Classical

Don't miss JUNOfest Classical presented by CBC Music & Canadian Music Centre on Saturday, March 16th!

Performers: Gryphon Trio, Miriam Khalil, Soprano, Sarah Jeffrey, Marc Andre Hamelin (by video), and many more!

The concert will be live-streamed on cbcmusic.ca, and highlights from the performance will be broadcast Sunday, March 17 on CBC Music.

Doors 12:30PM. Show 1:00PM.

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW -> https://musiccentre.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1P00000sxTRDUA2

Reservations will be held until 12:45pm only. Seats not claimed by 12:45pm will be offered to guests in the RUSH LINE.

A RUSH LINE will be in place beginning at 12:30pm outside of Aeolian Hall at 795 Dundas St. There is no guarantee that seats will be available for rush line guests, but we will do our best to accommodate everyone.

Please note that as this concert is being recorded for broadcast, we welcome children over the age of 12. No babes in arms please

Limited JUNOfest wristbands will be accepted.

El Sistema Aeolian is a free, intensive after-school music program based on a program founded in Venezuela in 1975. Each El Sistema program is free to adapt its delivery in a way that is unique to its community, resources and participants. The initiative has grown to include programs in over 80 countries and has won TED, UNESCO and Glenn Gould Awards.

The Aeolian Hall Musical Arts Association launched El Sistema Aeolian in November of 2011, serving 20 children in the pilot project. In its early days youth from the Old East Village Community and in particular Lorne Avenue Public School were first offered the opportunity to participate in this program but it has now expanded to include participants from different areas, groups, and organizations throughout our City of London. There are now 100 spots offered in the program for the 2017-2018 school year, instructing youth in strings, winds, brass, piano, and choir.

The Aeolian’s El Sistema is the 4th launched in Canada, is supported by a gifted group of musicians, educators, students, interested community members and the Staff/Directors of the Aeolian and it is built on a set of values and principles and not a homogenized curriculum. On April 2015 The Mayor of the City of London gave El Sistema Aeolian a Pillar Award in recognition for its outstanding community impact.

Award-winning pianist Sheng Cai has embraced the keyboard tradition which epitomizes the greatness of the romantic virtuoso. His performances have touched audiences and won the praise of critics on three continents and spanned a wide range of repertoire from the Bartok 1st piano concerto to the Shostakovich 2nd concerto and beyond.  Of his Chopin 1st piano concerto the Toronto Star headlined: “Young pianist impresses at debut” and continued “a young man with real talent… from a clear, singing tone to a subtle sense of rubato to a judicious choice of tempi… some of the same qualities embodied in Pollini’s approach”. Honored with a number of prizes and awards, Sheng Cai has been described as a pianist “with great confidence… lucidity, breath, color and power” by the Birmingham News.

Since his debut with the Toronto Symphony at just fifteen years old, he has enjoyed numerous engagements as guest soloist with the symphonies of Quebec, Windsor, Fort Collins and Shanghai, as well as with the Calgary Philharmonic, Ontario Philharmonic, Jalisco Philharmonic and New Bedford Symphony, among others. In Canada, Sheng Cai has been invited to perform with the Sudbury and Kamloops Symphonies, and with the Winnipeg Symphony Chamber Players. He has worked with such conductors as David Lockington, Keith Lockhart, Dirk Meyer, Yoav Talmi, Eckart Preu, Marco Parisotto, Dina Gilbert, Glen Fast, Robert Franz, Bruce Dunn and Guoyong Zhang.

In recital, Sheng Cai has been heard at Jordan Hall in Boston, the Cleveland Play House, Steinway Hall in New York, the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, the Alys Stephens Center in Birgmingham, CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, and other distinguished venues in Stratford, Elora, Montreal and Winnipeg. In China, he inaugurated the Ningbo Concert Hall, giving both recitals and concerto performances. As a chamber musician, Sheng Cai has collaborated with a number of fine artists, including the Enso Quartet. Many of his performances have been broadcast on CBC Radio, and he has recorded a CD for the Canadian Broadcast Company. In addition, he was invited to take part in the filming of Franz Liszt DVD of Ophra Yerushalmi.

Sheng Cai also recorded at the Glenn Gould Studio for Concertino Praga International Competition in the Czech Republic, these were released under the Canadian Broadcasting Company label.

