Windrush Property Vineyard is positioned within the Hockley Hills area about an hour’s drive northwest of Toronto. The vineyard, established in 2017, contains 68 acres, a state-of-the artwork winemaking course of — and concert events in its scenic venue.
Windrush Salon Sundays supply an opportunity to take pleasure in music and extra. A ticket contains each the live performance and a reception that features the vineyard’s award-winning VQA wines, nibbles, and an opportunity to mingle with the artists.
Right here’s a take a look at a few of the classical and different music on supply by means of the spring, summer time, and into the autumn.
Music At Windrush: Highlights
Ron Korb, flautist
April 27, 2025
Two-time GRAMMY nominee Ron Korb is a world traveler/explorer, and his music blends parts of Pan-Asian, jazz, Celtic and Latin influences. The Japanese-Canadian flautist performs on his assortment of greater than 250 flutes, together with bamboo and numerous Indigenous devices from throughout the globe. The musician and composer attended the Royal Conservatory of Music, and after finding out jazz at York College for a yr, made the swap to classical flute on the College of Toronto, the place he graduated with honours with a level in Music Efficiency.
All For Love
Might 4, 2025
Canadian soprano Alexandra Teske returns to Windrush, bringing mates Lillian Brooks, mezzo-soprano, and pianist Kyung-A Lee for a program devoted to like.
Alexandra Teske studied piano on the College of Western Ontario, incomes a BMus (Hons) and BEd, and went on to check singing privately with Canadian mezzo-soprano Catherine Robbin. She has received quite a few awardds and prizes at music festivals, together with 1st place on the OMFA provincial music competitors.
Lillian Brooks earned an Artist Diploma Program in Vocal Efficiency from the Glenn Gould Faculty in 2017 and went on to take part within the 2018 Britten-Pears Younger Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, UK. She repeatedly performs each operas and oratorio, and has appeared with the Calgary Philharmonic, Grand Philharmonic Choir, Refrain Niagara, VOICEBOX: Opera in Live performance, and Toronto Operetta Theatre.
Korean-Canadian pianist Kyung-A Lee studied music at The King’s College in Edmonton, the place she earned a Bachelor of Music degrea, and a diploma in church music. She adopted up with a Masters and Doctorate diploma on the College of Alberta. She has carried out internationally in addition to with quite a few ensembles and choirs in Canada. She can also be the Director of Music on the Trinity United Church in Huntsville.
Songs My Father Taught Me
June 22, 2025
Pianist Renée Guerrero, a producer, educator, pianist and vocal coach, along with son pianist/singer Quintin Harris, and daughter cabaret chanteuse/composer Artemisia LeFay, deliver an eclectic program of music to Windrush, together with music by a various vary of artists: Mompou, Nazareth, Granados, Piazzolla, and Chopin. Renée’s father was a touring songsmith in Texas in the course of the Thirties, and she or he continues the household custom. She and her husband Lawrence Harris had been awarded Greatest File of the Yr on the 2014 Native American Music Awards.
Taras Petryk, Teen Prodigy Composer
August 10
At simply 17, Taras Petryk returns to Chateau Windrush to carry out his unique neoclassical compositions for piano. In 2023, he composed 12 items for piano, impressed by a novel written by his mom, author Mar Petryk, and revolving round concepts impressed by water. He premiered the works on Mom’s Day, and later recorded them at Windrush. He may also be performing on the Collingwood Music Competition this yr on July 15.
Hearth, Destiny & Fantasy
September 13, 2025
Coloratura soprano Mary Ferrari and pianist Vlad Soloviev carry out a dramatic program of arias that features the Die Hölle Rache sung by the Queen of the Evening in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Caro Nome from Rigoletto, Regnava nel silenzio from Lucia di Lammermoor, and 4 Lieder, Op.27 by Richard Strauss.
Mary Ferrari studied on a scholarship on the Manhattan Faculty of Music, and received the Loren Zachary competitors in New York Metropolis. The win caught the eye of employees on the Metropolitan Opera, who organized for her research with coloratura Kathelem Kim. She has since carried out internationally, together with Italy, South Korea, and Canada.
Toronto-based pianist, conductor and operatic vocal coach Vlad Soloviev has labored as a repetiteur with a number of firms, together with the Canadian Opera Firm, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Highlands Opera Studio, UofT’s Opera Faculty and the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, amongst others, and has carried out as a live performance pianist in North America and Europe.
- Discover extra particulars, the whole Windrush Salon Sundays lineup, and tickets for the concert events [HERE].
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