The concert is at 8:00 p.m. at First United Church, Waterloo

$35/ticket. (students $20)

ALAS, PROVINCIAL REGULATIONS HAVEN’T YET CHANGED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE MUSIC ROOM CONCERTS POSSIBLE.

SO, AT LEAST FOR NOW, THE CONCERT IS AT

First United Church, Waterloo, 8:00 p.m.

Program:

Tchaikovsky Souvenir d'un lieu cher

Derek Charke Capricious Modes for violin, cello & piano (2016)

Shostakovich Trio in E minor, Op. 67

Music:

Tchaikovsky’s beautiful duo (violin and piano) is a favorite of Sadie Fields - she has performed it before several times, in both Guelph and Waterloo. What’s not to like! It’s perfectly lovely, and just right for Sadie’s strongly romantic sound.

Derek Charke is a JUNO and four-time ECMA award-winning composer, flutist and educator. Equally at home performing cutting-edge contemporary music or participating in free improvisation as he is performing Bach or Vivaldi, he actively performs as a soloist, new music improviser and chamber musician. He performs with guitarist Eugene Cormier in the Charke~Cormier Duo and appears on a number of award-winning CDs, including: Ex Tempore, Kitchen Party, In Sonorous Falling Tones, and his latest release, Bathymetric Terrains. Derek is a professor of music at Acadia University where he teaches composition and music theory. He also heads AEMS (the Acadia Electroacoustic Music Studio). As a flutist/composer, one of his passions is writing for the flute and flute ensemble.

Shostakovich’s second piano trio (as it now is - a pretty first one, a student work, was popularized after his death) is one of the established “classics” of the 20th century. It is a powerful work depicting, pretty much, the situation of, especially, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union. Its Dance of Death scherzo and powerhouse slow movement are unforfgettabvle - and what an ending! (Or for that matter, beginning, where the cello plays an eerie passage way out of its normal range...)

Ms Schlaikjer’s appearances with the Colorado Quartet have included Symphony Spaces’ 2010 and 2011 Wall to Wall marathon concerts, performances in San Francisco, Ohio, Virginia, Delaware, and the British Virgin Islands and two performances of the complete Bartok quartets. In 2011, she premiered J Mark Scearce’s cello concerto “Aracana” with the University of Connecticut’s Symphony Orchestra and traveled to China to play the Haydn D major cello concerto with the Wuhan Symphony Orchestra. Katie has taught chamber music and cello at the New England Conservatory’s Extension Division, Bard Conservatory’s Preparatory Program, the Quartet Program (NY), Apple Hill (NH), and Soundfest (MA) music festivals and given master classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Delaware.

Katie received her Doctoral and Master’s degrees from Stony Brook University and her Bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory. Her principal teachers have included Timothy Eddy, Laurence Lesser and Andres Diaz. Her cello was made by Paolo Castello in Genoa in 1775.

He is the pianist for Guelph Youth Singers, Suzuki String School of Guelph, and Suzuki summer Institutes in Waterloo and Montreal, and has also been a piano adjudicator, private teacher and chamber music coach. Until recently, he was chair of the Guelph Youth Music Centre where, among other initiatives, he led the creation of the Guelph Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2008, he was the recipient of a City of Guelph Mayor’s Award. Ken is married to violinist wife, Paule Barsalou (director of the Suzuki String School of Guelph).

Ken created Guelph Musicfest, an annual chamber music festival that is celebrating its 13th anniversary in 2019. More information at guelphmusicfest.ca