What's New
Happy New Year. This year starts off with a bang! Here are a few concerts I am involved with which I hope you will be interested in attending if you are in the area.
Winter 2012
The first run of concerts are at the Betty Oliphant Theatre (404 Jarvis Street, Toronto). This concert is directed by the iconic dance diva Peggy Baker and the title of the show is "the sound and feel of it" which includes In the Fire of Conflict for solo marimba and audio playback, performed by dancer Benjamin Kamino and myself, with original music by Christos Hatzis.
The shows are as follows:
- Friday, January 20: 8:30pm
- Saturday, January 21: 8:30pm
- Sunday, January 22: 4pm
- Wednesday, January 25: 8:30pm
- Thursday, January 26: 8:30pm
- Friday, January 27: 8:30pm
- Saturday, January 28: 8:30
- Sunday, January 29: 4pm
Looking forward to working with Peggy Baker (choreographer for this piece) and dancer Ben Kamino! For more information please visit: PeggyBakerDance.com
Amidst these performances I will also be making 3 appearances at the University of Toronto New Music Festival (80 Queen's Park Circle, Toronto). Here are the dates for that…
- January 27, 12:10pm in Walter Hall: Up and Down Dubstep by Laura Silberberg for percussion, piano (Montreal pianist, Pamela Reimer) and audio playback.
- January 27, 7:30pm in Walter Hall: Nursery Rhymes and Close Up by guest composer Anders Hillborg. These pieces feature clarinettist extraordinaire, Peter Stoll with some light accompaniment from "moi"!
- February 2nd, 12:10 in Walter Hall: Solo percussion recital entitled Percussion and the Spoken Word featuring the following works Woman who Runs with the Wolves by Alice Ping Yee Ho, To the Earth by Frederic Rzewski, the world premiere of Everybody Talking about Freedom by Julie Spencer, Cinnabar Heart by Chinary Ung and In the Fire of Conflict by Christos Hatzis.
Spring 2012
Among other engagements and practicing towards another solo recording in March, I will be joining the National Ballet Orchestra again in a orchestral concert of Joby Talbot's evocative score Alice in Wonderland. The performance is at 8pm April 3rd, 2012 at Koerner Hall (273 Bloor Street West, Toronto).
From April 23-27 I will be joining the Blue Rider Ensemble for a recording of the music of Canadian composer Peter Hatch. The recording will be called Blue Memos.
Notable guitarist/composer David Occhipinti will have a concert featuring him and his guitar and his music at the Glenn Gould Studio: 8pm April 30th. I will be playing marimba with other special guest performers. Looking forward to that! LOVE his music!
The Eastman School of Music is hosting a Percussion Festival to which I have been invited to perform. The 2 day festival called Percussion Rochester will be happening May 4 and 5, 2012. Please drop by if you are in the Rochester area. The festival also includes percussionist extraordinaire Michael Burritt and the percussion ensemble NEXUS.
That's all for now. I will be updating my summer activities in May!