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The Oratorio Singers, directed by Darryl Nixon, are excited to present Franz Joseph Haydn’s beautiful but seldom performed Lord Nelson Mass, also known as “A Mass for Troubled Times” and selected solos and choruses from George Frederic ever-popular Messiah. This concert features soloists Marisa Gaetanne – soprano, Shane Hanson – counter tenor, Carmen J. Price – tenor and Andrew Greenwood – bass. Instrumental accompaniment will be provided by OS415, a specially assembled period orchestra led by Chloe Meyers and includes strings, baroque bassoon, valveless trumpets, timpani and chamber organ.
The concert will begin at 8:00 p.m on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The venue is the wonderful acoustic of St Andrew’s-Wesley Church (Burrard at Nelson). For convenient underground parking with direct elevator access, enter the parking garage from the lane between the church and the Century Plaza Hotel. Translink routes #2, #22 and #44, both northbound and southbound, stop right in front of St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church.
Programme:
D. BEDARD: Three Pieces in Ancient Styles for trumpet and organ (Pavane – Cantabile – Allegro giocoso)
J. S. BACH: Chorale “O Innocent Lamb of God” for organ
G. P. TELEMANN: Two pieces from “Heroic Music” for trumpet and organ (Grazioso – Con delicatezza)
N. BRUHNS: Prelude and Fugue in G minor for organ
H. PURCELL: Sonata in D major for trumpet and organ (Pomposo – Andante maestoso – Allegro ma non troppo)
E. GIGOUT: Marche religieuse for organ
F. PEETERS: Aria for trumpet and organ
D. BÉDARD: Suite de concert for organ
D. BEDARD: Suite breve for trumpet and organ (Aurore – Mignardise – Andante tranquillo – Final)
Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.
Originally from Boston, MA, trumpeter Katherine Evans appears in Vancouver as a soloist at Holy Rosary, St. Andrews-Wesley, and Christ Church. Praised for her “solo work of exceptional quality” by the Boston Globe, Katherine is the principal trumpet of the Newport Symphony Orchestra (OR) and has been the principal trumpet of the Brockton, Hingham, and Concord, (MA) Symphony Orchestras. She has performed as a soloist with the Brockton and Waltham, MA Symphony Orchestras, the Harvard-Radcliffe Bach Society Orchestra and Harvard-Radcliffe Baroque Orchestra, and has been recorded on the Centuar and Albany labels.
As a vocalist, Katherine is a member of musica intima and the St. Andrews-Wesley Vocal Ensemble. She also sang with Phoenix Chamber Choir for three years and served on their Board. In the U.S., Katherine worked extensively as a church vocal soloist and was featured in a recording of the Christ Church Schola of Rochester, NY on Loft Records.
Katherine holds an M.M. in trumpet performance from the Longy School of Music and a B.A. in English and Music from Harvard University. She works for the UBC School of Music.
Denis Bédard, who was born in Quebec City in 1950, first studied music at the Quebec Conservatory of Music, graduating with first class honours in organ, harpsichord, chamber music, counterpoint and fugue. Having received grants from the Canada Council for three years running, he continued his studies in Montreal, Paris, and in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt.
Laureate of the “Prix d’Europe” in 1975, and of the CBC Radio Talent Competition in 1978, Denis Bédard leads a very active career as a recitalist. He has given concerts throughout Canada as well as in the United States, in France and in Brazil, and has recorded frequently for Radio-Canada and the CBC. A professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec from 1981 until 1989 and organ professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 2001 until 2004, Denis Bédard has been organist and music director at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver since 2001.
Denis Bédard has written more than one hundred and fifty works. He has received commissions from Radio-Canada, the CBC, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the Victoria Scholars in Toronto, Holy Rosary Cathedral and the Laudate Singers in Vancouver, Monaco Cathedral and various professional musicians in Canada, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and the U.S.A. Many of his compositions have been performed internationally, and many have been published and recorded on CD.
Programme:
J. S. Bach: Prelude in C Minor BWV 546
Ravel: Pavane
Kittel: Prelude in Eb Major
Mulet: Vitrail
Guilmant: Grand Choeur en Re Majeur
Mushel: Toccata
Balbastre: Romance
Dvorak: Preludio Re Maggiore
Bedard: Dialogue
J. S. Bach Fugue in C Minor BWV 546
The annual Royal Canadian College of Organists, Vancouver Centre, Members’ Recital is coming up on Saturday 28 May at 7pm at St. Mary’s Kerrisale Anglican Church, 2490 West 37th Avenue at Larch Street in Vancouver.
