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Duo Cantilena in Concert

Sally Wright, flute

Steven Peacock, classical guitar

Duo Cantilena will present a concert "Dances, Airs and Lullabies" at the home of Ivan and Vivian Hicks in Upper Coverdale, NB on Sunday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. A delightful variety of beautifully expressive music inspired by folk traditions familiar to Atlantic Canadians, as well as Spanish music from the Old and New Worlds, will be featured. As a special treat, fiddle and piano duo Ivan and Vivian Hicks will join the duo for a number or two.

Sally Wright, native of Moncton and resident of Riverview, is principal flutist of Symphony New Brunswick. Steven Peacock is a Fredericton guitarist and recording artist. Duo Cantilena has performed at the Indian River Festival, the Imperial Theatre, the Playhouse, the UNB Creative Arts Series, the St. Andrews Summer Music Festival and the Moncton Community Concert Series. The duo's very popular recordings Cantilena, and The Green Bushes - dances, airs and lullabies, have been aired on CBC Radio One and Radio Two.

Tickets: $15. ( only 50 available)

Sally Wright 506 855 - 5220 salflute@rogers.com
Ivan Hicks 506 386 - 2996 ivan@ivanhicks.com

Hicks Residence
1631 Route 112
Upper Coverdale NB
(10 minutes from the Causeway, on the Coverdale Rd. between Riverview and Salisbury)

Click below for a Google Map to the concert location.

http://tinyurl.com/Map-to-Hicks-Residence

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~TWO OCEANS TRIO~

Karin Aurell – flutes

Joel Stobbe – cello

Janet Hammock – piano

September 29 – Thursday -- Sackville, NB, Mount Allison University, Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory of Music, Brunton Auditorium, 8:00 p.m.

September 30 – Friday -- Moncton, NB, Université de Moncton, Music Department, 8:00 p.m.

October 1 -- Saturday – Antigonish, NS, St. Francis Xavier University, Performing Arts Series, Immaculata Auditorium, 8:00p.m.

October 2 – Sunday – Mahone Bay, NS, Celia's Retreats Concert Series, 1199 Oakland Road, RR#2, Mahone Bay, 11:00 a.m.

October 4 – Tuesday – Fredericton, NB, St. Thomas University, Department of Music: informal talk about the music we will be performing the next evening at UNB, 11:30 – 12:50 p.m.

October 5 – Wednesday – Fredericton, NB, Music On The Hill Concert Series, UNB, evening...exact time tba

October 6 – Thursday – Sussex, NB, The Gallagher Home Concert, address and recital time tba. Enjoy a relaxed evening in a beautiful home, sipping wine while gazing at a breathtaking view of New Brunswick's natural woodland hills and listening to beautiful music!

Programme

Trio in D Major Hoboken XV:16 for flute, cello and piano Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Allegro

Andantino più tosto Allegretto

Vivace assai

*Als ver mis horas de fiebre for flute and piano (2011)** Martín Kutnowski (1968 -

[Seeing My Feverish Hours]

I Rima XVI: Si al mecer las azules campanillas [If when the bluebells flutter...]

II Rima LXI: Al ver mis horas de fiebre [ Seeing my hours of fever...]

III Rima XV: Cendal flotante de leve bruma [Hovering misty veil...]

Trio for flute, cello and piano (1944) Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) Poco Allegretto

Adagio

Andante/Allegretto scherzando

INTERMISSION

*two oceans for bass flute, cello and piano (2011) Anthony Genge ( 1952 -

Buenos Aires Y2K Trio for flute, cello and piano (2000) Martín Kutnowski (1968 -

Tango: Allegro moderato

Payada: Lento misterioso

Valsecito Criollo: Vivo

Three Tangos for flute, cello and piano

Milontan José Bragato (1915 -

Oblivion Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

La Muerte del Ángel Astor Piazzolla

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* Premiere performance: September 29, 2011, Mount Allison University

** Generously supported by a Commissioning Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts

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Public Events Schedule

BOXWOOD CANADA 2011

Public events are presented by Boxwood in cooperation with the St. John's Arts Alliance. Tickets and reservations for all events commence on Friday July 1, 2011. Tickets may be purchased in three ways:

at Fulton's Drug in Lunenburg
on-line via PayPal on the Boxwood Canada Public Events page
at the door for each event starting roughly 45 minutes before starting time

Concert tickets (July 24, 29 and 30) are $20 each suggested donation, $5 for students (door only).
Ceili dance tickets (July 28) are $15 suggested donation.

Sunday July 24, 2011; 7:30 PM concert

Tempest Baroque Ensemble with guest soloists Philippe ALLAIN-DUPRÉ, Emer Mayock, and more.

St. John's Anglican Church, Townsend St., Lunenburg

Tempest is Maritime Canada's premeire early music ensemble, led by the internationally acclaimed violinist David Greenberg. They'll present a concert that features their own distinct repertoire and style with the addition of renowned guest artists Philippe ALLAIN-DUPRE (baroque flute), and Emer MAYOCK (baroque flute) in a program that includes works by Vivaldi, Leclair, and Telemann.

$20 ea. suggested donation

Wednesday July 27, 2011; 7:30 PM

BIG BOXWOOD CEILI DANCE

St. John's Anglican Parish Hall
64 Townsend St., Lunenburg

Bring your dancing shoes for a rollicking ceili dance in one of Canada’s most historic venues called by Pauline Hingston with some sizzling step dancing from Jonathon Srour (Fresh from a tour with Lord of the Dance). An exhilarating ceili dance with Boxwood’s monster staff on the bandstand (visit our artists page). Likely one of the best dances in Nova Scotia all year!

$15 ea. suggested donation

Friday July 29, 2011; 7:30 PM

BOXWOOD'S VOCAL CONCERT

Zion Lutheran Church, Fox & Cornwallis St., Lunenburg

A wonderful evening of songs, ballads, airs, sing-alongs, shanties, arias, hymns, shape-note singing and more. More artists & details forthcoming . . .

Jefferson HAMER - Traditional ballads, guitar
Eamon O'LEARY - Irish ballads, guitar, banjo, bozouki
Edmund BROWNLESS -tenor, director of the Boxwood Singers

$20 ea. suggested donation

Saturday July 30, 2011; 7:30 PM

BOXWOOD FINALE CONCERT

St. John's Anglican Church, Townsend St., Lunenburg

Boxwood's remarkable finale concert has become an eagerly anticipated annual event in Lunenburg. This year we feature performances by some of the most powerful and exciting traditional musicians on the scene today. Irish fiddler Liz Caroll has been honored in the US with National Heritage Fellowship Award, and in Ireland as TG4 Traditional composer of the Year. Also on the bill is the Breton powerhouse Sylvain Barou who will astound you with a vast repertoire that spans Breton, Irish and Calssical Indian miusic. The duo of Chris Norman & David Greenberg will play a blazing duo set. A grand finale with all of our artists concludes the show. For complete info on these stellar musicians visit our artists page.

