Having completed 38 consecutive seasons in the cello section of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Jan Järvlepp decided to leave in order to compose full time. He only missed one concert in all of those years - when his mother suddenly died of a massive stroke on the day of the dress rehearsal for an all-Chinese program in January, 2009.
Recordings of the Bassoon Quartet and the Woodwind Quintet are now available to the public on two different CDs.
On July 10, 2019, Pascale Margely - flute, Roxanne Léveillé - clarinet, and Jan Järvlepp - electric guitar, performed the premiere of the clarinet version of Seagulls at All Saints, Ottawa. Cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne and pianist John Dapaah played the premiere of The Rise and Fall of the Avro Arrow at the Museum of History on July 12, 2019. They repeated it at their own recital at Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa on August 31, 2019.
On May 26, 2019, the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata, OJUEM (Eduardo Mata Youth Orchestra), directed by Vladimir Sagaydo, performed the Garbage Concerto with soloists Topacio Ortiz, Marco Antonio Mora, Eduardo Torres and Bryan Flores, collectively known as Fourtissimo. The event took place at Sala Nezahualcóyotl on UNAM’s campus. This is the fifth orchestra in Mexico City to perform this work.
After a 30-year wait, the orchestral version of Camerata Music is finally available to the public in a recording by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Petr Vronsky. Navona Records released it on May 10, 2019 on the Prisma 2 CD and in downloadable form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1TQMfpnqAY&feature=youtu.be http://navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6232/ The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Yi Huang, played The Garbage Concerto on November 18, 2018 at Xinghai Concert Hall, Guangzhou, China. The Ju Percussion Group were the soloists.
http://www.gso.org.cn/en/ https://www.facebook.com/Guangzhou-Symphony-Orchestra-289376164519573/ The China Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Xia Xiaotang, played The Garbage Concerto on November 23, 2018 at China Philharmonic Concert Hall, Beijing, China. The Ju Percussion Group were the soloists. It was the group’s seventh performance of this piece in 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Philharmonic_Orchestra The Strings of St. John's, under the direction of David Thies-Thompson, played In Memoriam on November 4, 2018 at St. John the Evangelist Church, Ottawa, Canada. The performance was dedicated in memory of the late cellist Rick Tersteeg.
http://stringsofstjohns.ca/ The Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Zhang Jiemin, played The Garbage Concerto on November 2, 2018 at Shenzhen Concert Hall, Shenzhen, China. The Ju Percussion Group were the soloists. This was the first performance of Järvlepp’s music in China while the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra was the sixth orchestra to perform this piece in 2018.
https://www.facebook.com/shenzhensymphonyorchestra/ http://jpg.org.tw/e/jugroup.html On October 12, 2018, Navona Records released the CD Legends and Light which includes the four-movement Suite for Strings. It was recorded in 2018 by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Stanislav Vavrinek in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It is available as a physical CD and as a digital download.
http://navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6187/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvNf08-yFg The American music publisher J. W. Pepper is making available, at moderate price, the score and parts of the Suite for Strings either as paper parts delivered by mail or as a digital print-it-yourself download. Details:
https://www.jwpepper.com/Suite-for-Strings/10940620.item#/submit The Laval Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Alain Trudel, performed the Garbage Concerto on September 26, 2018 in Laval, Québec (just North of Montréal, Canada). The Sixtrum percussion ensemble were the soloists. The event, entitled Révolution, took place in Salle André-Mathieu, Laval.
http://www.alaintrudel.com https://sixtrum.com/en https://www.osl.qc.ca/en/concerts/revolution The Taipei Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Domonkos Héja, performed the Garbage Concerto on May 25, 26 and 27, and June 3 in Taichung, Taipei and Kaohsiung. The Ju Percussion Group were the soloists. An educational film was made of the performance.
http://jpg.org.tw/e/jugroup.html http://english.tso.gov.taipei/ On April 10, 2018, The Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Simon Gaudenz, gave the first German performance of the Garbage Concerto in the Konzerthaus Freiburg. Members of the orchestra were the percussion soloists.
http://www.orchester-und-schule.info/artists/view/id/3950/type/instrument/Philharmonisches_Orchester_Freiburg.html www.simongaudenz.com On Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018, the Ottawa Finnish SIngers performed the Lord's Prayer setting in a service of the St. Michael's Finnish Lutheran Church congregation held at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Ottawa.
Participating were Susan Morse - flute, Karen Jarvlepp - violin, Jan Jarvlepp - cello, and Mai-yu Chan - organ. On February 3 and 5, 2018, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, under the direction of Alain Trudel, gave four performances of the first movement of the Garbage Concerto in a series of student concerts, known as Symphony Hack Lab, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The soloists were Ken Simpson, Jonathan Wade, Reynaliz Herrera, Kristofer Maddigan and Andrew Harris.
http://www.alaintrudel.com/ https://nac-cna.ca/en/discover/music/classical On January 20, 2018, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of George Del Gobbo, performed the Garbage Concerto in the Bill Heard Theater at the RiverCentre for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Georgia. Paul Vaillancourt & Up/Down Percussion were the featured percussion soloists.
http://csoga.org/ http://www.rivercenter.org/event/cso-unusual-percussion-a-little-rach/ PARMA Recordings News:
https://parmarecordings-news.com/jan-jarvlepp-inside-story-composing-in-memoriam/ On September 8, 2017, Navona Records of New Hampshire, U.S.A released the orchestral CD, Tomorrow's Air, which includes Jarvlepp's string work In Memoriam. It was recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Petr Vronsky in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It is available worldwide through the Naxos distribution. Buy the entire album here, here and here. You can get the mp3 of In Memoriam for only 99¢ here.
On April 21, 2017, the Parkdale United Church Orchestra, under the direction of Angus Armstrong, gave the first performance of the orchestral version of Street Music in a concert entitled Canada's 150th: A Celebration of Canadian Composers. This piece started life as the last movement of the Symphony for Brass and Percussion which was also premiered by Armstrong conducting Capital Brassworks. The event took place at the Plant Recreation Centre, Ottawa. The next evening they performed it at their usual venue, Parkdale United Church, Ottawa. See the YouTube video of their performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO3loemwtJE http://www.parkdaleorchestra.ca/index.htm On July 18, 2017, Gordon Slater performed an all-Canadian carillon recital on the 53-bell Peace Tower Carillon, at the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canada. Included in the program were Morning Music and Afternoon Music from the Time Traveller Suite.
Tarantella was performed on July 17, 2017 at the gala closing concert of the Music and Beyond festival by Marc Djokic, violin and Roddy Ellias, electric guitar. The event took place at at Dominion-Chalmers United Church, Ottawa.
On July 16, 2017, the Junior Thirteen Strings ensemble, conducted by Brigitte Amyot, performed the Suite for Strings and In Memoriam as part of the Ottawa Family Music Expo held on the University of Ottawa campus.
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