Winnipeg Early Music Society

EVENTS LISTING:

December 2009
1 Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
5 Winnipeg Early Music Society
12, 13 Virtuosi Concerts The WSO Baroque Chamber Players
January 2010
23, 24 Musical Offering
30 RCCO French Baroque Organ Workshop
30 Virtuosi Concerts The WSO Baroque Chamber Players
31 Musik Barock
February 2010
5 CMU Friesens Arts Café Renaissance Resoundings
28 Canzona

March 2010
13, 14 Camerata Nova
14 Musik Barock
April 2010
24, 25 Musical Offering
25 WEMS Recital
May 2010
16 Musik Barock
June 2010
2,3 Camerata Nova
July 2010
Immaculate Conception Church- Medieval Festival
August 2010
September 2010
October 2010
November 2010

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:
Artistic Director - Andrew Balfour.

Saturday March 13, 2010, 8:00 PM:
Sunday March 14, 2010, 3:00 PM: THE MEDIEVAL INUIT
With the participation of Madeleine Allakariallak
Conductor: Mel Braun

Église Précieux-Sang (200 Kenny Street)

Andrew Balfour and Camerata Nova will partner with Inuit songwriter and folk/throat singer Madeleine Allakariallak to present a truly unique experience, celebrating the music of the Inuit and the Europeans who first made contact with them. The concert offers a fascinating range of elements, including traditional Inuit songs and throat singing by Madeleine and her partner, Celina Kalluk; songs written by Madeleine based on the music of her grandmother; medieval music from Scandinavia at the time of first contact; contemporary Scandinavian works by composers such as Sandström and Rautavaara; and arrangements by Andrew of Inuit folk songs.

The concert also features a major new work by Andrew for Camerata Nova, Inuit singer, viola and percussion. Called Medieval Inuit, this drama of sounds and rhythm is based on the theme of early encounters between Inuit and Europeans, incorporating experiments in combining throat singing with rhythmic medieval chant. The soaring spirals of Église Précieux-Sang in St. Boniface will provide a perfect setting for this performance.
Individual Ticket Prices: Adults $22, Seniors $20, Students $10*



Wednesday, June 2, 2010:
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:00 PM: VENICE, VESPERS AND VIOLS
With the participation of soprano Maria Luz Alvarez

Conductor: Ross Brownlee

St. Mary's Cathedral, (353 St. Mary Avenue)

Following the success of the Praetorius Christmas Mass in 2008, Camerata Nova is offering another early music concert designed and conducted by Ross Brownlee, featuring period instruments. Venice, Vespers and Viols presents Italian Renaissance and Baroque music written for solo and choral voices, strings and continuo. The repertoire will include works by Claudio Merulo, Giovanni and Andrea Gabrieli, Gombert, Vecchi and Monteverdi, including excerpts from the Vespro della Beata Vergine.
Joining us for this concert is the internationally-known Spanish baroque soprano Maria Luz Alvarez, top American lutenist and theorbo player, Phillip Rutavina, and our early music string quartet composed of players from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra led by Claudine St-Arnauld. The concert will be held in St. Mary’s Cathedral, one of the few large stone churches in Manitoba, offering the resonant, crystal-clear acoustic that best suits this music.
Individual Ticket Prices: Adults $22, Seniors $20, Students $10*

*Season subscriptions include discounts and ensured prime seating. See Camerata Nova's Store for more subscription and ticket information.
Click Camerata Nova for more details.

CANZONA:
directed by Henry Engbrecht

Sunday, March 28, 2010: J.S. BACH: THE SIX MOTETS
7:00 PM, Westminster United Church

Winnipeg's Baroque Choir, Canzona, now in it's 21st season, presents a concert featuring all 6 Motets by J.S. Bach. Tickets:$23 adult; $20 senior; $10 student
Tickets available at McNally Robinson and at the door. Season Tickets available only at 942-1917.

