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Faculty reference files

Subseries consists of reference files for various staff and faculty at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. These files were maintained by the promotions office (primarily by Edith Binnie, promotions officer, 1963-1984) and used in the creation of promotional material, including the Faculty's newsletter. Files include memorandums, correspondence, contracts for performances outside of the Faculty, news clippings about activities at the Faculty, and reports on activities and special projects.

Subseries includes files on the following individuals and ensembles: William Aide, Michael Albano, Amici, Raffi Armenian, John Arpin, Gianetta Baril, Lee Bartel, John Beckwith, Boris Berlin, Melvin Berman, Edith Ann Binnie, Douglas Bodle, Russell Braun, Dennis Brott, Walter Buczynski, James Campbell, Ronald Chandler, Stephen Chenette, Gustav Ciamaga, Martha Collins, Steve Dann, Victor Danchenko, Andrew Dawes, Alex Dean, Bernard Diamant, Daniel Domb, Mark DuBois, John Edwards, David Elliott, Barry Elmes, Robin Engelman, Robert Falck, Victor Feldbrill, Lorand Fenyves, Fenyves-Orloff-Parr Trio, Harry Freedman, Ann Cooper Gay, Rivka Golani, Nicholas Goldschmidt, John Greer, Gryphon Trio, Doreen Hall, Christos Hatzis, John Hawkins, Nancy Hermiston, David Hetherington, Pierre Hetu, Derek Holman, Andrew Hughes, Barney Ingraham, Elmer Iseler Singers, Jacques Israelievitch, Wayne Jeffery, Irene Jessner, Gaynor Jones, Eli Kassner, Talivaldis Kenins, Patricia Kern, James Kippen, Lothar Klein, Zoltan Kodaly, Norbert Kraft, Anton Kuerti, Gary Kulesha, Jeanne Lamon, Rosemarie Landry, Lorne Lofsky, Judy Loman, Che Anne Loewen, Boris Lysenko, Lorna MacDonald, Ernest MacMillan, Rika Maniates, Stacey McCartney, Rob McConnell, Lois McDonall, Timothy McGee, Deborah Milsom, Thomas Monahan, Oskar Morawetz, Carl Morey, Mike Murley, Daniel Neff, Nexus, Phil Nimmons, Harvey Olnick, Orford String Quartet, Vladimir Orloff, Patricia Parr, Dennis Patrick, Roy Patterson, Paul Pedersen, Joel Quarrington, Louis Quilico, Stephen Ralls, Doreen Rao, Erika Raum, Paul Read, Gary Relyea, Godfrey Ridout, Eugene Rittich, Shauna Rolston, George Sawa, Ezra Schabas, Pat Shand, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Nora Shulman, Suzanne Shulman, Pierre Souvairan, Scott St. John, Richard Summers, David Tanner, Ivars Taurins, Colin Tilney, Toronto Consort, Joaquin Valdepenas, Cameron Walter, John Weinzweig, William Wright, David Zafer.

University of Toronto Wind Symphony

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the Wind Symphony, conducted by Stephen Chenette, in the MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Fanfare of pride and joy for twelve trumpets and band / Tibor Polgar
  • Ensembles for winds / Gary Kulesha
  • Out of the blues / John Weinzweig
  • Elastic band studies in four movements / John Beckwith
  • Prologue and dramatic music for winds and percussion / Donald Coakley
  • Batuque / Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, transc. Richard L. Wolfson
  • El salon Mexico / Aaron Copland, transc. Mark Hindsley
  • Sensemaya / Silvestre Revueltas, transc. Frank Benriscutto.

Contemporary Music Ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Robin Engelman, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Nogaku / Mark Hand
  • Suspended rain / Hand
  • Angel dance / Hand
  • Sources / Hand
  • Jazz music / Gary Kulesha
  • Pearls / Alexina Louie
  • Aria / Joseph Landers
  • Folk songs / Luciano Berio.

David Bourque, bass clarinet and basset horn

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by David Bourque with Patricia Krueger, piano; Young dae Park and Seymon Pertovsky, violins; Daniel Blackman, viola; and Kirk Worthington, cello, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Duo / Gary Kulesha
  • The girl with the flaxen hair ; Golliwog's cake walk ; Minstrels / Claude Debussy, arr. Kulesha
  • Ghosts for bass clarinet, piano, electronics and tape / Gary Kulesha
  • Quintet, K. 581 / W.A. Mozart.

