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Volume 3 Issue 4 - December 1997/January 1998

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.. Musician in our midst: portrait #7 . On our cover this month: Valerie Kuinka Her first love, musically speaking, is chamber music. The demands of life, however, have frequently put her in the pit as a violist with the Canadian Opera Company and National Ballet Company orchestras, and on stage with the Esprit Orchestra. A Toronto native, she studied first at the U. ofT. Faculty of Music with Terry Hellmer and Rivka Golani and then at the University of Michigan with Doriald Mclnnes. In addition to her musical talent Valerie also has a very resourceful side. Soon after joining the McGill Club a couple of years ago she noticed an ad in its newsletter for "volunteer professional musicians." Undaunted by the implicit suggestion that professional musicians were happy to volunteer their professional services - how, she mused, would an ad for "volunteer professional lawyers" have been received? - she contacted the phone number in the ad. The end result - a series of five Sunday brunch chamber music concerts - given by paid professional musicians at the McGill Club, starting in February, 1996. The series resumes in the new year on January 18 (see listings for details.) Just last year she was invited to run a chamber music series at Harbourfront. In the new series, called "Collaborations", which began last year she has been able to experiment, combine standard chamber music repertoire with dance, poetry or visual effects: for example last February's concert brought together narrator, Veronica Tennant, percussionist, Beverly Johnston and choreographer, Robert Campanella in a performance on the theme of water, including Patrick Cardy's The Little Memzaid. An outstanding feature of this series is that it always includes a work composed especially for the event. The Collaborations Series continues in 1998 with a concert on January ' 11, "Introspection, a voyage of introspection from a woman's point of view, expressed through music of various styles, movement and some use of the spoken word." In addition to her work as an orchestral and chamber musician, she is adding opera stage direction to her repertoire. " For me this move," she explained, "is really a logical artistic progression. I have always thought visually about the music so I find the opera score suggests staging ideas to me." Valerie has just returned from Belgium where she has been apprenticing with director, Guy Joosten. This winter she will be directing Opera York's production of Leoncavallo's La Boheme and in July she will direct the Pacific Opera Company's production of Un Ballo in Maschera in Victoria. Valerie is a musical dynamo, who is making a unique contribution to the classical music resurgence in Toronto. Musicians in Our Midst is photographed by Michael Shaw, ASHLEY & CRJPPEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 200 DAVENPORT ROAD (416) 925-2222 ONLY COMPREHENSIVE MONTHLY CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY CONCERT LISTING SOURCE JOHN FEAT~ Recorder Center sheet music -:- recorders 984 Dovercourt Rd. Toronto, Ont. M6H 2X5 (416) 534-7931 everything for the recorder player

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