CMU Friesens Arts Café Series:


Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:30 PM: RENAISSANCE RESOUNDINGS
Featuring Rose van der Hooft, mezzo soprano; Mel Braun, baritone, Jenifer Lin, flute; Cheryl Pauls, harpsichord; CMU Chamber Choir, Rudy Schellenberg, conductor

Laudamus Auditorium, Canadian Mennonite University,

Admission:$10/$8/$5

During the Renaissance era, composers often formed new works from existing compositions, whether their own or those of other musicians. Some of the re-designed works sounded like arrangements, others as new compositions. Regardless of which, the practice of re-composition was not masked. Rather, most audience members recognised the earlier works, and enjoyed the play of memory and creation in the blend of old and new.

Claudio Monteverdi often followed this practice, whether in works for small chamber ensemble or for choir. Through these works the later-named "Seconda Prattica" style of composition emerged, ushering in the baroque era. Renaissance Resoundings features some of Monteverdi's re-composed works, including two pieces from the Selva Morale e Spirituale - Laudate Dominum and Beatus Vir. In addition, re-fashioned music by contemporaries of Monteverdi will be heard, including Sweelink's rendition of Dowland's Lacrimae Pavana, and Philips take on Caccini's Amarilli for harpsichord. The program rounds out with a number of works based on songs that are well known and loved by audiences of early music. These include Emanuel Adriaensen's arrangements of Gastoldi's Se ben vedi, o vita mia and a Neapolitan song entitled Amanti miei for two or three voices.

We look forward to sharing these musical treasures together with you.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH OF COOKS CREEK:


Saturday, July 2010, exact date to be announced: MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

Daytime activities noon until 6PM. Feast at 6 PM. Along with the usual medieval entertainments of jousting and feasting, this festival also features a number of half hour sets of early music by various Winnipeg ensembles in the lovely acoustics of the church sanctuary. More information forthcoming. For more information, see Immaculate Conception Church

MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA:


Tuesday, December 1, 2008: ROY GOODMAN
7:30 pm, Westminster United Church, 745 Westminster Ave.

The MCO goes to the baroque and early music expert; this concert was programmed by our former Music Director, and now guest conductor, Roy Goodman. Start the holiday season with soprano Tracy Dahl and the MCO strings. Hear how sublimely the essence of Finsi and Bridge's country dance blend with three baroque Christmas masterpieces.
Repertoire: Giuseppe Torelli
"Christmas" Concerto in G minor op.8/6 - Puer il Sanissimo Natale; Arcangelo Corelli "Christmas" Concerto in G minor op.6/8 - Per la note de Natale; Allesandro Scarlatti Christmas Cantata, for soprano and strings - O di Betlemme altera poverta; Gerald Finzi Dies Natalis - for soprano and strings; Frank Bridge Sir Roger de Coverly, a Christmas dance for string orchestra (1922)

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:
"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 2009 - 10:
Saturday concerts are at 3:00 pm, Sunday at 8:00 pm.
Individual Series Tickets $30, $25 senior, $15 student
For ticket information please call 774-3601. For further information please call 284-7554 or visit www.themusicaloffering.mb.ca

January 23, 24 2009: A CANADIAN WINTER FÊTE
Warm a winter wonderland with words and music from early Canda as told in the voice of a woman settler. Music sung and played in church meets rollicking songs and jigging tunes from winter festivities and cozy kitchens.
Sierra Noble - fiddler/singer/songwrtier, Lindsay Bart - Guitar, Canadian Quartet: Peter John Buchan, Conrad Siebert, Scott Reimer and Aran Matsuda, Sylvia Scott Wortley - harpsichord and organ

April 24, 25 2010: AN ENGLISH GARDEN DANCES
With the delight of springing footsteps, English gardens come to life. Celebrate spring and summer with songs and pieces for gentle harp and harpsichord which would have been heard in Vauxhall and other English pleasure gardens. Costumed country dancers will illustrate dances from the 16th to 18th centuries.
David Menzies - tenor, Elizabeth Goosen - harp/choreographer/dancer Sylvia Scott Wortley - harpsichord


MUSIK BAROCK:
Director - Eric Lussier.

