UPCOMING CONCERTS

• Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, piano |Friday, March 21, 2025

  Friday, March 21, 2025

  Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, piano

  

  Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, piano

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  Celebrated by the CBC in 2021 as one of “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30,” pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko is earning a reputation as an extraordinarily promising young artist. Recognized by audiences, conductors, composers, and critics alike for the exceptional communicative power and thoughtfulness of his interpretations, “…he projects a distinctive musical personality that imbues even the most routine passagework with character and individuality” (Calgary Herald).

  An experienced recitalist, Jaeden has appeared in such venues as Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. His October 2022 debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall drew a rave review from New York Concert Review: “…one of the most refined tonal palettes I have ever heard, combined with a polished close-to-the-keys technique, and a certain basic humility in the service of the music.”  He has also performed alongside the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, the Kamloops Symphony, the Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, the Lions Gate Sinfonia, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, and the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. His playing has been broadcast on CBC Radio’s In Concert, WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase and APM’s Performance Today.

  Born in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Jaeden earned his Bachelor of Music at The Juilliard School under Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky and his Master of Music at the University of British Columbia with Dr. Corey Hamm. He is also a former student of Ian Parker. He currently studies with Dr. Jacob Leuschner at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and Dr. Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

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• Schumann Quartett |Sunday, February 9, 2025

  Sunday, February 9, 2025

  Schumann Quartett

  

  Erik Schumann (violin), Ken Schumann (violin), Veit Hertenstein (viola), Mark Schumann (cello)

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  The three Schumann brothers – Mark, Erik and Ken – have been playing together since their earliest childhood.  Violist Veit Hertenstein completes the vibrant Schumann Quartett, which has come to be regarded as one of the best in the world.  In the 2023-24 season, the ensemble performed the opening concert for the new hall at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, appeared at the Dvorak Prague International Music Festival, and gave a concert in Linz in honor of the great patron Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge, among other events. As well, they performed two concerts of works by Aribert Reimann in Madrid on the royal Stradivari instruments, and embarked on a US tour that concluded with a residency in New York City at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  The group has also been the Quartet in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London, playing four concerts in the 2021-22 season.

  The Schumann Quartett’s album “Intermezzo” (2018, works by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schumann und Reimann, with Anna-Lucia Richter) has been hailed enthusiastically both at home and abroad. It is celebrated as a worthy successor to the award-winning “Landscapes” album, in which the quartet traces its own roots by combining works of Haydn, Bartók, Takemitsu and Pärt. Among other prizes, the latter received the “Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik,” five Diapasons and was selected as Editor’s Choice by the BBC Music Magazine. For its previous CD “Mozart Ives Verdi,” the Schumann Quartett was accorded the 2016 Newcomer Award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards in London. In 2020 the quartet expanded its discography with “Fragment,” an examination of one of the masters of the string quartet: Franz Schubert.

   

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  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • Joseph Haydn
  • Quartet C Major, 54/2
  • Leo Weiner
  • Quartet No. 2 in f-sharp minor, Op. 13
  • Schubert:
  • Quartet in A minor for Strings, D 804, Op 29 No 1 "Rosamunde" (1824)

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• Kerson Leong & Jessica Xylina Osborne |Saturday, December 14, 2024

  Saturday, December 14, 2024

  Kerson Leong & Jessica Xylina Osborne

  

  Kerson Leong, violin

  

  Jessica Xylina Osborne, piano

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  Kerson Leong has been described as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but one of the greatest violinists, period” (Toronto Star). Forging a unique path since his First Prize win at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in 2010, he continues to win over colleagues and audiences alike with “a mixture of spontaneity and mastery, elegance, fantasy, and intensity that makes his sound recognizable from the first notes” (Le Monde).

  A passionate chamber musician, Kerson has performed at many international festivals and concert series.  His latest album release, featuring the Britten and Bruch violin concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Patrick Hahn for Alpha Classics, received wide critical acclaim, including being named Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Choc de Classica, and ‘The Strad Recommends’ by The Strad.  It also garnered five-star recommendations from the Sunday Times and Diapason among others.   Kerson performs on the ‘ex Bohrer, Baumgartner’ Guarneri del Gesu violin courtesy of Canimex Inc, Drummondville (Quebec), Canada.

   

  Jessica Xylina Osborne  was hailed by the Washington Post as a pianist “with a refreshing mellowness and poetic touch” following her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra.  She is one of the most intensely expressive and passionate artists of her generation, and is widely considered to be one of the most sought-after collaborative partners performing today.  She has worked closely with some of the world’s finest musicians, has performed throughout the continental U.S., Europe, and Asia, and has appeared in recitals at many of the world’s most celebrated venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and the Seoul Arts Center. Dr. Osborne is a laureate of international piano competitions, including the Bartók-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev Piano Competition, the International Russian Music Piano Competition, and the Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg Competition.