Admission is by donation and there will be a reception and sale of used organ music after the recital in the Parish Hall. The performers are organists Haruyo Abramson, Tamar Genossar, Cindy Leung, Cindy Ma, Gail Ovington, Susan Ohannesian and flautist Laurie Kienlen. They will be playing music by J.S. Bach, Denis Bédard, Michael Blais, Michel Blavet, Henry Coleman, César Franck, Johann Pachelbel, Stephen Smith and Antonio Vivialdi.
Organ Crawl in North and West Vancouver. 10:00a.m. – 3:00p.m. Starting at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (1110 Gladwin Dr, North Vancouver), followed by St. Catherine’s Anglican Church (1058 Ridgewood Dr, North Vancouver), then lunch (details to be determined) in the Dunderave village area (around Marine Drive between 24th and 25th, West Vancouver), and ending at West Vancouver United Church (2062 Esquimalt Ave, West Vancouver). More details to come soon.
Once again, it is time for the Vancouver Centre to gather for our Annual General Meeting. This is where you, our membership, get to help decide what we will do in the coming year. Following the successful pattern we adopted last year, we will meet at a church, this time St. Mary’s Kerrisdale (2490 W 37th Ave) on Sunday August 21st at 3:00p.m.
Pizza and Sushi will be ordered for dinner afterwards, with partial funds covered through the RCCO (as always, bringing a small snack or light dessert item to share is welcome).
For those who missed out on the music sale after the member’s recital, there will be an opportunity to buy some quality music at very low prices.
Member-at-Large Michael Dirk will offer sailing before and after (from ~12:00p.m.-2:30p.m. and ~6:00p.m.-8:30p.m.) for those who want to spend some time on the water. Seats are limited, so confirm with him which times you are available, if interested (mjdirk@hotmail.com).
We hope to see many of you there,
Your Vancouver RCCO Executive.
A unique musical experience
The viscount Digital Organ and the Casavant Freres Pipe Organ in concert, with organists Nicholas Fairbank, Michael Murray, Suzanne Gibson Coulthard, and PJ Janson.
GF Handel : Ouverture (Fireworks)
Hendrik Andriessen : Sonata da Chiesa
Giovanni Lucchinetti : Concerto a due Organi
Marcel Dupré : Cortège et Litanie
Joseph Jongen : Prière & Scherzetto, Op. 108
William Albright : Sweet sixteenths
PDQ Bach : Toot Suite
Louis Lefébure-Wély : Sortie
Enrico Bossi : Scherzo in G minor Op. 49 No. 2
Eugène Gigout : Grand chœur dialogué
Johann Kaspar Kerll : Canzona
John Bull : Rondo
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2 Trumpets (actually, many trumpets!) and Organ (and piano!)
Trumpeters Katherine Evans and Christopher Robertson present duos and solos with Darryl Nixon, organist, at St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church, Vancouver. Old favourites and surprises, including a world premiere: Handel, Copland, Elgar, Purcell, Clarke, Monroe, Perkins.
Holy Rosary Cathedral organist Denis Bedard will be joined by organist Rachel Alflatt in a programme of duets, solos and transcriptions by Haydn, Schubert, Franck, Bedard and others, including the monumental Sonata for organ duet by German Romantic composer Gustav Merkel. This performance will be projected on a giant screen at the front of the church.
Laureate of the CBC Radio Talent Competition in 1978, Denis Bedard has given recitals in the Americas and Europe. His compositions are performed and recorded throughout the world and he has received many commissions from professional musicians in North America and Europe and public institutions such as the CBC and the Quebec Symphony Orchestra.
Rachel Alflatt has given concerts throughout the province of Quebec, as well as in Ontario, New Brunswick, and British Columbia. She has also performed with the West Coast Symphony Orchestra and the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra and has recorded for the CBC’s French network, Radio-Canada FM. She is organist and music director at Queen’s Avenue United Church.
Programme:
Charles Callahan: Festival Prelude on “Westminster Abbey” (duet)
Joseph Haydn : Poco adagio; cantabile from “Emperor” String Quartet No. 62 in C major (duet)
Franz Lachner: Introduction and Fugue in D minor, op. 62 (duet)
Franz Schubert: Fugue in E minor, op. 152 (duet)
César Franck: Choral No. 3 in A minor (solo)
Ernest A. Dicks: Thanksgiving Prelude on “Nun Danket” (solo)
Joseph Bonnet: Romance sans paroles from “Douze Pièces”, op. 7 (solo)
Gabriel Pierné: Prelude in G minor, Op. 29 No. 1 from “Trois Pièces” (solo)
Denis Bédard: Variations sur “O Sanctissima” from “Messe pour orgue” (solo)
Gustav Merkel: Sonata in D minor for organ duet, op. 30 (duet)
The Vancouver Bach Choir, under the direction of Les Dala, presents the timeless classic Requiem by Fauré and the ineffable Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen with soloists Kathleen Allan and Geoffrey Schellenberg; Darryl Nixon at the organ.