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Angelique Po is a pianist, harpsichordist, organist and composer living and working in Vancouver, BC. Her versatility and broad range of interests in music style have led her into collaborations with a number of local ensembles and soloists. Her recent projects including playing the piano in a rare performance of Galina Ustvolskaya’s Grand Duet with cellist Laine Longton, and TomoeArts’ production of Farshid Samandari’s new chamber opera Kayoi Komachi. As a composer, she has written for various small ensembles, including the Piano and Erhu Project (PEP) with Corey Hamm and Nicole Li. She studied piano at the University of British Columbia under Dr. Sara Buechner.

She also studied harpsichord with Doreen Oke, organ with Michael Murray, and composition with Dr. Dorothy Chang, Dr. Stephen Chatman, and Bradshaw Pack. She is currently a board member with Vancouver Pro Musica, an organization dedicated to promoting and performing new music created by BC composers.

Praised for her “solo work of exceptional quality” by the Boston Globe, Katherine Evans is in her second season as principal trumpet of the Newport Symphony in Newport, OR. She has held principal trumpet positions and appeared as a soloist with several regional symphonies around Boston, MA. In Vancouver, Ms. Evans can be heard primarily as a soloist and freelancer, and has been featured on the St. Andrews Sacred Music Series and on the Holy Rosary Recital Series. She is recorded on the Centuar and Albany labels.

She is also a vocalist and currently sings with musica intima and the St. Andrews-Wesley Vocal Ensemble. She has worked extensively as a church vocal soloist and was featured in a Mendelssohn recording with 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.

Organist David Poon in concert.

Bach – Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
Gibbons – Fantasia
Vierne – extracts from 24 Pièces en style libre, Op. 31
Messiaen – extracts from L’Ascension(1934)
Duruflé – Méditation (1964)
Cornelius-Bates – Lenten Improvisations
Improvisation

Performers: Haruyo Abramson, Michael Blais, Joan Chard, Cindy Ma, Gail Ovington, Alex and Max Schmidt

Music by J S Bach, Denis Bedard, Dietrich Buxtehude, Sidney Campbell, T Mee Patterson and Eugene Gigout

Reception following the concert, in the parish hall.

Works by American, Belgian, French and German Romantic composers, as well as Bédard and Hielscher. Organist of the Marktkirche and the Kurhaus concert hall in Wiesbaden, Hans Uwe Hielscher has given more than 3500 recitals from Australia to Iceland, in Asia, South Africa, Israel, and throughout Europe and North America, and has recorded 26 CDs on various labels. His very attractive compositions are published internationally, and in 1985 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.

Programme:

Denis Bédard: Suite du deuxième ton
Joseph Jongen: Pastorale in A major
Josef Rheinberger: Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op 98
Alexandre Guilmant: Offertory on “O filii et filiae” Op 188
Charles Callahan: Easter Meditation
Hans Uwe Hielscher: Suite concertante (Prélude – Elegie – Valse – Méditation – Toccata)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Uwe_Hielscher

http://hielscher-music.de/content/cms/front_content.php (in German)

Requiem Mass by Saint-Saëns (version for choir, organ, and chamber orchestra), and other French works by Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, Lauridson, and Duruflé.

Duruflé Requiem, works by Stanford, Vaughan-Williams, Mendelssohn

Guest organist: David Enlow

Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra

PROGRAM

To all RCCO Members, it is almost time to have our next Annual General Meeting.

This year, we will be having it at St. John’s Shaughnessy, located on Granville at Nanton (near King Edward) on June 10th, at 3:00p.m.

We also have console time and sailing opportunities to look forward to before and after the meeting.

The sailing trips will be offered as usual on board “Bachus”, and for those interested in sailing before or after, do RSVP to Mr. Dirk to ensure we know who to expect and can accommodate everyone (at mjdirk@hotmail.com).
The pre-meeting option will commence at noon from the Burrard Marina (near Bard-on-the-Beach and Vanier Park).
The post-meeting option will be launching at 5:30p.m. from the same location.

The console time on St. John’s Shaughnessy’s four-manual Hallmann will take place from 2:30p.m.-3:00p.m. It was the GVRD’s largest organ from 1967-2004, and in February, Rene Marceau of Seattle re-voiced two ranks in the Gallery with tremendous results.
As the church is planning on an interior revitalization project (especially since the organ will be celebrating 50 years next October), input from local organists will be welcome.
Some extra console time for those still interested will be available (time permitting) after the meeting, around 4:30p.m.-5:00p.m.

Parking is available next to the church, and light refreshments will be offered during the meeting and afterwards.
We hope to see many of you there,

Michael Molnar
President: RCCO Vancouver Centre

Music from Then to Now

 From Bach, Sweelinck, Martin, Paradies, Brahms and to our Vancouver composer, Denis Bedard.

Gail Ovington has a Bachelor of Music and a Diploma in Music Education as well as an ARCT from the Royal Conservatory. She obtained her professional development year with Simon Fraser University and completed all Carl Orff levels of music from Seattle Pacific University. She has taught piano, theory, music education, has been organist and choir director in Anglican, Presbyterian and United Churches, and taught school music classes in Orff and band for a total of 36 years.

After returning to Kamloops, Gail continues to be very active in church service playing and as an accompanist and performer. For the last three years, she has been following her passion in serious pipe organ study with Rachel Afflat in Vancouver. Recently, she has performed in pipe organ recitals and masterclasses in Vancouver and at the University of Calgary. Gail is a Vancouver member of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Director of Benefit Concerts for Kamloops and is on the Board of the Thompson Valley Orchestra.

Carmen Ranta, saxophonist, will join Gail in music by Piazzolla, Brahms and Bedard.

Donald Hunt, Organ | St James’ Anglican Church, 303 East Cordova, Vancouver | Friday, September 29th, 2017, 7.30 pm

Donald Hunt grew up in Halifax and received his musical education in Montréal, where he studied organ with John Grew and Jonathan Oldengarm, among others. In addition, he was Organ Scholar and Assistant to Patrick Wedd at Christ Church Cathedral. He holds a Master’s degree in Music from McGill University, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

Donald has lived and worked in the UK since 2009. He was Organ Scholar at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and for the past five years he has been Assistant Organist at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, as well as College Organist at Fettes College – both in Edinburgh

Just two months ago, Donald Hunt assumed the position of Director of Music of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, BC.  His appointment is the culmination of an extensive international search that took place over ten months.  Over fifty impressive applications were received from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

At his inaugural recital on the West Coast, Donald Hunt will play works by JS Bach, Marcel Dupré, Olivier Messiaen, and others, on St James’ mighty Casavant Organ, first installed in 1938.

 Tickets are available online : https://sjmsdonaldhunt.eventbrite.ca