Duo Verdejo (Meghan Verdejo, viola and Adrian Verdejo, guitar) performed Street Scene and Moonscape in a program of new music for viola and electric guitar at the 2010 Northwest Guitar Festival in Victoria, Canada. The concert took place on Saturday, April 10, 2010 in Wood Hall at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. See the performances on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg8nroCHpz0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhntbUOiWCs http://www.myspace.com/duoverdejo The Chamber Players of Canada gave the first performance of the Atlantic Salmon Quintet on March 8, 2010 at St. Andrew's Church, Ottawa. This new work was commissioned with a City of Ottawa Arts Grant 'A' and has the same instrumentation as Schubert's famous Trout Quintet. Radio Canada was on hand to record the work and they broadcast it across Canada on June 14, 2010. For more information:
www.chamberplayers.ca Percussionist Paul Vaillancourt and violist Maureen Gallagher performed Encounter on February 15, 2010 in a recital at Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Arts, Columbus, Georgia, USA.
The Mikkeli Orchestra, directed by Pasi-Heikki Mikkola, gave both the Finnish language premiere and the string orchestra premiere of Three Stories by Hans Christian Andersen in a children's program. This was the first use of the new translation of these stories made by Liisa Türkeli especially for this music. The concert took place on November 13 and 14, 2008 at Martti Talvela Hall in Mikkeli, Finland. Actor Risto Kopperi was the story teller. For more information: http://www.mikkeli.fi/en/sisalto/16_orkesteri/01_aloitus/
The Garbage Concerto was performed on October 22 and 23, 2009 in Aalborg, Denmark by the Aalborg Symfoniorkester conducted by Henrik Vagn Christensen. The featured soloists were the percussion ensemble trash.dk, who specialize in performing on percussion instruments made out of garbage.
For more information: www.trash.dk and www.aalborgsymfoniorkester.dk. On June 9, 2007 at Woodroffe United Church, Ottawa, cellists Jan Jarvlepp and Kuniko Soda gave the first performance of Cello Duet No. 3 entitled "Rock'n'Roll" in a concert suitably called Cello Mania! This completes the premiere performances of the complete set of Three Cello Duets which were composed for Soda.
On April 13, 2009, Heidi Adams performed Trumpet Piece in her graduating trumpet recital at Cook Recital Hall, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
The Gatineau Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Yves Léveillé, gave the first performance of the Double Concerto on March 21, 2009 at La Maison de la Culture in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Pascale Margely was the flute soloist and Frederic Hodgson the English horn soloist. The sold-out audience reacted enthusiastically to the new work. For more information: www.osgatineau.ca
Carillonneur Gerald Martindale performed Night Music in his recital of August 3, 2008 on the Loughborough Carillon at Queen's Park in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK. For more information: www.loughboroughcarillon.com
Fou de Basson presented the bassoon version of Moonscape at their festival on June 28, 2008 at the musée d'Angoulême in Angoulême, France. Nicolas Raynaud played electric guitar and Franck Leblois played bassoon. For more information, please visit
www.foudebasson.com On June 6, 2008, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, directed by the young Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, gave the New York premiere of the Garbage Concerto in a performance featuring Tambuco, Mexico's leading percussion group. They played on a set of instruments made out of Mexican garbage that they previously used in a performance of the same piece in Mexico City. Each movement was enthusiastically applauded. The event took place at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, home of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and was followed by a gala reception. To read an interview with Kliment Krilovskiy of the POA, click below. For more information:
www.poamericas.org/index.html www.tambuco.org interview with the composer On April 20, 2008, Accessible New Music presented Sunset at the Green Mill in Chicago. Robin Clevenger played horn and Matt Peters played vibraphone. For more information, please visit:
www.acmusic.org Alto Saxophonist Victor Herbiet teamed up with composer Jan Jarvlepp on electric guitar to give the first performances of the alto saxophone version of Moonscape. The Ottawa Chamber Music Society presented this event at Maxwell's Bistro, Ottawa on March 17 and 18, 2008. This was done in collaboration with the Canadian Music Centre's "New Music in New Places" initiative.
To mark the 55th birthday of the composer, Dominion Carillonneur Gordon Slater performed Jan Jarvlepp's Evening Music and Night Music on the Peace Tower Carillon at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Heard in the chilly -19 degree weather of January 3, 2008, the audience consisted mostly of tourists who pointed up at the bell tower in surprise as music issued forth into the winter air.
The Taipei Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Argentinian conductor Alejo Perez, performed the Garbage Concerto with Ju Group as the featured soloists. They played on a set of instruments made from Taiwanese garbage. The concert took place in the National Concert Hall in Taipei on December 18, 2007 receiving very favorable reviews.
For more information: www.http://epochtimes.com/ www.http://www.jpg.org.tw The Dalhousie Chamber Orchestra, featuring Philippe Djokic as viola soloist and conductor, performed the Atlantic Canada premiere of Suite for Viola and Strings. The event took place on November 30, 2007 at the Lilian Piercey Concert Hall in the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
On August 1, 2007, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival presented the first performance of Quintet 2007 for vibraphone and string quartet. The event took place at Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa with J. S. Lacombe as the featured vibraphonist. This piece was the result of an Ontario Arts Council composition grant.
On February 19 & 20, 2007, the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, under the artistic direction of Julian Armour, presented an informal concert of music by Ottawa composers at the popular nightclub Maxwell's Bistro. Included in the program was an exciting performance of Pierrot Solaire and the CBC was on hand to record it for national broadcast. This was part of the Canadian Music Centre's initiative for new music in new places.
The Ottawa Chamber Music Festival presented the first performance of Three Stories by Hans Christian Andersen for narrator and string ensemble. Composed for children, this piece includes the classic Andersen tales “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, “The Little Match Girl” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. The composer has made new Canadian English versions of the texts based on old British English translations. The event took place on July 31st, 2006 at the Glebe Community Centre, Ottawa. The featured narrators were Lori Jean Hodge and Doreen Taylor-Claxton. The Little Match Girl was composed as part of a City of Ottawa Ottawa arts grant project.
Under the direction of Kurt Ala-Kantti, the Harmonia Choir performed Jan Jarvlepp’s setting of the Lord’s Prayer in a concert given at Rideau Park United Church, Ottawa on May 14, 2006. The choir was accompanied by piano and string quartet. For more information:
www.harmoniachoir.com The Ottawa Chamber Music Society took part the Canadian Music Centre’s “New Music in New Places” project by presenting a concert of contemporary Canadian chamber music at Maxwell’s Bistro, Ottawa on March 20 and 21, 2006. Included in the program was the first movement of Jan Jarvlepp’s “Quintet 2000” for celesta and string quartet. The concert was recorded and broadcast by the CBC. For more information:
www.musiccentre.ca To mark Jan Jarvlepp's birthday, Dominion Carillonneur Gordon Slater performed his Morning Music and Afternoon Music from Time Traveller on January 3rd, 2006. The event took place at Parliament Hill, Ottawa on the Peace Tower Carillon as part of a noon-hour recital.
Ensamble Permutaciones performed Pierrot Solaire on December 15, 2005 in the Sala Xochipilli of Escuela Nacional de Música in Coyoacan, Mexico.
Cellists Jan Jarvlepp and Kuniko Soda gave the first performance of Cello Duet No. 1 in a cello concert held at Woodroffe United Church, Ottawa on December 9, 2005.
The classical guitar duo of Keenan Comartin and Kieran Greeson gave the first performance of the two guitars version of Guitar Piece on November 30, 2005 at the University of Ottawa's Perez Hall, Ottawa.
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