Community Event Listings
Sinfonia - Bravo Beethoven: Homeland - Oct 3
Two wonderful works by Beethoven bookend a nostalgic journey through ancestral melodies by a Jules Léger Prize winning Canadian composer.
NURHAN ARMAN Conductor
SHENG CAI Pianist
Tickets and info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bravo-beethoven-homeland-tickets-1988879068834
Tafelmusik - Baroque Fiesta - Oct. 29 - Nov. 1
Sparks are bound to fly when two dynamic guest artists, Spanish violinist and guest director Lina Tur Bonet and Mexican mezzo-soprano Cecilia Duarte, return to our stage for a baroque music dialogue between Spain, Italy, and Latin America.
Tur Bonet thrilled Tafelmusik audiences in Toronto and Ottawa last year with her “dazzling, robust, and edgy” performance style (Musicweb International). She joins Duarte, whose “creamy” (The New York Times) voice is showcased in arias by Spanish composers José de Nebra, Sebastián Durón, and José Marín as well as their Italian counterparts, Antonio Vivaldi and Andrea Falconieri.
Crossing the Atlantic, our musical journey takes a deep dive into baroque music from Latin America. This exploration includes works by Guatemalan composer Rafael Castellanos and selections from the Codex Martinez Compañón, a collection of music from Peru that is rich with African, Indigenous, and Spanish influences.
Tickets and info: Baroque Fiesta – Tafelmusik : Tafelmusik
Sinfonia - The Suite Life (Grammy winner) - Nov. 5
Brilliant virtuoso Irmina Trynkos plays Claudia Montero’s violin concerto, winner of a Latin Grammy, in a vibrant program spanning four centuries and three continents.
Tickets & Info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-suite-life-grammy-winner-tickets-1988880011654
Tafelmusik - Vive le France - Nov.27-29
“I plainly saw by the most violent applause a ravished audience could bestow, that it was quite what their hearts felt, and their souls loved.”
So wrote the English journalist Charles Burney of the audience on hearing a grand motet by Lalande in Paris in 1770. No one embraced choral music more exuberantly than the French in the 17th and 18th centuries, not only in the church, but also in the opera theatre and the concert hall. Composers and audiences alike understood the power of combined voices to express the full range of the human experience.
Choir Director Ivars Taurins has assembled a sumptuous repast of music for choir and orchestra, both sacred and secular, that explores the intimacy and grandeur of expressions of faith, love, grief, passion, and of the natural world. Join us for a feast of baroque music by Lully, Rameau, Mondonville, Bembo, Campra and Desmarest.
Tickets and info: Vive la France! – Tafelmusik : Tafelmusik