"The title of this recital, and of my most recent CD, Voces Boreales (Northern Voices), signifies two ideas: Northern Ontario, my residence for the last twelve years, and Canada, the Northern country to many Europeans. Having performed contemporary music in Canada and abroad for almost two decades, I have had the privilege of meeting composers whose aesthetics and musical universes are helping to shape Canada’s musical identity. 

Voces Boreales features solo piano works by five distinguished Canadian composers – Brian Cherney, Brian Current, Robert Lemay,François Morel, and Laurie Radford.  

Two of these works, Trinômeby François Morel and Nachtstücke by Brian Cherney, were written for me, and were premiered during my "Small is Beautiful" 2011/2012 solo recital tour." - Yoko Hirota.

The Department of Music, in collaboration with the Raag-Rung Music Circle, is pleased to present a special lecture-demonstration on the sitar by visiting guest artist Anupama Bhagwat.

The lecture-demonstration will take place on Friday, October, 3, 2:30pm, in the Jean McNulty Recital Hall (MV1004). Admission is free and all are welcome

LUMINA Concert No. 239

Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 12:30 p.m.
Jean McNulty Recital Hall
William H. Buset Centre for Music & Visual Arts

PROGRAM

McIntosh the Stein Way, combining spoken text, piano, tape and live electronics, uses texts taken from the writings of Gertrude Stein. McIntosh's provocative and evocative piece picks up on Stein's love of repetition - often using words and phrases soley for their sound and rhythm, resulting in a sense of immediacy. The unique place of Gertrude Stein in American letters rests upon her brilliant re-examination of the English language. Using words as Cubists used line and colour, often resulted in nonsensical texts. McIntosh's contemporary take offers a glimpse into the playful and profound mind of Stein, as seen, felt, and enjoyed by McIntosh.

 www.dianamcintosh.com

LUMINA Concert Series

Kostas Tiliakos, oboe

Evgueni Tchougounov, piano

Contemporary Works by Greek Composers

Program

Minas Alexiadis (1960): Folk Cadenza No.5 for English Horn solo (2013)

Anastassis Philippakopoulos (1969): Syrna for solo Oboe (2000)

Dinos Constantinides (1929): Rhapsody II for Oboe and Piano (1977, rev. 1998)

Aris Carastathis (1957): Intimations for Oboe and Piano (1992)

Theodore Antoniou (1935): Five Likes for solo Oboe (1969)

1. Like a Dirge
2. Like a Study
3. Like a Diaulos
4. Like a Polymorphia
5. Like a Cadence

A native of Athens, Greece, Kostas Tiliakos has been Principal Oboe in the Greek National Opera Orchestra in Athens since 1997, where he previously held the Solo English horn position. An avid lover of contemporary music, Kostas has been a member of the Hellenic Ensemble for Contemporary Music since 1990 and has premiered and recorded works by contemporary composers. He also recorded solo and chamber music works on Wandelweiser (Germany), Lyra and Irida Classics (Greece) and has been broadcast on radio and television throughout Europe.  Internationally, he has appeared as soloist throughout Europe, Africa, Canada and the US. Parallel to his studies in music, Kostas studied Biology at Athens University from where he also received a BA in European Cultural Studies. He received his MMus in oboe performance from the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison under Marc Fink where he was a Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Fellow.  He also studied with Didier Pateau, Claude Chieulet, Paul Dombrecht, and Hansjörg Schellenberger. Beginning Fall 2013, Kostas is the new Visiting Associate Professor of Oboe at UW-Madison, following Marc Fink’s retirement.

Evgueni Tchougounov has a Ph.D. in Piano Performance (University of Montreal), where  he studied with Marc Durand, and a Ph.D. in Music Education (Moscow State Pedagogical University). He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Music of Lakehead University.  Before coming to Canada, he worked as a Lecturer in Methodology and Psychology of Music Education at the Music Faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University. Upon arrival and the outset of his doctoral studies, he taught Piano Performance at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal and at the McGill Conservatory of Music.

