The St Andrews Arts Council Presents The St. Andrews Chamber Music Festival, May 31-June 3, 2024.
Mathilde Handelsman and Edward Cho, Founders & Co-Artistic Directors
Friday, May 31 – 7pm: Opening Concert
@ Wesley United Church
Sunday, June 2: Messiaen -“Quartet for the End of Time”
2:30 pm: Pre-Concert talk
3:00 pm: Concert
@ All Saints Anglican Church Parish Hall
Tickets at the door
$30 (cash only)
Children Free
Guest Artists
www.standrewsartscouncil.com
Music for a While: Sally Dibblee, Natalia Delacroix and Steven Peacock at Wilmot United Church.
Please plan to attend Music for a While, a concert featuring soprano Sally Dibblee, violist Natalia Delacroix and guitarist Steven Peacock, on Wednesday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. at Wilmot United Church, downtown at the corner of King and Carleton.
You’ll hear music by Purcell, Loeillet, Granados, Villa-Lobos and Weill, among others, as well as arrangements by Steven Peacock of folk songs from Newfoundland and from the British Isles.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, with free admission for students and children. For ticket reservations and more information: delacroixclassix.com and delacroixclassix@gmail.com
Date: April 24, 8:00PM | 24 avril, 20h00
Location | Lieu : Centre culturel Aberdeen – 140 rue Botsford St, Moncton
Tickets | Billets:
Adults | Adultes: $20
Seniors: $15
Students | Étudiants: $10
Sistema Students & Faculty: Free
Advance tickets | Billets à l’avance: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/elmcitystringquartet/1004423
The ECSQ season continues with a concert of joy and sorrow: themes that are continuously grappled by composers over the years. New works offer new insight while old classics still continue to ring true. Haydn’s “Sunrise” Quartet opens with the sublime rising warmth of a new day. Mozetich’s Lament in the Trampled Garden is a neo-romantic Canadian gem that is mournful, but sways with the joy of blooming flowers. Our last piece of the concert is Borodin’s famous String Quartet No. 2, full of beauty and nostalgia. The piece is rumoured to have been a 20th anniversary gift to his wife, and is meant to portray the story of the time they first met.
La saison de l’ECSQ continue avec un concert mêlant la joie et la tristesse : des thèmes qui ne cessent d’être abordés par les compositeurs au cours des années. Les nouvelles œuvres offrent de nouvelles perspectives, tandis que les vieux classiques continuent de sonner avec pertinence. Le Quatuor “Sunrise” de Haydn s’ouvre avec la chaleur sublime d’un nouveau jour qui se lève. “Lament in the Trampled Garden” par Mozetich est un trésor canadien néo-romantique qui est en deuil, mais qui oscille avec la joie des fleurs qui s’épanouissent. La dernière pièce du concert est le fameux Quatuor à cordes n° 2 de Borodin, plein de beauté et de nostalgie.
Date: April 25, 7:30PM
Location: Saint John Arts Centre – 20 Peel Plaza, Saint John
Tickets:
Adults: $20 | Seniors: $15 | Students: $10 | Sistema Students & Faculty: Free
Advance tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/elmcitystringquartet/997413
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The ECSQ season continues with a concert of joy and sorrow: themes that are continuously grappled by composers over the years. New works offer new insight while old classics still continue to ring true. Haydn’s “Sunrise” Quartet opens with the sublime rising warmth of a new day. Mozetich’s Lament in the Trampled Garden is a neo-romantic Canadian gem that is mournful, but sways with the joy of blooming flowers. Our last piece of the concert is Borodin’s famous String Quartet No. 2, full of beauty and nostalgia. The piece is rumoured to have been a 20th anniversary gift to his wife, and is meant to portray the story of the time they first met.
Program:
Quartet No. 63 in B-flat major, Op. 76, No. 4, Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Adagio
III. Menuetto. Allegro
IV. Finale. Allegro, ma non-troppo
Lament in the Trampled Garden, by Marjan Mozetich (b. 1948)
Intermission
String Quartet No. 2 by Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo
III. Notturno
IV. Finale
Best Selling author of The Da Vinci Code, and composer, Dan Brown joins the Sistema NB Children’s Orchestra to perform his Wild Symphony.
