{"id":53437,"date":"2018-09-26T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53437"},"modified":"2018-09-26T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:18:13","slug":"rbc-foundation-musicnoon-recital-series-returns-for-another-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/09\/rbc-foundation-musicnoon-recital-series-returns-for-another-season\/","title":{"rendered":"RBC Foundation Music@Noon recital series returns for another season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The popular RBC Foundation Music@Noon series is returning this fall with another stellar lineup of free recitals in downtown St. Catharines, beginning Oct 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation, and hosted by the Department of Music, the series features noon-hour performances by faculty, guests and music students that take place at the Cairns Recital Hall of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre most Tuesdays throughout the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2018-19 season will open with a performance by Brock\u2019s own flute instructor, Patricia Dydnansky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently performing with the Niagara Symphony Orchestra as the Second Flute and Piccolo, Dydnansky has also performed with the Shaw Festival Orchestra, the Stratford Festival Orchestra and the Hamilton Philharmonic. A veteran performer in the Music@Noon series, Dydnansky said patrons can look forward to hearing repertoire from around the world in her recital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis program includes music by composers inspired by the Native American flute and Japanese shakuhachi, a set of Celtic tunes on my new Windward Irish flute, and a delightful set of short dances for piccolo inspired by British folk songs,\u201d Dydnansky said. \u201cIbert&#8217;s gorgeous <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pi\u00e8ce pour Fl\u00fbte Seule<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is on the bill, as well as pieces by the Baroque composers Telemann and Marais, both displaying the ability of a solo instrument to play polyphonically.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The series will continue with performances by Music faculty members Gordon Cleland, Zoltan Kalman, Tim Phelan, Karin Di Bella and Devon Fornelli, and conclude with student performances at the end of each semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music Chair Matthew Royal said this allows students studying at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) to watch their instructors perform on stage before having the opportunity to perform in a professional environment themselves later on in the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are so grateful for our generous sponsors, the RBC Foundation, that allow us to host these concerts every year,\u201d he said. \u201cThey provide a great opportunity for students to learn all that\u2019s involved in performing in a professional-level recital, and for our talented faculty and students to showcase the hard work they have put into their performances with the local community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A line-up of talented guest performances will also round out the programming this year, including Maltese-Canadian flutist Rebecca Hall, who will perform with Brock pianist Karin Di Bella on Jan. 8. \u00a0The performers first connected over their shared interest in the work of Jack Behrens, a Canadian composer, and will be continuing to work together after their early 2019 show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Jan. 29, percussionist Devon Fornelli will perform with pianist John Sherwood. Fornelli, a percussion instructor at Brock, has a wide range of experience performing as a soloist, an orchestral percussionist and as a chamber instrumentalist, and Sherwood, the piano tuner at Brock, is listed as being among the top jazz pianists in Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Royal encourages both students and those from around the community to come and experience the talented musicians that Brock University has to offer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Music@Noon Recital series is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation and will run most Tuesdays at noon throughout the academic year. The concerts are performed in the Cairns Recital Hall at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. This is a free event that is open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more details about future performances, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/miwsfpa\/music\/concerts\/\">brocku.ca\/miwsfpa\/music\/concerts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2018-19 RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 2: Patricia Dydnansky (flute)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 16: Gordon Cleland (cello)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 23: Zoltan Kalman (clarinet) and Gary Forbes (piano)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 30: Piano, vocal and instrument students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 6: Tim Phelan (guitar)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 20: Voice, guitar and piano students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 27: Instrumental students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 4: Piano students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan. 8: Rebecca Hall (flute) and Karin Di Bella (piano)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan. 29: Devon Fornelli (percussion) and John Sherwood (piano)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 5: Voice, guitar and piano students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 12: Instrumental students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 26: Karin Di Bella (piano)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 5: Walker String Quartet: Vera Alekseeva and Anna Hughes (violins), Faith Lau (viola) and Gordon Cleland (cello)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 12: Piano students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 19: Instrumental students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 26: Voice, guitar and piano students<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 2: Piano students<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular RBC Foundation Music@Noon series is returning this fall with another stellar lineup of free recitals in downtown St. Catharines, beginning Oct 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":53438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,37,1],"tags":[549,6995,3176,46,35,5838,6994,6191,6996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53441,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53437\/revisions\/53441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}