The Edmonton Chamber Music Society presents
Summer Solstice Music Festival
June 20 – 28, 2016
ECMS is pleased to announce the 9th Summer Solstice Music Festival, with the legendary Fine Arts Quartet in residence for three concerts.
About the Fine Arts Quartet
Founded in Chicago in 1946, the Fine Arts Quartet has recorded over 200 works and toured throughout the world. They have been called the “The Dream Team” and were declared by The Washington Post “one of the gold-plated names in chamber music.”
Ralph Evans, violin; Efim Boico, violin; Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola; Robert Cohen, cello
Fine Arts Quartet and Friends #1 | Monday, June 20, 2016 | 7:30 PM
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All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral | 10035 – 103 St. Edmonton, AB
Parkade at: 10048 103 St. NW | Some meter parking is available on street.
Great works by the Viennese classicists, Mozart and Beethoven, and the youthful brilliance of Mendelssohn, the “Mozart of the 19th century.”
Mozart Sonata for violin and piano in E minor, K. 304
Beethoven Trio in E-flat major, Op. 1, No. 1
Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 1, Op. 18 (with violist Gil Sharon)
FEATURING: Fine Arts Quartet; Gil Sharon, violin and viola; Rafael Hoekman, cello; Jacques Després, piano; Patricia Tao, piano
Gil Sharon
Rafael Hoekman
Jacques Després
Patricia Tao
Fine Arts Quartet and Friends #2 | Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | 7:30 PM
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Convocation Hall | U of A Campus | Parking map | Visitor parking rates
Join us to hear works by two of the greatest composers of the string quartet, Haydn and Shostakovich. Be transported by Schubert’s transcendent string quintet.
Haydn String Quartet Op. 71, No. 2
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7
Schubert String Quintet in C major
FEATURING: Fine Arts Quartet; Matt Haimovitz, cello
Matt Haimovitz
photo: Steph MacKinnon
Fine Arts Quartet and Friends #3 | Friday, June 24, 2016 | 7:30 PM
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All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral | 10035 – 103 St. Edmonton, AB
Parkade at: 10048 103 St. NW | Some meter parking is available on street.
An all-French program that introduces us to the string quartet of Germaine Tailleferre, followed by the colorful and scintillating string quartet of Ravel, and ending with the bold and passionate piano quartet of his teacher, Fauré.
Tailleferre String Quartet
Ravel String Quartet
Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
FEATURING: Fine Arts Quartet; Patricia Tao, piano
Patricia Tao
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano | Sunday, June 26, 2016 | 7:30 PM
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All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral | 10035 – 103 St. Edmonton, AB
Parkade at: 10048 103 St. NW | Some meter parking is available on street.
Charles Richard-Hamelin is the first Canadian prizewinner in the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Hear him for the first time in Edmonton!
Beethoven Rondo Op. 51, No. 1 in C major | Rondo Op. 51, No. 2 in G major
Enescu Piano Suite No. 2 in D major, “Des cloches sonores”
Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 | Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 55, No. 2 | Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
photo: Emily Ding
A Night at the Opera | Tuesday, June 28, 2016 | 7:30 PM
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Convocation Hall | U of A Campus | Parking map | Visitor parking rates
Hear some of your favorite arias as well as instrumental works derived from opera, performed by many of Edmonton’s finest concert artists.
Arias by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti
Paganini Variations on a Theme from Rossini’s Moses
Beethoven Seven Variations on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen from Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Massenet Méditation from Thaïs
Sarasate Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25
FEATURING: John Tessier, tenor; Sherry Steele, soprano; Robert Uchida, violin; Rafael Hoekman, cello; Jacques Després, piano; Patricia Tao, piano
John Tessier
Robert Uchida
Rafael Hoekman
Jacques Després
Patricia Tao
Sherry Steele
Pre-Concert by 2016 Outreach Musicians • 6:45 PM
Convocation Hall
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonatensatz in C minor, from F-A-E Sonata
- Gabrielle Després Violin
- Patricia Tao Piano
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Largo, from Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65
- Kathleen de Caen Cello
- Patricia Tao Piano
Stephen Sondheim (1930- )
Losing My Mind, from Follies
- Elise Noyes Soprano
- Shannon Hiebert Piano
Jason Robert Brown (1970- )
Surabaya Santa, from Songs for a New World
- Amanda Smith Soprano
- Shannon Hiebert Piano
Henry Krieger (1945- )
Who will Love Me as I Am, from Side Show
- Elise Noyes Soprano
- Amanda Smith Soprano
- Shannon Hiebert Piano
Yellowhead Brewery Concerts
Matt Haimovitz, cello | Tuesday, June 21 , 2016 | 8 PM
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Yellowhead Brewery | 10229 – 105 Street Edmonton, AB
Matt Haimovitz brings his pioneering spirit to Edmonton with a solo concert at the Yellowhead Brewery. The solo cello recital is a Haimovitz trademark, both inside and outside the concert hall.
Matt Haimovitz
photo: Steph MacKinnon
Robert Uchida and Friends | Thursday, June 23, 2016 | 8 PM
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Yellowhead Brewery | 10229 – 105 Street Edmonton, AB
The ESO’s concertmaster Robert Uchida presents a program of works ideal for the intimate atmosphere of Yellowhead Brewery with violist Charles Pilon and cellist Rafael Hoekman.
Robert Uchida
Charles Pilon
Rafael Hoekman
2016 Artists
Jacques Després | Piano
Fine Arts Quartet
Matt Haimovitz | Cello
Charles Richard-Hamelin | Piano
Rafael Hoekman | Cello
Charles Pilon | Viola
Gil Sharon | Violin / Viola
Sherry Steele | Soprano
Patricia Tao | Piano
John Tessier | Tenor
Robert Uchida | Violin
