G.S. Sachdev, bansuri master - Lecture Demonstration

A very special lecture/demonstration by Mr. G.S. Sachdev from India on the afternoon of Friday, October 26, in the Jean McNulty Recital Hall (MV1004). Mr. Sachdev is a world renowned performer of the bansuri (bamboo flute) and has been described as a legend in the Indian classical music world.  The Department of Music very pleased to sponsor this special event in collaboration with Dr. Inderjit Nirdosh and the Raag Rung Music Circle.

Chamber Ensembles Class Recital

Donations accepted toward the Thunder Bay and area Disaster Relief Fund.

LUMINA Concert Series 2012-2013

Claudia Chan, piano

PROGRAM

Hailed by the Ottawa Citizen as the "Ambassador for New Music" and by Megumi Masaki (Artistic Director, Eckhardt-Gramatte Competition) as a "powerful, expressive, and energetic pianist," recent first-prize winner of the 33rd Eckhardt-Gramatte National Piano Competition for Contemporary Music pianist Claudia Chan made her concert debut at the age of eleven playing Mozart's Concerto in C major, K.415 with the Thirteen Strings chamber orchestra, under the direction of Jean-François Rivest. Since then, Claudia has  performed solo and chamber recitals throughout North America.  Last season, Claudia performed over 25 solo recitals, including  a 14-city recital tour of Canada playing the winning program of contemporary piano music from the Eckhardt-Gramatte competition in Fall 2010. During the tour, she coached young  performers from Canadian universities on contemporary performance. Her concert at the Winnipeg Art Gallery was also recorded and broadcast by CBC Radio 2 on Concerts on Demand. She was also the subject of an episode of CBC’s podcast Next!, selected as one of 8 up-and-coming young musicians from Canada.  This past season Claudia performed recitals in Germany, Italy, France, and Canada, and premiered Aeon (chosen recently by the Canadian League of Composers to represent Canada at the World Music Days 2013) commissioned from Canadian composer Alice Ho in Germany, France, and Canada. She also made her German orchestral debut this past October 2012 with the orchestra of the Hochschule fuer Musik und Tanz Koeln, in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, to a sold out audience in the Historische Stadthalle - Wuppertal.   Claudia has been heard at Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Kelowna Pianoforte Festival, the Toronto Summer Music Academy, the Bad Bertrich Klaviersommer Festival, in New York City at the Mannes Institute and Festival for Contemporary Festival, and as soloist with the Hart House, Cathedral Bluffs and Thirteen Strings Orchestras. She has given masterclasses and workshops at the Universities of Toronto, British Columbia, and Brandon to young music students. She has played for such renowned pedagogues as Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, John O’Conor, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Ronan O’Hara, Marc Durand, and Jon Kimura Parker. She has been a recipient of awards and scholarships from  the Ottawa and Toronto Kiwanis Music Festivals, the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association, and the Canadian Music Competitions.  Claudia completed her undergraduate studies at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory, as a Dean's scholarship student studying with David Louie and John Perry, and is now pursuing her Master’s of Music at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Tanz Koln with Prof. Dr. Florence Millet.

(No. 228)

Dino Pepe, saxophone
Joy Fahrenbruck, piano

Dino Pepe studied music performance at Humber College, Lakehead University, where he received an Honours Bachelor of Music degree, and the Berklee College of Music. He has studied saxophone performance with Roy Coran, Eddie Sossin, and George Garzone.  After living abroad and performing for several years, he returned to Thunder Bay and Lakehead University to complete a degree in Music Education, and began teaching with Lakehead Public Schools in 1998.  He is presently a Music teacher and Chair of Arts at Sir Winston Churchill High School.  In 2006 he joined the department of Music at Lakehead University as instructor of saxophone and director of the LU Jazz Ensemble (2007).  Dino frequently performs as a saxophonist in a number of musical genres and venues, and has performed and recorded with a number of artists including: the T.B.S.O., Esteban Figeroa, Robin Rainger, Tomson Highway, and Patricia Cano.  He also was involved in providing the musical backdrop for the premiere of Tomson Highway’s â€"The Post Mistress” at Magnus Theatre in 2011.  He is excited to be presenting this LUMINA concert with Joy Fahrenbruck featuring Music for saxophone and piano.

Joy Fahrenbruck is originally from Ohio, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowling Green University. In Thunder Bay she has taught piano both privately and as a contract lecturer with the Lakehead University Department of Music, where she now serves as accompanist for the Opera Studio and the Lakehead University Vocal Ensemble. Joy has appeared in many recitals and chamber concerts, including the LUMINA Concert Series, the New Music North festivals and the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra Chamber music series. She has frequently performed with the TBSO as both percussionist and keyboard player.

PROGRAM

Known for the passion and brilliance of their performances, Duo Concertante(Nancy Dahn, violin, and Timothy Steeves, piano) have been developing since 1997 the extraordinarily unified voice that has become one of the most striking features of their work. Named NLAC Artist of the Year in May 2010, Duo Concertante have released five acclaimed CDs, of which It Takes Two was described as â€"spectacular” (American Record Guide). Their most recent disc Wild Bird comprises works written especially for the duo by Canadian composers R. Murray Schafer, Chan Ka Nin, and Kati Agócs, Schafer’s Duo for Violin and Piano won the 2011 Juno Award in the Classical Composition of the Year category.