The University Symphony Chorus and The Contemporary Music Ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University Symphony Chorus, conducted by Doreen Rao, and the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Pierre Hetu and Gary Kulesha, in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Quartino / Henryk Gorecki
  • With how sad steps / Owen Underhill
  • An island in the moon / David Bedford
  • Cosmopolitan suite / Chan Ka Nin
  • The unanswered question / Charles Ives
  • Songs of the lights / Imant Raminsh
  • Shaman songs / Gary Kulesha.

Faculty artists series

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Performers: Errol Gay, conductor ; Julie Ranti, flute ; Clare Scholtz, Frank Murphy, oboe ; David Bourque, Raymond Luedeke, Joseph Orlowski, clarinet ; Joan Watson, Richard Cohen, horn ; Stephen Mosher, Mitch Clarke, bassoon ; James Gardiner, Norman Engel, trumpet ; Edward Tait, bass.

Program:

  • The Barber of Seville. Overture / Gioachino Rossini
  • Three bagatelles / Gary Kulesha
  • Octet / Igor Stravinsky
  • Serenade no. 11 in E-flat, K. 375 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Northern lights

File consists of a program and recording of a concert by the University of Toronto Chamber Singers, conducted by Doreen Rao, in Victoria College Chapel and Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Nukapianquak / adapted by Stephen Hatfield
  • Two Innuit songs / Sid Robinovitch
  • Shaman songs / Gary Kulesha
  • Regina coeli, KV 267 / W.A. Mozart
  • The garden of Seraglio / Wilhelm Stenhammar
  • Who can sail? / arr. Agnestig
  • Domaredansen / arr. Hallberg
  • Shout the glad tidings / Ned Rorem
  • Gloria / Thomas Weelkes
  • Gloria / Imant Raminsh
  • Gloria / Dominick Argento
  • Songs of South Africa / Traditional (Kathy Armstrong, guest artist).

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and a recording of a concert by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Gary Kulesha, in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • 3 mob pieces / H.K. Gruber
  • Quintettino / Arvo Part
  • Wonderland duets / Raymond Luedeke
  • Chamber symphony / Ellen Zwillich
  • Trio sonata / Lothar Klein
  • From the Chinese restaurant / Joep Straesser
  • Ogoun Badagris / Christopher Rouse.

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and recording from a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Canzona for wind and percussion / John McCabe
  • Cantos del Tucuman / Alberto Ginastera
  • Interphase / Michael S. Horwood
  • Hommage a Pierre / Edison Denisov
  • Music for mallets, voices, and organ / Steve Reich.

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Treveleyan suite / Malcolm Arnold
  • Building networks / Chester Jankowksi
  • 3 pieces, op. 11 / Arnold Schoenberg
  • Trio / Halsey Stevens
  • Ritmicas nos. 5 and 6 / Amadeo Roldan
  • Laudes Creationis. text by Emily Dickinson ; text by e.e. cummings / Derek Holman
  • Rain tree / Toru Takemitsu.

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Trio for flute, cello, and piano / Vagn Holboe
  • Klavierstuck no. 1 / Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • HPSCD / Gustav Ciamaga
  • Boham for percussion ensemble / Christopher Rouse
  • We must leave / Markos Lekkas
  • Scenes from a jade terrace / Alexina Louie
  • Concerto for piano and woodwind quintet / John McCabe.

Contemporary music ensembles

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • To be sung upon the water. Excerpts / Dominick Argento
  • 15 pieces for harp. Excerpts / John Weinzweig
  • Music for an imaginary musical / John Hawkins (premiere)
  • 2 pieces / Edison Denisov
  • 2 pieces for two pianos / Alan Hovhaness
  • 7 romances on poems of Alexander Blok / Dmitri Shostakovich.

A concert of electroacoustic music

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • For G: / Gustav Ciamaga
  • Images / David Myska
  • Wee hour in "E" / Otto Joachim
  • Ghosts / Gary Kulesha
  • Views beyond... / Dennis Patrick
  • Three women / Maurice Methot
  • The Mega4Mega4 / Christos Hatzis.