Sylvain BAROU- Breton, Irish & bansuri flute
Emer MAYOCK- Irish Uilleann pipes, flute, whistle
Liz CAROLL- Irish fiddle
Rod GARNETT- flutes, ethnic flutes
Nick HALLEY - keyboards, percussion
David GREENBERG - Cape Breton & baroque violin
Chris NORMAN - traditional & early flutes, small pipes
Eamon O'LEARY- guitar
. . . . and more

$20 ea. suggested donation

BEST OF BOXWOOD 2011 TOUR

Emer Mayock, Uilleann Pipes, Irish flute, voice; Chris Norman, flutes, pipes, voice; Bob Webb, Sea Shanties, banjo, concertina; Eamon O'Leary, guitar, banjo, voice Shelley Phillips, harp, oboe, voice

Sunday, July 31, 7:30 pm, St. John the Evangelist Church, Truro
Monday, August 1, 7:30 pm, Highland Village, Iona
Tuesday, August 2, 7:30 pm, St. John the Baptist Church, Poplar Grove
Wednesday, August 3, 7:30 pm, St. John’s Cornwallis Church, Port Williams
Thursday, August 4, 7:30 pm, Christ Church, Dartmouth

www.boxwood.org

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Flutist to perform Tangos in VIA Rail stations.

Karin Aurell, flutist and active performer in the region, is about to embark on a new exciting project – she plans to do five performances of Martin Kutnowski's 12 Tango Etudes in three VIA Rail stations in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia between February 28 and March 11. The first performance will take place in Moncton on Monday February 28, followed by two shows in Halifax on March 2 and 3, and the following week by two more; in Moncton on Thursday March 10 and in Miramichi on Friday March 11.

All shows will start approximately one hour before the departure of the westbound train, and the performer is encouraging interested people to show up just to listen, joining the folks who are in the train station for travel. Halifax shows will start at 11 AM, Moncton shows at 4 PM and the Miramichi show will start at 6 PM.

Karin's VIA Rail shows are part of a larger national project titled New Music in New Places, the focus of which is to bring new Canadian music to a new audience by performing it in venues other than regular concert venues. The idea of performing in train stations is one that appeals to the flutist, partly because train stations tend to be good performance venues with good acoustics and exciting things going on, and also because they are places where people who are going from one place to another often end up spending a bit of time. It also evokes the performer's youth, when she spent many hours busking and one of her favourite performance spots was an underground walkway connecting the Stockholm Central Station with that city's subway system.

Karin is a passionate advocate for music written here and now, and has collaborated with many composers in the region since moving here from Sweden in 2001. The present collaboration, with Argentinian-born New Brunswick composer Martin Kutnowski, is a very happy one – Martin's music is exciting to perform and fun to listen to. As Martin himself writes he is “a contemporary composer with firm roots in the tonal idiom. In his works, references to the musical past are often embedded within folk materials of his native country, Argentina”. His compositions and recordings are available on the independent label Contrapunctus, on FJH Publications, Editions Billaudot, and on Ricordi.

Kutnowski received his composer training in Buenos Aires and New York, and currently teaches at Saint Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Aurell is a long-time orchestral player who moved here from her native Sweden to pursue a freelance career. She performs regularly with all the orchestras in the region, as well as in chamber and solo concerts. Karin, who loves recording, has two solo cd's to her name, and plans to record Martin's Etudes later this spring.

Karin wishes to thank VIA Rail Canada, the Canadian Music Centre and the SOCAN Foundation for giving her the opportunity to present these five shows.

New Music in New Places is a national Canadian Music Centre project, which puts the focus on new Canadian music by presenting it in new or unusual venues across the country. So far, close to forty events have taken place in venues such as hotels, shopping malls and office buildings, industrial sites, a winery and a prison. The Canadian Music Centre gratefully acknowledges the support of the SOCAN Foundation and the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund.

Founded in 1959, the Canadian Music Centre is Canada’s primary place to find scores, parts and recordings of Canadian contemporary music composers. Housing Canada’s largest collection of Canadian classical music works, the CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world. The Centre makes available on loans more than 16,000 scores and/or works of Canadian contemporary classical music composers through its library. Visit www.musiccentre.ca

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St. Cecilia Series presents

Jocelyne Roy, flute and Michelle Yelin Nam, piano

Sunday Feb. 27 at 3pm

Lilian Percey Concert Hall, Maritime Conservatory
6199 Chebucto Rd., Halifax (902) 423-6995

St. Cecilia Series presents the piano and flute duo of Jocelyne Roy and Michelle Yelin Nam, Sunday, February 27th at the Lilian Piercey Concert Hall. Concert time is 3 p m.

Roy and Nam’s programme includes original works for both the flute and piano as well as well-known transcriptions for both instruments by composers ranging from Bach to Andre Jolivet.

Jocelyne Roy, a member of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and a laureate of the Prix d’Europe in 2005, Roy is one of the finest young flautists of her generation. She is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Montréal, where she received her degree with great distinction, of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Music, and of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York. Last season, she took part in a major world tour with the Orchestre de Verbier (for which she was principal flute) under the direction of Herbert Bloomstedt and Claus Peter Flor, as well as a Canadian tour with the Ensemble con tempo rain de Montréal.

Canadian-Korean pianist Michelle Yelin Nam is in demand as a soloist in Canada and abroad. Praised for her “silvery clarity” (The Gazette), she has been described as playing “in the manner of the greats, before reaching their age” (La Presse). Michelle Yelin Nam completed her undergraduate studies at Schulich School of Music of McGill University with Richard Raymond, and her Master’s degree at the Juilliard School of New York with Julian Martin on an Alexander Siloti scholarship. Since September, she has been pursuing an Artist Diploma at Hartford University. Since the age of ten, Michelle Yelin Nam has won several grand prizes in competitions in Korea. In Canada, she was chosen as the “CBC up and Coming Canadian Artist” She made her professional debut with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in 2006.

Roy and Nam are presented in Halifax on the St. Cecilia Series and presented in collaboration with Jeunesses Musicales as part of the Desjardins Concerts 2010-2011.

About Jeunesses Musicales:
Considered to be the largest presenter of classical music in the country, Jeunesses Musicales of Canada (JMC) celebrated its 60th anniversary last year. A non-profit organization, Jeunesses Musicales of Canada has a dual mission: to promote the performance of classical music, especially for young audiences, and to help young professional instrumentalists, singers and composers to develop their careers at the national and international levels. This tour is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Mouvement des caisses Desjardins, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage and the Conseil des arts de Montreal.

