The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
390 King Street West K7L 3N6 Kingston, ON, Canada

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Recording day with Emilie Steele and the Deal The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts ! Thanks to the IMAGINE project :)

PALENAI DUO - Ballytobin Concert 1/7/2021 2020, the year of the piano! Thank you Joan Tobin and the Ballytobin Foundation. Created by Joy Innis and Adrienne Shannon of the Palenai Duo, who were instrumental in choosing the Joan Tobin Hamburg Steinway piano.

Recognized as one of the top ten pianists of his age group in the world, Kingston’s Leonid Nediak has been a featured soloist with l'Orchestre symphonique de Mo...ntréal, the Toronto Symphony, and the Kingston Symphony, all while collecting Canadian and international prizes. Named by CBC as one of the 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30, join Leonid as he captivates with Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev. Video created in partnership with The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Happy in my natural habitat... Exactly one month ago I took this picture in my dressing room, having just gotten off stage at The Isabel Bader Centre for the Pe...rforming Arts after performing my Christmas concert. I often share with people the fact that I feel most at home being on a stage, so to say I miss live music - singing with band members and interacting with audiences - would be an understatement. This year’s Christmas concert was definitely a special one and the opportunity to bring live music to the Kingston community, and beyond online, was something that I am grateful for. As we now move full steam ahead into 2021, I want to take this opportunity to say one final big thank you to everyone for helping to end 2020 with something meaningful. Thank you again to our sponsors Visit Kingston with the support of the Government of Ontario, Olivea Restaurant, and TD Wealth Management Bechtel McIntyre Lewis. Thank you so much to all of our advertisers this year CaraCo Development Corporation, MNP in Kingston, Dynamic Real Estate Group - Re/max Finest Realty Inc., Brokerage, Levac Supply Limited and Riva. This event would not have been possible without the support of community sponsors and advertisers, so it truly means a lot to have had you on board. And now for some very special people who helped bring this art to life... This year’s guest artist, Cassel Miles, brought an incredible performance and presence to the Isabel stage. I was just as captivated as everyone else by his performance and am so grateful he could be part of the show this year. Make sure to follow Cassel’s Facebook page (click here: Cassel Miles) for more upcoming events and updates! Thank you to the band: Taylor Donaldson, James Wannamaker, Jon Elliotson, Sean Donaldson, Oscar Evans, Dave Barton, and Lester Malihan. Your playing brought me more joy than you know. To The Isabel Bader for being such a beautiful venue, with a wonderful and helpful team of professionals. Michael East, The Photographer, The Artist for the gorgeous concert photos, including the ones in this post! To Laura Garcia-Cervantes (find her at The Village Spa) for always making my hair look beautiful, but also for all of the pre-show support (both in bobby pins and friendship). Paige Kasaboski and Emily Phoenix, I LOVE YOU And finally, thank to you to all of YOU for your support and for watching the show. Here’s to more love, support, and music this year

Happy holidays to everyone from the Isabel team! Here is our holiday video made just for you: https://www.isabeldigitalconcerthall.queensu.ca//isabel-ho

We’ve been at the Isabel Bader Performing Arts Centre today with violinists Erika Sloos, Julia McFarlane, and cellist Jill Vitols rehearsing for tomorrow aftern...oon’s concert. We hope you can join us! The concert starts at 2:30 p.m. and will be live streamed here as well as on our YouTube channel. https://www.kingstonsymphony.ca//calendar/haydn-boccherin/ #ygk #livestream #rehearsal

BEETHOVEN ZOOM PARTY THIS THURSDAY AT 7 PM! The GRYPHON TRIO invites you to join a Zoom party celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birthday! Hosted by broadcaster ERIC FRIESEN and joined by the GRYPHON TRIO and guest commentator ROB KAPILOW ("What Makes it Great?"), this Zoom event will include a series of discussions, as well as pre-recorded musical offerings that will include performances from Duo Concertante, Bergmann Duo, Aloysia Friedmann & Jon Kimura Parker..., Gryphon Trio and others. Join us for this interactive celebration of Beethoven's birthday! Instructions on how to register ahead of time are at: https://www.queensu.ca/the/content/beethoven-250-zoom-party

We’re excited to see so many of you join our #PlayAlongWithJonathanCrow challenge with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra! It looks like school will be online now, ...and we’ll all be staying at home a little longer, so we are extending our submission deadline to Monday, January 25! While you’re at home, grab your instruments and join in on the fun! We can’t wait to see more of you play along with Jonathan Crow! For full details, visit www.torontosummermusic.com/playalong

Snohetta, architects of the Isabel, are on to their next dream cultural project - the Shanghai Grand Opera House! https://snohetta.com/projects/409-shanghai-grand-opera-house

Abby Stewart is a young singer-songwriter from Kingston. She has performed at some of Canada’s biggest fairs and music festivals, including Boots and Hearts Mus...ic Festival, Havelock Country Jamboree, Ottawa Bluesfest, and Trackside Music Fest. Several trips to Nashville have gained her recognition in the field, as she hones her craft. Join Abby as she showcases her talent, performing original tracks and several holiday hits Created in partnership with The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Way to go Michelle! We all look forward to seeing and hearing you this Friday. Online and in-person tickets: www.queens.ca/theisabel.