All Concerts at 7:30 PM, Crescent Fort Rouge United Church, 525 Wardlaw at Nassau St. N.
Call the Manitoba Conservatory of Music and Arts at 943-6090 or You may also order via email for details on tickets and prices. More information may be found here

Sunday, January 31, 2010, 7:30 PM: OUTSIDE THE BACHS
Concert dedicated to Bach’s contemporaries including Handel’s Opus 6 #11, Georg Philipp Telemann’s suite La Putain, Scarlatti/Avison’s Concerto Gross No. 6 in D Major.


Sunday March 14, 2010, 7:30 PM: Solo Harpsichord
J. S. Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations

Sunday, May 16, 2010, 7:30 PM :VIVA ITALIA
Dedicated to the Italian composers including Pergolesi’s Salve Regina (with guest vocalist Kirsten Schellenberg), Vivaldi’s La Stravaganza, Opus 4, and Locatelli’s Il Pianto d’Ariana, Opus 7 #6.
ROYAL CANADIAN COLLEGE OF ORGANISTS


Saturday, January 30: FRENCH BAROQUE ORGAN WORKSHOP with Dietrich Bartel

10:00 AM: Young United Church, 222 Furby at Broadway
Admission:Free to members of the RCCO, Non-members $20

The Royal Canadian College of Organists presents Dr. Dietrich Bartel, organist at All Saints Anglican and dean of music at CMU presenting a workshop on French Baroque organ music, with a specific focus on Couperin's organ masses. Please bring your scores if you have them.

All are welcome to this interesting and informative workshop. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information, contact Mike Cutler at organmike@gmail.com or by phone at 918-2595


VIRTUOSI CONCERTS:

University of Winnipeg’s 225-seat Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall (EGH)
For more information see: www.virtuosi.mb.ca/virtuosiconcerts.html


WSO BAROQUE CHAMBER PLAYERS and MARIA LUZ ALVAREZ
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8 PM: THE PASSIONS OF SPAIN

The fiery passion of Spain is sure to loosen the grip of winter when soprano Maria Luz Alvarez and the WSO Baroque Chamber Players bring the glorious music of the baroque era to the Virtuosi stage.

Born in Madrid, she began her musical education at the Royal Superior School of Singing of Madrid with Milagros del Pozo. She completed her education at the Sweelinck Conservatorium of Amsterdam, graduating in 1994 in Early Music Performance, under the leadership of Peter Kooy. Her repertoire ranges from the Middle Ages to the present time, with special focus on the Baroque oratorio and cantata. She has also performed in baroque operas such as Dido and Eneas, Dioclesian and The Fairy Queen by Purcell, Acis and Galatea by Haendel and Azis y Galatea by Literes. Since 1995 she has been invited regularly by the Telemann Institute of Japan where she has performed the Japanese premieres of several Haendel oratorios besides Bach's Passions, Cantatas and the B Minor Mass.

Programme: Iribarren, "Prosigue Acorde Lyra" Cantada al Santisimo Sacramento con violins; Caldara, Sonata a tre; Literes, Arias from the zarzuela "Azis y Galatea"; Facco Arias from the opera "Las Amazonas de España"; Turina, "Escena Andaluza" opus 8; Falla, "Siete canciones populares;" as well as selections from Marin and F. Sor.


Single Tickets: $29 adults/ $27 seniors/ $10.00 students
For more information on the rest of Virtuosi's concert series and subscriptions see: www.virtuosi.mb.ca



WINNIPEG EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY


Saturday, December 5, 2009: IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

3:00 PM: Sam's Place - 159 Henderson Hwy.
Do some book shopping or treat yourself at the café while listening to choral and instrumental music from long ago. Featuring This Merrie Companie, The Amindra Consort, BB & the Avocado and other members of the Winnipeg Early Music Society. Proceeds of Sam's Place are in support of the Menonnite Central Committee.
For more information, see Winnipeg Early Music Society or contact WEMS or Sam's Place or 415-4728

Sunday, April 25, 2010: RECITAL
2:30 PM: Gordon King Memorial United Church, 127 Coburg Ave.
Just west of Henderson Hyw, 3 blocks north of Hespler. It is in the Elmwood area just over the Disraelli Freeway.
Various ensembles of WEMS, including recorders and vocalists, will present their selections.
There will be a silver collection.
For more information, see Winnipeg Early Music Society or contact WEMS

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