Winnipeg Early Music Society

EVENTS LISTING:

December 2011
10 WEMS Sam's Place
11 Jan and Kevin
January 2012
21, 22 Musical Offering
February 2012
7, 8 Manitoba Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Taylor and the Theatre of Early Music
10 Jan and Kevin
23 Music 'n' Mavins

March 2012
10, 11 Camerata Nova
April 2012
20 Canzona
21, 22 Musical Offering
May 2012
11, 12 Camerata Nova/Virtuosi Concerts
June 2012
July 2012
21 Immaculate Conception Church- Medieval Festival
August 2012
September 2012
October 2012
November 2012

The Winnipeg Early Music Society (WEMS) maintains this page as a service to promote Early Music Concerts and Events in the city. Groups listed here are not neccesarily affiliated with WEMS.
To have your ensemble's early music concerts listed here, contact wems@mts.net


ALL THE KINGS MEN:
Director Charles Horton

All The King's Men is a male-voice liturgical choir, associated with the College Chapel of St. John the Evangelist at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Much of their music draws from a rich tradition of Latin and English choral music for men's voices within the context of the Anglican services of Evensong and Compline. Much of the repertoire is early period. All the Kings Men sings evensong on the first Sunday of the month, for more information about the repertoire for a particular service, please check their web page at: All the King's Men and click on next service.


CAMERATA NOVA:
Andrew Balfour, Artistic Director and Resident Composer
Ross Brownlee, Early Music Curator and Conductor
Mel Braun, Co-Curator and Conductor

Saturday March 10, 2012 8:00 PM Sunday March 11, 2012, 2:00 PM: CHANT!

Église Précieux-Sang (200 Kenny Street)
Conductor: Mel Braun; Conception: Andrew Balfour

Gregorian, Aboriginal, Russian, Corsican, Persian, Tibetan, Ukrainian, Hebrew—this concert offers an amazing array of vocal chant through the centuries and around the world. True to form, the group will also present intriguing mixes of pure chant and contemporary music, including three new works by Jim Hiscott, Persian musician Amir Amiri and Andrew Balfour. An amazing array of guest artists/coaches are collaborating with the group, including Amir Amiri, Richard Moody, and Phoebe Man. We love singing chant… truth be told, we are surprised that it has taken us this long to think of creating this concert!

Individual ticket prices: Adults $25 / Seniors $20 / Students $10
See Camerata Nova for more subscription and ticket information.


Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:00 PM:
Sunday, May 13, 3:00 PM: President's Concert '12: FROM MIDDLE AGES TO MANITOBA

Co-Presentation with Virtuosi Concert Series
Convocation Hall, Second Floor of Wesley Hall, 515 Portage Avenue (use Portage Avenue entrance), University of Winnipeg
Conductor: Ross Brownlee; Conception: Ross Brownlee and Douglas Kirk

Camerata Nova is pleased to join forces with string players from the WSO and internationally renowned baroque soprano Maria Luz Alvarez to offer an exciting program of chamber music, arias, a cappella choral pieces and works for choir and strings. Camerata Nova conductor, Ross Brownlee, has selected a wide range of repertoire from early music “greats” such as Victoria, Gabrieli, Byrd and Josquin des Prez, to two strong compositions for choir and string quartet by Manitoba composers, Andrew Balfour and Ken Nichols. The concert will be held in the exceptional acoustic of the newly restored Convocation Hall at the University of Winnipeg.

From the Middle Ages to Manitoba is presented as a four-way collaboration between Camerata Nova, Virtuosi Concert Series, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the University of Winnipeg.

Individual ticket prices: Adults $30 / Seniors $30 / Students $15
See Camerata Nova for more subscription and ticket information.


Visit Camerata Nova for more details.
CANZONA:
directed by Henry Engbrecht


Sunday, April 15, 2012: REQUIEM IN E FLAT MINOR AND MISERERE IN C
By Johann Adolf Hasse.
Soloists: Marni Enns, Kristen Schellenberg, Aaron Hutton, Jan van der Hooft, Stephen Haiko
With MusicBarock Ensemble

Tickets: $23, Seniors $20, Students $10 available at McNally Robinson Booksellers and at the door Season Pass: $40 - available by calling 942-1917
For more information, visit Canzona

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH OF COOKS CREEK:


Saturday, July 21, 2010: MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL
More information forthcoming. Early Music performances featured in the church.
JAN FREIHAMMER AND KEVIN SCOTT:

Be on the lookout for this talented recorder and keyboard duo, bringing baroque music to a location near you.

