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JOHANNES BRAHMS DOUBLE CONCERTO IN A MINOR, PAINTING BY ERNESTINE TAHEDL Ernestine Tahedl ROMANTICISM

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE IX, PAINTING BY ERNESTINE TAHEDL

Art Exhibit October 5–22, 2017 | Art + Media Lab at the Isabel

Come and witness an astonishing burst of colour with the paintings of Austrian-Canadian artist Ernestine Tahedl, whose art is inspired by the composers of the romantic era including Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms. Her colours appear to explode, recreating the sounds and chords of the music she hears. Through her art, Ernestine Tahedl visualizes sounds and the emotions triggered by the music, with colours and sound forming a new unity.

An Artist Statement—Ernestine Tahedl For me, the Series comes close to a musical experience and was painted and inspired while listening to classical music reflected in the titles of the works. I feel these paintings are a more direct, human and spiritual expression without confinement of the motif or formal restriction; yet still consist of all those elements that I have explored in my work over the years. I hope that spirituality and serenity are integral to my work. Colour and light are factors that guide my work; colour to me is light.

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” – WALTER PATER (1839-1894)

About Ernestine Tahedl Austrian-Canadian artist Ernestine Tahedl received a Master’s Degree in graphic art from the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. Following graduation, she collaborated with her father, Professor Heinrich Tahedl, in stained glass artist commissions until she immigrated to . Her work is represented in public, private, and corporate collections and galleries in Canada, the United States, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan. She is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and is the recipient of many national and international awards. The works displayed in this exhibit are acrylic on canvas. FRIEDRICH KLEINHAPL & ANDREAS WOYKE FELIX HELL THE 5 Sunday afternoon virtuoso performances

BACH & BONHOEFFER REBELS AGAINST TIME: Felix Hell, Organ and R.H. Thomson, Narrator The Tides of Romanticism Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 2:30 PM Duo Kleinhapl & Woyke, Cello and Piano Felix Hell is one of the most sought Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 2:30 PM after concert organists in the world, Some rebels, such as Beethoven and Piazzolla, and has been featured as recitalist forge far ahead into the future and are the revolutionaries and concerto soloist in more than against tradition. Others – such as Mendelssohn and 850 concerts throughout North Jacob Gade – firmly entrench themselves in esteemed America, , Asia and . musical traditions. This program features the award- The American Organist raved that R.H. THOMSON winning duo of Austrian cellist Friedrich Kleinhapl and he “sets standards that older and pianist Andreas Woyke, who will perform sonatas by honored players would struggle to equal.” Felix Hell Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Franck and tangos by has gained global recognition through his marathon Gade and Piazzolla. The New York Times describes the performances of the complete organ works of Bach. “unimpeachable virtuosity and a thrilling unanimity of He will premiere his program Bach & Bonhoeffer at the spirit” of the Duo Kleinhapl & Woyke. This celebrated Isabel, pairing the momentous music of Bach with the duo has appeared in renowned concert venues around powerful writings of courageous German theologian the world including Vienna’s Musikverein and the Dietrich Bonhoeffer. R.H. Thomson, one of Canada’s Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. most talented and beloved actors, will read selections from Bonhoeffer’s letters and poems written in prison in THIS PERFORMANCE IS SPONSORED BY: 1944 – his final works just prior to his execution in 1945. Bach selections include Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor (BWV 542), Passacaglia (BWV 582) and his deathbed chorale ‘Before thy throne I now appear’ (BWV 668). Felix Hell has developed his Bach & Bonhoeffer project collaboratively with the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts and R.H. Thomson to present new dimensions to the compositions of Bach and the writings of Bonhoeffer. LOUIS LORTIE CHARLES RICHARD-HAMELIN SOLOISTS

LOUIS LORTIE, Piano Stars of the COC ENSEMBLE STUDIO Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 2:30 PM Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 2:30 PM