Dan Brown – the #1 best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code and related thrillers, Angels & Demons, Inferno, and The Lost Symbol – is known for exciting twists, turns, and surprises.
His musical surprise, WILD SYMPHONY, unveils the novelist as a lifelong musician and composer.
Inspired by the track record and international leadership of NBYO and Sistema NB, Brown has agreed to participate personally in the Sistema NB performance in Moncton on June 11, 2024. This will be his solo, personal collaboration in a Wild Symphony performance in 2024!
And although Wild Symphony is being performed by professional symphony orchestras from around the world, in New Brunswick, Wild Symphony will be performed by the Sistema NB Children’s Orchestra – 120 musicians, 14 years of age and younger, a class of its own.
Now in its 15th year, Sistema New Brunswick has grown into Canada’s largest orchestral program, engaging 1,200 children and youth and employing 60 professional teaching artists. The Sistema New Brunswick program is free. Children, starting in grade 1, participate three hours after school, five days a week totalling 600 hours annually. Music and the orchestra become a powerful catalyst for achievement and social development.
Plan to join us. It will be WILD!
Trajectories will perform at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre along with special guests Counting on Downstairs and Emily Kennedy as part of Connexion Artist Run Centre’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
Connexion Artist Run Centre has been championing contemporary art and artists in New Brunswick since 1984. This year, the organization will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a range of programming spanning past, present, and future activities. One of the first events planned in this year-long celebration is a live performance by the Montreal-based ensemble Trajectories set to take place at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre on April 19.
Trajectories is an ensemble of electroacoustic composers and interdisciplinary artists based in Montréal and New Brunswick consisting of Charles Harding, Malte Leander, and Connor Cook. The group’s latest album Quiet on Kökar, was released in February of this year.
Quiet on Kökar, a 9-piece collection of etudes was developed while attending The Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence program in Kökar, Åland, Finland throughout October 2023. The event itself will consist of live audio performance from Trajectories backed by a video accompaniment containing archival images of Kökar collected from the local museum as well as video documented by the collective throughout their stay.
Fredericton’s Counting on Downstairs (Eric Hill) and Emily Kennedy round out the show’s lineup.
This performance is presented by Connexion ARC in partnership with CSAC.
Trajectories + Counting on Downstairs + Emily Kennedy | April 19 | 7:30 p.m. | Charlotte Street Arts Centre | Tickets are $15 in advance. $20 at the door.
Award-winning songwriters Kylie Fox (NB), Daniel James McFadyen (NS), Logan Richard (PEI) and Quote the Raven (NFLD) tour the East Coast in April.
April 17 – The Weldon Matthews Theatre, Florenceville NB
April 18 – The Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Fredericton, NB
April 19 – Haven Music Hall, Saint John, NB (Without QTR)
April 20 – The Fiddling Fisherman, Souris, PEI
April 25 – The Carleton, Halifax, NS
April 27 – Union Street, Berwick, NS
April 28 – The Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown, PEI
Award-winning songwriters Kylie Fox (NB), Daniel James McFadyen (NS), Logan Richard (PEI) and Quote the Raven (NFLD) tour the East Coast in April.
April 17 – The Weldon Matthews Theatre, Florenceville NB
April 18 – The Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Fredericton, NB
April 19 – Haven Music Hall, Saint John, NB (Without QTR)
April 20 – The Fiddling Fisherman, Souris, PEI
April 25 – The Carleton, Halifax, NS
April 27 – Union Street, Berwick, NS
April 28 – The Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown, PEI
Award-winning songwriters Kylie Fox (NB), Daniel James McFadyen (NS), Logan Richard (PEI) and Quote the Raven (NFLD) tour the East Coast in April.
April 17 – The Weldon Matthews Theatre, Florenceville NB
April 18 – The Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Fredericton, NB
April 19 – Haven Music Hall, Saint John, NB (Without QTR)
April 20 – The Fiddling Fisherman, Souris, PEI
April 25 – The Carleton, Halifax, NS
April 27 – Union Street, Berwick, NS
April 28 – The Trailside Music Hall, Charlottetown, PEI
SNB wraps up the season with a salute to heroism, including Beethoven’s mighty “Eroica” Symphony.
Bravo, indeed!