A concert in honour of John Hawkins 50th birthday

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Waves for soprano and piano / Hawkins (Teri Dunn, soprano ; Stephen Clarke, piano)
  • Etudes for two pianos / Hawkins (Bruce Mather, Pierrette Lepage, piano)
  • substance-of-we-feeling / Hawkins (Bob Becker, David Carlisle, percussion)
  • Music for an imaginary musical (Contemporary Music Ensemble ; Gary Kulesha, director).

Contemporary music ensembles

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensembles, conducted by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Five Hungarian folk songs / Bela Bartok
  • Axe, axe, and associates / Walter Buczynski
  • Cryin' time / Bob Becker
  • 3 romances / Wilhelm Killmayer
  • Suite, op. 25 / Arnold Schoenberg
  • The flower's longing for the moon / Mariko Kabe.

Music with friends : chamber music by Gary Kulesha

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall.

Program:

  • Night music (Erika Tanner, soprano ; Gary Kulesha, piano)
  • Trio for violin, cello, and piano (Mark Skazinetsky, violin ; Shauna Rolston, cello ; Gary Kulesha, piano)
  • ...and dark time flowed by her like a river (Shauna Rolston, cello ; Stephen Clarke, piano)
  • Mysterium coniunctionis (Ray Luedeke, clarinet ; David Bourque, bass clarinet ; Gary Kulesha, piano)
  • Second sonata for piano (Stephen Clarke, piano).

Contemporary music ensembles

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensembles, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Piece for solo harp / John Farah
  • Nonet / Leslie Bassett
  • ...from "The trail of beauty" / David Amram
  • Le jeu des contraires / Henri Dutilleux
  • Four pieces for flute and piano / Jacques Hetu
  • Offenes Lied / Jon Rea
  • Rhapsody / Charles Martin Loeffler.

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Gary Kulesha and Cindy Babyn, with artistic directors William Aide, Edward Laufer, and Cindy Babyn.

Program:

  • Sonata for pianoforte no. 2 / Alexander Rapoport (John Kruspe, piano) (world premiere)
  • String quartet no. 2 / Alasdair MacLean (Alumni String Quartet : Karen Graves, Valerie Selander, violins ; Elspeth Thomson, viola ; Mary-Katharine Finch, cello)
  • String quartet / Dustin O'Neil (Alumni String Quartet)
  • String things. Second movement / Michael Janzen (Alumni String Quartet)
  • Of bells, birds and bees : an Emily Dickenson quilt / Lothar Klein (Lorna MacDonald, soprano ; Jean McPhail, alto ; Stuart Hamilton, piano).
  • The happy hunter / Larysa Kuzmenko (Patrick Burwell, actor, narrator ; Larissa Szepetyk, soprano ; Ryan Scott, percussion ; Larysa Kuzmenko, piano).

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Invocation and ceremony / Gary Kulesha
  • Piece for bass trombone and piano / Brian Tate
  • A charm of lullabies. Selections / Benjamin Britten
  • Nonet / Fisher Tull
  • From Jewish folk poetry. Selections / Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Danse da la fureur, pour les sept trompetts ; Abime des oiseaux ; Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin dus temps / Olivier Messiaen.

New Music Festival : Music by student composers

File consists of a program and recording of a concert as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Gary Kulesha and Cindy Babyn, with artistic directors William Aide, Edward Laufer, and Cindy Babyn.

Program:

  • Machine / Kristen Gilbert
  • Falling / Daffyd Hughes
  • Loon echo. Loon echo reunion ; The unkindest cut ; The cobweb / David Kaye
  • Three very distinct pieces for brass trio / Frank Horvat
  • Away / Janet Stachow.

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Gary Kulesha and Cindy Babyn, with artistic directors William Aide, Edward Laufer, and Cindy Babyn.

Program:

  • String quartet / Michael Mulder (New Music Festival String Quartet : Marc Sabat, Dominique Laplante, violin ; Doug Perry, viola ; Paul Widner, cello)
  • B-Free no. 2 / Boris Despot (New Music Festival String Quartet)
  • Night song / John Hawkins (New Music Festival String Quartet ; James Westman, baritone ; Jurij Konje, marimba)
  • Fantaisie / Paul Pedersen (Gino Bielansky, art)
  • Shoko no sho / Dennis Patrick (Kimberley Giffen, accordion).

