Master Piano Recital Series

Don't miss today's DOMS concert dedicated to the memory of the greatly revered violinist and teacher, Yehonatan Berick. The concert will feature music by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi and Beethoven and performed by Anna Baksheeva (violinist and one of Mr. Berick's students) and Frédérick Lacroix (piano). The concert starts today (Wednesday Dec 9) at 12 PM on the "Music at Southminster" page: https://www.facebook.com/MusicatSouthminster/live_videos/ YEHONATAN BERICK August 30, 1968 - Oc...tober 31, 2020 On October 31, 2020, the music world lost a truly gifted violinist and beloved pedagogue. Born in Israel on August 30, 1968, the young Yehonatan was noticed by Isaac Stern and studied with Ilona Feher, later working with Henry Meyer, Kurt Sassmanshauss, and Dorothy DeLay. Prizewinner at the 1993 Naumburg competition and the 1996-1997 Prix Opus, he established himself as a teacher, soloist, and chamber musician of distinction, performing in concert series throughout North America, Europe and Israel. Yehonatan completed his studies in Tel Aviv and Cincinnati before moving to Canada in the mid-1990s. Before coming to Ottawa, he taught at the University of Michigan, McGill University, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Toronto. Affectionately known to many as 'Big Y', he was adored for his brilliant mind, sense of humour, generous spirit, and passion for music. Being in his presence ensured laughter, sweet treats, hugs, insight, candor, and kindness. And, if you were lucky enough to find him with a fiddle in his large, yet extraordinarily agile hands, there would be music and magic. (Excerpted from The Globe and Mail) May he rest in peace and may his legacy live on.

Join in tomorrow at 12 noon for a live performance of VIVALDI's GLORIA as this week's offering in the DOMS free noon hour concert series. December 2 happens to be DOMS artistic director Roland Graham's birthday, so join him in celebrating that as well as the coming holiday season, the approaching end of 2020, and anything else on your mind! See you there!

Today's DOMS noon-hour concert will be streamed live from NYC by award-winning jazz pianist/accordionist, Ben Rosenblum, who will play an eclectic set of solo piano and accordion pieces exploring reflection and recovery, by artists including Tom Jobim, Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith, João Bosco, and more (see set list below). Ben Rosenblum has been described as mature beyond his years, (Sea of Tranquility), and an impressive talent (All About Jazz), who caresses the music ...with the reverence it merits (Downbeat Magazine). An internationally-touring bandleader, Rosenblum has performed with his trio throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. He was a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall's Stern-Perelman Auditorium with Maestro Reona Ito's New York Harmonic Band, and has appeared at numerous prestigious venues throughout the world, including at the Appel Room at Lincoln Center, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Ravinia, the Library of Congress, Bird's Eye in Basel, Switzerland and Himawari-No-Sato Concert Hall in Yokohama. DOMS Nov 18: SONGS OF REJUVENATION BEN ROSENBLUM, piano & accordano SETLIST Stack o Lee (Traditional) Águas de Março (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen) Between the Bars (Elliott Smith) O Bêbado e A Equilibrista (João Bosco/Aldir Blanc) Women of Ireland (Peadar Ó Doirnin/Seán Ó Riada) Tell Me What? (Ben Rosenblum) To hear the concert visit the Music at Southminster Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/MusicatSouthminster/live_videos/...) today at 12 noon. Support DOMS via: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/47147

Join us in 45 minutes for a DOMS livestream special Remembrance Day observance featuring songs and duets for voice, piano and violin with Maghan McPhee (soprano), Matthew Larkin (piano), Corey Arnold (tenor), and Adam Nelson (violin). Songs by Ager, Finzi, Messiaen, Copeland, Daely, and Britten. The live stream event will commence on the Music at Southminster page (https://www.facebook.com/MusicatSouthminster/live_videos/) at 11:55 AM

Join me in watching my good friend Dakota Martin play a solo flute recital, live from the shores of Patterson Lake in Lanark County. This is happening RIGHT NOW.

Information about Roland Graham's forthcoming online summer choral workshop! Check it out and share with friends!

