Joaquin Valdepeñas David Hetherington Serouj Kradjian 2017-2018 Season
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2017-2018 SEASON JOAQUIN VALDEPEÑAS DAVID HETHERINGTON SEROUJ KRADJIAN AMICIENSEMBLE.COM MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Please join us in celebrating Amici’s legacy, 30 years of performing outstanding chamber music with our friends, our Amici! We invite you to experience our passion for innovative, evocative programming and the best chamber music and musicians as we share our inspiration with you this season! We are pleased to present our 30th anniversary season opener, Inspired by Friends at the beautiful home of the Kelk family. Stroll Joaquin Valdepeñas David Hetherington Serouj Kradjian through the gardens and relax by the koi pond while enjoying the most beautiful chamber music Amici has to offer and raising essential funds towards our new recording project! Amici celebrates the 150th anniversary of our great country, with The season ends in April, as Amici partners with the Royal Conservatory of Music to celebrate our 30th Anniversary Gala performance of an all-Canadian program, Inspired by Canada. The program will include some of our most loved commissions, will feature the winning A Legacy of Inspiration in Koerner Hall. We celebrate this auspicious composition from our Young Composer Program, as well as new occasion with three B’s; Beethoven, Brahms and Bernstein. We arrangements of works by Canadian greats such as Leonard Cohen, celebrate our legacy at this performance by featuring some of our Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Claude Lavallé. This concert will also favourite music performing with dear friends such as Internationally renowned soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, favourite instrumental feature the release of our recording Canadian Inspirations. colleagues and showcasing our longstanding teaching relationship In January we present Inspired by Strauss. While Richard Strauss was with RCM by featuring the award winning students from the Glenn mostly known for his operatic and orchestral masterpieces, Amici will Gould School. explore his masterful yet lesser known chamber music works, and Lieder favourites in new arrangements by Serouj. Amici has been making music for 30 wonderful years and it has always been our goal to produce inspiring programming combining the most In February, Amici presents the remount of our Juno Award winning revered classical compositions, many of which we have recorded, recording, Levant. Inspired by Levant focuses on the fascinating and with more adventurous music which we know our audiences will love mystifying sounds and colours of the “region of the rising sun”. We just as much. We can’t wait to celebrate and share with you our 30th will take you on a wonderful musical journey, starting in the cradle Anniversary season! of ancient civilizations and travelling through the Balkans; to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and up to the Caucasus Mountains INSPIRED BY A GARDEN PARTY AMONGST FRIENDS Graciously hosted at the home of Margie and Peter Kelk Amici is pleased to present our 30th anniversary season opener at the beautiful home of the Kelk family. Stroll through the gardens and relax by the koi pond while enjoying the best chamber music Amici has to offer featuring acclaimed violinist Yehonatan Berick and Amici favourite soprano Mireille Asselin. We look forward to welcoming our Amici family of supporters for our annual fundraising event raising essential money towards Amici’s next ambitious recording project, Canadian Inspirations. SPECIAL GUESTS: MIREILLE ASSELIN YEHONATAN BERICK SEPTEMBER 17, 2017 • 3PM CELEBRATING CANADA’S INSPIRED BY 150TH ANNIVERSARY! Amici celebrates the 150th anniversary of our great country, with an all-Canadian program including two of the most loved compositions we have commissioned in the last 30 years: Chan Ka Nin’s Among Friends and Allan Gordon Bell’s Gravity and Grace. The second half will feature Canadian soprano Mireille Asselin in the best of the Canadian songbook, including Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Claude Lavallé, in new arrangements by Serouj Kradjian. This program will feature the winning composition from Amici’s Young Composers Program. We will also celebrate the launch of Amici’s newest recording, Canadian Inspirations! MUSIC: CHAN KA NIN GILLES VIGNAULT AMONG FRIENDS MON PAYS ALAN GORDON BELL RALPH VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS TRAILS OF GRAVITY 49TH PARALLEL: PRELUDE AND GRACE GORDON LIGHTFOOT LEONARD COHEN CANADIAN RAILROAD HALLELUJAH TRILOGY JONI MITCHELL SCOTT JOPLIN A CASE OF YOU MAPLE LEAF RAG CLAUDE LÉVEILLÉE LES VIEUX PIANOS SPECIAL GUEST: MIREILLE ASSELIN NOVEMBER 12, 2017 • 3PM A TRUE MELODIST INSPIRED BY Richard Strauss was mostly known for his operatic and orchestral masterpieces. Amici explores his masterful yet lesser known chamber