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Gary Kulesha and Cindy Babyn, with artistic directors William Aide, Edward Laufer, and Cindy Babyn.

Program:

  • Tenebrae factae sunt / Ramona Luengen (MacMillan Singers ; Markus Howard, conductor)
  • Fruhlingslied / Luengen (same as above)
  • Piano sonata no. 6 / Walter Buczynski (Buczynski, piano)
  • Soulmate / Chan Ka Nin (Steven Dann, viola)
  • A short odyssey / Ron Royer (Simon Fryer, cello ; Lydia Wong, piano)
  • ...And dark time flowed by her like a river... / Gary Kulesha (same as above).

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Gary Kulesha and Cindy Babyn, with artistic directors William Aide, Edward Laufer, and Cindy Babyn.

Program:

  • Three movements for clarinet and piano / Chan Ka Nin (Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Susan Archibald, piano)
  • Palette a deux / Phil Nimmons (Alex Dean, alto saxophone ; Chris Richardson, Andrew Jones, Leonard Winsor, Darren Sigesmund, saxophones ; Roy Patterson, guitar ; Andrew Downing, bass ; David Direnzo, drums)
  • Claverium, for piano and tape / Boris Despot (Erik Ross, piano)
  • Of threads and labyrinths / Christos Hatzis (Joseph Salvalaggio, oboe ; Lori Gemmell, harp ; tape).

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Choros no. 7 / Heitor Villa Lobos
  • Trio for brass / Meinrad Schmitt
  • Pieces d'Audition / Jean-Michel Defaye
  • Tanzuite / Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Piece for violin and piano / John Fodi
  • Ballade for piano / Samuel Barber
  • Quartet / Anton von Webern.

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Sonata for ten wind instruments / James Tenney
  • Two pieces for three instruments / Edison Denisov
  • Improvisation no. 1 / Ryo Noda
  • The owl and the pussycat / Igor Stravinsky
  • Wedding song / John Corigliano
  • Waltz / Charles Ives
  • Rhapsody / Arthur Honegger
  • Conversations for three guitars / John Weinzweig
  • Hommage a Pierre / Edison Denisov.

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Cindy Babyn and Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Cello sonata / Larysa Kuzmenko (Simon Fryer, cello ; Lydia Wong, piano)
  • PS 42 JS ; Duologue for clarinet and accordion / Phil Nimmons (Ameene Shishakly, clarinet ; Joe Macerollo, accordion)
  • Vlahic impression / Igor Vrabac (Maria Gacesa, clarinet; Dusan Paunovic, accordion; David Direnzo, Allan Hetherington, percussion; Igor Vrabac, synthesizer)
  • I think that I shall never see... / Chan Ka Nin (Max Christie, clarinet ; Simon Fryer, cello ; Dong Dong Dong, piano).

Contemporary music ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Concertantes / Harald Genzmer
  • Saudade no. 3 / Roland Dyens
  • Trois poemes / Andre Jolivet
  • Capriccio / Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Nocturne / Murray Adaskin
  • Nonet / Walter Piston
  • Sonata for alto saxophone and piano / Edison Denisov.

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Cindy Babyn and Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • The escape to the peaceful land / Wendy Lee (Stephen Tam, flute ; Sarah Jeffrey, oboe ; Lucy Chuang, clarinet ; Darren Kirkpatrick, horn ; Lisa Griffiths, bassoon)
  • Technology breakdown / Jacob Stokes (Nana Jokura, violin ; Matt Swoboda, cello ; Julia Cleveland, Nathan Archer, percussion ; Nevawn Patrick, trombone ; Michael Westwood, conductor)
  • Orbiting gardens / Christos Hatzis (Stephen Clarke, piano)
  • Incantations / Lothar Klein (University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble)
  • Work for cello and piano / David Kaye (Simon Fryer, cello ; Lydia Wong, piano)
  • Nostos / Edward Laufer (Teri Dunn, soprano ; Shelly Brown, alto flute ; Max Christie, bass clarinet ; Simon Fryer, cello ; John Hawkins, piano).

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Cindy Babyn and Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Continuum: Echo / Ronald Bruce Smith, Chris Paul Harman, Wendy Prezament, Micheline Roi, F. Tim Knight, Boris Despot, Jocelyn Morlock (Ann Thompson, flute ; Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Mark Fewer, violin ; Paul Widner, cello ; Stephen Clarke, piano ; Bill Brennan and Erin Donovan, percussion ; Rosemary Thomson, conductor).

