Ryerson’s Music Section and Arts and Contemporary Studies are proud to present:
The Madawaska Quartet: A Free Recital
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
12-1pm
POD-368 (Podium Building -- area connecting Jorgenson Hall & Library Building -- enter through 350 or 380 Victoria Street, up to 3rd Floor)
Refreshments provided.
Bursting onto the Canadian music scene with a repertoire that leap-frogs across musical boundaries, and hailed for “breaking free of classical restraints,” the Madawaska Quartet performs pieces from the mainstream to performance art, from the film score to the avant-garde, and from the baroque to the present-day. With a roster of collaborators as diverse as their repertoire, they have appeared with artists such as Soprano Measha Brueggergosman, pianist Leslie Kinton, singer/songwriter Bob Wiseman, and dancer/choreographer Julia Aplin. They have performed in major international festivals such as the Festival Iberoamericano in Puerto Rico, the Festival of the Sound, the Elora Festival, the Toronto International Chamber Music Festival, New Music North, and the “Music at Port Milford” International Chamber Music Festival.
The Quartet has taught as chamber music faculty at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where it also performed as part of the “Great Artist Series,” and has given workshops for students and emerging composers at University of Toronto, York University, and the Arraymusic Studio (where the quartet will be the first Artists-in-Residence through 2009/10). As champions of Canadian composers and their works, the quartet has premiered more than thirty new pieces, which they have since performed in festivals, cinemas, art galleries, primary schools, boats, and lecture halls throughout Ontario for audiences ranging from festival-goers to kindergarten students to undergraduates.
Recent recordings include a cd with guitarist Rob MacDonald, featuring works by Omar Daniel, Peter Sculthorpe and Christopher William Pierce.
The Madawaska Quartet: A Free Recital
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
12-1pm
POD-368 (Podium Building -- area connecting Jorgenson Hall & Library Building -- enter through 350 or 380 Victoria Street, up to 3rd Floor)
Refreshments provided.
Bursting onto the Canadian music scene with a repertoire that leap-frogs across musical boundaries, and hailed for “breaking free of classical restraints,” the Madawaska Quartet performs pieces from the mainstream to performance art, from the film score to the avant-garde, and from the baroque to the present-day. With a roster of collaborators as diverse as their repertoire, they have appeared with artists such as Soprano Measha Brueggergosman, pianist Leslie Kinton, singer/songwriter Bob Wiseman, and dancer/choreographer Julia Aplin. They have performed in major international festivals such as the Festival Iberoamericano in Puerto Rico, the Festival of the Sound, the Elora Festival, the Toronto International Chamber Music Festival, New Music North, and the “Music at Port Milford” International Chamber Music Festival.
The Quartet has taught as chamber music faculty at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where it also performed as part of the “Great Artist Series,” and has given workshops for students and emerging composers at University of Toronto, York University, and the Arraymusic Studio (where the quartet will be the first Artists-in-Residence through 2009/10). As champions of Canadian composers and their works, the quartet has premiered more than thirty new pieces, which they have since performed in festivals, cinemas, art galleries, primary schools, boats, and lecture halls throughout Ontario for audiences ranging from festival-goers to kindergarten students to undergraduates.
Recent recordings include a cd with guitarist Rob MacDonald, featuring works by Omar Daniel, Peter Sculthorpe and Christopher William Pierce.
