A big THANK YOU to Arts Nova Scotia for funding my travels with Trio d’Argento this season! Couldn’t have done it without you and hope that we can hit the road soon again, after Covid-19 times have passed.
A Corona Improvisation
This is what can happen if you are cooped-up due to Corona…
Sibylle Marquardt Isolation VIdeo
These are confusing and challenging days. Perhaps music helps us centre ourselves and find some perspective? Here is Sibylle Marquardt and her Isolation Video.
Posted by suddenlyLISTEN Music on Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Teaser video Trio d’Argento
And here’s the link to our teaser video from Trio d’Argento’s tour to Vancouver Island January 2020:
Excerpts from Trio d'Argento's tour to Vancouver Island January 2020
Our little teaser video with excerpts from Beethoven op.11, Alice Ho's Cothurnus and the trio by Bohuslav Martinū.
Posted by Trio D'Argento on Monday, March 2, 2020
Performances coming up:
February 27th: Concerts in Care at Melville Lodge with Jennifer King/Argento Collective
March 1st: J.S.Bach Magnificat at the Round Church with Garth McPhee https://www.facebook.com/events/191341495313014/
March 2nd: extended flute techniques and Barbara Croall’s work “Noodin” for Dalhousie University.
March 23rd: Concert in Care at Sagewood with Jennifer King/Argento Collective
April 5th: J.S.Bach St.John Passion with Paul Halley https://ukings.ca/events/st-john-passion/
April 18th: Trio d’Argento, Caledon Chamber Concerts http://caledonchamberconcerts.com/schedule/
April 23rd: Concerts in Care Shoreham Village with Jennifer King/Argento Collective
May 17th: Suddenly Listen, Tim Crofts Music for Quartet http://www.suddenlylisten.com/event-listing/tim-crofts/
Busy times
Loads of examining and adjudicating coming up:
Examined in Ontario in January, will be adjudications for the North York Music Festival in April and then for the Canadian Music Competition in May.
RCM Examinatins look like this:
BC Tour with Trio d’Argento
And the trio is off to BC again, great concert today at the Silverpurse Arts Centre in Vancouver and a ferry ride to Nanaimo. And who would have thought that there’s already a table reserved for me? Concerts: 25th Port Alberni, 26th Tofino, 27th Chemainus.
Saturne @ concert October 25th
Saturne for flute solo by Denis Gougeon, October 25th Mount Allison University:
Maritime Ensemble Week Video 2019
Check out the new video of our 2019 MEW.
New dates for 2020 are July 5th-11th – hope to see you there!
Give the Gift of Music
Flute lesson gift cards: treat one of your loved ones or yourself.
Scientific studies have shown that 14 months of musical training bring about significant structural and functional brain changes in children.
And science has proven that music reaches parts of the brain that other things can’t – if you want brain training, learning an instrument is your best bet!
Argento Collective
And a couple of mementos from our New Brunswick Tour:
At the Beaver Brook Gallery and Mt.Allison University.