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Cindy Babyn and Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • An old song of the sun adn the moon ; The fear of loneliness / Paul Pedersen (Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Nancy Wood, flute ; Christina Petrowska, piano)
  • Synthetic trios / John Beckwith (Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Ameene Shishakly, clarinet ; Christina Petrowska, piano)
  • Nightcrawl / Dennis Patrick
  • Viola sonata / Sasha Rapoport (Kathy Rapoport, viola ; Elizabeth Acker, piano) (world premiere)
  • Ash roses / Derek Holman (Barbara Hannigan, soprano ; Che Anne Loewen, piano).

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Cindy Babyn and Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • The August collection : 24 preludes for piano / Walter Buczynski
  • The years were 1946-1951 : songs for baritone and piano / Walter Buczynski (Walter Buczynski, piano ; Bruce Kelly, baritone).

New Music Festival

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall as part of the New Music Festival, directed by Cindy Babyn and Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Songs for the sisters / Philip Loosemore
  • Various tones / Chris Matey (Kay Royer, clarinet ; Michel Allard, piano)
  • Parodies and travesties / John Weinzweig (MEasha Gosman, soprano ; Jessica Lloyd, mezzo soprano ; Christina Petrowska, piano)
  • TBA / Nexus (Bill Cahn, Robin Engelman, John Wyre, Bob Becker, Russell Hartenberger ; Lee Stevens, guest percussion).

Contemporary Music Ensemble

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Septuor / Charles Koechlin
  • Toys / Carl Ruggles
  • Plesnl Kurplowskie. Excerpts / Karol Szymanowski
  • Septet / Conlon Nancarrow
  • Five songs / George Anthell
  • Elegy, op. 45, no. 1 / Nicolai Medtner
  • Octandre / Edgard Varese
  • Cinq melodies / Federico Mompou
  • Four songs / Hanns Eisler.

Thursday noon series : music of a life so far

File consists of a program and recording of a concert in Walter Hall by Simon Fryer, cello and Lydia Wong, piano.

Program:

  • "...and dark time flowed by her like a river..." (1995) / Gary Kulesha
  • "A Dream within a Dream" (1993) / Larysa Kuzmenko
  • "Kottos" (1977) / Iannis Xenakis
  • "A Short Odyssey" (1996) / Ronald Royer.

The last duel

File consists of a program and recording of a production of The Last Duel by Gary Kulesha, libretto by Michael Patrick Albano.

Performers: Raffi Armenian, conductor ; Michael Patrick Albano, director ; Fred Perruzza, stage design ; Diane McCann-Davis, costume design ; Allison Grant, choreographer ; Sandra Horst, assistant conductor ; David Ambrose, Anja Nicldich, assistant directors ; Emily Hamper, Andrea Grant, John Hess, musical preparation ; members of the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus (Ann Cooper Gay, director).

New music festival : concert 2 and symposium on post modernism and beyond

File consists of a recording of the concert, which was part of the New Music Festival.

Performers: Vincent Ho, piano ; Scott St. John, violin; Simon Fryer, cello; Lydia Wong, piano ; Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin; Scott Sr John, viola; Roman Boots, cello ; Composers choir; Petar Dundjerski, conductor ; Susan Hoeppner, flute; Rob D'Orante, oboe; Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Nadina Jackson, bassoon ; Joan Watson, horn ; Ilya Poletaei piano ; Max Christie, clarinet; William Aide, piano ; Jens Lindemann, trumpet; Scott St. John, violin; Max Mandel, viola; Shauna Rolston, cello; John Kruspe, piano.
Symposium Panel: Christos Hatzis, John Beckwith, Chris Paul Harman, Paul Steenhuisen ; Chaired by Professor Gustav Ciamaga.

Program:

  • Three Scenes of Childhood. 1. Playtime 2. An Afternoon Nap 3. The Tantrum / Vincent Ho
  • Trio / David Litke
  • String Trio / Gary Kulesha
  • Kantata "Stabat Mater". Quam tristis / Katarina Curcin
  • Sextet / Roger Bergs
  • Special Presentation by the Martin Hunter Foundation
  • Dance, Improvisation and Song / John Hawkins
  • Blue Continuum / John Beckwith.
  • Symposium

Big noise

File consists of a program and recording of the concert by the Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Gary Kulesha.

