UPCOMING CONCERTS

• Isidore String Quartet |Friday, April 19, 2024

  Friday, April 19, 2024

  Isidore String Quartet

  

  Adrian Steele, Violin / Joshua McClendon, Cello / Phoenix Avalon, Violin / Devin Moore, Viola

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  CMK’s 2023-24 season will conclude with the winners of the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition (2022), the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet.  The Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’

  Their Banff triumph brings extensive tours of North America and Europe, a two-year appointment as the Peak Fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, performances at Haydn Hall in Eisenstadt and the Lucerne Festival, plus a two-week residency at the Banff Centre.

  The Quartet’s 2022-2023 season will feature debut appearances in Pittsburgh, PA; Durham, NC; Burlington, VT; Kalamazoo, MI; Evanston, IL; San Antonio, TX; Laguna Beach, CA (with pianist Jeremy Denk and violinist Stefan Jackiw); and Seattle, WA (with violinist James Ehnes). The quartet will return to Washington’s Kennedy Center as part of the Fortas Chamber Music Concert Series and will also perform for Schneider Concerts at the Mannes School of Music.  In Europe they will perform at Esterhazy Palace in Austria, and will spend time at the Britten Pears Arts Institute.

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  CONCERT START

  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Aida Shirazi
  • Dinuk Wijeratne
  • Felix Mendelssohn

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• Tai Murray, Violin & Gilles Vonsattel, Piano |Saturday, March 23, 2024

  Saturday, March 23, 2024

  Tai Murray, Violin & Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

  

  Tai Murray, Violin

  

  Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

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  Appreciated for her elegance and effortless ability, Tai Murray creates a special bond with listeners through her personal phrasing and subtle sweetness. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2004, Tai Murray was named a BBC New Generation Artist (2008 through 2010). As a chamber musician, she was a member of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society II (2004-2006).  She has performed as guest soloist with major orchestras world-wide, and as a recitalist she has visited many of the world’s capitals, having appeared in Berlin, Chicago, Hamburg, London, Madrid, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Paris, and Washington D.C.

  Tai Murray has released three critically acclaimed recordings.  Her first, for harmonia mundi, of Ysaye’s six sonatas for solo violin was released in February 2012. Her second recording with works by American Composers of the 20th Century was released by the Berlin-based label eaSonus, and her third disc is with the Bernstein Serenade on the French label mirare.

  An “immensely talented” and “quietly powerful pianist” (New York Times), Swiss-born American Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of extraordinary versatility and originality.  Recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions as well as the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, he has in recent years appeared with the Boston Symphony, Tanglewood, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, while performing recitals and chamber music at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ravinia, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bravo! Vail, Music@Menlo, the Gilmore festival, the Lucerne festival, and the Munich Gasteig.

  Recent projects include Berg’s Kammerkonzert with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, a tour with Jörg Widmann and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Mozart concerti with the Vancouver Symphony and Florida Orchestra, performances at Seoul’s LG Arts Centre and at the Beijing Modern Music Festival, collaborations with Kent Nagano with L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Munich Philharmonic (Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety) as well as numerous appearances internationally and throughout the United States with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Vonsattel is Professor of Piano at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and on the faculty of Bard Conservatory.

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  CONCERT START

  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • Clara Schumann
  • John Adams
  • Arvo Pärt
  • Franz Schubert

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• Constantinople |Friday, February 23, 2024

  Friday, February 23, 2024

  Constantinople

  

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  Inspired by the ancient city illuminating the East and West, Constantinople was founded in 2001 in Montreal by its artistic director, Kiya Tabassian.

  The ensemble has 20 albums to its credit on labels Analekta, Atma, World Village, Buda Musique, Ma Case, Dreyer Gaido and Glossa. Over the course of the decade, Constantinople has created nearly 50 works and travelled to more than 270 cities in 55 countries.

  Regularly invited to perform in international festivals and prestigious concert halls, such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Rencontres musicales de Conques in France, the Festival de Carthage in Tunisia, and the Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, Constantinople is acclaimed by the public, music professionals and critics alike.

  The group’s Kelowna program is a collaboration with the Accademia del Piacere, a leading ensemble of early Spanish music, and will be a musical journey exploring Spanish and Persian Renaissance music.

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  CONCERT START

  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

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• Roman Rabinovich, Piano |Saturday, January 27, 2024

  Saturday, January 27, 2024

  Roman Rabinovich, Piano

  

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  Praised by the New York Times for his “uncommon sensitivity and feeling,” the eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich was the winner of the 12^th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008.  He made his Israel Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta at the age of 10, having immigrated to Israel a year before from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  He was among the first of three young pianists to be championed by Sir András Schiff for his “Building Bridges” series.

  Roman has performed throughout Europe and the US, in venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Cité de la Musique in Paris, and Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center.  In the 2022-23 season, he made his Carnegie Hall concerto debut, stepping in at 24 hours’ notice with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Mozart’s Concerto K. 271. Roman is also a composer and visual artist with a repertoire spanning six centuries, from Byrd to Boulez and beyond.

  He has won particular critical acclaim for interpretations of the music of Haydn.  In the summer of 2016 he embarked on the Haydn Project, a recital series of Haydn’s complete keyboard sonatas; these included cycles at festivals in the UK as well as a curated 3-concert Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall.  The first two volumes of his complete Haydn cycle have been released to critical acclaim on First Hand Records, with BBC Music Magazine noting that “the elegance and liveliness of Rabinovich’s keyboard style are, indeed, a joy to listen to.”

   

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  CONCERT START

  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • Louis Couperin
  • César Franck
  • Frederic Chopin
  • Franz Schubert

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• Cheng² Duo |Friday, October 13, 2023

  Friday, October 13, 2023

  Cheng² Duo

  

  Bryan Cheng, Cello & Silvie Cheng, Piano

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  Captivating audiences and critics alike, the “brilliant” (The Times, UK) and “truly exhilarating” (The WholeNote, Canada) Cheng² Duo (pronounced Cheng Squared Duo) distinguishes itself with its uncompromising musical integrity, undeniable chemistry, and unparalleled communication with its listeners. The Chinese-Canadian brother-and-sister duo is comprised of cellist Bryan Cheng, prizewinner of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition and 2021 Concours de Genève, and pianist Silvie Cheng, 2022-23 musician-in-residence of Cecilia Concerts in Halifax.

  The Duo tours extensively to present engaging recitals in illustrious concert halls and international festivals throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Recent and upcoming concert highlights include the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Symphony Nova Scotia, and recitals in Dresden, Brussels, Berlin, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in New York City.

  ​In the vanguard of creative programming, Bryan and Silvie are equally committed to presenting both traditional masterworks and the music of their time; since 2013, they have commissioned nearly a dozen new works.  Cheng² Duo has released a trilogy of critically-acclaimed albums on the German label audite:

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  CONCERT START

  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • Edvard Grieg
  • Carmen Braden
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Sergei Rachmaninov

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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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learning & growing

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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