Jocelyne Roy & Michelle Yelin Nam’s Repertoire:

J.S. BACH (1685 – 1750)
Ei wie schmeckt der coffee susse
(Ah ! Comme il goûte bon le café ! /
How good is this coffee!)
Extr. de la cantate / From
Cantata, BWV 211

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862 – 1918)
Syrinx
(flûte / flute)

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810 – 1849)
Mazurkas, opus 24,
n° 1 en sol mineur / in G minor
n° 2 en do majeur / in C Major
n° 3 en la bémol majeur /
in A-flat Major
n° 4 en si bémol majeur /
in B-flat minor
(piano)

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828)
Variations sur / on Trockne
Blumen, opus post. 160, D 802

THEOBALD BOEHM (1794 – 1881)
Grande Polonaise en ré majeur /
in D Major, opus 16
Entracte / Intermission

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809 – 1847)
Romances sans paroles /
Songs without words, opus 67
Andante, Allegro leggiero,
Andante tranquillo, Presto, Moderato,
Allegretto non troppo
(piano)

SAVERIO MERCADANTE (1795 – 1870)
Thème et variations
sur l’air “Là ci darem la mano’’
de l’opéra Don Giovanni
de Mozart /
Theme and variations on
the aria “Là ci darem la mano’’
from the opera Don Giovanni
by Mozart
(flûte / flute)

ANDRÉ JOLIVET (1905 – 1974)
Chant de Linos

PAUL AGRICOLA GENIN (1832 – 1903)
Fantaisie sur des airs
de La Traviata, de Verdi /
Fantasy on Themes from
Verdi’s opera La Traviata

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Sackville artists Janet Hammock and Karin Aurell to perform CMC Associate Composer MARTIN KUTNOWSKI’S
“Etudes dans le Style du Tango”

November 17, 2010

On Wednesday November 17 at 8 PM, Karin Aurell, flute, and Janet Hammock, piano, will take to the stage at Brunton Auditorium to perform new tangos by Argentinian-born NB composer MARTIN KUTNOWSKI, along with tantalizing tangos by the master of the art of tango music, Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla.

The two Sackville artists are among the most active performers in the Maritimes, and both continue to excite their audiences with their new projects and endeavours. Neither one has a previous background in tango playing, and both were introduced to the art through Martin Kutnowski, an Argentinian composer who now lives in Fredericton, where he teaches at St. Thomas University. Martin has had a string of successes internationally, his music has been recorded by major French artists on the Anima label, and his works are heard all over the world. His music is also published by Gerard Billaudot publishing house in Paris. Janet and Karin both received recognition this past year for their dedication to the performance of the works of Canada's composers. On November 9, 2009, during the Canadian Music Centre’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, they were both honoured as two of 50 Ambassadors of Canadian music. These lifetime achievement awards were given to outstanding Canadian performers and conductors who have played exceptional roles in shaping the Canadian music scene and raised the profile of Canadian music.

Janet and Karin will each play a set of Martin's “Etudes dans le Style du Tango”, a set of 5 for solo piano and 12 for solo flute. These etudes are gems in the small format, expressive and rich, exploring the boundaries of the instruments and the style. Along with the solo etudes, Janet and Karin will perform a set of three tango etudes by the master of the Argentinian Tango, Astor Piazzolla. These pieces are absolute masterworks, fiery and expressive, a treat to perform and to listen to. The concert will begin with two small works by French composer Gabriel Faure; Berceuse and Morceau de Concours.

Admission will be by donation and all proceeds will go towards the Sackville Music Festival 2011.

If you require more information, please email karin.aurell@yahoo.ca or jhammock@mta.ca

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Propeller Brewing Company presents...

"RE-JIGGED":

A Celebration of New Celtic Music & Dance

*DATE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23

*PLACE: Christ Church Hall – Corner of Wentworth & Ochterloney Streets in downtown Dartmouth

Mark your calendars for RE-JIGGED, an independent festival celebrating new directions in Celtic music and dance. With a full day of workshops, sessions, a gala concert and late-night ceilidh, RE-JIGGED is about learning, sharing & enjoying the best “new trad” Celtic music and dance. Featuring....

* WORKSHOPS: During the day, learn or improve your skills with some of North America ’s leading performers and instructors in banjo, bodhran, Celtic harp, fiddle, Gaelic song, Irish flute, mandolin, sean-nós (old-style) Irish step dance, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, Persian tar, and more,.... .

* GALA CONCERT: Join MC Bill Plaskett for an exciting two-hour evening concert with leading innovators in Celtic music and dance from across the region and beyond. Enjoy the talents of Troy MacGillivray, The New Tune Society, award-winning sean-nós step dancer Kieran Jordan from Boston & modern Irish step dancer Zeph Caissie, who toured eight years with Riverdance: The Show. Only $20/person.

* LATE-NIGHT CEILIDH: After the concert, it’s your turn! Callers from both the Cape Breton and Irish traditions will have you up on the floor and dancing square sets in no time. Featuring live music by Troy MacGilivray, Glenn Coolen, Seph Peters, Colin Carrigan, Patricia Murray, Mark Currie & Erin Dempsey. Only $10/person or free with a gala concert ticket.

For details, to register for workshops & purchase tickets, go to
http://www.rejiggedfestival.com

Find us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Re-Jigged-Festival/157307134279749?v=wall

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PRESS RELEASE 30/08/10

Nathalie Paulin and Trio Arkaede in concert September 12

Trio Arkaede will be joining forces with world-renowned soprano Nathalie Paulin for an exciting evening of French chamber music and contemporary and traditional music from the Maritimes, at the Theatre l ' Escaouette on Sunday September 12 at 8 PM. Nathalie Paulin is one of Canada ' s most celebrated young singers, with a growing international reputation, and she is originally from Tracadie on New Brunswick ' s Acadian peninsula. Trio Arkaede consists of Julien LeBlanc, piano, originally from Cocagne; Isabelle Fournier, violin and viola, who grew up in Moncton; and Karin Aurell, flute, who lives in Sackville and teaches in the music department at l ' Universite de Moncton.

Songs by Fauré, Sains-Saëns, Bizet, and Albert Roussel will alternate with chamber trios by Duruflé and French baroque composer Antoine Dornel. The high point of the concert will be two new works with a very strong New Brunswick connection – first a new work by Moncton composer Richard Gibson with text by New Brunswick poet George Paul. The title of this new work is"Ala ' sutemamk ukjit sankewo ' ti ula uksitqamu", this is Mi ' kmaq and translates to “Prayer for World Peace”. This is very likely the first classical setting of a Mi ' kmaq text – ever! Needless to say, the performers are thrilled to be part of this historic first performance!

Composer Richard Gibson, originally from Charlottetown spent his formative years in Riverview and received his PhD from King ' s College in London . He has been teaching composition and music theory at U de Moncton since 1984 . He continues to have a very active career as a composer, with new works premiered every year. Recently, he was commissioned to write a new piece for the Universite de Moncton percussion ensemble, for 25 percussionist. This piece was premiered at the Wesleyan Centre in Moncton this past March.

The second new work on the program is an arrangement of Acadian folk songs written for the quartet by young Moncton composer James Fogarty. A recent graduate of the Université de Moncton music program, James will be continuing his composition studies at King ' s College London. He has composed for various ensembles--most recently, a choral work for the New Brunswick Youth Choir performed in Sackville last May. His opera, Baba Yaga, for 12 soloists, chorus, and orchestra, was premiered by the Université de Moncton Opera Workshop last January.

Nathalie Paulin has recently sung in L ' Enfant Prodigue by Debussy with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yanick Nézet-Séguin. She also starred to much acclaim last season as Manon in the opera Manon by Massenet for the Calgary Opera and Opera Lyra in Ottawa . She was also heard in The Seasons by Haydn with the Calgary Symhony as well as in Mahler ' s 8th Symphony with l ' Orchestre Metropolitain. She currently lives in Toronto were she pursues her singing career as well as teaching french diction at the University of Toronto .

Trio Arkaede has been performing together since 2006. The trio ' s first solo recording was released in 2008 to critical acclaim, this CD is now almost completely sold out. Julien LeBlanc recently finished a DMA from Universite de Montreal, and is a very sought after collaborative pianist and vocal coach. Isabelle, who lives in Halifax , has recently been appointed concert master for the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal . She lived in London England for many years, and while there she performed regularly with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of Saint Martin-in the -Fields under Neville Mariner. Karin Aurell moved to NB from her native Sweden in 2001 and is a very active chamber and solo instrumentalists in the region, performing with, among others: Motion Ensemble, Nhat-Viet Phi and Janet Hammock.

Tickets for the Sunday evening concert are available at the Theatre l ' Escaouette box office, and will be for sale until the start of the concert. Ticket prices are $25 for adults, $20 seniors, $15 for students, $10 music students.

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Jazz East Presents:
Thursday Evening Jazz at Stayner’s Wharf in Halifax

Thursday September 2^nd, 9:00pm to Midnight

Brian McConnell –Flute

Georges Hebert – Guitar

Danny Parker – Bass

Joe Bonvie – Drums

We play jazz standards, American Songbook tunes and Bebop.

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Boxwood, Hamish Moore, Chris Norman & Kendra MacGillivray present

AISEIRIGH

October 16 & 17, 2010
Lunenburg, NS, CANADA

A workshop focused on realizing the potential of Scotland's dance music by strengthening an appreciation of its connections to dance and language.

Whether you're a well seasoned player or a music-lover wondering what Scottish Music is all about, you will be most welcome! Don't miss this opportunity to learn from and hang-out with some remarkable musical thinkers and as they share insights into the deep well of Scotland's music; a tradition with a huge wealth of musical rhythms. The March, Strathspey, Jigs, Scotch Reels and Country Dances are closely related with the old hard shoe percussive step dancing of Scotland and the Quadrilles. These forms of dance can most commonly be found on Cape Breton Island thus it's entirely culturally appropriate to be including this model of teaching in conjunction with Boxwood. This weekend workshop is open to melody players of all instruments with a special emphasis on pipes, flutes, whistles, and fiddle - as well as those who just want to listen and learn. Classes on melody, technique, repertoire and a variety of special topics topics will take place on the morning and afternoon of Saturday October 16, followed by a supper, concert and evening session. Sunday will be reserved for private lessons with the tutor(s) of your choice.

The concert/session is open to the public and will take place:
7:30PM, Saturday October 16, Lunenburg
Venue to be announced in early September.

Space will be limited, so please register early

Visit the Boxwood website for more information and registration:

http://www.boxwood.org/aiseirigh_lunenburg.html

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In Recital

Grace Baker, flute
Tara Scott, piano

Tues. Aug. 10 at 7pm

The Music Room
6181 Lady Hammond Rd., Halifax
(902) 429-9467

Featuring the works of Liebermann, Ian Clarke, Dohnanyi, Dutilleux and Taktakishvili.

Nova Scotian flutist Grace Baker is currently in the senior year of her Bachelor of Music program at the University of Western Ontario, studying with Fiona Wilkinson.

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FLUTE CAMP

at the Maritime Conservatory

Faculty: Anne Bergstrom, Amanda Mark
Students who have had flute instruction for one year or more, either in school band or in private lessons, will enjoy this program.

SUMMER FLUTE CAMP

August 16-20 | 1:00-4:00pm

#MD100 Tuition: $109 + registration

Students will be divided into Junior and Senior groups based on experience and ability. All will enjoy learning more about their instrument. Class content is varied. On the final day (August 20) students will give a recital to show what they have learned. Their family and friends are encouraged to attend (time tba).

For more information, contact the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts: (902) 423-6995

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Events open to the public from the

Boxwood Festival and Workshop

for complete information, visit:
http://www.boxwood.org/canada_schedule.html
and
http://www.musiqueroyale.com/events.html

Sunday July 25, 2010; 7:30 PM concert

Jean-Christophe MAILLARD and Vortex 3: Folk meets Baroque in 18th century France and Scotland

St. John's Anglican Church, Townsend St., Lunenburg

In this opening program of Boxwood 2010, the lines presumed to exist between folk and art music of the 18th century will be dissolved as Jean-Christophe MAILLARD, the world's greatest exponent of the French baroque musette de cour astounds and amazes.He'll present a program of pastoral music of the French baroque that reaches to the music's roots in the traditional vocal and dance music of Brittany and the Pyrenees. Vortex 3 mixes Cape-Breton, Acadian and Maritime Canadian influences with Scotland's folk-infused music of the 18th century. Their recent performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, Ottawa Chamber Music Festival and Sligo Baroque Festival have left audiences . . . astonished. This showdown between the Scottish Small pipes vs. Musette de cour will not be repeated any time or anywhere soon!

Jean Christophe MAILLARD - musette de cour, baroque flute

Vortex 3
David GREENBERG - baroque violin
Chris NORMAN - flutes, pipes
David McGUINNESS - harpsichord, piano

Wednesday July 28, 2010; 7:30 PM

BIG BOXWOOD CEILI DANCE

St. John's Anglican Parish Hall
64 Townsend St., Lunenburg

Bring your dancing shoes for a rollicking ceili dance in one of Canada's most historic venues called by Elizabeth MacDonald with some sizzling step dancing from Jonathon Srour (Fresh from a tour with Lord of the Dance). An exhilarating ceili dance with Boxwood’s monster staff on the bandstand (visit our artists page). Likely one of the best dances in Nova Scotia all year!

Friday July 30, 2010; 7:30 PM

Music and Songs from the ballad opera:
THE GENTLE SHEPHERD

Venue TBD

Alan Ramsay published The Gentle Shepherd in Edinburgh in 1725 as a pastoral ballad opera. The Gentle Shepherd enjoyed massive success both in his lifetime and for several years after his death. With music compsed by James Oswald this Scots pastoral drama is an entirely original creation, which develops the pastoral genre and fixes it within a Scottish context. Although the play belongs to the sentimental age, its value remains to this day: Ramsay presents his audience with skilful sections of lyric and song, and daringly attempts to revive the Scottish theatrical tradition under the strict codes of Calvinism. David McGuinness presented a reconstruction of the Gentle Shepherd at the Edinburgh International Festival a few years back to rave reviews and sold out houses. Join us for this unique and magical production.

David McGUINNESS- director, harpsichord
Edmund BROWNLESS - voice
David GREENBERG - Cape Breton & baroque violin
Chris NORMAN - traditional & early flutes, small pipes
Rod GARNETT- flutes, ethnic flutes
Marlys NORMAN - dance
William COULTER- guitar

Saturday July 31, 2010; 7:30 PM

BOXWOOD FINALE CONCERT

St. John's Anglican Church, Townsend St., Lunenburg

Boxwood's remarkable finale concert has become an eagerly anticipated annual event in Lunenburg. This year we feature performances by one of the greats of the Irish flute: the Rev Gary Hastings, whose soulful playing is derived from the true heart of traditional music. He'll be joined by the legendary Uillean piper Paddy Keenan as well as the extraordinary fiddling of James Kelly. Rod Garnett will gather guests to play a set that features his astounding virtuosity and breadth of repertoire that spans from Eastern Europe to Bali to South America. The duo of Chris Norman & David Greenberg will play a blazing set from their new CD. A grand finale with all of our artists concludes the show. For complete info on these stellar musicians visit our artists page.

Rev Gary Hastings - Irish flute
Paddy KEENAN - Irish Uilleann pipes and whistle
James KELLY - Irish fiddle
Jonathan SROUR - step dance
Rod GARNETT- flutes, ethnic flutes
Jean-Christophe MAILLARD- French baroque musette de cour, baroque flute, bombarde
David GREENBERG - Cape Breton & baroque violin
Chris NORMAN - traditional & early flutes, small pipes
William COULTER- guitar
. . . . and more

BEST OF BOXWOOD 2010

A quartet from Boxwood’s world renowned summer workshop and festival, whose repertoire spans traditional music of Ireland, Cape Breton, Acadia, America, as well as works of the baroque & renaissance. James Kelly, Irish fiddle; David Greenberg, Cape Breton & baroque violin; Chris Norman, flutes, pipes, voice; William Coulter, guitar

Sunday, August 1, 3 pm, Saint Agnes Church, Quinan

Monday, August 2, 7:30 pm, St. John's Cornwallis Church, Port Williams

Tuesday, August 3, 7:30 pm, Sharon United Church, Tatamagouche

Wednesday, August 4, 7:30 pm, Highland Museum, Iona

Friday, August 6, 7:30 pm, Maritime Museum of Atlantic, Halifax

Saturday, August 7, 7:30 pm, St. George's Church, Georgeville

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Announcing

Flute Day with Adrianne Greenbaum

Saturday, July 24 in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
ALL ages and abilities welcome!!

Coordination assistance by Jennifer Publicover and Anne Bergstrom

VENUE: Long & McQuade, 6065 Cunard Street, Halifax, NS
ALL TRANSVERSE FLUTES WELCOMED (i.e. Boehm or simple/Irish system)

Adrianne has decades of experience as a symphony and chamber musician, teaches at Mount Holyoke College, is a Powell and Miyazawa artist, and furthermore leads a double life as a klezmer flutist. Please take a moment to look at her bio: http://www.klezmerflute.com/ She has been a featured artist at Boxwood, which is where Anne and I came to know her, and we can attest to the fact that she is an engaging performer in both the classical and klezmer world. She also has a warm, fun and outgoing personality.

Adrianne describes the plan and the registration procedure below.

SCHEDULE
10:00am
1) I want "THAT" Tone!
Magic Lips - and all that's around them
Colors
Volume- from Lush to Hush

11:30
2) Master Class for ANYONE who wishes to play their etude, solo
rep, excerpts, or even short phrases of ANY sort
(First 5 or 6 to sign up to play. No audition process. No
additional fee)

1:00-2:00
Lunch (BY0), mingle, share!

2:00
3) Explore another dimension: The world of KLEZMER
The nuts and bolts: Modes, Sighs, Boyps, Krekhts
Comparing and linking baroque and klezmer ornamentation

3:30-4:30
4) Ensemble Jam!
Klezmer flute choir + Learn dances that go with the tunes! (YES, YOU WILL DANCE!)

All ages and experience welcome as I would teach to everyone's
ability.
Fee: $70 or $75 (Pay $70 in advance via Paypal or cash day of, with additional $5) for the day. INCLUDES a CD (or book if CD is
already owned)

PAYPAL HAS NOW BEEN SET UP ON MY WEBPAGE (www.klezmerflute.com under "Purchase" in the index). PLEASE MAKE SURE, IF YOU'RE COMING, TO PAY FOR YOUR FLUTE DAY SO WE KNOW WHO IS COMMITTED.

Email to let me know you're coming and letting me know if paying in advance via Paypal or day of. (If Paypal, use US funds....)
Whichever you choose, a commitment is necessary, however.
PLACE/VENUE to still be arranged, depending upon numbers of sign-ups.
I will have, for your entertainment or pursuit of knowledge, wonderful simple-system flutes and baroque flutes to try!

(The timing of this day "means" that you can move on to attend the Boxwood Festival with Chris Norman. I HIGHLY recommend it if you haven't done this yet for yourselves! Here's a link for that as well. Treat yourself to a great WEEK! http://www.boxwood.org/canada.html
There's a fantastic video sampler to get a real taste for what you would experience! http://gallery.me.com/ethanneville#100239
I'm somewhere in the middle of it, but that's not why you should view or listen to it...It's just a GREAT place to be, so come to my day and then onward to Lunenburg! No, Chris has no idea I've posted this :-) It's just enthusiasm spilling over....)

Okay, 'nuf said!

(If you are unfamiliar with my flute playing, you can easily go to some youtube selections, both classical and klezmer, by typing in my name and flute. Better audio is on my website of course)

Adrianne
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Adrianne Greenbaum
http://www.klezmerflute.com & http://www.klezband.com
Professor of Music, Mount Holyoke College
Powell Flutes and Miyazawa Flutes Artist

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Musique Royale presents

"Let Me In This Ae Night"

Chris Norman, wooden flutes

David Greenberg, violin/fiddle

7:30pm Sat. May 15, 2010
St. John's Anglican Church
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

for ticket information, visit Musique Royale:

http://www.musiqueroyale.com/events.html

Born in Halifax, NS into a music loving family, Chris Norman's influential work as a performer, composer, recording artist and teacher has done much to bring the simple wooden flute to the forefront as an alternative voice to the modern orchestral instrument and redefined the flute in traditional Canadian & Scottish traditional music. His busy performing schedule includes solo engagements and concerts with a variety of ensembles, appearing frequently as soloist with orchestra and touring with his own Chris Norman Ensemble. In years past Chris has also appeared worldwide as a member of the international folk trio, Helicon, the all-star Celtic fusion group, Skyedance, the acclaimed early music group, The Baltimore Consort and across Europe with Concerto Caledonia

Norman's flute playing can be heard featured on the Oscar winning soundtrack of Titanic, the Hollywood films, Soldier, and the forthcoming Stone of Destiny. His solo CD releases have received unanimous praise from critics and audiences alike and appeared on Billboard's crossover charts. He's presently producing and hosting a program on connections between food & music for Inside the Music broadcast nationally on CBC Radio One in Canada and worldwide on Sirius. Through his work as founder and artistic director of the Boxwood Festivals and Workshops taking place in Canada, New Zealand & Europe, Chris has inspired thousands of musicians of all ages abilities.

David Greenberg's double career as both a baroque violinist and traditional fiddler began at an early age. During his schooling in classical violin playing (beginning at age 4), he also picked up traditional fiddling by ear from recordings.

Originally from Maryland, David studied baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, and moved to Canada in 1988 to join the Toronto-based baroque orchestra Tafelmusik. With Tafelmusik for 10 years, David performed orchestral, chamber, and solo roles in North America, Europe, and the Far East, and on more than forty recordings. David also plays the vielle (medieval fiddle). He won first prize at the Erwin Bodky International Early Music Competition in 1988 with the Medieval Quintet, and he recorded vielle soundtracks for Atom Egoyan's film The Sweet Hereafter.

David has gained the reputation in Cape Breton music circles as being one of the few people from outside the Nova Scotia island to have achieved a fluent command of the Cape Breton music idiom. With his wife, Kate Dunlay, he published a book called Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton, The DunGreen Collection (1996) He also recorded the solo celtic-violin music for Pit Pony, a movie about turn-of-the-century Cape Breton. David's long-time collaboration with Cape Breton pianist Doug MacPhee has recently resulted in the recording Tunes Until Dawn (Marquis, 2000). Over the last few summers David has performed and taught at numerous fiddle camps and festivals around North America and Scotland.

In 1994, David founded Puirt a Baroque (pronounced poorsht-a-ba-roke), a group that connects traditional Cape Breton music with its roots in the Baroque era. Puirt a Baroque's best-selling debut recording Bach Meets Cape Breton (Marquis Classics), won the 1997 East Coast Music Award for Best Classical Album. Kinloch's Fantasy: A Curious Collection of Scottish Sonatas and Reels was released later in 1997. Return of the Wanderer followed in 1998 and received a Juno Awards nomination (1999) for Best Roots and Traditional Album (Group). David's Scottish-baroque crossover fiddling can be heard currently in the trio Ferintosh, with cellist Abby Newton and celtic harpist Kim Robertson.

David plays a more eclectic mix of music with Scottish keyboard player extraordinaire, David McGuinness. With Lion, an offshoot of David McGuinness' group Concerto Caledonia, David G recorded Spring Any Day Now - Music of 18th century Scotland and elsewhere, Marquis 81325, 2003. The two Davids have also worked, along with flautist Chris Norman and others, on two Acadian recordings for soprano Suzie LeBlanc: La mer jolie, chants d'Acadie and a forthcoming CD.

David performs regularly with Apollo's Fire (Cleveland's baroque orchestra), the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, BaroQuébec, and the Toronto Consort. Since moving to Halifax in 2000, David has helped to found Tempest baroque ensemble which he directs, and has collaborated with Maritime-Canadian artists including highland piper Ian McKinnon, guitarist/arranger/conductor Scott Macmillan, Symphony Nova Scotia, and harpsichordist Gordon Murray.

Released February 10th 2010, Chris Norman and David's Duo CD, Let Me In This Ae Night.

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In Concert

Karin Aurell, flute

Nhat-Viet Phi, piano

Salle Neil-Michaud, Université de Moncton

vendredi 15 janvier, 20h00

Brunton Auditorium, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB,

Sunday January 17, 3:00 PM

Georges Enesco (1881-1955): Cantabile et Presto (1904)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Sonata in A minor for flute

Lorraine Desmarais (1956-….): Sonate pour flute et piano (1995)

Albert Roussel (1869-1937): Joueurs de flute, op. 27

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Étude en la mineur, op. 25 no. 11

OU Scherzo en si mineur, op. 20 no. 1

César Franck (1822-1890): Sonata in A Major

Karin Aurell has studied flute with among others Robert Aitken and William Bennett. She spent many years as principal flute in the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, before relocating to Sackville NB in 2001. Here, she has made a name for herself as an orchestral and chamber music performer, and has worked extensively with many of the performers and composers in the region.Karin has recorded two CD’s, and last fall she was chosen by the Canadian Music Centre as one of 50 ambassadors to Canadian music. Karin performs regularly with all the orchestras in the region, and is a member of Trio Arkaede and Motion Ensemble. She is the coach for the flute section of the NBYO, and teaches flute in l’Universite de Moncton's music department.

Nhat-Viet ("Toto") Phi made history by winning the first prize for piano in 1982 at the Canadian National Music Festival in Toronto, at the precedent-setting age of eleven. He followed in 1983 by a first prize at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra competitions. Nhat-Viet has made numerous broadcasts on Radio-Canada and the CBC, soloed with several Canadian orchestras, and has been praised for his wide-ranging collaborative talents by such renowned artists as Marc Durand, Tom Plaunt, Gwen Beamish, Anton Kuerti, Paul Pulford, Rosemarie Landry, Stephen Hatfield, Wayne Riddell and David Ferguson. Currently, Mr. Phi is official accompanist and an instructor at l’Université de Moncton's music department.

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Celtic Flute Workshop with

Chris Norman

Sat. Nov. 14, 2009
1:00pm - 3:00pm

At the home of Cathy Coates
6163 Charles St, near Windsor
Halifax , Nova S cotia

Come gather in home-style comfort and let the energy and flair of Scottish, Irish and Canadian traditional music rub off on you. This workshop will be geared towards intermediate level players, but all are welcome, including players of the modern Boehm flute. The cost is $25. There is also the opportunity to schedule private lessons that day with Chris, which cost $50.

For more information and advance registration, contact Jennifer: jenpublicover@eastlink.ca
or call (902) 463-6394

A bit about Chris:

Born in Halifax, NS into a music loving family, Chris' influential work as a performer, composer, recording artist and teacher has done much to bring the simple wooden flute to the forefront as an alternative voice to the modern orchestral instrument and redefined the flute in traditional Canadian & Scottish traditional music. His busy performing schedule includes solo engagements and concerts with a variety of ensembles, appearing frequently as soloist with orchestra and touring with his own Chris Norman Ensemble. In years past Chris has also appeared worldwide as a member of the international folk trio, Helicon, the all-star Celtic fusion group, Skyedance, the acclaimed early music group, The Baltimore Consort and across Europe with Concerto Caledonia.

Normans flute playing can be heard featured on the Oscar winning soundtrack of Titanic, the Hollywood films, Soldier, and the forthcoming Stone of Destiny. His solo CD releases have received unanimous praise from critics and audiences alike and appeared on Billboard ' s crossover charts. He's presently producing and hosting a program on connections between food & music for Inside the Music broadcast nationally on CBC Radio One in Canada and worldwide on Sirius. Through his work as founder and artistic director of the Boxwood Festivals and Workshops taking place in Canada, New Zealand & Europe, Chris has inspired thousands of musicians of all ages abilities.

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Music at Three Churches is presenting another great season of Friday night concerts this summer, including the following flute and harp concert:

August 7 - Nova Brilliante - Patricia Creighton, Flute and Karen Rokos, Harp

All concerts are held at the three churches in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia (St. James Anglican, St. John's Lutheran, Trinity United) and all begin at 8:00 p.m. Refreshments are served outside on the lawn during intermission. All tickets to the performances are $15 and free for children 12 and under. Tickets may be purchased at the door of the church on the night of the performance or in advance at Kinburn PharmaSave ( Mahone Bay ), Fulton's Pharmacy (Lunenburg) or Sagor's Books ( Bridgewater ). To reserve tickets, please call (902) 531-2248 or email threechurches@hotmail.com. Visit the website for more information at www.threechurches.com.

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Musique Royale and Boxwood:

Concerts from the summer schedule

which include flute performances

http://www.musiqueroyale.com/events.html

Boxwood Festival and Workshop Week

Boxwood has established a worldwide presence celebrating and sharing musical traditions. Founded by flutist Chris Norman, Boxwood Week invites a multicultural and multidisciplinary dialogue between performers, teachers, scholars, students, and instrument makers. Participants join with members of the local community for music, concerts, dances, classes, and informal sessions creating a tightly woven bond for an experience to be treasured. Programs for adults and children.

July 19 – 25 at St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg
Sunday July 19, 7:30pm – Tempest Baroque Ensemble
David Greenberg leads Maritime Canada's premiere baroque string ensemble in an exciting program that explores the rich vein of Venetian music in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Tuesday, July 21, 7:30 pm – From Old to New
This concert spans 500 years of music with performances by Canad a's great recorder virtuoso Francis Colpron, baroque dancers Anne-Marie Gardette & Pierre Chartrand, tenor Edmund Brownless and the renowned composer & flutist Robert Dick with pianist Ursel Schlicht.

Wednesday July 22, 7:30 pm – Ceili Dance in St. John’s Parish Hall
Bring your dancing shoes for a rollicking ceili dance in one of Canad a's most historic venues called by the extraordinary dancer Pierre Chartrand. Likely one of the best dances in Nova Scotia all year! - with a special exhibition of Irish step dance by Halifa x's Scaip Na Cleiti Dancers.

Friday July 24, 7:30 pm – Boxwood Finale concert
Boxwood's remarkable finale concert has become an eagerly anticipated annual event in Lunenburg.

Saturday July 25, 6 pm – Burns supper – TBA
To finish up the Boxwood week in style and to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in 1759, Boxwood and Musique Royale are pleased to present a traditional Burns Supper interlaced with music, poetry, song and traditional Scottish fare.

Best of Boxwood 2009

Traditional Irish & Scottish music of the 18th & 19th centuries featuring a stellar list of Boxwood artists: Conal O ' Grada - Irish flute; Jerry O ' Sullivan - Uillean & Scottish pipes; Eamon O ' Leary – guitar, banjo & voice; Chris Norman - early flutes, small pipes:

Sunday July 26 at 7:30 pm – Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax

Monday July 27 at 7 pm – Ottawa House Museum , Parrsboro

Tuesday, July 28 at 7 pm – St. Stephen’s United Church, Port Hood

Wednesday July 29 at 7:30 pm – Merigomish United Church, Merigomish

Ensemble Polaris

Experiencing music from our northern musical heritage in a presentation called ‘Not Much is Worse than a Troll’

Marco Cera (guitar), Kirk Elliott (violin, harp, bagpipes, psaltery, accordion, etc.), Margaret Gay (cello), Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy, jaw harp), Katherine Hill (voice, nyckelharpa), Alison Melville (flutes, recorders, seljefløyte), Colin Savage (clarinet, bass clarinet, recorders), and Debashis Sinha (percussion).

Ensemble Polaris, formed in 1997, plays innovative, category-defying versions of tunes from Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, Canada and other northern climes. With influences ranging from Balkan to klezmer and Baroque to the Hot Club of Paris, combined with a dazzling range of instrumental colours (nyckelharpa, hurdy gurdy, Norwegian willow flute!!) Polaris concerts feature haunting ballads, rollicking dance tunes, tender lullabies and laments, and nonsense songs that appeal to music lovers of all stripes and ages!

Saturday, August 8 at 7:30 pm – Saint Columba Chapel, AST, Halifax

Monday, August 10 at 7:30 pm - St. Mary the Virgin Church, Bayfield

Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00 pm – Highland Village , Iona

Wednesday, August 12 at 8 pm – Osprey Arts Centre, Shelburne

Thursday, August 13 at 7:30 pm – St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg

Friday, August 14 at 8 pm – Old Holy Trinity Church , Middleton

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Celtic Flute Workshop with

Chris Norman

Sunday, June 14, 2009
1:00pm - 3:00pm

At the home of Cathy Coates
6163 Charles St ., near Windsor St.
Halifax , Nova S cotia

For more information and advance registration, contact Jennifer: jenpublicover@eastlink.ca
or call (902) 463-6394

A bit about Chris:

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The Music Room's last concert program of the season (April 15, 2009) has been changed due to illness of two of the three original performers.

In its place, Patricia Creighton, SNS's long-time principal flutist (on sabbatical this season), will be joined by her husband and pianist Peter Allen to present a delightful program, including works by Bach, Reinecke, Poulenc, Pepin and Bartok. Patty and Peter were nominated for a 2009 ECMA '"Best Classical Album" award for their disc, WIND SONG.

The Music Room is at 6181 Lady Hammond Rd. in Halifax, and the concert begins at 7:00pm. Please join us.

AND if you feel like it, please pass this email on to your list.

Program:

Sonate G moll C. PH. E. Bach (1750-1819)

Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

Sonata "Undine", Op. 167 Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Allegro
Allegretto vivace
Andante tranquillo
Finale, Allegro molto

INTERMISSION

Sonata in One Movement (1947) Claremont Pepin
Piano solo

Sonata pour Flute et Piano (1957) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Allegretto malincolico
Cantilena
Presto giocoso

Suite Paysanne Hongroise Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
(transcription pour flute et piano par Paul Arma)
Chants populaires tristes:
1. Rubato
2. Andante
3. Poco Rubato
4. Andante
Vieilles danses:
1. Allegretto
2. Allegretto
3. L'istesso tempo (quasi trio)
4. Assai moderato
5. Allegro

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Celtic Flute Workshop with

Chris Norman

Sunday, April 19, 2009
12:30pm - 2:30pm

At the home of Jennifer Publicover
60 Old Ferry Rd .
Dartmouth, Nova S cotia

For more information and advance registration, contact Jennifer: jenpublicover@eastlink.ca
or call (902) 463-6394

A bit about Chris:

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Acadia New Music Festival, Shattering the Silence 2009

January 28 - February 1, 2009
Acadia University
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

For more information and a complete listing of events please visit
http://www.shatteringthesilence.ca

Flute specific events this year include:

Acadia Faculty and Friends (Concert 3)
Friday, January 30 @ 8pm
Denton Hall Auditorium

Raga Cha by Derek Charke
for amplified flute quartet
Chenoa Anderson, Derek Charke, Jack Chen & Brenna Harriss

Cassandra’s Dream Song by Brian Ferneyhough
Derek Charke, flute

After the Light by John Luther Adams
Chenoa Anderson, alto flute
John Hansen, piano
Russell Hartenberger, vibraphone

Gala Concert (Concert 5)
Saturday, January 31 @ 8pm
University Hall Auditorium

Post concert reception hosted by the Canadian Music Centre at Denton Hall Auditorium Lobby. CBC is recording this concert for future broadcast

Disturbances of Circadian Rhythm by Derek Charke * World Premiere
Commissioned by Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture and Heritage
flute and computer (Max/MSP)
Chenoa Anderson, flute

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Wyndrock Quintet in Concert

"Something old, Something new - Music to warm heart and soul, too!"

Cole Harbour-Woodside United Church is pleased to present "Something old, Something new - Music to warm heart and soul, too!" featuring the Wyndrock Quintet on Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. The church is located at the corner of Cole Harbour and Bissett Roads in Dartmouth.

The Wyndrock Quintet, an established ensemble based in Halifax, enjoys performing and sharing their love of wind quintet music. This colourful group includes flutist Amanda Mark, oboist Nina Woulff, clarinetist Clement Roy, hornist Michael Chisholm, and bassoonist Kristin Bieber Domm and has a large and diverse repertoire of music ranging from classical to ragtime, jazz, popular, and opera. In this concert, selections will range from the 16th century to 20th century music. The group will be joined by pianist Louise Grinstead for several pieces. This unique concert will also premiere arrangements written especially for the Wyndrock Quintet. For a preview go to www.wyndrock.altpro.net.

Ticket prices are $15.00 and $12.00 for Seniors/Students. To reserve tickets, please call the Cole Harbour-Woodside United Church office at 434-7714. Tickets will also be available at the door.

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BOXWOOD MEDIA - MUSIQUE ROYALE - OCTOBER - 2008

THE PURE DROP AIRS SUNDAY OCTOBER 5 @ 12 NOON ON CBC:
CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, and Sirius Satellite channel 137 will air Chris Norman’s Boxwood Media radio documentary The Pure Drop on Sunday October 5 at 12 noon as part of the Inside the Music series. The hour-long program takes listeners on a journey to Ireland , Brittany and Scotland to discover what lies behind the strong connection between music & drink in the Celtic culture. Listen on-line at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/.

BOXWOOD NEW ZEALAND - JANUARY 22-28, 2009 - ROTORUA, NZ Registration is under way for Boxwood’s bi-annual gathering on the sunny, pristine shores of Lake Tarawera just outside Rotorua, NZ. Baroque flute pioneer Stephen Preston, Cape Breton fiddler David Greenberg, Mark Dannenbring, Bernard Wells, Donald Nicholson and chefs Mick & Judy Horner join Chris Norman for a week of classes, sessions, dances, concerts and fine food. Registration info is available at http://www.boxwood.org.

BOXWOOD CANADA - JULY 19-26, 2009 - LUNENBURG , NS , CANADA Mark your calendars for Boxwood Canada 2009 presented by Musique Royale and the St. Johns Arts Alliance taking place July 19-26 in Lunenburg Nova Scotia . A fabulous roster of guest artists will be announced in late 2008. Plan to join us to continue our celebration and discovery of musical and dance traditions.

UPCOMING CONCERTS:

10/03/08 - SCOTLAND , Chris Norman w/Concerto Caledonia, Mugdock County Park

10/04/08 - SCOTLAND , Chris Norman w/Concerto Caledonia, Marryat Hall, Dundee

10/25/08 - Kitty Hawk , NC , Chris Norman Ensemble, Pig Stein 2008, 5PM

10/26/08 - Manteo , NC , Chris Norman Ensemble, Roanoke Island Festival Park , 4PM

11/14/08 - Antigonish, NS, Chris Norman & David Greenberg duo, St, FX University, 7:30PM

11/22/08 - Herndon , VA , Chris Norman & Andy Thurston duo, Herndon Industrial Arts Theater 8PM

12/04/08 - Barron , WI , Chris Norman & David Greenberg duo, Barron Arts Ctr

12/6&7/08 - Stevens Point , WI , CWSO with Chris Norman & David Greenberg duo

12/20/08 - Baltimore , MD , Helicon Winter Solstice Concert, Goucher College

12/27/08 - Saranac Lake , NY , dance with CNE and caller Gene Murrow, Hill & Hollow Music

12/28/08 - Saranac Lake , NY , CNE w/guest Suzie LeBlanc, Hill & Hollow Music

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT US AT WWW.BOXWOOD.ORG or WWW.MUSIQUEROYALE.CO

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Saint Patrick’s Church Restoration Society

Saint Patrick’s Church, 2267 Brunswick Street, Halifax

presents

AN EVENING OF

“Solo Piano” & “Flute and Piano”

December 12, 2008, 7:30 pm

featuring PETER ALLEN performing on

OUR NEW YAMAHA GRAND PIANO!

joined in the second half by flutist

PATRICIA CREIGHTON

Tickets: $25.00 per person (non refundable)

or $50 for the whole December series of events!

CONTACT: 902-429-4170 or www.givesaintpatrickahand.com

Peter Allen has continually delighted audiences with his artistry, versatility and mastery with music-making. As a concert pianist, he is often heard on CBC regional and national radio and is well known to audiences in the Maritimes and throughout Canada for his captivating interpretations. With two solo CD's to his credit, Peter’s third disc is soon to be released, featuring Brahms Handel Variations and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Peter is Professor of Piano at Dalhousie University's Department of Music, a post he has held since 2005. Also an active composer, he had the honour of being the only music composition finalist for the 2006 N.S. Lieutenant Governor's Masterworks Award for his orchestral work "Variations on the Halifax Explosion".

Peter is also a highly respected composer, teacher, and budding conductor.

He has fulfilled many commissions, the most recent by CBC for a piano concerto called "Hurricane Juan", world-premiered by Symphony Nova Scotia on their season’s opening concert with Peter as soloist on September 25th and 28th, 2008 in Halifax, and again for St. Cecilia Concert Series in Lunenburg, NS. on October 3rd, 2008. The world premiere was broadcast on CBC Radio 2’s Sunday Afternoon in Concert nationally on September 28, 2008, the actual day of the 5th anniversary of the storm.

Peter is an Associate Professor of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC), a member of SOCAN and a member of The Living Composers Project.

Patricia Creighton is currently Principal Flutist with Symphony Nova Scotia, a position she has held since it’s inception in 1984. Her extensive repertoire spans from baroque to modern in solo, concerto, chamber and orchestral literature. She has performed with many illustrious musicians from around the country and has performed across Canada, in the U.S., Germany, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Mexico. She is well known to audiences around the Maritimes. Aside from a busy performing schedule and being young at heart, Patty shares her love of music by teaching as a flute instructor at Dalhousie University's Department of Music and Acadia University’s School of Music. She performs on an old Verne Powell flute with a Wimberly headjoint.

She has been an Artist in Residence several times at the Banff Centre and received a BMUS from University of Toronto. Search www.cdbaby.com to buy her CD’s.

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