The London Times describes the playing of Passion personified! Celebrate the glory of the Canadian pianist Louis Lortie as “ever immaculate, human voice with stars of the Canadian Opera ever imaginative,” and has identified the artist’s Company’s Ensemble Studio. The Isabel will “combination of total spontaneity and meditated sparkle when these exceptional young singers bring ripeness that only great pianists have.” Louis Lortie you a beautiful selection of arias and ensembles loves the challenge of assembling a program with from beloved operas. Triumph to tragedy, love and that “je-ne-sais-quoi” that cannot be accessed betrayal, and the despotic to the sublime – opera through the internet and that can only be brought has it all. Witness the glorious talent of these glowing to life in a recital. Audience members will be treated and gifted artists who are set to launch themselves to Chopin, Schubert and more! on the world stage of opera.

CHARLES RICHARD-HAMELIN, Piano Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 2:30 PM

Prize winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition, Concours musical international de Montréal and Seoul International Music Competition, this young Canadian musician is standing out as one of the most important pianists of his generation. He will perform music by Mozart, Chopin, Babadjanian, and Schumann. The Ottawa Citizen states that Richard-Hamelin’s “raw emotional impact is the real deal, rooted completely in his convincing STARS OF THE COC ENSEMBLE STUDIO musicianship.” SERIES TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS

ENSEMBLESERIES 5 spectacular London Handel Players FATHER, GODFATHER AND SON ensemble performances Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 7:30 PM “The most delicious music you could ask to hear, and the players give every indication of loving every note they play.” Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra —JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH FLUTE SOCIETY

MOZART’S PIANO What’s in the title? Telemann was chosen by Johann Sebastian Kristian Bezuidenhout, Bach to be Godfather to his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Guest Director and Fortepianist and the program will feature all three composers. The London Handel Players is a dynamic baroque ensemble that brings Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:30 PM together leading period-instrument baroque chamber This series opens with a stunning musicians. The ensemble that includes leading British baroque concert by Tafelmusik, showcasing “dream-team”: Adrian Butterfield (violin), Rachel Brown (flute/ its classical personality and recorder), Katherine Sharman (cello/gamba) and Laurence performing with one of the greatest Cummings (harpsichord). They will bring a delightful program musicians in the field. De Telegraaf of these great baroque composers to life. KRISTIAN pronounces fortepianist Kristian BEZUIDENHOUT Bezuidenhout as “MOZART REINCARNATED”, and The London NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA Times describes him as “the most brilliant of today’s Alexander Shelley, Conductor fortepiano players.” Mozart uses all the colours of the fortepiano in his Concerto for Piano in A Major to make Jessica Linnebach, Violin his music at one moment dramatic and percussive, and Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 7:30 PM the next shimmering and crystalline. Energy abounds as After their spectacular Isabel debut last season, the the remarkable Tafelmusik orchestra performs Mozart’s is back by popular demand. Symphony No. 29, and the dynamic symphonies by two National Arts Centre Orchestra The program features Copland’s Fanfare for the Common of Mozart’s mentors, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Man, Mozart Violin Concerto no 3, and Sibelius Symphony Johann Christoph Bach. No. 1. The program is conducted by NACO’s Music Director, Alexander Shelley whose music making is described as “original, intelligent, thoroughly convincing and well-crafted” (Salzburger Nachrichten). The ensemble has since been praised by the Ottawa Citizen as “an orchestra transformed … hungry, bold, and unleashed.” NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA WITH ALEXANDER SHELLEY

