OPUS Chamber Music Returns With OPUS V: Change It UP On December 8

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L-R: Pianist and OPUS Creative Director Kevin Ahfat (Photograph: Donald van Hasselt); Flutist Anthony Trionfo (Photograph: Matt Dine); Violinist Luri Lee (Photograph: Stelth Ng); Cellist Peter Eom (Photograph: Lane Dorsey)

OPUS Chamber Music is one among Toronto’s latest chamber ensembles, they usually’ll be presenting their OPUS V: Change It Up live performance on December 8. The live performance will showcase the skills of violinist Luri Lee, cellist Peter Eom, flutist Anthony Trionfo, and pianist and OPUS Creative Director Kevin Ahfat.

This system options the work of eight composers not so acquainted to the informal concertgoer, and a theme of transformation and alter, with a thread of shock that runs by the musical picks.

The Music

The works for this system have been chosen as a result of they reimagined and remodeled music in numerous genres, on Broadway, in opera and movie and extra.

  • DAY Ecstatic Samba
  • PARKER Pan Goals
  • DESENNE Birimbao from Jaguar Songs
  • PRUTSMAN 4 Broadway Showtunes
  • HOLACKY Quartet
  • BORNE Carmen Fantasy
  • CLARKE Zoom Tube
  • DEE 2020: The Yr We Might Not Breathe
  • GERSHWIN/FROLOV Porgy & Bess Fantasy

The Artists

A quartet of artists will make the music come to life.

Kevin Ahfat, piano & Creative Director

Canadian pianist Kevin Ahfat studied on the Juilliard Institute, and is a two-time winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competitors. He adopted with research in-residence as a Rebanks Fellow on the Royal Conservatory. As a soloist and accompanist, he has carried out with the Esprit Orchestra and Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, l’Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières, and the Seattle, Bellevue, and Oakville Symphonies. He has additionally carried out at a number of competition, together with Music@Menlo, Rockport, Fall for Dance North, and the Kyoto Pageant.

As a chamber musician, Kevin performs and has recorded as a member of one of many three-times Grammy nominated ARC Ensemble, along with curating a live performance sequence as Creative Director of OPUS.

Anthony Trionfo, flute

A local of Las Vegas, Nevada, Anthony Trionfo started finding out the flute at age 11, and commenced performing with the Las Vegas Philharmonic as a soloist about three years later. Anthony’s profession took off after his 2016 First Prize win on the Younger Live performance Artists Susan Wadsworth Worldwide Auditions, and he subsequently made his YCA Sequence debuts at New York’s Merkin Live performance Corridor and Washington, DC’s Kennedy.

At this time, he performs as second flutist of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio, and has been on a number of excursions with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, along with performances and collaborations with ensembles such because the Jupiter Chamber Gamers and Seattle Symphony, amongst many others. Anthony is a Burkart Flutes & Piccolos artist and performs a 998 Elite silver flute with a 19.5kt gold headjoint. He’s an advocate for each new music and inclusion on the earth of classical music.

Peter Eom, cello

Cellist Peter Eom is a Presidential Scholar within the Arts and an Individuals for the Arts Roundtable Fellow. He’s the cellist of the acclaimed Rolston String Quartet, who gained first prize on the twelfth Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors. As a chamber musician, he’s collaborated with excessive profile artists and ensembles corresponding to Joshua Bell, Augustin Hadelich, David Shifrin, and members of the Dover, Emerson, Miró, and Tokyo String Quartets.

Peter is a champion of recent music and collaborative initiatives with different inventive disciplines. He has labored with choreographer Invoice T. Jones, filmmaker Larry Weinstein, designer Rosemarie Umetsu, and manor others. He just lately premiered Augusta Learn Thomas’ Magic Gardens for String Quartet within the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s Bicentennial.

Luri Lee, violin

Luri Lee has earned levels from the College of Toronto, Glenn Gould Faculty, Peabody Conservatory, and Rice College. She is Affiliate Principal Second Violin of the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra.

She has carried out as a soloist and chamber musician with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and on phases all through North America, Europe and Asia.

Luri is a founding member of the Rolston String Quartet, and as such, acquired Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and First Prize on the twelfth Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors. The quartet has toured all around the world, and carried out at Carnegie Corridor, the Louvre, the Kennedy Middle, Koerner Corridor, and Wigmore Corridor.

  • Discover extra data and tickets for the December 8 efficiency at Citadel+Compagnie (304 Parliament St) [HERE], and maintain February 2 open for his or her OPUS VI: Shostakovichfest which is able to happen a partnership with the Canadian Chamber Orchestra.

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