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2017. 2018 @ INSPIRING. SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND SAVE! 17 18TEN STRINGS AND A GOATSKIN The adventure starts here. 2017.2018 NEW! ART+MUSIC THE SOLOISTS ENSEMBLES NEW! BAROQUE+BEYOND NEW! THE INNOVATORS JAZZ GLOBAL SUBSCRIBE TODAY & NEW! CHILDREN’S SAVE SERIES THE ISABEL HUMAN RIGHTS ARTS FESTIVAL Subscribers get the best seats! Call 613.533.2424 to subscribe today. NEW! ART & MUSIC Complete Harmony. 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 Canada. 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, Europe, Asia and Australia. 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 CAMERATA RCO 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.

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