I'm pleased to announce details of my forthcoming Online Summer Choral Workshop, running Jun 30 - Aug 4, for amateur choral singers seeking to make music togeth...er and develop new skills. The innovative six-week course has been specially developed to support people in sustaining artistic activity in light of COVID-19, employing a mix of live-streamed interactive rehearsals online, small-group rehearsal sessions (with social distancing) and private vocal coachings. MY GOALS The goals for the workshop are to promote a sense of community through group music making, teach inspiring pieces of choral music, offer a safe place to meet for people ready to resume singing in small groups, increase confidence using the internet as a medium for group interaction, and make artwork exploring emerging forms of virtual collaboration. OVERVIEW The course will entail six online workshop sessions, streamed through the platform of Facebook, accessible to anyone with internet access and a device such as a laptop computer or tablet. Online workshop sessions will include vocal warmups, remote group singing, guided study of workshop repertoire, explanation of the virtual performance (recording) process, vocal technique, and group interaction through live chatting, among other areas of focus. Optional small group in-person sessions of up to 10 people will be held in the Sanctuary of Southminster United Church, taking advantage of the large space to support physical distancing. Small group sessions will feel much like traditional, pre-COVID-19 choir rehearsals, and develop rhythm, breathing, listening, and singing-in-harmony skills at the core of live ensemble music making. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION There's a lot more to say but space is limited on this page! Please write to [email protected] or call 613-421-5362 to inquire or register.

Join us watching Noah Landers's live piano recital, happening right now on Music at Southminster:

Composed between 1929 and 1938, Francis Poulenc's Eight Nocturnes FP 56, form a cycle, with several of the movements depicting specific night-time scenes. Although intended for 'intermediate pianists', the music is tricky, and despite its tuneful character, not often played. Francis Poulenc (18991963) was a French composer and pianist well-known for his significant output of piano and chamber pieces, operas, ballets and Orchestra works. Hear Pianist Noah Landers play Poulenc's Nocturnes - all eight - live, tomorrow (Wednesday, June 17) at 12 PM on the Music at Southminster Facebook page.

Cécile Chaminade (18571944) was a French pianist and the first female composer to be awarded France's Légion d'Honneur. A comparatively large scale work by a composer better known for miniatures, her Sonata in C minor, Op. 21, was written early in her career as she worked to establish herself in the sophisticated musical landscape of Paris. The three-movement work written in the high-Romantic style helped to establish Chaminade as an equal among the many great French composers of her generation. Hear Pianist Noah Landers play it live tomorrow (Wednesday, June 17) at 12 PM on the Music at Southminster Facebook page.

Southminster's six-part piano series concludes today with "Enigmatic Journeys", featuring 26-year old Vietnamese-American pianist Alexander Le Bui playing a program of works by Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, and Edward Nelson. Known for sensational performances and standing ovations throughout his young piano career, including at 16 years of age on the TV show America's Got Talent, playing concerto performances with the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, and being featured as a guest arti...st on the WRTI Radio station in Philadelphia, Alexander's mission is to enlighten audiences of the beauty, excitement and enduring quality of the great classical composers whose music he interprets. He holds degrees in classical piano from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in classical piano at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Program Franz Schubert: Impromptu Op. 90-4 Franz Schubert Wanderer Fantasy in C major, Op. 15 Johannes Brahms Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79 Franz Liszt: Tarantella da Guillaume Louis Cottrau, S.162/3 Robert Schumann (arr. Franz Liszt): "Widmung" Edward Robert Nelson: Toccata Find details and viewing instructions in the event.

Meet tomorrow's MPRS performer, 26-year-old Alexander Bui, in his segment from America's Got Talent, acclaimed by judge Piers Morgan as without a doubt ... the most naturally talented person we’ve had all [that] year"!

