LUMINA No.195 Hsu-Shackleton
Event Date:
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 12:00am EDT
Event Location:
Jean McNulty Recital Hall
Event Fee:
$5 and $10
Event Contact Name:
Jennifer Howie
Event Contact Phone:
343-8787
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LUMINA Concert No. 195
E-Chen Hsu & Peter Shackleton, clarinetsHeather Morrison, piano
 | E-Chen Hsu is originally from Southern Ontario where she received her Honours Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of Western Ontario. She completed a Master of Music degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied with Russell Dagon. E-Chen has performed in chamber ensembles for the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society, with New Music North and Consortium Aurora Borealis in Thunder Bay. She has played with Winnipeg Symphony and the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon. E-Chen joined the Thunder Bay Symphony in 1999 where she currently plays clarinet and bass clarinet. She is also a member of the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra in Iowa. Ms. Hsu teaches clarinet at Lakehead University. |
 | In 1993, clarinetist Peter Shackleton was awarded First Prize at the 27th CBC Radio Competition. He has performed as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, and the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. He has served as principal clarinetist of Orchestra London and has performed with Les Violons du Roy and the Milwaukee Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and Stratford Festival Orchestras. Currently he holds the Principal Clarinet chair with the Thunder Bay Symphony, is a member of the Aeolian Winds and Music in Common, is a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario, and performs with Tafelmusik on historical clarinet. |
Kristin
Mueller-Heaslip is known to Canadian audiences as an
intelligent and sensitive performer of new and unusual music. She is a
graduate of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, where
she studied piano with William Aide and voice with Jean MacPhail. In
2004 she created the role of Ciel in Judith Thompson's unique Enoch
Arden in the Hope Shelter, which she later reprised in 2005 at the
Toronto Theatre Centre and in 2007 at the Rosemary Branch
Theatre in London, England. Other recent performances include a live
performance of David Ogborn's new score for the silent film Metropolis;
an appearance as soprano soloist in Alice Ping-Ye
Ho's interdisciplinary music drama Bridge of One Hair; Exsultate,
Jubilate with the Silverbirch String Quartet; Gyorgy Kurtag's
monumental Kafka
Fragments with violinist Christian Robinson; and the world premiere of
Andrew Staniland's tampobata for singing pianist. Kristin
performs regularly with her band, The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra,
whose debut recording, Truth in the Dark, was released in 2007.
With a growing reputation for bringing classical music to wider audiences, award-winning, well-traveled pianist Derek Yaple-Schobert will guide newcomers as well as experienced concert goers on a memorable musical journey nuanced with engaging and insightful commentary. The program features a broad spectrum of the immortals; the emotional pathos of Beethoven, the unearthly beauty of Schubert and the dazzling virtuosity of Franz Liszt. Often infusing his recitals with a Scandinavian twist as well as Canadian content, Yaple-Schobert will also perform a set of variations on a Swedish folk tune by Erland von Koch, in addition to a short innovative works by Canadian composers Boudreau. Several works on the program appear on his debut CD, Nordic Passion on sale at the recital.
Heather Morrison, piano