FABULOUS FALL FESTIVAL @ THE ISABEL FALL FESTIVAL BROCHURE: https://tinyurl.com/y2sj82uf Online and in-person tickets (up to 50 people per performance for in-person) are available immediately for the Baroque Series. The Kingston Connection INDIE Series and Classical Series will be available on September 21st. ...Continue reading

Join Stewart Goodyear for a fabulous performance this Sunday at 2:30 pm. In-person tickets are sold out and online streaming tickets available at: www.queens.ca/theisabel.

Bravo Dean Burry!

We are very excited to premiere the second movement of award-winning Canadian composer Dean Burry's Tracing Colville, in honour of Remembrance Day and to commem...orate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. This movement entitled Nijmegen Bridge 1944 was recorded remotely and individually by over 40 musicians in the Kingston Symphony and four musicians in the Sinfonia Rotterdam, while in isolation in their homes. COVID-19 prevented the live performance of the complete work this November, but it cannot stop the spirit of gratefulness, honour, and remembrance we all share. We look forward to presenting this piece live in concert as soon as we safely can. For more information about the Tracing Colville project, please visit www.tracingcolville.com. You can watch this video here or on our YouTube channel at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLZXp0QU61w Visit Kingston City of Kingston - Municipal Government Downtown Kingston! Global Kingston Kingston Whig-Standard QueensEvents.ca Kingston This Week Yourtv Kingston Kingstonist The Grand Theatre The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

We are so excited! THE IMAGINE WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED! The Isabel, with the generous support of the Ballytobin Foundation, launched its new IMAGINE program that supports creation-based residencies, online arts education initiatives, and filming/recording during the COVID-19 period. This large and imaginative initiative enables artists to connect with their audiences and presenters and that they emerge from the pandemic with excellent new artistic material and high-fidelity re...cordings and films to promote their most recent, dynamic work. This COVID-19 period is an excellent time for artists to immerse themselves in artistic ‘R & D’ to explore new collaborations, styles, concepts, and performance practices and come out of the pandemic with new and enriched artistic voices. The result of IMAGINE? The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s is thrilled with the artistic community’s response with applications submitted on www.getacceptd.com/theisabel. The selected winners include the Palenai Duo, Alex Mundy, DUOver, Movement Market Collective, Isabel String Quartet, Julia Wedman and Brian Solomon, Sadaf Amini and the Kingston Chamber Choir in a new work by John Burge, Emilie Steele and the Deal, Chantal Thompson and band, Melos Ensemble with Sadaf Amini, Sheng Cai, Room Tone, Bridge & Wolak, Kasador, Ted Evans, Michael Capon and Gord Love, Moira Demorest, Kelli Trottier, and honourary winner Leonid Nediak. CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE AMAZING ARTISTS!!!!!!

Jazz and adult contemporary music fans - you can start the countdown... MICHELLE KASABOSKI performs at the Isabel THIS FRIDAY, November 27th at 7:30 PM. TICKETS: for online streaming or in-person attendance...... https://www.queensu.ca/theisabel/content/michelle-kasaboski Join us for an evening of rich vocals and heartwarming stories, the perfect escape on a winter’s night. In a year of so much change, Kingston-based jazz and adult contemporary artist Michelle Kasaboski explores her unique voice as a songwriter and singer.

Join us for a beautiful concert with pianist Stewart Goodyear this Sunday, November 15 at 2:30 PM. In-person tickets are sold out, but you can join us online for this outstanding streamed live concert. Tickets: https://www.queensu.ca//pictures-exhibition-stewart-goodye Stewart Goodyear takes us to the Great Gates of Kiev and beyond with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. Imagine the magnificent sound of this music on the Isabel’s new Joa...n Tobin Hamburg Steinway piano! Click on the link below to hear the CBC program with Stewart Goodyear. Thank you producer Robert Rowat!

Amazing to see this collaboration!

IMAGINE winners announced ... thank you Kingston Whig-Standard! https://www.thewhig.com//loc/isabel-programs-winners-named