Ottawa Chamber Music Society

2007 Festival Schedule
Day 6
Thursday, July 26

Schedule subject to change without notice.

Studio Sparks – Shanghai Quartet

12 noon

CBC Sparks Street Studio

Each day during the first week of the Festival, you are invited to join host Eric Friesen for 30 minutes of music and conversation featuring short performances by Festival artists. These will be heard live across Canada on CBC Radio 2. Please check the website or programme book for details.

Michiel Schrey and Pamela Reimer: Songs of Travel

12 noon

Church of St. John the Evangelist

Michiel Schrey – tenor
Pamela Reimer – piano

Brahms and Dvorák: Giants of music, letters of friends

12 noon

Christ Church Cathedral

Gryphon Trio
Colin Fox – narrator

Distinguished actor Colin Fox joins the Gryphon Trio to explore the influence that composers have on each other’s work with a reading of correspondence between Dvorák and Brahms in the context of piano trios by these two giants of European romanticism.

Young People’s Concert: Rythmo-Synchro

2 p.m.

Young People's

All Saints Anglican Church

Rhythmo-Synchro

An exciting overview of the history of percussion instruments. This narrated concert will introduce children to the cultures of the Middle East, Europe and America. Influences from African and Brazilian music to hip-hop will be explored, and instruments such as the kalungu, djembé, derbouka, tambourin, cymbals and the apito will be explained and played.

Master Class with André Laplante

4 p.m.

Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa

Join renowned pianist André Laplante in a master class with some of his own students and talented young pianists from the Ottawa area.

Steven Dann and Friends

5 p.m.

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

Steven Dann – viola
Mark Fewer – violin
Renée-Paule Gauthier – violin
Kenneth Slowick – cello
Anssi Karttunen – cello

Trios by Schubert, Schoenberg and the Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor arranged for string quintet by Anssi Karttunen.

I Feel the Air of Another Planet: The Chamber Music of Arnold Schoenberg: Opening Gala Concert in conjunction with the international symposium Schoenberg’s Chamber Music, Schoenberg’s World

7:30 p.m.

Christ Church Cathedral

Moscow String Quartet
Peter McGillivray - baritone/reciter
Martha Guth – soprano
Jocelyn Dueck – piano
Valerie Dueck – piano
Stéphane Lemelin – piano
Thomas Annand – organ
Guy Yehuda – clarinet
Leonie Wall – flute
Donnie Deacon – viola
Margaret Munro Tobolowska – cello

This gala is the first of four concerts presented in the Festival in conjunction with the international symposium Schoenberg’s Chamber Music, Schoenberg’s World, hosted by Carleton University. Arnold Schoenberg’s sons, Lawrence and Ronald, and his daughter, Nuria, will be joining leading Schoenberg scholars from around the world at these concerts.

Melanie Conly and Peter Longworth

8 p.m.

Church of St. John the Evangelist

Melanie Conly – soprano
Peter Longworth – piano

A concert featuring works by Purcell, Debussy, Brahms, and a premiere of a work by Canadian composer Robert Rival.

Mei Han and Randy Raine-Reusch

8 p.m.

Canadian Museum of Civilization Theatre

Zheng master Mei Han joins composer and multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine- Reusch in an innovative program of traditional and contemporary works. Their collaborations on Distant Wind for zheng duet, and Road to Kashgar with the Orchid Ensemble were nominated for Juno Awards (Best Global).

Beethoven String Quartets II

8 p.m.

Pass Plus

Beethoven Pass

Dominion-Chalmers United Church

Shanghai Quartet

String Quartet in F major, opus 18, no.1
String Quartet in C minor, opus 18, no. 4
String Quartet in C-sharp minor, opus 131

The second in series of six Pass-Plus concerts, presenting all of Beethoven’s seventeen string quartets.

Late Night Cello

11 p.m.

Church of St. John the Evangelist

David Eggert – Cello

Solo cello recital with commentary by the winner of 2006 Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition.

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