  Dr. Osborne holds degrees in solo piano performance from Indiana University and Rice University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in piano performance from Yale University.

   

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  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

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• WindSync Wind Quintet |Friday, November 22, 2024

  Friday, November 22, 2024

  WindSync Wind Quintet

  

  Garrett Hudson (flute), Emily Tsai (oboe), Graeme Steele Johnson (clarinet), Kara LaMoure (bassoon), Anni Hochhalter (horn)

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  WindSync is now established as a vibrant chamber ensemble performing wind quintet masterworks, adapting timeless music to their five instruments, and championing new works by today’s composers. Versatile and vibrant, the musicians of WindSync “play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts). In the span of one performance, the quintet can cover vast musical ground from revitalized standard repertoire to freshly-inked works to folk and American Songbook, the common thread telling a compelling story about music history and our human selves.

  WindSync launched an international touring career after winning the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and they continued as prize winners at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. WindSync has appeared in concert at Ravinia, the Met Museum, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

  Winner of the 2022 Fischoff Ann Divine Educator Award, WindSync regularly coaches at training programs nationwide, collaborates with youth orchestras, and performs for thousands of young people each year. In its artistic hometown of Houston, the ensemble presents a concert season in local landmark spaces, partners with businesses and organizations across disciplines of education, science, and art, and presents the Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival.

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  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • Dieterich Buxtehude
  • arr. LaMoure: Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161
  • W. A. Mozart
  • arr. Rechtman: Serenade in C Minor, K. 388
  • Miguel del Aguila
  • Blindfold Music
  • Viet Cuong
  • Flora
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • /arr. LaMoure: Make Our Garden Grow from Candide

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• Hermitage Piano Trio |Saturday, October 26, 2024

  Saturday, October 26, 2024

  Hermitage Piano Trio

  

  Misha Keylin (violin), Sergey Antonov (cello), Ilya Kazantsev ( piano)

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  Now entering their second decade as an ensemble, the US-based Hermitage Piano Trio has solidified its place as one of the world’s leading piano trios, garnering multiple GRAMMY® Award nominations, and receiving both audience and press accolades for their performances which the Washington Post singled out for “such power and sweeping passion that it left you nearly out of breath.”

  A rarity in the chamber music world, the Trio brings together three accomplished soloists in their own right. Violinist Misha Keylin has performed in forty-five countries spanning five continents. He has captured special attention with his world-premiere CD series, released by Naxos, of Henri Vieuxtemps’ seven violin concertos and showpieces.  Hailed as “a brilliant cellist” by the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich, Sergey Antonov went on to prove his mentor’s proclamation when he became one of the youngest cellists ever awarded the gold medal at the world’s premier musical contest, the quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition.  And pianist Ilya Kazantsev, praised by The Washington Post as “virtually flawless,” has performed as a recitalist and a soloist with orchestras in Russia, Canada, Europe, and the United States, and has earned top prizes at the International Chopin Competition (Russia) and the World Piano Competition (USA). The Trio is a champion of an immense range of repertoire, from the works of the great European tradition to more contemporary American pieces.

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  7:30 pm

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  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • Amy Beach
  • Piano Trio, Op. 150
  • Josef Suk
  • Elegie, Op. 23 (1902)
  • Mariano Perello
  • Tres Impressiones (1922)
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Trio in A minor

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About our society

Chamber Music Kelowna Society

The Chamber Music Kelowna Society’s purpose is to provide the community with opportunities to experience live chamber music in intimate settings as performed by accomplished musicians at all stages of their careers.

What is chamber music?

In chamber music each player or singer has a part all his own: he/she does not play or sing the same part as other performers, as he/she would in a chorus or the string section of an orchestra. A chamber work may be for one person as in a piano sonata, or for as many as twenty, as it’s a work for chamber orchestras or wind ensemble.

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CMK’s Education Outreach

Our Society always has one eye on the future of classical music, encouraging the development of the performers of tomorrow. We are grateful for the partnership of the Central Okanagan Foundation in all these efforts.

In addition to the Arnold Draper Fund for Young Artists, Chamber Music Kelowna supports aspiring musicians through collaboration with the Kelowna Kiwanis Festival. Endowment funds held on our behalf by the Central Okanagan Foundation, particularly the George Hyde Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund, generate the income with which we are able to offer this support to young musicians.

In the coming season, we will be expanding our outreach efforts in musical education. A number of our visiting artists have agreed to offer a master class during their visit to Kelowna, which CMK will organize and facilitate; these are of great interest and benefit to the young artists in our midst. Many of our Concerts in the Community this past season featured young local musicians who have grown and flourished in Kelowna’s fertile musical community, in which we are very proud to play an important part. This season, CMK is also launching a new program in collaboration with the Kelowna Community Music School to provide free admission to a number of students for each of our concerts. We are very grateful for the support of Petraroia Langford LLP who have made this education outreach effort possible.

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