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TAN DUN WATER PASSION

Soundstreams Canada CAMERATA RCO TAN DUN Members of the Water Passion After St. Matthew ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA Lawrence Cherney, Artistic Director Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 7:30 PM Conducted by David Fallis “Thrilling amalgam of simplicity and expression.” With Choir 21 —NRC HANDELSBLAD Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 7:30 PM This concert features the accomplished members “[Water Passion’s] world premiere in Stuttgart…was greeted of one of the world’s most celebrated orchestras, with an ecstatic 15-minute standing ovation. Like its model, The Netherlands’ renowned Royal Concertgebouw Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, it transcends language, cultural Orchestra. The program takes the audience on a world journey from Leipzig to Hollywood to Vienna with works and religious divides.” —THE TIMES, LONDON by Schumann and Bernard Herrmann (film composer Tan Dun is an internationally celebrated Chinese of Citizen Kane, North by Northwest, and Taxi Driver), contemporary classical composer and conductor, most culminating in a performance of Brahms’ breathtaking widely known for his scores of the movies Crouching Tiger, chamber music work, his String Quintet, Op. 111. Hidden Dragon and Hero, the world premiere of The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as his music for the medal ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In Water Passion, seventeen dramatically lit water bowls adorn the stage in this reimagining of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, where Tan Dun explores universal themes of birth, death, and resurrection using water as a symbol of transition from one stage to another. Varied cultural influences also shape the string writing, drawing upon Tibetan percussion and instruments that evolved along the ancient Silk Road. The distinctly modern soundscape is cast against elemental, tactile impressions of water in this remarkable intercultural setting of the timeless liturgical text.

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ARION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA DMITRY SINKOVSKY

Your spring fling with Bach and beyond!

VIRTUOSI! ARION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA Dmitry Sinkovsky, Guest Director and Violin Soloist Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 7:30 PM “Virtuosity, finesse, expression, imagination, nothing is missing from Sinkovsky.” —LE MONDE

The triple talents of ’s phenomenon Dmitry Sinkovsky — a violinist, countertenor, and conductor — have led him to a dazzling career on the world stage. This concert will combine the virtuosic talents of Sinkovsky with those of the Arion Baroque Orchestra and their artistic director and flutistClaire Guimond in a wonderful concert of Bach, Handel, Quantz and Telemann. Arion, Québec’s Juno Award-winning baroque period instrument orchestra, is lauded for its “remarkable and unified sound, such impeccable phrasing, unparalleled expression of stunning sonority, phrasing and brilliant beat punctuations” (Arts & Opinion), and whose artistry is appreciated around the globe. + BEYONDSERIES

CONSTANTINOPLE & SUZIE LEBLANC ANGELA HEWITT

METAMORFOSI THE BEAUTY OF BACH Constantinople & Suzie LeBlanc Angela Hewitt Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 7:30 PM Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 7:30 PM This Baroque and Beyond program is embodied by the “I know of no musician whose Bach playing on any velvety smooth voice of Suzie LeBlanc who is one of instrument is of greater subtlety, beauty of tone, Canada’s most sought-after early music sopranos. Her persuasiveness of judgement or instrumental command poetry is enhanced by the brio and bold improvisations than Hewitt’s is here.” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE of the five musicians ofConstantinople , a diverse Montreal group inspired by the ancient city illuminating This inaugural baroque series culminates in a East and West. This is a joyful and salutary delirium performance by one of Canada’s greats and for music lovers enjoying the music of Monteverdi, foremost interpreter of Bach, Angela Hewitt. This Kapsberger, Merula, Strozzi, Rossi and more! distinguished Canadian pianist is described by The Sunday Times magazine as “one of the reliably mesmerising musicians of the day.” Angela Hewitt will perform this baroque concert of Bach and Scarlatti on her Fazioli F278 grand piano.

“graceful and sublime .. At once radiant and reflective, the beauty of Suzie LeBlanc’s voice gives gives the work its splendour.” —LE JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL 3SERIES THE BICYCLE OPERA PROJECT THE IN CHARLOTTE – A TRI-COLOURED PLAY WITH MUSIC Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:30 PM PREMIERE—CONCERT VERSION

LIBRETTO: ALON NASHMAN COMPOSER: ALEŠ BRˇEZINA METTEUR-EN-SCÉNE/SCENOGRAPHER: PAMELA HOWARD

Human Rights Playing Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes, with no intermission

A Tri-Coloured Play with Music, based on Charlotte NEW Salomon’s graphic book Life? or Theatre? The ‘waves/scenes’ flow one into the next with no breaks, sometimes using the whole stage, and sometimes with 3 thought- multiple actions as in Charlotte’s paintings. Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the provoking & creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater?: A Song- artistically unique play) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943, Charlotte Salomon performances was captured, deported to and murdered in Auschwitz.