Program:

  • Overture on Hebrew themes (1919) / Sergei Prokofiev (Carlos Melendez, clarinet ; Galiano Quartet (Sarah Pratt, Shane Kim, violins ; Jeewon Kim, viola ; Jenny Yoon, cello) ; Gary Kulesha, piano)
  • Hymns no. 2 and no. 4 / Alfred Schnittke (Matt Swoboda, cello ; Brian Baty, bass ; Amber Hill, bassoon ; Luis Manuel Garcia, harpsichord ; Cecile Denis, harp ; Michael Gambacurta, timpani ; Charlene Jacks, bells)
  • Songs Probable and Improbable / Jasper Rooper (Angela Brubacher and Maria Knight, sopranos ; Elizabeth Janzen, piccolo ; Michael Gambacurta, percussion ; Gary Kulesha, piano)
  • Country Band March / Charles Ives (Elizabeth Janzen, flute and piccolo ; Carlos Melendez, clarinet ; Wallace Halladay, alto saxophone ; Donovan Fuller, trumpet ; Alex Eddington and Chris Richardson, trombones ; Aidan Pendleton, Katerina Kim, Michael Pallett, Kate Unrau, violins ; Michael Olsen, Monika Kulkowska, cellos ; Brian Baty, bass ; John Roney, piano ; Michael Gambacurta, percussion ; Gary Kulesha, piano)
  • Octet / Galina Ustvolskaya (John Roney, piano ; Rob D'Orante, Lief Mosbaugh, oboes ; Aidan Pendleton, Katerina Kim, Michael Pallett, Kate Unrau, violin ; Michael Gambacurta, timpani ; Gary Kulesha, conductor)
  • Kammermusik no. 1, op. 24 (1922) / Paul Hindemith (Elizabeth Janzen, flute, piccolo ; Carlos Melendez, clarinet ; Amber Hill, bassoon ; Donovan Fuller, trumpet ; David Carovillano, accordion ; Michael Gambacurta, percussion ; John Roney, piano ; Aidan Pendleton, Michael Pallett, violins ; Jeewon Kim, viola ; Michael Olsen, cello ; Brian Baty, bass ; Gary Kulesha, conductor).

A concert of electroacoustic music from the EMS : Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

File consists of a program and recording of the concert with Dylan Benson, marimba and Scott St. John, violin.

Program:

  • The Young Line / Guy Obrecht
  • Contraposition / Abigail Richardson
  • Mlado Monme / Katarina Curcin
  • Duo de concert for two saxophones and tape / Christopher Whitney
  • Angels for marimba and tape / Gary Kulesha
  • An ounce of perception / Peter Olsen
  • Theshold for clarinet and tape / Lusiana Lukman
  • Six Species of Movement. Open ; Play Lizst ; Flowing ; Merge ; Process ; Rusty Wind / Guy Obrecht
  • Silhouette for violin and tape / Craig Galbraith.

Faculty artist series : new music festival : concert 1

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: Danny Tones ; Michael Gambacurta ; Dave Mayer ; Colin Webster ; Rebecca Sajo ; Charlene Jack ; Julia Cleveland, percussionists ; Michael Pallett, conductor ; Scott St. John, violin ; Cladine Guidoin, viola ; John Roney, piano ; Fanny Tang, viola ; Brad Stark, piano ; Allison Hayners, horn ; Crystal Brown, trombone ; Michael Medeiros, tuba ; Maria Aimoniotis, voice ; Christina Parvu, piano ; Elizabeth Janzen, flute ; Rebecca Sayo, clarinet ; Aidan Pendleton, violin ; Michael Olsen, violoncello ; Kristen Mueller, piano ; Gary Kulesha, conductor.

Program:

  • Isaiah yes I can / Michael Pallett
  • Romance and tango / Lothar Klein
  • Humoresque / Alex Eddington
  • Three pieces for viola and piano / Yuko Okunuki
  • "run, David, the ocean is growing (and will drink us)"/ Chris Mayo
  • The last ballade / Constantinos Caravassilis
  • Habenera / Jacquelin Seo.

