Here below is this year’s programme. Scroll all the way down for the full programme. Please remember that all programming is subject to change.

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Concert 1 

Sat eve, July 21^st , 8:15 pm

pre-concert Fanfares

Three Fanfares, for horn in a distant rowboat and tuned ships horns (2015) C. Donison (b. 1952)

1. Call and response between distant rowboat and boats (with cannon start)
2. Call and response between less distant rowboat and boats (with siren start)
3. Call and response between close
rowboat and boats (with yelping siren start)

Bryn Badel, posthorn  (in a rowboat) C. Donison: MIDI controller (on the Rix Centre balcony) CANADIAN COAST GUARD, cannon & sirens, Bamfleld Volunteer Boat Flotilla, John Masse Commodore

8:30 pm

Opening remarks

Mauro Giuliani     1781-1829

Overture to Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito”

Nova Vita
Jacob Cordover, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar

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Edvard Grieg    1843-1907

Holberg Suite, op.40

Praeludium. Allegro vivace
Sarabande. Andante
Gavotte. Allegretto
Air. Andante religioso
Rigaudon. Allegro con brio

Cecily Ward, Tom Stone, Buon Park, Hua-Chu Huang, Aaron Schwebel, Carissa Klopoushak, Erin James, violins; Keith Hamm, Laila Zakzook, Lucas Blekeberg, Jacob Clewell, violas; Julie Hereish, Drew Comstock, Carmen Bruno, James Churchill, cellos

Intermission

Jacques Offenbach   1819-1880

Barcarolle (from “The Tales of Hoffman”)

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano

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Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

Concert 2

Sunday Matinée, July 22^nd , noon

Heitor Villa-Lobos      1887-1959

Prelude from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 (arr. Runar Kjeldsberg)

Jacob Cordover, guitar, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar

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Arnold Schoenberg      1874-1951

Verklärte Nacht, op.4

Hua-Chu Huang, violin, Erin James, violin, Jacob Clewell, viola, Lucas Blekeberg, viola, James Churchill, cello, Carmen Bruno, cello

Intermission

Leo Brouwer    b.1939

Micro Piezas
Homage to Darius Milhaud

Tranquilo
Allegro vivace
Vivacissimo muy ritmico
Sonoro

Jacob Cordover, guitar, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar

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Franz Joseph Haydn     1732-1809

String Quartet in G major, op.77, no.1, Hob.III:81

Allegro moderato
Adagio
Menuetto. Presto
Finale. Presto

Erin James, violin, Cecily Ward, violin, Jacob Clewell, viola, James Churchill, cello

Concert 3

Sunday eve, July 22^nd , 8:30 pm

Ludwig van Beethoven      1770-1827

Sonata in G major, op.96

Allegro moderato
Adagio espressivo
Scherzo: Allegro – Trio
Poco allegretto

Cecily Ward, violin, Marc Ryser, piano

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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart     1756-1791

Piano quartet in g minor, KV 478

Allegro
Andante
Rondo. Allegro

Hua-Chu Huang, violin, Lucas Blekeberg, viola, Carmen Bruno, cello, Marc Ryser, piano

Intermission

Jacques Duphly  1715-1789

Allemende  (arr. Runar Kjeldsberg)
La Vaucanson  (arr. Runar Kjeldsberg)

Nova Vita,

Jacob Cordover, guitar, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar

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Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

Concert 4

Monday , July 23^rd , 8:30 pm

Benjamin Britten   1913-1976

Folksongs of the British Isles

The Crocodile
The Salley Gardens
There’s None to Soothe
Avenging and Bright
The Bonnie Earle o’Moray
Salley in our Alley
Early one Morning

Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano

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Jules Massenet      1842-1912

Elegie

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Drew Comstock, cello, Marc Ryser, piano

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Carlos Gardel  1890-1935

Por una Cabeza (Tango)

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Drew Comstock, cello, Marc Ryser, piano

Intermission

Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

Concert 5

Tuesday, July 24^th , 8:30 pm

Federico Garcia Lorca     1898-1936

Canciones Españolas Antiguas
Sevillanas de siglo XVIII
Las Morillas de Jaen
Los pelegrinitos
Nana de Sevilla
La Tarara

Jacob Cordover, guitar, Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano

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Mátyás Seiber   1905-1960

Four French Songs

Réveillez-vous
J’ai descendu
Le rossignol
Marguerite, elle est malade

Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar, Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano

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François de Fossa    1775-1849