music works: his Piano Quartet, the Duett Concertino (in its new chamber version), and Lieder favourites like “Morgen” and “Zueignung”, in new arrangements, featuring Canadian soprano Sasha Djihanian and violinist Soovin Kim. MUSIC: DUETT CONCERTINO PIANO QUARTET IN C MINOR, OP. 13 LIEDER DIE NACHT MORGEN TRAUM DURCH DIE DÄMMERUNG ZUEIGNUNG SPECIAL GUESTS: SASHA DJIHANIAN SOOVIN KIM SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCES SUPPORTED BY: JANUARY 28, 2018 • 3PM A MUSICAL JOURNEY TO THE REGION OF THE RISING SUN Amici presents the remount of our Juno Award winning recording, Levant. Take a musical journey with us through the Middle East as we explore the fascinating and mystifying sounds and colours of Levant, the “region of the rising sun”. This program features violinist Lara St. John in an eclectic selection of works by composers whose paths might not have crossed had it not been for their source of inspiration: the cradle of ancient civilizations. MUSIC: RABIH ABOU-KHALIL SERGEY PROKOFIEV ARABIAN WALTZ OVERTURE ON HEBREW THEMES, ALEKSANDR GLAZUNOV FOR CLARINET, STRING QUARTET RÊVERIE ORIENTALE & PIANO, OP. 34 OSVALDO GOLIJOV MARKO TAJCEVIC LEVANTE SEVEN BALKAN DANCES GEORGE GURDJIEFF GAYANE TCHEBODARIAN ARMENIAN SONG PIANO TRIO SAYYID SONG & DANCE NO. 29 SOLHI AL-WADI SAYYID SONG AND DANCE NO. 10 TRIO FOR PIANO, JOHN FARAH VIOLIN AND CELLO AH YA ZAYN SPECIAL GUEST: LARA ST. JOHN FEBRUARY 25, 2018 • 3PM James Sommerville Barry Shiffman Robert Schumann Leslie Mann, Franz Danzi Ludvig van Beethoven Lois Marshall Jacques Israelievitch Steven Dann Nora Shulman Andrew Davis Joanne Kolomyec Max Reger Alexander Zemlinsky Arnold Schoenberg Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oskar Morawetz Johannes Brahms Arnold Steinhardt Archduke Rudolph Franz Schubert Mark DuBois Mi Hyon Kim Ralph Vaughan Williams Carl Maria von Weber Allan Vogel Michael Sweeney Frederick Rizner Francis Poulenc Glenn Buhr Edith Wiens Omar Daniel Rivka Golani Moshe Hammer Bernhard Crusell Raymond Ludeke Ernö von Dohnányi Maurice Ravel Olivier Messiaen José Luis Garcia Beverley Johnston Johanne Sebastian Bach Alexina Louie Shmuel Ashkenasi Alexander Mishnaevsky Joel Quarrington Richard Ranti John Cerminaro Catherine Robbin Jeanne Baxtresser CELEBRATING 30 YEARS Camille Saint-Saëns Chan Kan Nin César Franck Henri Duparc Mark Kaplan Paul Meyer Rennie Regher Brian Cherney Robert Muczynski Douglas Boyd David Jaeger Igor Stravinsky Antonin OF INSPIRED PERFORMANCES, Dvorák Paul Kantor Paul Coletti Dmitri Shostakovich Jacques Hétu Robert Fuchs Cho-Liang Lin Annalee PatipatanikoonOF Toby HoffmanINSPIRATION Martin Beaver Max Bruch Kathleen McLean James COMMISSIONS, RECORDINGS Mason Joseph Orlowski Joan Watson Harcus Hennigar Carl Nielsen Benjamin Britten Mikhail Glinka John Weinzweig Jaime Laredo Phyllis Tate Lakshmi Ranganathan Vasan Rajalingam Erika AND EDUCATION Raum Douglas McNabney Larry Weeks Vainika Ratna Henry Kucharzyk Bohuslav Martinu Yehonatan Berick Felix Mendelssohn Michael Schade John Greer David Amram Carl Czerny Lara St. John Robert McDuffie Béla Bartók Louis Spohr Jean Stilwell Mayumi Seiler Susan Hoeppner Max Christie Giovanni Bottesini Dan Welcher Gabriel Fauré Peggy Baker Louise Farrenc Claude Debussy Sergei Prokofiev Zoltán Kodály Marie Bérard Terence Helmer Scott St. John Gioachino Amici has been making music for 30 wonderful Rossini Frank Bridge Franz Berwald Aram Khachaturian Peter Tiefenbach Mark Fewer John years and we celebrate this auspicious occasion by Rudolph Arthur Honegger Darius Milhaud Harry Somers Geoff Nuttall Lesley Robertson Marina partnering with The Royal Conservatory of Music Hoover Barbara Hannigan Rachel Mercer Max Mandel Aisslinn Nosky Julia Wedman André to present our final concert showcasing three B’s; Previn Philip Loosemore Judy Loman Jacques Ibert Lothar Klein Patricia O’Callaghan Phil Dwyer Andrew Downing Carl Frühling Edison Denisov Rebecca Clarke Patrick Cardy Victor Steinhardt Beethoven, Brahms and Bernstein, in Koerner Hall. We Dave Grusin Brett Polegato Edward Tait Malcolm Forsyth Violet Archer Vincent D’Indy Anton are joined by award- winning students from the Glenn Webern Richard Strauss Elliott Carter James Ehnes Niccolo Paganini Cynthia Stelges Linda Gould School, some of our favourite instrumental Ippolito Alban Berg James Rolfe Andrew StanilandTHIRTIETH Ida Kavafian Ernest Chausson Allan Gordon colleagues, dear friend Yehonatan Berick and Bell Measha Brueggergosman Joaquin TurinaANNIVERSARY Manuel de Falla Xavier Montsalvatge Arturo internationally renowned soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian. Márquez Daniel Phillips Todd Phillips Steven Tenenbom Timothy Eddy Luigi Boccherini Gerald Finzi Christos Hatzis Edvard Grieg Russell Braun Charles Loeffler Benjamin Bowman Shane Kim Sharon Wei Sydney Hodkinson Erwin Schulhof Leslie Kinton André Laplante Oliver Knussen Franz Berwald Teng Li Neil DelandWITH GaryISABEL Kulesha BAYRAKDARIAN