Sheng Cai was top prize winner at competitions throughout his teenage years, including First Prize at the TD National Piano Competition, the Canadian Music Competition, the Toronto Music Competition, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Piano Competition, Toronto Symphony Piano Competition, and was the youngest finalist and special prize winner at the Bosendorfer International Piano Competition and the youngest finalist at Hilton Head International Piano Competition.

Born in China, Sheng Cai studied at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and was a prize winner of the National Competition in 1998. The following year, his family immigrated to Canada where he began study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Sheng Cai earned his Bachelor of Music Degree under full scholarship at New England Conservatory in Boston. His teachers have included pianists Anton Kuerti, Russell Sherman and Hungkuan Chen.

Maria Murawska finished with distinction the State Secondary Music School in Bydgoszcz, where she was a student in Lidia Starniewska’s piano class. She then studied piano at the State Higher School of Music in Poznań, in Olga Ilwicka’s class, and later at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, with Jerzy Godziszewski. She perfected her piano skills abroad, in Weimar, under Ludwig Hoffman, and at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, as a student of Vera Nosina. As early as the age of fifteen she made her debut with an orchestra, performing Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto in B-flat Major, accompanied by the Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra at Artus Court in Toruń.

Maria is busy giving concerts as a soloist and chamber musician in Poland and abroad (Russia, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Serbia, Ukraine, France, Austria, and China). She has performed at the Bydgoszcz Polish Music Festivals, the Chopin Festival in Antonin, the Usedomer Musikfestival (Germany), the Polish Piano Music Festival in Słupsk, and a series of concerts of Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s music.

Works by such Polish composers as Fryderyk Chopin, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Grażyna Bacewicz or Karol Szymanowski are a significant part of her repertoire. She also performs contemporary Polish pieces, including compositions by Zbigniew Bargielski, some of which she presented publicly for the first time. She has recorded Chopin and Paderewski for Polish Radio. In 2004, with the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra under Zygmunt Rychert, she performed Tadeusz Kościuszko’s Polonaises. For years she has appeared as a piano duo with Wiesława Ronowska, performing an extensive repertoire (both historically and stylistically) at numerous venues in Poland.

Since 1982 she has been working at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music, where she was initially employed as a teaching assistant to the late Jerzy Godziszewski, and where she presently works as a full professor. From 1990 until 1996 she held the position of the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Instrumental Music, and from 1996 till 1999 – the Dean of the Faculty. In 1999 she was appointed Deputy Rector for Student Matters and held the post until 2005 when she was elected Rector of the Academy (for two consecutive office terms until 2012). In 2012 she was elected Deputy Rector for Organization, Academic Matters and International Cooperation (since 2016 for her 2nd term). In 2003 she was awarded the degree of full professor in the field of musical arts by the Polish president.

She also teaches her piano class at the Artur Rubinstein State Music Schools in Bydgoszcz. She has been invited to conduct masterclasses in Poland, Italy and China. She has been a jury member for a number of Polish and foreign competitions for young pianists. She has been a member of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Musical Society in Bydgoszcz since 1996. In the years 2001–2013 she was the Vice President of the Society.

In 1999 Maria was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit, and in 2001 she received an award from the Head of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province Council. In 2004 she was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit and the Head of the Bydgoszcz County Medal. In 2012 she received the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage and in 2014 was awarded the Medal of the National Education Commission granted by the Ministry of Education.

Presented by Aldona Fowler.

France’s Hanatsu Miroir presents a program centered around the works of Canadian composer, Samuel Andreyev.  Ranging from solo pieces to works using the full quartet’s unusual instrumentation (flute/clarinet/percussion/cello), the ensemble focuses on multidisciplinary pieces that involve poetry, dance, visual and video art with the goal of bringing contemporary music to the masses.

Samuel Andreyev grew up in the town of Kincardine, moving with his family to Toronto in 1988.  Enrolling in The Royal Conservatory of Music he studied cello and oboe as well as composition.  He settled in Paris in 2003 to study composition, initially with Allain Gaussin, then with Frédéric Durieux at the Paris Conservatoire.  His music is performed throughout the world, and has been featured in numerous portrait concerts, CDs and films.