Dr. Tchougounov is regularly performing as a concert pianist, both as a soloist and collaborator and choir conductor with different programs in U.S.A, Canada, Russia, and Switzerland.  Many of his solo and chamber music recitals were presented in the famous recitals halls such as: Carnegie Weill Recital Hall (New York, 2010), Pollack Hall and Redpath Hall (McGill University, Montreal, 2009, 2006), Salle Claude Champagne (Université de Montréal, 2002-2008), Rachmaninoff Hall of Moscow Conservatory (Russia, 1998), Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montreal, 2010), Live Radio Lac Recital Hall (Geneva, Switzerland, 2000).  A sensitive artist and a critically acclaimed pianist he possesses a rare musicality, which unmistakably charms his audiences around the world. 

LUMINA Concert Series 2013-14

Lumina Concert  Series

MuSiC in Common 

Pianist Heather Morrison holds the position of Principal Keyboard with the ThunderBay Symphony Orchestra and is an instructor in the Department of Music at Lakehead University where she teaches Piano Performance, Keyboard Literature and coaches an instrumental ensemble class. She also maintains the position of faculty accompanist/concert co-ordinator for Interprovincial Music Camp.  In 1990 Heather, Peter and Derek, founded the chamber ensemble MuSiC in Common.  They have performed throughout Ontario, including numerous appearances at the Stratford Festival. In addition to her performing career, Heather is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator, having been invited to festivals across the country.

Recently appointed Musician-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University, clarinetist
Peter Shackleton holds the Principal Clarinet chair with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, is a member of Music in Common and the Aeolian Winds, is a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario, and performs with Tafelmusik on historical clarinet.  In 1993, he was awarded first prize at the 27th CBC Radio Competition and has since performed as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra (Vancouver), the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and Tafelmusik. He has served as principal clarinetist of Orchestra London Canada and has performed with Les Violons du Roy and the Milwaukee Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and Stratford Festival Orchestras.

Horn player Derek Conrod is a member of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), Music in Common and the Stratford Festival orchestra, and teaches at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester), the University of Western Ontario, and Wilfrid Laurier University. A frequent recitalist and lecturer on historical horns, Derek has performed on more than 30 CD’s with Tafelmusik, Aradia, American Bach Soloists (San Francisco),  and Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), and has appeared as a soloist with Tafelmusik at the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center and at Orchestra Hall in Chicago.  In 1995 he served as music consultant for the Stratford Festival’s acclaimed production of Amadeus.

Canadian countertenor Scott Belluz brings his committed artistry and remarkable
versatility to repertoire ranging from 17th century to newly composed works.  Scott has received great acclaim for his captivating performances in the world premieres of numerous Canadian operatic works including: Rodney Sharman’s From the House of Mirth, a dance/opera choreographed by James Kudelka, for Coleman Lemieux Compaign, the title role in Omar Daniel’s The Shadow with Tapestry New Opera, Gilles Tremblay’s Opera Feerie with Chants Libres, and R. Murray Schafer’s The Children’s Crusade with Soundstreams Canada. Other operatic performances have included A Synonym for Love, the acclaimed update of a Handel cantata with Toronto's Volcano Theatre, Orlando/Lunaire with Underground Opera, Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Chicago Opera Theatre, Handel’s Semele with Pacific Opera Victoria, and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Banff Centre for the Arts. On the concert stage, recent engagements have included Handel’s Messiah with the Kingston Chamber Choir, a recital of the music of Benjamin Britten with the Aldeburgh Connection and Handel’s Orlando with Voicebox/Opera in Concert. Scott also performed in Salsa Baroque: Music of Latin America and Spain of the 17th and 18th Century with Ensemble Caprice, a program which has been released on CD by the Analekta label.

LUMINA  Concert  No. 238

Tamarack Woodwind Quintet

PROGRAM

Trois pièces brèves                      Jacques Ibert  (1890 - 1962)

I - Allegro

II - Andante

III - Assez lent

Quintet, op. 43                              Carl Nielsen  (1865 - 1931)

 I - Allegro ben moderato

II â€" Menuet

III - Preludium - Tema con variazioni

The Tamarack Woodwind Quintet is a collaboration of fabulous musicians from the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Together they have performed in recital on the LUMINA series, New Music North, Classics at the Foundry and have taken the show on the road to some of the fascinating smaller communities on the Northshore. Over the years, they have introduced the sound of woodwinds to thousands of school children in classrooms across Northwestern Ontario.