Johannes Debus (Co-founder and Inventive Director) and Elissa Lee (Co-founder and Govt Director) of BIGLAKE have introduced the Summer time Season for 2025. It will likely be the fifth anniversary of for the competition in Prince Edward County.
This yr’s Competition launches with an occasion on July 26, with each day competition programming from August 15 to 23.
“This yr’s competition theme is HIDDEN GEMS,” says Elissa Lee, Co-founder and Govt Director. “We’ve curated a blinding lineup of immersive musical experiences — from recent interpretations of beloved classics to placing modern works, all woven along with gorgeous, lesser-known treasures. We will’t look forward to audiences to uncover the magic of ‘new’ music drawn from a wealthy and storied previous.”
BIGLAKE 2025
Silent Film In The Barn (July 26)
The summer season season kicks off with a Fundraiser Live performance in a bucolic barn setting. The theme is the Nineteen Twenties, throughout the silent movie period, and Buster Keaton’s traditional flick The Normal (in its unique 35mm format) will display screen with reside piano improvisation by Ilya Poletaev. Poletaev is the Affiliate Professor of Piano on the Schulich Faculty of Music at McGill College in Montréal, and he additionally serves as Assistant Director on the Norfolk Chamber Music Competition’s Choral Week. He’s additionally a live performance and collaborative pianist. His profession took flight after taking dwelling First Prize on the Worldwide Johann Sebastian Bach Competitors in Leipzig in 2010, turning into the primary Canadian to take action.
Hidden Gems Music Competition (August 15 to 23)
Competition Launch: Hidden Gems (August 15)
Canadian pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico performs a live performance the place the primary half consists of a number of works by girls composers that features Ilse Fromm-Michaels, Meredith Monk, Ann Southam , and Alice Ping Yee Ho . After intermission, the theme is lesser identified jazz influenced items, with music by Masamitsu Takahashi , Artwork Tatum , Invoice Westcott , and Ernesto Nazareth .
Group Jam (August 16)
Wellington Rotary Park is the scene the place the group is invited to affix in with a public efficiency of an improvisational piece titled In Sea. They’ll be taking part in alongside the SHHH!! Ensemble, and musicians Annelise Noronha, Sandro Perri, Alex Whyte and Diana Lam.
Candlelight Live performance: Starry Evening (August 16)
Set in a historic barn, this live performance shall be carried out by SHHH! Ensemble (Zac Pulak and Edana Higham). The theme is the evening sky and its wonders, and this system consists of music written for the Ensemble by Canadian composers Jocelyn Morlock, Daniel Mehdizadeh, Monica Pearce, Mari Alice Conrad, and Harry Stafylakis, together with alternatives by J.S. Bach and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Hidden Gems Marathon (August 17)
Final yr’s Beethoven Marathon was so fashionable, the format returns once more. Ensemble Made In Canada with visitor violist Sebastian Krunnies from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra start the Marathon with a showcase of music by Hungarian composer Dohnányi. Subsequent up, acclaimed Romanian violinist Mihaela Martin performs the virtuosic Sonata no. 3 by Enescu with Ilya Poletaev. All of the musicians return for the finale, together with particular friends Alain Coulombe and BIGLAKE director Johannes Debus to carry out the music of French Venezuelan composer Hahn.
Avataar (August 18)
Jazz lovers will respect this efficiency by Toronto’s Avataar. Avataar is led by saxophone participant Sundar Viswanathan, whose modern jazz compositions take their inspiration from the musical traditions rooted in India, Africa, and Brazil. The band will carry out works from each of their albums, together with the JUNO Award-winning launch Worldview.
Cheng² Duo (August 19)
Cheng² Duo is the uber-talented Canadian brother-and-sister ensemble of cellist Bryan Cheng and pianist Silvie Cheng. Bryan performs on the 1696 “Bonjour” Stradivari (on beneficiant mortgage from the Canada Council Musical Instrument Financial institution). Their program consists of hidden gems by Ravel, Falla, and Tsintsadze, alongside well-loved items by Debussy and Shostakovich.
David R. Maracle (August 20)
Artist, multi-instrumentalist and Indigenous Data keeper David R. Maracle (Tehanenia’kwe:tarons) of the Bear Clan performs his distinctive musical model of Indigenous fusion. In his artwork, he brings the animal sounds of the Indigenous forest to life, together with Bear, Wolf, and Loon, in addition to incorporating the pure components of rain, rivers, hearth, winds, and thunder.
Fretless & Madeleine Rogers (August 21)
The Fretless & Madeleine Rogers will entertain with a program of music that features takes fiddling and people melodies into preparations with a distinctly modern sound Fretless is Trent Freeman, Karrnnel Sawitsky, Ben Plotnick and Eric Wright, and along with singer Madeleine Rogers as they remodel traditions into a singular trendy sound. That is Biglake’s first co-production with The Regent Theatre.
BIGLAKE’s fifth Birthday Gala (August 22)
BIGLAKE celebrates its birthday Viennese model with the 16-piece BIGLAKE Chamber Ensemble. This system options 18th century music by Mozart, J. Strauss Jr., and Heidrich. The gala live performance takes place within the stunning gardens at The Eddie, a 78-acre farm property.
Octets (August 23)
Performers Mihaela Martin, violin, Elissa Lee, violin, Blues Dangle, violin, Helen Y, violin, Sebastian Krunnies, viola, (TBS, viola), Bryan Cheng, cello and Trey Lee, cello will carry out works that composers Enescu and Mendelssohn wrote throughout their youthful days.
- Tickets for BIGLAKE Summer time Season can be found as of April 26; discover the tickets and the total schedule [HERE].
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