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Toronto Consort at UNBSJ September 22
September 22, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
UNB Lorenzo Society Music Series and the Saint John Early Music Festival will present the renowned Toronto Consort performing “Shakespeare’s Songbook” in Ganong Hall Lecture Theatre on the campus of UNBSJ at 8 pm on Friday, September 22. This performance is free of charge to students, staff and faculty of UNBSJ (UNBSJ ID required). Tickets for off-campus audience members ($20 Adults, $15 Seniors and $5 Students) can be purchased at the door on the night and there will be free on-campus parking for this event. For more information, contact Lorenzo_music@unb.ca
About the Toronto Consort:
Since its founding in 1972, the Toronto Consort has become internationally recognized for its excellence in the performance of medieval, renaissance and early baroque music. Led by Artistic Director David Fallis, nine of Canada’s leading early music specialists have come together to form the Toronto Consort. The members, David Fallis, Alison Melville, Michele DeBoer, John Pepper, Paul Jenkins, Katherine Hill, Terry McKenna, Laura Pudwell and Ben Grossman include both singers and instrumentalists (lute, recorder, guitar, flute, early keyboards and percussion).
Performances with the Toronto Consort explore rarely-heard repertoire. The musicians often work in collaboration with other artists, such as actors, dancers and visual artists, to produce concerts with dramatic and visual elements which in many instances provide an historical context for our music.
The Toronto Consort has made recordings for the CBC Collection, Berandol, SRI, Dorian, and currently Marquis Classics, with 10 CDs to their credit, two of which have been nominated for Juno awards. The most recent recording (Navidad) was released in 2012. In 2014, they re-released their popular recording The Little Barley-Corne.
Recently, the ensemble has been called upon to produce a considerable amount of music for historical-drama TV series, including The Tudors, The Borgias and The Vikings, all produced by the cable network, Showtime. Also, The Toronto Consort recorded the soundtrack for Atom Egoyan’s award-winning film The Sweet Hereafter.
Unusual for an early music ensemble is their commitment to contemporary repertoire. Canadian composers such as John Beckwith, Lothar Klein and David Keane have written pieces especially for The Toronto Consort.
Whether portraying the haunting emotion of a minstrel’s ballad or capturing the sparkle of a rollicking madrigal, The Toronto Consort brings alive the glorious music of earlier times.
Saint John Early Music Festival
Early Music Studio of Saint John Inc.