This concert will premiere Mr. Andreyev's newest works as just released on Hanatsu Miroir's Music With No Edges CD.

HANATSU Miroir was founded in 2010. Resulting from the encounter of flutist Ayako Okubo and percussionist Olivier Maurel, the ensemble has a strong focus on developing and disseminating the contemporary music repertoire. Over the years, the integration of mediums other than music has become the group’s trademark, allowing them to open new avenues for understanding and interpreting the contemporary music repertoire.

Essentially focused on human encounters, HANATSU miroir attempts to forge links, building bridges between cultures, performers and composers, between civilizations and their art, and between music and the public. Through a flexible, open organisation, the ensemble integrates painting, scenography, visual arts, dance and theatrical forms.

HANATSU miroir’s initiative is to re-situate music in the art of time, and to enhance the musical perception of the audience, to guide it differently through the use of other artistic mediums. This approach has attracted numerous young composers, who wish to contribute to the unique project of HANATSU miroir by composing new works and developing common projects.

https://youtu.be/tK5zHlBIC2U

EnCor Horn Quartet originally formed in 2014 at the University of Western Ontario. Featuring Patrick King, Devon Martene, Wendy Stenger and Christine Van’t Voort, the EnCor Horn Quartet recently hosted “The Most Musical Time of the Year”. EnCor is very happy to be reunited after pursuing graduate level studies and is excited to be bringing a full recital to London at Bishop Cronyn. With the goal of making classical chamber music accessible, EnCor has created a program with something for everyone to enjoy.

Forest City London Music Week is the biggest celebration of London and area music and musicians. Planning for the event dates back to the early years of the project and with the help of our volunteer Board of Directors and some 60 volunteers forming the FCLMA Steering Committee we highlight the areas best in music.

The week is comprised of a number of events celebrating, encouraging and supporting musicians from this area of Ontario. FCLMA week is anchored by the FCLMA Classical, Jazz, World Music Awards Gala on opening night at the famed Aeolian Hall and closes with the FCLMA Pop & Rock Awards Gala Show at the London Music Hall.

Musical Guests Include:

The Mark Swan Band

Rachelle Courtney and Nevin Campbell

Rob Larose

Chad Louwerse

Katy Clark and Paul Grambo

River White

Hot Sauce Band

Magisterra Soloists

Syncopate Tap Co.

Forest City London Music Week is the biggest celebration of London and area music and musicians. Planning for the event dates back to the early years of the project and with the help of our volunteer Board of Directors and some 60 volunteers forming the FCLMA Steering Committee we highlight the areas best in music.

The week is comprised of a number of events celebrating, encouraging and supporting musicians from this area of Ontario. FCLMA week is anchored by the FCLMA Classical, Jazz, World Music Awards Gala on opening night at the famed Aeolian Hall and closes with the FCLMA Pop & Rock Awards Gala Show at the London Music Hall.

Forest City London Music Week is the biggest celebration of London and area music and musicians. Planning for the event dates back to the early years of the project and with the help of our volunteer Board of Directors and some 60 volunteers forming the FCLMA Steering Committee we highlight the areas best in music.

The week is comprised of a number of events celebrating, encouraging and supporting musicians from this area of Ontario. FCLMA week is anchored by the FCLMA Classical, Jazz, World Music Awards Gala on opening night at the famed Aeolian Hall and closes with the FCLMA Pop & Rock Awards Gala Show at the London Music Hall.

Jack Richardson London Music Week (#JRLMW2018) is the biggest celebration of London and area music and musicians. Planning for the event dates back to the early years of the project and with the help of our volunteer Board of Directors and some 60 volunteers forming the JRLMA Steering Committee we highlight the areas best in music.

The week is comprised of a number of events celebrating, encouraging and supporting musicians from this area of Ontario. JRLMW is anchored by the JRLMA Jazz and Classical Awards Show on opening night at the famed Aeolian Hall and closes with the JRLMA Pop & Rock Awards Gala Show at the London Music Hall.

Events throughout the week include the annual SoundCheck for Success, our career development panel/seminar/mentorship day, Jack’s London Crawling featuring many of London’s downtown live music venues, Jack’s Battle of the High School Bands supporting young musicians and a variety of showcases cutting across genres and styles to present the areas musicians to the community at large.