Quartet in A major, op.19, no.3

Lento sensibile sostenuto
Allegro agitato
Lento
Minuetto. Allegro
Rondo. Allegro

Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar, Jacob Cordover, guitar, Aaron Schwebel, violin, Drew Comstock, cello

Intermission

Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

Concert 6

Thursday, July 26^th , 8:30 pm

Gerald Finzi    1901-1956

Let Us Garlands Bring (Five Songs after William Shakespeare), op.18

Come Away, Come Away, Death
Who is Sylvia?
O Mistress Mine
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun
It was a Lover and His Lass

Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano

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Antoine de Lhoyer   1768-1852

Concerto for Guitar and Strings, op. 16

Tom Stone, violin, Buon Park, violin, Laila Zakzook, viola, Julie Hereish, cello, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar

Intermission

American Songbook selections

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Donison, piano

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Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

Concert 7

Friday, July 27^th , 8:30 pm

Robert Schumann     1810-1856

Der Nussbaum
Du bist wie eine Blume
Mondnacht
Die Lotosblume
Widmung

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano

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Dmitri Shostakovich   1906-1975

Quintet in G minor, op.57

Prelude. Lento
Fugue. Adagio
Scherzo. Allegretto
Intermezzo. Lento
Finale. Allegretto

Aaron Schwebel, violin, Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello, Marc Ryser, piano

 Intermission

American Songbook selections

Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Donison, piano

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Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

Concert 8

Saturday, July 28^th , 8:30 pm

Felix Mendelssohn  1809-1847

Octet in E-flat major, op.20

Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
Andante
Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo
Presto

Aaron Schwebel, violin, Buon Park, violin, Tom Stone, violin, Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Laila Zakzook, viola, Keith Hamm, viola, Drew Comstock, cello, Julie Hereish, cello

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Leo Brouwer b. 1939

Baladas del Decamerón Negro

El arpa del guerrero
Huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos
Balada de la doncella enamorada

Jacob Cordover, guitar, Buon Park, violin, Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello

Intermission

Alexander Zemlinsky  1871-1942

Six Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, op. 13

Die drei Schwestern
Die Mädchen den verbunden Augen
Lied der Jungfrau
Als ihr geliebter Schied
Und kehrt er einst heim
Sie kam zum Schloss gegangen

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano

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Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

Concert 9

Sunday Matinée, July 29^th, noon

David Popper     1843-1913

Requiem, op.66

Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello, Drew Comstock, cello, Julie Hereish, cello, Marc Ryser, piano

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Franz Joseph Haydn   1732-1809

Quartet in g minor, op.20, no.3, Hob III:33

Allegro con spirito
Minuet. Allegretto
Poco adagio
Finale. Allegro di molto

Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Buon Park, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello

Intermission

TBA!

Concert 10

Sun eve, July 29^th ,  8:15 pm

pre-concert Fanfares

Three Fanfares, for horn in a distant rowboat and tuned ships horns (2015) C. Donison (b. 1952)

1. Call and response between distant rowboat and boats (with cannon start)
2. Call and response between less distant rowboat and boats (with siren start)
3. Call and response between close rowboat and boats  (with yelping siren start)

Bryn Badel, posthorn  (in a rowboat) C. Donison: MIDI controller (on the Rix Centre balcony) CANADIAN COAST GUARD, cannon & sirens, Bamfleld Volunteer Boat Flotilla, John Masse Commodore

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8:30 pm

Concert start

Henry Purcell  1659-1695

Ode, “Sound the Trumpet”

Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano, Marc Ryser, piano

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Nikita Koshkin b. 1956

L’istesso Tempo

Jacob Cordover, guitar, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello

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 Antonín Dvořák    1841-1904

Sextet in A major, op.48

Allegro – Moderato
Dumka. Poco Allegretto
Furiant. Presto
Finale: Tema con variazione. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino

Carissa Klopoushak, violin, Tom Stone, violin, Keith Hamm, viola, Laila Zakzook, viola, Julie Hereish, cello, Drew Comstock, cello

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Intermission

Brian Dickinson

Gentle Giant Suite

Company Jazz Ensemble
Company Strings

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Jazz Selections TBA

Kelly Jefferson, saxophone
Brad Turner, trumpet
Brian Dickinson, piano
Neil Swainson, bass
Buff Allen, drums

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Alberto Ginastera   1916-1983

Danza del Trigo

Jacob Cordover, Runar Kjeldsberg, guitar

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