The creation-based residency for the concert version of this work is supported by the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. BILL COLEMAN

NOVATORSSERIES DOLLHOUSE PRESENTS Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie SWEAT Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 7:30 PM Friday, July 28, 2017 at 7:30 PM Presented by Tonedeaf, Kingston’s Festival of CANADIAN PREMIERE TOUR OF THIS 70-MINUTE CHAMBER Adventurous Sound Performance, in collaboration OPERA BY JULIET PALMER AND ANNA CHATTERTON. with the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

Sweat is an ‘a capella’ opera for 10 singers about CONCEPT, DANCE, PERFORMANCE: BILL COLEMAN women in the global garment industry. MUSIC, SOUND, VISUALS: GORDON MONAHAN ADDITIONAL DESIGN: PIERRE LAVOIE & DAVID GAUCHER Sweat takes us inside the world of the sweatshop, where Run time: 1 hour the individual ambitions of workers and management are set against the movement toward unionization. Scored “No other choreographer creates one-of-a-kind events for chorus and five soloists performing in English as as mystical, unpretentious, and full of wonder,” states well as Cantonese, Tamil and Hungarian, Sweat seeks the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of choreographer to bring the audience into the heart of a contemporary and dancer Bill Coleman. In Dollhouse, he plays the sweatshop. What do these workers dream of, sewing role of modern fakir as he suffers through what at times sleeves all day? Was life better in the village left behind? are almost comic situations on his way to a symphonic Plunging headfirst into the ethical conundrums of the chaos of sight and sound. Considering the intense garment trade, the work offers a window into the lives of concerns of contemporary times, the visual metaphor the workers who clothe us. Sweat is a response to our of a man drowning in his surroundings is timely. Tap globalized world, in which we never meet the women dancing, performance art and action intermingle who sew our clothing and we rarely think about their with mechanical and electronic manipulated objects, working conditions. handmade and found, rendering rhythms equally sonic and visual. Disruptive and surprising, Dollhouse walks “The Bicycle Opera Project gives venerable art a new spin.” a unique line of Artaudan fiction and slapstick with the – CBC, THE NATIONAL performer acting simultaneously as instrument and conductor. The internationally acclaimed composer/ The Bicycle Opera Project is a group of excellent young professional artists dedicated to bringing high-quality, sound artist Gordon Monahan, a recipient of the accessible opera to communities across Ontario… traveling Governor-General’s Award in the Arts, will also be exclusively by bicycle! Kingston audiences will recognize creating all the sound live on stage. This Geoffrey Sirett, the co-producer of The Bicycle Opera Project. program is a remarkably creative feat This talented group combines two of his passions, singing in of dance and music in the 21st century. the cycle-touring opera company that gives opera a new spin, and introducing Canadian audiences to a wealth of compelling contemporary opera with gifted young singers. SERIES SWING SHIFT BAND

TAUREY BUTLER

SERIES RÉMI BOLDUC JAZZ 3 evenings of electrifying jazz entertainment

BLUE EYES MEETS BASIE CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS GENIUS OF JOHN COLTRANE Swing Shift Big Band Taurey Butler Trio Rémi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 7:30 PM Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 7:30 PM Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 7:30 PM

