UPCOMING CONCERTS

• CMK Subscription III: Jan Lisiecki, Piano |Friday, November 13, 2026

  Friday, November 13, 2026

  CMK Subscription III: Jan Lisiecki, Piano

  

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  Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki looks back on a career spanning a decade and a half on the world’s greatest stages. He works closely with the foremost conductors and orchestras of our time, performing over a hundred concerts a year. Lisiecki was offered an exclusive recording contract by Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 15. Since then, he has recorded nine albums which have been awarded with the JUNO Award, ECHO Klassik, Gramophone Critics’ Choice, Diapason; Or and Edison Klassiek. At 18, he received both the Leonard Bernstein Award and Gramophone’s Young Artist Award, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the latter.

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  CONCERT START

  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

  Program

  • PROGRAMME World of Dance
  • 3 Czech Dances H154 Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
  • Danza Española No. 2 & No. 1 Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
  • 4 Polish Dances M60 Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
  • 16 German Dances D783 Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
  • Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 56 Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
  • Danzas Argentinas Op. 2 Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
  • ~INTERMISSION~
  • Grand Valse Brillante Op. 18 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
  • Waltz Op. 39 No. 3 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  • Waltz Op. 34 No. 1 & No. 2 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
  • Waltz Op. 39 No. 15 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  • Libertango Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
  • España, Op. 165 - No. 2 (Tango) Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
  • Ritual Fire Dance Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

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• CMK Subscription IV: Poiesis Quartet |Thursday, January 28, 2027

  Thursday, January 28, 2027

  CMK Subscription IV: Poiesis Quartet

  

  Jasper de Boor, Viola

  Sarah Ying Ma, Violin

  Drew Dansby, Cello

  Coco Mi, Violin

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  Celebrated for their “multifaceted artistry” and “brilliantly idiomatic” programming (New York Times), the Poiesis Quartet is the winner of the 2026 Cleveland Quartet Award and the First Prize and Commission Prize recipients of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. In 2023, they were also named the Grand Prize and Lift Every Voice Prize winners of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, as well as Gold Medal and BIPOC Prize winners at the 2023 St. Paul String Quartet Competition. In May 2024, Poiesis joined the Concert Artists Guild roster for North American management as winners of the Louis and Susan Meisel Competition.

  This concert is co-presented with the Living Things Festival & Rotary Centre for the Arts.

   

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  CONCERT START

  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

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• CMK Subscription V: Notos Piano Quartett |Thursday, March 25, 2027

  Thursday, March 25, 2027

  CMK Subscription V: Notos Piano Quartett

  

  Sindri Lederer, Violin

  Andrea Burger, Viola

  Benjamin Lai, Cello

  Antonia Koster, Piano

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  Since their formation in 2007, the four musicians have earned six first prizes along with numerous special awards at international competitions in the Netherlands, Italy, England, and China, establishing a strong presence on the global stage. The Quartet has performed in renowned concert halls across Europe and has also toured internationally in Australia, the United States, China, Japan, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. In 2022, the Notos Quartet received the prestigious Würth Prize from Jeunesses Musicales. Alongside performing well-known masterpieces, the quartet regularly commissions and premieres new works for piano quartet.

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  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

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• CMK Subscription VI: Constantinople |Friday, April 23, 2027

  Friday, April 23, 2027

  CMK Subscription VI: Constantinople

  

  Kiya Tabassian, Artistic Director

  Hana Blazikova, Soprano

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  Since its founding in 2001, the Montreal-based ensemble has promoted the creation of new works incorporating musical elements of diverse musical traditions around the world, drawing from medieval manuscripts to a contemporary aesthetic, passing by Mediterranean Europe to Eastern traditions and New World Baroque. The ensemble has 23 albums to its credit and has created 63 works and travelled to more than 296 cities in 59 countries. Their Kelowna program will feature soprano Hana Blazikova singing arrangements of some of the most beautiful spiritual songs and arias of JS Bach in dialogue with poems of Omar Khayyam, in Persian, set to music by Kiya Tabassian.

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  7:30 pm

  LOCATION

  Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts

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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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