RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series
Recital: Instrumental students
When: March 25, 2014 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University
Cost: $0.00
Our lunchtime recital series is free and open to the public, featuring our performance faculty, talented students and alumni, as well as special guests.
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Free community event!
RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series
Recital: Voice students
When: March 18, 2014 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University
Cost: $0.00
Our lunchtime recital series is free and open to the public, featuring our performance faculty, talented students and alumni, as well as special guests.
Click here for the event poster.
Free community event!
RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series
Recital: Piano students
When: March 11, 2014 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University
Cost: $0.00
Our lunchtime recital series is free and open to the public, featuring our performance faculty, talented students and alumni, as well as special guests.
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Free community event!
Public Performance: The Fugue, 7:30 pm, Sean O’Sullivan Theatre
When: March 28, 2014, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Tickets: Free to MIWSFPA students; adults $15.04; seniors and students $10; eyeGo high school program $5. Available at the Centre for the Arts Box Office: 905.688.5550 x3257 or visit: Arts.BrockU.ca (Prices do not include HST)
Contact: Prof. Matthew Royal, Music, mroyal@brocku.ca
Ensemble Vivant have recorded for such labels as Fanfare, Pro Arte, Doremi, SPY and Opening Day/Universal and Opening Day Entertainment Group, and their recordings are heard on classical radio around the world.
Ensemble Vivant, under the direction of Catherine Wilson, will present a concert with commentary on The Fugue, as well as give a masterclass on small ensemble playing for Brock music students.
Ensemble Vivant consists of pianist, founder and artistic director, Catherine Wilson, as well as Sybil Shanahan (cello), Don Thompson (acoustic bass, vibraphone), Erica Beston (violin) and Norman Hathaway (violin, viola). Championing a unique genre-diverse repertoire in their concerts and recordings since the group first came on the scene in the late 1980s, Ensemble Vivant has received critical acclaim for its work in the classical piano-trio literature, as well as for its forays into the worlds of ragtime, jazz and tango. Hailed as “Canada’s Chamber Music treasure.” – Toronto Star
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RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series
Recital: Instrumental students
When: March 4, 2014 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University
Cost: $0.00
Our lunchtime recital series is free and open to the public, featuring our performance faculty, talented students and alumni, as well as special guests.
Click here for the event poster.
Free community event!
The Viva Voce Choral Series includes Brock’s student choral ensembles (men’s and women’s choruses) as well as the Avanti Chamber Singers, a mixed ensemble including several Brock staff and Music alumni. Under the direction of conductor Harris Loewen, the ensembles perform multiple concerts throughout the academic year, and engage in community outreach, collaborative work with other Ontario choirs and special recording projects.
Britten: Gloriana Dances
Thompson: Frostiana
Tremain: Shakespeare Songs
When: April 27, 2013 – 7:30pm
Tickets: Adults $20, seniors and students $15; $5 for children 13 and under, and the eyeGo ticket program for high school students. Available at the door; Ryson’s Music (downtown St. Catharines); or Niko Music Gallery (Ridley Square, St. Catharines).
Location: St. Barnabas Anglican Church 31 Queenston Street, St. Catharines
Cost: $20.00
The University Wind Ensemble enjoys a rich heritage of musical excellence, bringing together both university and high school students as well as members of the Niagara musical community to explore and perform major symphonic wind band works, both original and transcribed. Talented brass, woodwind, and percussion performers engage with their peers and conductor while pursing their passion and enjoyment of music through creative expression.
Performance highlights:
Modeste Moussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Robert Russel Bennett: Suite of Old American Dances
Samuel R. Hazo: Exultate
Robert Sheldon: Iberian Escapades
Cluade-Michel Schonberg: Les Miserables
When: April 2, 2013 – 7:30pm
Tickets: $5 General Admission. Available from the Centre for the Arts Box Office, 905-688-5550 ext. 3257, or from theDepartment of Music
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines.
Cost: $5.00
Così fan tutte is a delightful 18th century Mozartian opera that tells a tale of jealousy, trickery, and mischief, performed by the country’s finest emerging artists!
Tickets: $28.50 adults; $22.50 seniors/students; $5 eyeGo high school program. Available from the Centre for the Arts Box Office: 905 688 5550 x3257
When: March 28, 2013 – 7:30pm
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St Catharines.
Cost: $28.50
Award-winning trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder teams up with JUNO-winning pianist and composer Hilario Durán and a crew of Canada’s top jazz and world musicians to present an evening of dynamic Jewish-Cuban fusion.
“…a high-powered collision of two musical cultures [that] sounds natural, organic [and] brilliant.” – AllAboutJazz.com
“…[Odessa/Havana] is a genuine hybrid, strongly flavoured by Russian-Jewish modality and Afro-Cuban rhythms, but with those strands so strongly intertwined (and grounded in Spanish/Moorish music) as to seem inextricable…[the compositions are] delicately textured and dazzlingly tuneful, but it’s the powerful, swinging and lyrical playing that ultimately sells the project.” – J.D. Cosidine, Globe & Mail
When: March 1, 2013 – 7:30pm
Tickets: $28.50 adults; $22.50 seniors/students; $5 eyeGo high school program. Available from the Centre for the Arts Box Office: 905 688 5550 x3257
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St Catharines.
Cost: $28.50
(Source: The Brock News, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 | by Tiffany Mayer)
The University’s wind ensemble and jazz band will perform a dizzying array of music when they perform next week.
Called Dizzy Fingers: an evening of musical fireworks from Shostakovich to Hindemith, the evening of music explores the ensemble’s repertoire and includes a debut performance by the Brockbusters, Brock’s jazz band. Both ensembles perform under the baton of conductor Zoltan Kalman.
Dizzy Fingers will feature masterworks of the past and present, including Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, Paul Hindemith’s Wind Symphony in B-Flat, The Year of the Dragon by Philip Sparke and Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concertino, among many others.
The wind ensemble, part of the Department of Music, showcases the talents of 60 musicians from the Brock community, local high schools, and professional musicians from Niagara and Hamilton.
Brock’s jazz ensemble, the Brockbusters, is an extra-curricular club made up of 20 members, forming a standard stage band setting. The mission of the Jazz Band is to provide a venue to jazz lovers in the community.
The performance happens Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Centre for the Arts box office or the door.