This program includes favourites such What better than Vince Guaraldi’s Alto saxophonist Rémi Bolduc is now as Fly Me to the Moon, One for My Baby, famous composition, A Charlie Brown presenting a tribute to John Coltrane, My Kind of Town, and Sweet Georgia Christmas, to put you in the holiday the saxophonist who revolutionized jazz. Brown. Swing Shift Big Band was mood. Favourites such as Linus and Naima, Mr. P.C. and other compositions formed in August of 1996 to preserve Lucy, Christmas Time is Here, Skating from the iconic album Giant Steps and celebrate the sounds and energy of and My Little Drum are just a few of will be performed in this concert that the big band era. It is evident that they the pieces on the program. Montreal’s highlights the 90th anniversary of the have succeeded. The band has now fabulous Taurey Butler Trio performs birth of Coltrane. André Leroux on tenor become one of the top-rated big bands a vibrant interpretation of this famous saxophone, Alexandre Côté on baritone not only in Ontario, but also in all of album, and guest singer Éléonore sax, François Bourassa on piano, Canada. Over 20 radio stations are now Lagacé will join the trio for a few songs. Fraser Hollins on bass, Dave Laing on playing the band’s music worldwide, and Taurey Butler “is a phenomenal jazz drums, and Rémi Bolduc all invite you music downloads from around the world pianist of the highest calibre who has to this energetic concert honouring the also indicate people’s enjoyment of this moved thousands of people here and amazing talents of John Coltrane. band’s recordings. abroad with his extraordinary talent” (Montreal Gazette). Taurey has “a keen interest in learning and a predilection for Oscar Peterson-style piano playing … the Taurey Butler Trio is a take-no- prisoners piano trio capable of knocking over anything in its path” (All About Jazz). Musicians include: Taurey Butler, piano; Éric Lagacé, bass; Wali Muhammad, percussions; and Éléonore Lagacé, guest singer. 5SERIES LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA TEN STRINGS AND A GOATSKIN

SERIES GLOBAL NEW CANADIAN GLOBAL MUSIC ORCHESTRA Go global with 3 diverse performances

THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA TEN STRINGS MUSIC PRESENTS THE Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 7:30 PM AND A GOATSKIN NEW CANADIAN GLOBAL “Adventurously multicultural … amazing” New Celtic Heroes on the scene MUSIC ORCHESTRA – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Monday, November 27, 2017 at 7:30 PM Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 7:30 PM The Isabel welcomes back the “Probably one of the most exciting and Where else but in Canada today, at Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Canada’s progressive new roots groups... The future only Balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party- this moment, can artists from different for these boys is huge.” – BRIAN O’DONOVAN, . Born on the traditions come together to create punk-super-band BURREN BACKROOM SERIES, BOSTON, 2016 streets of Toronto as a busking a new body of work or, even, a new tradition? The Royal Conservatory band in 2010, the original quartet Expanding on the Scottish and Acadian of Music has brought together of guerrilla-folk troubadours quickly roots of PEI’s traditional music, PEI’s outstanding professional musicians amassed a battalion of troops armed Ten Strings and a Goatskin weave from all over the world, all of whom with brass and bows, and started old-school Scottish, Franco-Canadian, now live in Canada, to create the New touring the world. LBO has been Breton, and Irish tunes with wickedly Canadian Global Music Orchestra. nominated for several awards, it is current grooves and clever quirks, These outstanding musicians will heralded as ground-breaking by flirting with indie’s best moments. Ten bring Canadian, Iranian, Ukrainian, international media, and has performed Strings and a Goat Skin is a bilingual Métis, Cuban, Pakistani, Burkina Faso, at international festivals across the folk/fusion trio from Prince Edward Mexican, Brazilian, Greek, Peruvian, globe. At their Isabel debut in 2015, Island who present traditional and Tibetan, Chinese and American they ended up doing a post-concert original music inspired by their Atlantic traditions together. Music connects performance in the lobby for the entire Canadian histories and roots, and and communicates in ways that words, audience to dance with complete and infused with pop and world rhythms. unbridled joy! politicians, and spiritual leaders cannot. Together, we all find a common language.