Meet this Wednesday's (June 10) DOMS performers, mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Sadej and pianist Nadia Boucher. Katarzyna Sadej enjoys an active international career ...spanning concert repertoire, opera, chamber music, oratorio, film, recital and voice over performance. Last season, she sang Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the NAC Orchestra under Alexander Shelley. She has sung for many of the world’s renowned stages and festivals, participating in numerous world premieres including over a dozen new works composed especially for her. Upcoming highlights include a performance as Our Lady of the Kitchen in a 2020 feature film documentary of the same name and, a CD release of the complete 33 Derwid songs by Witold Lutosawski. www.katarzynasadej.com Nadia Boucher enjoys an active and diverse musical career. At home in a broad range of styles, Nadia performs regularly in recital across North America and works as a rehearsal pianist and coach for various choral and opera ensembles. With a passion for languages, Nadia is currently the Professor of Lyric Diction at the University of Ottawa, where she also works as a vocal coach and accompanist. Nadia maintains a busy private studio where she teaches piano and music theory to students of all ages and levels. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Collaborative Piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music. www.nadiaboucher.ca Catch their free live-stream recital on the Music at Southminster page on facebook ('Live' section) this Wednesday at 12 noon.

Join me for this live performance of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, happening RIGHT NOW on the Music at Southminster Page.

Enjoy this fabulous live piano duet concert featuring the ZUMI Piano Duo today at 3PM on the Music at Southminster page. Join in and share the link with friends. The concert is free and promises to be thrilling. Details in the event.

Catch the rest of this current stream of Andrew Mah playing Bach on his guitar.

Franz Schubert observed, "You believe happiness to be derived from a place in which you have once been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves." Join me for tomorrow's live-stream concert featuring the one-and-only Mathieu Gaudet playing Schubert's luminous Sonata No. 7 followed by Sonata No. 15, about suffering, loneliness and death. If happiness is derived from within, it is undoubtedly aided by hope and by celebrating and the divine energy that surrounds us all. ... Details in the event below.

Today's concert from Cologne Germany is going to be fantastic! Join us a noon on Music at Southminster to hear it. https://www.facebook.com/MusicatSouthminster/live_videos

Today at noon: Live-stream concert on Music at Southminster. https://www.facebook.com/MusicatSouthminster/live_videos/

Southminster United Church's live-streamed noon-hour concerts continue today, April 22 at 12 PM, with 'FAR APART, ONE at HEART', featuring 10 year-old piano virtuoso Sunny Ritter playing piano works by J. S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Schubert. About the concert: The corona is a musical symbol resembling an individual in isolation. It indicates a prolonged silence. Returning to DOMS for her debut live-stream, Sunny defies the corona and celebrates music’s power to bring peopl...e together, whatever the circumstances. Program: J. S. Bach: Italian Concerto, BWV 971 Mozart: Sonata in C minor, KV 457 Franz Schubert: Impromptu No. 1, Op 90, D 899 Frédéric Chopin: Grand Waltz Brilliante E Flat major, Op 18 About Sunny Ritter: Ten-year-old Sunny Ritter won top prizes at Hamburg’s Steinway Piano Competition; the St. Petersburg Clavis Competition; the Münchner Klavierpodium; prima la musica in Vienna; the Mihaela Ursuleasa International Piano Competition. Since moving to Canada, Sunny has been studying with Michael Berkovsky. At Toronto’s Kiwanis Festival, she competed at Senior Level and earned Best of Class in every class she entered, as well as the Festival’s biggest scholarship. Sunny gave her orchestral début at eight years old in Bucharest and Vienna, and is looking forward to her début in Koerner Hall as a prizewinner of the RCM Taylor Academy’s Concerto Competition. Support the DOMS series with a donation via: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/47147

Tonight's concert with Claire Huangci has been cancelled due to flight delays and poor weather in the US. Refunds for online tickets will be made through Eventbrite. [email protected]

Next Friday, November 16th, at Southminster United Church! CBC’s 2016 30-under-30 number one musician, Jeanne Amièle, plays classical, romantic and 20th-century works exploring life’s existential journey. Beethoven | Sonata No. 31 in A flat major Op. 110... Liszt | Years of Pilgrimage, First Year (Switzerland) Janacek | Sonata I.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ Ravel | Gaspard de la nuit See more

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