BRANDON – A return engagement by the Cecilia String Quartet will also be the final Pro Series appearance for the ensemble.
On Tuesday, Oct. 24, the group returns to the Lorne Watson Recital Hall stage with a programme that includes a favourite standard of the quartet repertoire – Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3 – as well as one of the works on the group’s JUNO-nominated recording – Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 44 No.1.
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BRANDON – Few Prairie music lovers know that they live amid a rich repertoire of songs from medieval France, from Parisian dance halls, from Quebec, and some created right here in the Northwest Territories.
On October 29, 2017, you will have opportunity to hear Ray St. Germain, Brandon University students, Garry Lepine, Conlin Delbaere-Sawchuk (of Métis Fiddler Quartet), and Indigenous drummer Debbie Huntinghawk join their musical talents to recreate the songs—a musical experiment.
BRANDON, MB – With “I do so promise”, Dr. Gervan Albert Fearon was installed as the 15th President of Brandon University (BU) before a crowd including students, staff, provincial and federal politicians, Aboriginal leaders, and academics and University administrators from across Canada.
Cloaked in the grey and blue robes of office, President and Vice Chancellor Fearon thanked the audience for the opportunity to serve and to lead, noting, “We are all here with the sense of a brighter future for the University, and that spirit binds us.”
University Chancellor Michael Decter introduced Dr. Fearon as someone “who can move people in the direction of positive and constructive change”, a theme repeated by the province’s Minister of Education and Advanced Learning.
BRANDON, MB – More performances and more venues mean more opportunity to enjoy outstanding music at this year’s Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival, an annual celebration held on the August long weekend featuring internationally-accomplished musicians from Brandon University (BU).
“We will be presenting the widest range of programming ever, since the Festival began in 2006,” says pianist Alexander Tselyakov, BU School of Music professor and Festival artistic director.
BRANDON, MB – Many of Brandon’s musical elite will be performing in the always anticipated and well-received Faculty Concert, the first event in the 2014 pro series presented by the Brandon University’s School of Music, at 8 pm on Tuesday, January 14, in the University’s Lorne Watson Recital Hall.
Dr. Michael Kim, School of Music
“This concert will present a wonderful showcase of our faculty’s talents, featuring dedicated teachers and seasoned, renowned performers,” says Dr. Michael Kim, the pro series’ artistic director and the Dean of Music at Brandon University.
BRANDON, MB – To mark the beginning of its 15th season, the Brandon University School of Music’s pro series welcomes the Fine Arts Quartet on October 6, in the Lorne Watson Recital Hall. Based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and lauded in the Washington Post as “one of the gold-plated names in chamber music”, this group has evolved and changed personnel over its six decades of existence, all the while entertaining audiences around the globe.
BRANDON, MB –The Brandon University School of Music’s pro series begins a new season October 6, with a US-based group that the Washington Post calls “one of the gold-plated names in chamber music”.
Dr. Michael Kim, Dean, School Of Music
The Fine Arts Quartet, based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will perform in the Lorne Watson Recital Hall with special guest Dr. Michael Kim, pianist and the Dean of Music at Brandon University, interpreting Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44.
“It is as much my pleasure to present these world-class musicians as it is to perform with them,” says Dr. Kim, who is also artistic director of the pro series.
BRANDON, MB – Exceptional musicians from around the world are returning to Brandon for the week-long Augustfest Homecoming Concert Series, an annual festival featuring performers who were either raised or studied music in southwestern Manitoba.
Lorne Watson Recital Hall
Highlights this year will include baritone Hugh Russell, a native of Rivers MB, who has performed with the Danish Radio Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Naples Philharmonic; pianist Sergei Saratovsky, a Russian-born graduate of Brandon University’s School of Music, who has played to audiences in Canada, Russia Portugal, the US and Australia.
BRANDON, MB – The annual Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival will feature a new location for 2013 but the same outstanding performances that patrons have been enjoying for the past eight years.
Festival artistic director and internationally renowned pianist Alexander Tselyakov will perform Unforgettable Masterpieces, including famous compositions from Mussorgsky, Chopin and others.
BRANDON, MB – Some of western Canada’s finest jazz musicians will gather at Brandon University this weekend to perform and record new music inspired by a classic album.
‘Rebirth of the Cool’ will feature songs by seven Canadian composers, including four who will be in Brandon to take part.