Faculty artist series : new music festival : concert 2

File consists of a recording of the concert.

Performers: Scott St. John, violin ; Tanya Gerl, violin ; Sarah Fraser, violin ; Pamela Marks, violin ; Ann Amin, viola ; Janusz Barowiec, violoncello ; Anita Walsh, violin ; Aidan Pendleton, viola ; Simon Fryer, violoncello ; Christine Haldane, soprano ; Yifan Shi, piano ; Anita Walsh, violin ; Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Lake Potter, horn ; Scott St. John, violin ; Anita Walsh, violin ; Aidan Pendleton, viola ; Simon Fryer, violoncello ; Gary Kulesha, conductor.

Program:

  • Duet / John Weinzweig
  • String quartet no. 1 / Brad Stark
  • String quartet no. 1 : state of emergency / David Ogborn
  • Dr. Faustus / Larysa Kuzmenko
  • A farewell for string quartet / Joanne Bender
  • Duet for clarinet and horn / Brian Harman
  • Three significant landscapes for string quartet / Andrew Staniland
  • String quartet no. 3 / Chan Ka Nin.

Faculty artist series : new music festival : concert 3

File consists of a recording of the concert.

Performers: Lake Potter, horn ; Maria Gacesa, clarinet ; Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Dylan W. Benson, marimba ; Mireille Lebel, Grusha ; Michael Dobkin, guitar ; Michael Gambacurta, percussion ; Dennis Patrick, piano ; Diane Aitken, flute ; Clare Scholtz, oboe ; Nadina Jackson, bassoon ; Tori Lindsay, violin ; Nadia Klein, violoncello ; Alice Wong, piano ; Lynn Kuo, violin ; Rafael Hoekman, violoncello ; Greg Williams, clarinet ; Rachelle Risling, piano ; Charles Fowler, tenor ; Robert Kortgaard, piano ; The Canadian Bras, (Jens Lindemann, trumpet ; Ryan Anthony, trumpet ; Jeff Nelson, French Horn ; Gene Watts, trombone ; Chuck Daellenbach, tuba) ; Gary Kulesha, piano ; Beverley Johnston, marimba.

Program:

  • Postlude / Scott Good
  • Threshold, for clarinet and tame / Luisiana Lukman
  • Melisma / Christos Hatzis
  • De profundis for solo marimba / Roger Bergs
  • Trio for violin, cello and piano / Gavan Quinn
  • Four songs from Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle / Dennis Patrick
  • Woodwind Quintet / David Litke
  • Illumination / Richard Mascall
  • From Nostalgia to madness / Abigail Richardson
  • Jazz music for brass quintet, piano and percussion / Gary Kulesha.

Contemporary music ensemble

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Performers: Contemporary Music Ensemble ; Gary Kulesha, director ; Maghan Stewart, soprano ; Elizabeth Janzen, flute ; Nanami Hasegawa, oboe ; Rebecca Sajo, clarinet ; Christy Havens, bassoon ; Brian Vincent, trumpet ; Gary Kulesha, conductor ; Cecile Denis, harp ; Michael Gambacurta, bass drum ; Sara Hahn, flute ; Christina Chen, oboe ; Shawn Pellegrin D'Olivio, clarinet ; Cristy Havens, bassoon ; Renee Berard, bassoon ; Scott Wevers, horn ; Aidan Pendleton, violin ; Michael Pallet, violin ; Charlene Yeh, viola ; Shannon Knights, viola ; Michael Olsen cello ; Marion Arthur, cello ; Angela Brubacher, soprano ; Roger Bergs, piano ; Nanami Hasegawa, oboe ; Rebecca Sajo, clarinet ; Christy Havens, bassoon ; Scott Wevers, horn ; Michael Pallett, violin ; Jacquelin Seo, vilin ; Charlene Yeh, viola ; Marion Arthur, cello ; Elke Mau, bass ; mireille Lebel, voice ; Sara Hahn, flute, piccolo ; Rebecca Sajo, clarinet, bass clarinet ; Aidan Pendleton, violin, vial ; Michael Olsen, cello ; Kristin Mueller, piano

Program:

  • Quatre poemes de Max Jacob / Francis Poulenc
  • In distance / Tan Dun
  • Eight instrumental miniatures for 15 players / Igor Stravinsky
  • Forward flock of Jesus / Charles Ives
  • Per nove strumenti / Wilhelm Killmayer
  • Pierrot Lunaire. Selections / Arnold Schoenberg.

