cont’d from p33 Some major pieces of the puzzle are however already in place. Three of Canada’s best known pianists – Janina Fialkowska, Marc- André Hamelin and Angela Hewitt – will open the festival on July 19 in Mozart’s Concerto for Three Pianos K242; the following day Eric Friesen will lead an informal conversation with them; and each will give a recital later in the Festival. Hamelin and the Penderecki Quartet will play Brahms’ Piano Quintet Op.34 – coincidentally the same piece that Charles Richard-Hamelin will be performing at Toronto Summer Music. The Gryphon Trio, who guested with Campbell at Collingwood two weeks earlier, will also put in an appearance, on July 25, in the Festival of the Sound (July 19 - August 5) playing Beethoven, Dvořák and Schubert’s much-loved Trio No.1 D898. David Perlman Ottawa Chamberfest (July 20 to August 3) Grammy Award-winning violinist, James Ehnes, opens the Chamberfest July 20, leading the NAC orchestra’s final concert of the season with a program of Bach’s violin concertos. One vocal concert double-header immediately leapt out of the calendar at me. On Friday July 28 at 7pm, in a program titled Wallis Giunta and Friends, Ottawa’s own mezzo superstar returns from Vienna to Dominion-Chalmers Centre in a program of Ravel, Chausson, Berio, Bernstein and Mazzoli, with Honens 2006 Laureate Hinrich Alpers on piano. “The Ravel is incandescent, the Chausson erupts in bolts of passion, the Mazzoli sparks and shimmers, the Bernstein lights the room on fire, and the Berio is charged with a palpable energy, building to a lightning fast finale” Giunta writes. Then at 9.30pm the same evening, in the festival’s Chamberfringe series, soprano Patricia O’Callaghan performs a song cycle titled Dark Butterflies, inspired by ancient folk melodies of Sweden, Turkey, Ireland, Asia and more. Composed by pianist David Braid for O’Callaghan (who wrote the text), the cycle will here be performed in a new arrangement for soprano and piano trio with (who else?) the peripatetic Gryphon Trio. Wallis Giunta Alpers comes into the Giunta recital having already played Beethoven’s last six piano sonatas at Chamberfest – Nos.27, 28 and 29 on July 22; Nos.30, 31 and 32 on July 26. If you miss the last three, you have three days to get to Stratford Summer Music, where Alpers will be playing them Sunday afternoon, July 30. Speaking of travel, nine days before the Ottawa Chamberfest begins on July 20, its artistic director, Carissa Klopoushak, will appear on the Walter Hall stage playing viola with the Ironwood Quartet as part of Toronto Summer Music. Collegial Canadians! Paul Ennis The WholeNote Who’s Who (see page 49) provides web links to profiles of summer festivals, summer music education, Ontario choirs, and more, and will be updated regularly as our Directory members’ plans for the summer, and beyond, are revealed. TIM DUNK 34 | Summer 2023 thewholenote.com
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