Chamberfest: Ariel Quartet’s lifetime of musical learning
The middle school years aren't known for producing string quartets, but that's just when
The middle school years aren't known for producing string quartets, but that's just when
Canada’s Marc-André Hamelin is one of the true rock stars of piano, regularly selling out halls all over the world. So it was surprising to see several empty pews at his Chamberfest appearance Friday night with the Quatuor Danel at Dominion-Chalmers. Is this instance, there
Think the Ottawa weather has been punishing this summer? It’s been a cakewalk compared to the situation in Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia, David S. Craig’s trenchant eco-comedy currently making its world premiere at Odyssey Theatre in Strathcona Park. With nods to the likes of
If you ever want to open up a music festival with a bang, you should consider hiring Roby Lakatos and his talented band. The Hungarian master of the gypsy violin was in fine and flashy form on Thursday night as he presented a concert of music
Ottawa's Chamberfest embraces all kinds of music played on stringed instruments and that includes the kind of traditional Celtic tunes that are delivered by the four members of The Fretless. That fact that he's playing his fiddle (and viola) in the world's largest chamber music festival
Kim Kilpatrick could hear passersby chuckling as she walked home from the pet store, having just bought some food and other necessities for her new guide dog, a black Labrador named Gwenny. Unbeknownst to the blind Kilpatrick, Gwenny had carried home, in her mouth, a dog
Marina Kun has always been interested in music. "I don't know the reason, because it's not in my background. When I was young and going to elementary school they did give music appreciation." Perhaps, she said, that is what captured her. But whatever the reason, by age
Matt Herskowitz has met his musical match and his name is George Gershwin. The iconic American composer of popular songs and classic orchestrations is the focus of a concert featuring Herskowitz at this summer's Chamberfest on July 28. He plays piano with the rising Quebec-based brass ensemble
The 20th century is full of composers most people have never heard of. Their music lies hidden away, seldom played and basically unremembered. Consider Samuil Feinberg. He is best remembered today as one of the great teachers in the Moscow Conservatory in the early years
Jamie Parker is a celebrated pianist, a professor, a major Vancouver Canucks fan, a husband and a dad. He's also the younger brother of Jon Kimura Parker and for 25 years he's been a member of the Gryphon Trio which he describes as "two really patient