Thursday noon series : student brass ensembles

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Performers: Student Brass Ensembles ; Worcester Brass (Eddie Phillips, Lori Dyer, trumpet ; Stephanie Braet, horn ; Nancy Antram, trombone ; Kevin Fleming, bass trombone) ; Two-Tone Brass (Shauna Garelick, Chris Griffin, trumpet ; Chrissie Hough, horn ; Tanya Sudy, trombone ; Scott MacInnes, bass trombone) ; Wagner Tuba Quartet (Stephanie Braet, Danielle Buckwalter, David Haskins, Scott Wevers) ; Buchwalter Brass (Nora Nolan, Ryan Baker, trumpet ; Danielle Buchwalter, horn ; Crystal Brown, trombone ; Michael Medeiros, tuba) ; Huron Brass (Eve Eracleous, Ted Clark, trumpet ; David Haskins, horn ; Alex Eddington, trombone ; Alicia Broomhead, tuba) ; Trombone Choir ; Frank Harmantas, director.

Program:

  • Canzona per sonare no. 5 / Giovani Gabrieli
  • Resonances / Bernard Schule
  • Andante / Anton Bruckner
  • The girl with the flaxen hair / Debussy ; arr. Gary Kulesha
  • Th marquis of granby / Eric Ewazen
  • Scherzo / Verne Reynolds
  • Panis Angelicus / Melchior Frank
  • Die Widerspruch / Franz Schubert.

Small wonders

File consists of a program and recording of the concert by the Contemprary Music Ensemble ; Gary Kulesha, director.

Program:

  • In zwei teilen. Teil 1 (no. 5) / kunsu Shim
  • Angels / Carl Ruggles
  • Rise / Scott Good
  • Three madrigals / Alfred Schnittke
  • Concerto, op. 24 / Anton Webern
  • Warnung mit Liebeslied / Gerhard Staebler
  • 3 pieces for chamber orchestra / Arnold Schoenberg
  • Concerto, op. 24 / Anton Webern
  • From nourlangie / Peter Sculthorpe
  • Angels / Carl Ruggles
  • in zwei teilen. Teil 2 (no. 42) / Kunsu Shim.

Chamber music by Alexander Goehr

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Performers: Evgeny Moryatov, violin ; Stephen Clarke, piano ; Rafael Hoekman, cello ; Gregory Oh, piano ; Aidan Pendleton, viola ; Greg Millar, piano ; Angela Park, piano ; Sara Hahn, flute ; Nanami Hasegawa, oboe, english horn ; Peter Stoll, clarinet ; Anthony Pezzetti, bassoon, Lake Porter, horn ; Dewi Minden, trumpet ; Scott Gook, trombone ; Elke Mau, double bass ; Gary Kulesha, conductor.

Program:

  • Suite, op. 70
  • Cello sonata, op. 45
  • Sur terre, en l'air, op. 64.
  • ...in real time, op. 50
  • Lyric pieces, op. 35

New music festival : concert 7 : final concert

File consists of a program and recording of the concert, which took place at Walter Hall.

Performers: Ben Seyler, piano ; Shauna Rolston, cello ; Scott St. John, violin, viola ; Sydia Wong, piano ; Peter Stoll, clarinet ; William Aide, piano ; Susan Hoeppner, flute ; Lydia Wong, piano ; Sanya Eng, harp ; Christina Haldane, voice ; Kerry DuWors, violin ; Aidan Pendleton, viola ; Simon Fryer, cello ; Kristin Mueller, soprano ; Anna-Louise Moorman, piano ; Michael Gambacurta, percussion ; Gary Kulesha, conductor.

Program:

  • L'esprit d'escalier, movements I and III / Owen Pallett
  • Caged elements / Lusiana Lukman
  • Shadows in the cave / Dewi Minden
  • Spring window / Brian Harman
  • Images entre nous / Phil Nimmons
  • Nadir / Christos Hatzis
  • Serenade in iceberg / Jacqueline Seo
  • Coeurs blases / Kyle Lamont
  • String trio no. 2 / Benjamin Heaslip
  • Till the sharp sudden starless still / Andrew Staniland.
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