The New Canadian Global Music Orchestra is presented by The Royal Conservatory of Music in partnership with: the Aga Khan Museum, Batuki Music Society, Diasporic Genius, Lula Music and Arts Centre, Small World Music, York University Department of Music, and 918 Bathurst Centre. 6SERIES NEW! CHILDREN’S SERIES THE MOUSE, THE ANT AND THE ANTELOPES Performance and fun children’s drama workshop by story-teller and animator Emerita Emerencia Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 2:30 PM IN THE ISABEL’S REHEARSAL HALL

Chabelita (a cute hand puppet) is still shivering from a scary encounter with a mouse. Her auntie (Emerita) tells her own version of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse to calm her. She continues with the story of The Ant and the Butterfly, followed by a tale of African antelopes. This performance with audience participation brings forward the importance of sharing and respect for what was here before us. Following Parents, her performance of The Mouse, the Ant and the Antelopes, Emerita offers a workshop for the children and the young- grandparents, aunts, at-heart in the audience including the use of drama techniques, uncles and friends— movement, music and improvisation. Storyteller Emerita Emerencia is a multi- introduce a young lingual artist who has been a school projects choreographer with the National Ballet of person into the wonderful Canada, a children’s narrator with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and a librettist with the world of the arts! Canadian Opera Company. Self-described as “an Aruban by nature and a Canadian by nurture,” Emerita has a great and generous HANSEL AND GRETEL gift for involving the children in the stories she tells. Shoestring Opera Recommended for children in JK to Grade 4. Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 2:30 PM Run Time for performance and workshop: 40 minute performance plus a fun 30 minute kids’ drama and Enjoy this updated original children’s classic of Hansel movement workshop. and Gretel where the children live with their single mom next door to a very strange lady who practises night and day on a cello. And why is she always sweeping her THE SCHOOLYARD CARMEN front porch? Who knows? “She might be a witch, with an awful twitch, who rides the air with a broomstick switch!” Shoestring Opera Thoroughly spooked, they fall asleep and wake up to a Sunday, April 22, 2018 at 2:30 PM wild roller coaster ride through the land of the fairy tale, with a wondrous gingerbread house and a crazy old An inspiring story of independence matched with Bizet’s witch—who plays the cello! Hansel shows off some groovy unforgettable music! In this age-appropriate adaptation of dance moves set to Humperdinck’s gorgeous music as the famous opera, Carmen is a feisty little girl with a sad Gretel leads them both out of trouble and into a greater past, and a newcomer to this country. When Tory Adair, the understanding of their strange neighbour. Come “coolest kid in school” tries to bully her, she stands up to him. and join the dance! Through Carmen’s story, we look at the immigrant in Canadian society, the child who is different, schoolyard bullying, personal FUN IN COSTUMES: Children and the young-at-heart independence and the saving properties of art. With Bizet’s are encouraged to wear their Hallowe’en costumes to bewitching, infectious music, Carmen’s flamenco dancing and this Isabel performance! the action-packed story, The Schoolyard Carmen is sure to be Run time: 45 minutes. Recommended for children in Shoestring’s most popular adaptation yet! Grades 1 to 6. SERIES Run time: 45 minutes. Recommended for children in Grades 1 to 6 . While we welcome families, we feel that the enjoyment of the whole audience is paramount and therefore humbly request that no babes in arms and children under 7 the age of two enter into the Concert Hall for these productions. SPECIAL PERFORMANCE ROYAL CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor Leon Bernsdorf, piano

Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 7 PM* *Please note earlier start time.

GABOR TAKACS-NAGY LEON BERNSDORF

The Royal Conservatory Orchestra returns to the stage of the Isabel, this time performing Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. This wonderfully talented group of pre-professional musicians work with the spirited Hungarian conductor, Gabor Takacs-Nagy. The concert features gifted pianist Leon Bernsdorf, a prize winner of the recent Liszt Ferenc International Piano Competition in Hungary and the Liszt Competition in .

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