don Harder Archival Recorder Pre-Concert Talks Corporate Graphics Graphic Design You are invited to attend pre-concert talks at 6:45pm on most concert evenings. You can Violet Goosen meet Kari Turunen and learn about the evening’s repertoire and composers. Seating Development is general admission at the front of the auditorium. You are welcome to reserve your José Verstappen favourite seats elsewhere so that they are waiting for you after the talk. Program Typography 3 NEW HONORARY PATRON Elizabeth Rathbun You many have noticed that on page two of tonight’s concert program, we have added a number of new Honorary Patrons. These are all people who have given strong support to the Vancouver Chamber Choir in various ways over the years. Today we are honouring Elizabeth Rathbun, who was the General Manager of the choir from 1980 to 1988. This was a tremendous growth period for the choir in many ways, including an expansion from 16 to 20 singers. She oversaw the conversion from budgeting with pencil and paper to Excel spreadsheets on computer. During her period of leadership the choir held its first National Conductors’ Symposium at UBC, sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, and also collaborated in concerts with both L’Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne (Michel Corboz) and the King’s Singers. Another highlight during her tenure was the first overseas tour (in 1987) to China and Hong Kong. She was instrumental in negotiations with the City of Vancouver to acquire and renovate the administrative offices of the choir on the lower level of Hodson Manor, and she helped create the choir’s first three-year Strategic Plan. Many recordings, commissions and tours took place during her eight years. “I loved nothing more than departing YVR on a two-to-three-week tour with the choir and leaving behind the burdens of the office. I loved that time with the singers and the repeated concerts in locations as disparate as Moosomin, Saskatchewan; Corner Brook, Newfoundland; and Little Rock, Arkansas! I also relished the long-range planning sessions which took place every July together with Jon Washburn and Violet Goosen (Tour Manager at the time).” Elizabeth served on the British Columbia Arts Council, as founding president of Elektra Women’s Choir, and as a founding board member of the Turning Point Ensemble. Leading up to the inaugural Festival Vancouver in the year 2000 she served as Assistant Director, and she sang with Elektra Women’s Choir for 20 years. Sun Life Community Outreach Program Sun Life Financial is pleased to provide a Community Outreach Program through which the regular season concerts of the Vancouver Chamber Choir are made available to hundreds of people with health related disabilities. Non-profit organizations involved with community health join with the Vancouver Chamber Choir to help distribute tickets. For more information on this program or to register your organization, please call the Vancouver Chamber Choir office at 604-738-6822 and speak with Steven Bélanger. 4 PROGRAM NOTES, TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS BEGINNINGS Th is fi rst program of the 2019-2020 season and my tenure as Artistic Director of the Vancouver Chamber Choir is, unsurprisingly, focused on Beginnings. I have chosen choral works that celebrate the commencement of something new, even if these stories do not all end all that well. Th ere are the Wright brothers taking fl ight, a new emperor being crowned, the fi rst Canadian satellite, and there is Icarus fl ying too close to the sun, as well as the Spring emerging from the cold sky. And there is naturally also love, the beginning of beginnings. I also wanted to include Alfred Janson’s wonderful interpretation of Shakespeare’s defence of always writing in the same style. Its wonderful lines (“So all my best is dressing old words new / Spending again what is already spent”) are both a defence of my taste in music and a call to remain curious about music and styles less familiar to me. Whilst in the 2019–2020 season there will be an emphasis on things well- known to me – early music, choral classics, music from Northern Europe and the music of living composers – I will be keeping a sharp lookout on all things new and local. Th is season is in itself only the beginning of a journey and I am proud to embark on that journey today in your presence.
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