Sunday, December 11, 2011, 1:30 PM: FESTIVAL OF TREES
Manitoba Hydro Gallery, 360 Portage. Friendsfestival.com

Friday, February 10, 2011: 8:00 PM,
Prairie Ink Café, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park Mall.


MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA:


Tuesday, February 7 and Wednesday, February 8, 2012: DIDO AND AENEAS, DANIEL TAYLOR AND THE THEATRE OF EARLY MUSIC
7:30 pm, Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Ave.

The singular voice of countertenor Daniel Taylor returns to MCO’s stage for the MCO / Manitoba Opera co-presentation of the music of Purcell’s
Dido & Aeneas, with the Theatre of Early Music, in period style.

The Theatre of Early Music is an 18-piece vocal and instrumental ensemble founded by Taylor. TEM is "serious music-making of the highest order," according to Gramophone Magazine. Those of you who have heard Taylor sing at earlier MCO concerts will recall its other-worldly power, made even stronger with his new choir: "Daniel Taylor’s early music choir holds audiences spellbound" (The Ottawa Citizen).
Choose from two dates for this show - a Tuesday or a Wednesday!

Daniel Taylor last graced our stage in 2007 when he sang two works from Handel’s
Giulio Cesare in Egito. This time it’s mostly Purcell, and Daniel will introduce Winnipeg to his Theatre of Early Music Project.

The choir and orchestra of the TEM present magnificent, yet sometimes neglected, choral and instrumental repertoire. Their stunning a cappella programmes invoke the practices and aesthetics of former ages which inform thought-provoking and passionate oratorio performances.

Casual tickets available August 15, 2011.
Ticket: $26.50 (adult); $24.50 (senior); $7.50 (student); including GST
Available from McNally-Robinson Booksellers, West End Cultural Centre (586 Ellice Ave), Organic Planet Worker Co-op (877 Westminster Ave), or MCO ticketline (783-7377), or online at themco.ca.
For more information, see manitobachamberorchestra.org or call 783-7377

THE MUSICAL OFFERING:

***PLEASE NOTE: BAROQUE BEAMS CONCERT (NOVEMBER) POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. ***
"Yours is always the best seat in the house at The Musical Offering. An intimate experience - hear the sweet sounds of instruments of another age, see the artists as they perform; taste the pleasure of music offered especially for you. Be a welcome guest in the home of The Musical Offering - 298 Yale Avenue"

Harpsichordist Sylvia Scott Wortley invites us into her beautiful Crescentwood home for a series of concerts. Each concert is followed by a complimentary reception of tea, coffee, fruit punch and pastries. Linger to meet the artists and to examine the instruments.

SEASON CONCERTS FOR 2011 - 12:
Saturday concerts are at 3:00 pm, Sunday at 8:00 pm.
For ticket information please call 774-3601. For further information please call 284-7554 or visit www.themusicaloffering.mb.ca

January 21, 22, 2012: THE MAGIC OF MOZART
The Manitoba based Azure String Quartet will delight you with a program of string quartets by F. J. Hadyn Quartet in B flat Major Op71 No.1 Hob III:69 (1793) and W. A. Mozart. The program will also feature keyboard music by Mozart played on the original Adam Beyer forte-piano (1784).
Elation Pauls, violin; Chris Anstey, violin; Laszlo Baroczi, viola; Minna Rose Chung, cello

April 21, 22, 2012: AS FLOWS THE AVON
Music from the time of Shakespeare, which includes madrigals (Tallis, Morley) accompanied by lute, early gems for the recorder and music by the English virginalists (Wm. Byrd, Peerson) will be interwoven with readings from the bard himself. A rich palette of Elizabethan treats awaits you.
Michael Cobus and Margaret McKenty, recorders; Darren Smith, lute; The Madrigal Singers; Sylvia Scott Wortley, harpsichord

SPECIAL CONCERT

Sunday November 20, 2011: BAROQUE BEAMS
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

MUSIC 'N' MAVINS


Tuesday, February 23, 2012: BAROQUE AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC ARRANGED FOR 3 CELLOS

2:00 to 3:00 PM Rady Jewish Community Centre, 123 Doncaster Street

Yuri Hooker, principal cellist with the Manitoba Chamber and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras, Minna Rose Chung, professor of cellos at the Univeristy of Manitoba, and Leanna Zacharias, professor at Brandon University, will highlight Jewish experience in Renaissance Italy and Germany.

Tickets $6 JCC members/ $10 non-members
For information on the whole series and concert cards, please see link below.
For more information Music 'N' Mavins or call 477-7510.

WINNIPEG EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY

Sunday, April, 24, 2012: RECITAL

More information TBA

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