Duo Concertante also recently released their classical music video, â€"Tico Tico," which has been airing on CTV2. Dahn and Steeves are energetic and experienced educators who have given hundreds of workshops and master classes. In 2000, they founded the Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival (of which they remain Artistic Directors) to bring together young chamber music performers with world-class artists and ensembles. Duo Concertante maintains a busy touring schedule, with frequent performances across North America, as well as in Europe and China. They give their Weill Recital Hall debut at Carnegie Hall this February.

 (No. 229)

Program

Claude Bolling: Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio

1.     Baroque in Rhythm

2.     Concertante

3.     Galop

4.     Ballade

5.     Romantique

6.     Cello Fan

Canadian cellist Anthony Bacon is a soloist, chamber musician, freelance player and teacher.  Born in Edmonton Alberta, he now enjoys living in Thunder Bay.  Anthony has worked with many cellists and has studied various forms of music over the years.  He has won various competitions and has performed with ensembles such as Tafelmusik, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.  Anthony has completed intensive studies at Austria’s Mozarteum from cellists Tsuoshi Tsutsumi and Julius Berger.  He now enjoys playing full time in the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal cellist and he  teaches cello at Lakehead University throughout the year.  He plays a rare 1962 Curletto Anslemo cello made in Torino.

Born in Québec City, Martin Blanchet began practicing music at the age of 6, beginning with the violin, and later learning to play piano. Throughout his studies at Conservatoire de Musique de Québec, he completed a double bass minor degree in Jazz and Pop music, a master's degree in Classical Interpretation, and a second master's degree in Chamber Music.  Currently Principal Bass in Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Martin has also held the chair of Assistant Principal Bass in Orquestra do Algarve in Portugal. He has performed with La Orquesta de Extremadura de Badajoz in Spain, L'Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, and also at the Opéra de Québec. In summer 2009, he was invited to perform the Dittersdorf Double Bass Concerto in Pommersfelden, Germany.  Martin has taught double bass at the Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy in Québec and is presently a double bass instructor at Lakehead University.

Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Derek Oger maintains a large private teaching studio, and divides his time between performing and teaching.  He has an HBMusic degree from Lakehead University (1998), and his primary teachers have included Heather Morrison, Peter Longworth, and Helmut Brauss.  Derek currently serves on the Ontario Registered Music Teacher’s Association Provincial Council, and the Board of the New Music North Concert Series.  He has been recorded on a CD released by New Music North, part of which was broadcast nationwide on CBC Radio Two’s The Signal.   He is accompanist and business manager to the Rafiki Youth Choir, which is a joint venture he shares with his wife Laurel, who conducts the Choir.    In addition to his work as a pianist, Derek also spends time traveling across Canada as a Music Festival Adjudicator and Workshop Clinician.  He is a member of Conservatory Canada’s Board of Examiners, a featured Clinician for the Ontario Registered Music Teacher’s Association, and is a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicator’s Association.   Derek has been recently named Director of Programs for Conservatory Canada, where he will be developing summer music programs for youth, teachers and parents.  

Jean-François Breton has been Principal Timpanist of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra since April 2006.  He is also the percussion instructor and a contract lecturer at Lakehead University.  Jean-Francois made his percussion debut in Québec City and attained his Bachelor of Music degree from the Université de Sherbrooke.  He then pursued his studies at Indiana University were he earned a Masters in Percusssion Performance under the tutelage of Anthony J. Cirone, Gerald Carlyss, and Craig Hetrick.  He was a member of the Orchestre du Centre D’art Orford from 2010 to 2012.  Jean-François has worked with different ensembles in Québec, Indiana, BC, Alaska, Ontario and Manitoba.  As a soloist, he has played with the Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunes de Sherbrooke and the Indiana Unviersity Symphonic Band.  In 2005, Jean-François won both the second prize in the OSM Standard Life Concerto Competition and a full scholarship to the Banff Centre for the Arts.  As a member of the Montréal-based Fusion Quartet, Jean-François recorded Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Two Percusssion for CBC Radio in 2004.  In Thunder Bay, â€"Jeff” enjoys ultimate frisbee, hiking, reading, gardening and all that makes life a good one!

LUMINA Concert Series 2011-12 - 24th Season

 All concerts are held on Tuesday at 12:30 in the Jean McNulty Recital Hall unless otherwise noted.

New Music Ensemble Concert

Donations accepted toward the Thunder Bay and area Disaster Relief Fund. 

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48

Lakehead University Vocal Ensemble and members of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dean Jobin-Bevans with George Holborn, baritone and Rafiki Youth Choir, Laurel Oger, conductor.

8:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, 2012

St. Paul's Anglican Church

808 Ridgeway

 Tickets: $10 students and seniors, $20 regular admission available at the door.

 Information 343-8787