Cowichan Classical Concerts

Tag: Dvorak

  • Stars of the Future

    Artists of the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Collegium Program

    Sunday, November 3 at 2pm

    The Victoria Conservatory’s Collegium Program provides ensemble opportunities and deep engagement for exceptional teenage musicians, supporting and challenging them to become the best they can be, in music and in life. The chamber music program is highly successful and rated among the best in the country. Its students perform with a maturity and skill well above their age level, winning top prizes in local, provincial, and national music festivals.

    CCC proudly supports these young performers in their quest for excellence!
     

    Programme

    String Quartet no.1 in F major, Opus 18 no. 1 — Ludwig van Beethoven
    I Allegro con brio                             
    — Glengarry Quartet (Janou Boutilier, Isidora Uhlman, Walter Rees, Celina Holt)

    Woodwind Trio in C major, Opus 87 — Ludwig van Beethoven
    I Allegro         
    —     Queen Alexandra Trio (Judy Su, Celine Liu, Bella Zhang)

    Suite in D major for 3 violins, Opus 17 — Friederich Hermann
    I Grave: Energico ed appassionato, ma in tempo moderato
    —     Josef Hassid Trio (Jessie Wang, Michaela Yee, Owen Fitzgerald)

    Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, B. 166 (Dumky — Antonín Leopold Dvořák
    I Lento maestoso — Allegro quasi doppio movimiento
      —     Mount St. Mary Piano Trio (Andrei Krasnov, Max Webster, Felicia Ma (subbing for Filbert Zhang))

    Creatures of the Enchanted Forest (Flute Quartet) — Anže Rozman
    II “The Bird…”
    III “The Evening Singer”
    —     Jubilee Flute Quartet (Tyler Evans-Knott, Daniel Sanabria, Miya Doak, Emilia Vozian)

    Piano Trio no. 1 in F major, opus 18 — Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
    I Allegro vivace    
    —     Samson and Delilah Trio (Max Francis, Joanne Jiang, Felicia Ma)     

    Background information

    Founded in January 2006, the Young Artist Collegium Program provides colleagues and peers for exceptional young musicians, supporting and challenging them to become the best they can be, in music and in life.

    Delivered in an after-school format, the Collegium is an enriched program for talented young classical musicians playing piano, string, wind, and brass instruments, all brought together with outstanding teachers to create a lively, collaborative educational experience devoted to the pursuit of musical excellence.

    It provides the environment for students to develop and thrive both as soloists and as chamber musicians; and all the necessary tools needed to think critically and work as a team.

    The Collegium has been described as “likely one of the best, if not THE best, program for young musicians in BC”. Members of the Collegium are consistently winners of local, provincial and national music festivals, as well as scholarships to prestigious universities and postsecondary music schools such as Julliard, Glenn Gould School in Toronto, or Schulich Music at McGill; and our alumni are now members of symphonies in Montreal, Ottawa (National Arts Centre), Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria.

  • The KeyWinds Trio: January 15th

    If Music be the Food of Love – Sunday, Janury 15th at 2pm

    The KeyWinds Trio are: Margaret St. Cyr (horn), Yvonne Gillespie (piano), and Annick Richardson (clarinet). They are joined by guest artist, Kelly Coubrough.

    Kelly Coubrough, soprano

    Programme

    Auf dem Strom, D. 943 (1828) – Franz Peter Schubert (1797—1828)

    Les nuits d’été, Opus 7 (1841) – Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803—1869)

    1.  Villanelle

    2.  Le spectre de la rose            

    3.  Sur les lagunes                

    4.  Absence

    5.  Au cimetière

    6.  L’île inconnue

    Nocturno, Opus 75 (1886) – Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt  (1849—1922)

    Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965 (1828) – Franz Peter Schubert (1797—1828)

    L’amor funesto (1842) – Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (1797 – 1848)

    Cigánské Melodie, Opus 55 (1880) – Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841—1904)

    1.  Mein Lied ertönt

    2.  Ei, wie mein Triangel wunderherrlich läutet

    3.  Rings ist der Wald so stumm und still

    4.  Als die alte Mutter

    5.  Reingestimmt die Saiten!

    7.  Darf des Falken Schwinge Tatrahoh’n umrauschen

    Three Theatrical Songs – Milton Byron Babbitt (1916 – 2011)

    Biographies

    Yvonne Gillespie (piano)

    Yvonne began her musical studies in Piano Performance at the University of Alberta in Edmonton studying with Dr. Ernesto Lejano.  Later she embarked on music composition and completed a degree in composition at the University of Victoria, studying with Christopher Butterfield.  She continued her compositional studies at the University of British Columbia completing a Master in Music after working with both Stephen Chatman and Keith Hamel.  After pursuing Doctoral studies in music theory for three years at UBC, Yvonne decided to discontinue her theoretical studies and to focus solely on composition and piano performance.  Yvonne has performed across Canada with many ensembles, orchestras, and soloists and is currently enjoying creating amazing music with the KeyWinds Quintet and Trio.

    Margaret St. Cyr (French horn)

    Margarethas a Bachelor and a Master of Music degree in horn performance. She also has a Bachelor of Education degree. She has been a soloist with the Saint Cecilia Orchestra and Calgary Philharmonic and a featured soloist on CBC, CFRN and ITV.  Margaret has received Alberta Culture awards, a Canada Council Grant for advanced music study in Germany, a Johann Strauss Scholarship for advanced music study in Austria, a Du Maurier Search for Stars Award of Merit, and won the 1981 Canadian Composers’ Commission Competition (Dr. Malcolm Forsyth composed a piece for horn and piano for her).  In 1980, Margaret spent a year on a scholarship studying horn at the Banff Centre.  She has played horn with the Victoria Symphony, Rome Festival Orchestra, Atlantic Symphony, Canadian Chamber Orchestra, Calgary and Edmonton Symphonies and the Cowichan Consort Orchestra.  Margaret has always enjoyed playing chamber music and is very excited to be a member of the KeyWinds Quintet and Trio.

    Annick Richardson (clarinet)

    Annick started studying music at the age of ten under the guidance of Victor Capron, a family friend who started her musical education on recorder and solfège.  She began learning clarinet at the age of 14.  After high school, she began her musical studies at the University of Victoria and graduated from the Faculty of Music in 1982.  Annick has lived in the Cowichan Valley since 1997 and has enjoyed participating in musical endeavours with choirs and many other wonderful musicians in and around the Valley.  In addition to performing with the KeyWinds Quintet and Trio, she also plays first clarinet with the Cowichan Consort Orchestra performing on B flat, A, and bass clarinets.  Although classical music is her main interest, she feels privileged to be able to play a bit of jazz and swing with an incredible group of musicians in a swing band called “Annick and the Lakeside Loungers”.

    Kelly Coubrough (soprano)

    Kelly has experience in many genres of music including opera, new music, and musical theatre. She is an active performer and also enjoys sharing her knowledge as a teacher, choral conductor, and music director. Kelly holds an Honours Bachelor of Music in voice performance from Wilfried Laurier University. She sang with the Vancouver Opera Company Chorus from 2005-2012 and has performed as a soloist with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra (Kelowna), Opera NUOVA (Edmonton), Queen of Puddings Music Theatre (Toronto) and Tapestry New Opera Works (Toronto). She is an avid recitalist and has been a feature soloist with numerous choirs including Vancouver Bach Choir, the Twin Rivers Choir (Castlegar), and the Whistler Singers. In August 2023 she will make her debut with Opera Kelowna as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte.