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Founded in 1915, La Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Québec is the oldest choir school of its kind in North America. Each year, some 250 students, aged 6 to 17, follow a comprehensive music curriculum in addition to their regular studies. They perform regularly in professional concerts and every two years a smaller group of young choristers goes on tour, performing in prestigious venues such as Westminster Cathedral, the Sagrada Familia and St. Peter’s Basilica. This year’s tour is to Canada’s West Coast, notably Vancouver and Victoria, and as in other years, organist Marc D’Anjou is their accompanist. They will sing a variety of sacred and secular music, and Marc D’Anjou will also perform works for solo organ.
Accompanied live on the Wurlitzer organ by RCCO Vancouver Centre vice-president and education officer Michael Dirk.
The “well” temperaments of Bach’s day were tuning systems carefully designed to let keyboardists play in every key without re-tuning their instruments. Inspired by Bach’s famous Well-Tempered Clavier and Anna Magdalena Bach, Alexander Weimann has assembled a new collection of pieces spanning the whole harmonic spectrum for this special concert as part of Early Music Vancouver’s WOMENinSIGHT festival.
Alexander Weimann was born in Munich, where he studied the organ, church music, musicology (with a summa con laude thesis on Bach’s secco recitatives), theatre, mediæval Latin, and jazz piano. He serves as Music Director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver, Music Director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and regular guest conductor of ensembles including Arion Baroque Orchestra in Montreal and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Watch the link to learn more at https://youtu.be/2QS8Mr5AIAI. The full programme and tickets are available at https://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/events/the-well-tempered-organ/. When purchasing tickets, use the code ORGAN20 to get 20% off.
PROGRAMME
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Pièce d’Orgue in G major, BWV 572
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121
Aria in F major (“after Couperin”), BWV 587
Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649
O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross, BWV 622
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
Toccata and Fugue in E major BWV 566
Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’, BWV 662
Fugue in B minor (“on a Theme of Corelli”), BWV 579
Vater unser in Himmelreich, BWV 682
Praeludium in A minor, BWV 569
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Fugue in G major, BWV 577
The brilliant virtuoso violinist Chloe Kim is joined by Christina Mahler, former principal cellist of Tafelmusik, and Christina Hutten, well-known as organist and harpsichordist with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Early Music Vancouver.
The programme for the concert has been curated to highlight the wonderful work that the St James Music Academy does by providing free music education for children on the downtown Eastside, and how that parallels the work that composers would have done and benefitted from themselves in the 17th and 18th centuries :
Alessandro Stradella : Trio Sonata in D Minor
Arcangelo Corelli : Violin Sonata in F Major, Op 5 No 10
Phillip Friedrich Böddecker : Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor
Antonio Vivaldi : Violin Sonata in D Major, RV 10
Marin Marais : Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre : Violin Sonata No 1 in D Minor
Johann Jakob Froberger : Suite in C major, FbWV 612
Dieterich Buxtehude : Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160
Johann Sebastian Bach : Continuo Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021
More info: https://www.sjmusic.ca/events/triptych/2023-08-12
The brilliant virtuoso violinist Chloe Kim is joined by Christina Mahler, former principal cellist of Tafelmusik, and Christina Hutten, well-known as organist and harpsichordist with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Early Music Vancouver.
The programme for the concert has been curated to highlight the wonderful work that the St James Music Academy does by providing free music education for children on the downtown Eastside, and how that parallels the work that composers would have done and benefitted from themselves in the 17th and 18th centuries :
Alessandro Stradella : Trio Sonata in D Minor
Arcangelo Corelli : Violin Sonata in F Major, Op 5 No 10
Phillip Friedrich Böddecker : Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor
Antonio Vivaldi : Violin Sonata in D Major, RV 10
Marin Marais : Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre : Violin Sonata No 1 in D Minor
Johann Jakob Froberger : Suite in C major, FbWV 612
Dieterich Buxtehude : Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160
Johann Sebastian Bach : Continuo Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021
More info: https://www.sjmusic.ca/events/triptych/2023-08-12
If you happen to be in the Knight Street and 18th Avenue East area, St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church / Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Markusgemeinde is once again organizing a live organ recital.
Angelique Po will give a recital featuring works written by Bach, Bruhns, Couperin, Guilain, Vaughan Williams, and more.
Music by Bach, Chopin, Lefébure-Wély, and Vierne.
The renowned Polish concert organist Michał Szostak performs on St James’ majestic three-manual Casavant organ.
Michał has performed in European countries such as Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Ukraine as well as in the UK, Brasil, Chile, and the USA.
The concert at St James’ will include music by Bach, Chopin, Lefébure-Wély, and Vierne — as well as an improvisation on a theme provided by the audience.
Admission is by donation, and the event is followed by a reception. Please confirm your attendance for planning purposes. Confirm your attendance
Michał Szostak is a graduate of the Józef Elsner Public School of Music in Warsaw where he specialised in organ performance as well as organ improvisation. He took part in organ master classes with Louis Robilliard, Daniel Roth, Jean-Claude Zehnder and others, and organ improvisation sessions with Frédéric Blanc, Samuel Liégeon, and Sietze de Vries. Michał the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
He was organist at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Warsaw for many years, as well music director and the principal organist at the Sanctuary of the Virgin Mary in Lichen Stary, where he played the largest organ in Poland, and he currently teaches at Collegium Civitas and University of Social Sciences in Warsaw.
Michał has recorded several CDs and he has an active international concert schedule, presenting recitals Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.
Refreshments served following the concert.
Contact: maranathaorgan@gmail.com
No reservations, no tickets – just come and be welcomed!
Canadian concert organist Aaron Tan is the first organist to have won all three major North American organ competitions, winning First Prizes at the American Guild of Organists 2018 National Young Artist Competition in Organ Performance, the RCCO’s National Organ Playing Competition, and the 2021 Canadian International Organ Competition. In partnership with the Canadian International Organ Competition, Aaron will be making his Vancouver debut at St. Andrew’s-Wesley on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 7:00 pm. Come hear this spectacular young organist play at one of the largest organs in our city!
More info about Aaron Tan here and see below.
Concert programme: “Voices from the Past and Present”
Fernando Germani – Toccata, op. 12
Judith Weir – Wild Mossy Mountains
Georg Böhm – Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele
Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Ave Maria, from Cathedral Windows, Op. 106
Dieterich Buxtehude – Praeludium in E, BuxWV142
Jeanne Demessieux – Lumière, from 7 Méditations sur le Saint Esprit, Op. 6
Henri Duparc (trans. Tan) – Aux étoiles
Louis Vierne – Final, from Symphonie No. 5
Aaron Tan is a Canadian organist, engineer, and pianist. He has won numerous noteworthy contests and scholarships on both instruments including First Prize at the 2021 Canadian International Organ Competition as well as First Prize and Audience Prize at the prestigious AGO National Young Artists (NYACOP) competition in 2018. Other competition prizes and awards include the Toronto RCCO Young Organists Competition, the Osborne Organ Competition of the Summer Institute of Church Music (Ontario), the RCCO’s National Organ Playing Competition, the Charlotte Hoyt Bagnall Scholarship for Church Musicians, the Lilian Forsyth Scholarship, the West Chester University Organ Competition, the Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition, the Sursa American Organ Competition, and the XVI Poland International Piano Festival Competition. His primary musical tutelage has been with John Tuttle, David Palmer and Joel Hastings.
Mr. Tan studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York and has served as Organ Scholar at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Detroit, Michigan, Artist in Residence at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, Assistant Organist at Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Organ Scholar at the Church of the Resurrection, New York City. He is currently Director of Music at St. Alban’s Catholic Church in Rochester, New York.
Aaron also holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Michigan and worked there as a postdoctoral researcher after earning his degree, studying polymer thin films.
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