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Winnipeg Baroque Brass Choir – Winnipeg Baroque Brass Choir
March 29, 2pm, Desautels Concert Hall (University of Manitoba), 150 Dafoe Rd.
Co-directed by Andrew Balfour and Richard Gillis, this program will feature the glorious antiphonal music of Venetian master Giovanni Gabrieli, brass transcriptions of consort music by Elizabethan composers William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons Consort music, and arrangements for brass choir of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This concert celebrates a rich brass tradition, from the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble to the Canadian Brass and beyond, and will also showcase the rich level of wind and brass playing in Winnipeg.
Commentaries – Lara Secord-Haid, Nolan Kehler and Jennifer Thiessen
April 1st, 8:00pm, Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Ave.
Two of Winnipeg’s most in-demand classical vocalists along with one of the city’s most respected balancers of Baroque and the beyond present 20th and 21st century music that responds to the works of two of the English Baroque’s most celebrated composers.
Refractions of Bach– Karl Stobbe & Gwen Hoebig
April 5th, 7 pm, Laudamus Auditorium (Canadian Mennonite University), 500 Shaftesbury Blvd.
Two of Winnipeg’s most celebrated soloists return to the Winnipeg Baroque Festival stage for Refractions of Bach, sharing the composer’s seminal counterpoint alongside collaborations that highlight the pair’s three-decade long friendship.
Ves-Byrd – Members of Proximus 5
Apr. 7th, 9 pm, St. Margaret’s Anglican Church (160 Ethelbert St.)
Members of Winnipeg’s premiere male vocal quintet bring together audiences in heart of Wolseley to bask in the mid-week reverences of William Byrd.
L’Art des Sons– Nonsuch Ensemble
April 10th, 7 pm, Laudamus Auditorium (Canadian Mennonite University), 500 Shaftesbury Blvd.
Step into the golden age of the Baroque as L’Art des Sons traces music’s power to seduce, console, and astonish through French and Italian masterpieces for soprano, traverse flute, and continuo. André Campra’s dramatic cantata “Arion” paints the legendary musician poised between shipwreck and salvation, while Vivaldi’s chamber cantata “All’ombra di sospetto” explores love shaded by jealousy and delight. A sparkling flute sonata by Jean-Marie Leclair completes the program, shimmering with refined French dance rhythms and Italianate virtuosity.
Time Regained – Tacamis Trio
April 11th, 7 pm, St. Andrews River Heights United Church (255 Oak St.)
Fresh off of the release of their debut album, three of Winnipeg’s most prominent double reed players join forces to share their interpretations of one of Bach’s most enduring pieces.
Monteverdi: Prime parole, seconda musica – Dead of Winter
April 12th, 2 pm, St. Margaret’s Anglican Church, 160 Ethelbert St.
Music’s world order underwent a seismic change in early 17th C. Italy. Gone was the complex choral polyphony of the last 150 years, replaced by a new approach, where composers worked to convey the visceral drama of the text. Whole new musical forms were developed and opera was born. Monteverdi was the first great master of this new style. Along with contemporaries like Francesca Caccini and Salamono de Rossi, he forever changed the way music would reach audiences. The power of storytelling, grounded in dramatic text, was the new world order. First words, then music!
The Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg presents Rachel Fenlon
Apr. 15th, 7:30 pm, Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (University of Winnipeg), 515 Portage Ave.
One of the most in-demand and dynamic classical musicians in the world makes her Winnipeg debut in a program that blends the Baroque with the contemporary.
