Flutist Jeffrey Ray Miller, alto flutist Pascale Margely and electric guitarist Jan Jarvlepp gave the premiere of Seagulls on October 11, 2013. The performance was part of a flute concert called Flûtes en fugue which took place at Salle Fernand-Graton in the Conservatory of Music in Gatineau, Québec, Canada.
On June 7, 2013 the composer's early electroacoustic work Buoyancy was the closing number in Concert II of this new music festival held in the Nineteenth Century Hall of Sforza Castle in Galliate, Italy. This event featured electronic and string instrument sounds which were distributed through multiple acousmatic loudspeakers controlled by Dante Tanzi.
http://www.masterguitar.it/index.php?q=content/chitarra-e-altre-corde-concerti-acusmatici-eraldo-bocca-e-dante-tanzi On May 16, 2013, the Broadview Avenue Public School Grade 7-3 band, under the direction of Ginger Jacobson, gave the first performance of Follow the Leader for elementary school band. The event took place in a spring concert held in the school's gymnasium. This piece was commissioned by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board as part of the Making Music Project administered by Prof. B. W. Andrews of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Education. What made this educational project unusual is that the students' input was solicited in order to make the kind of piece that interested them.
On April 28, 2013, Woodroffe United Church in Ottawa, Canada made use of Jan Jarvlepp's setting of the Lord's Prayer in their weekly church service. Music Director Katarina Jovics conducted the church's choir and an ensemble of congregation members which was joined by the composer on cello.
On January 4, 2013, the day after the composer's 60th birthday, The Composer Performs Series at GigSpace presented Jan Järvlepp and Friends in Jarvlepp@60. This unusual event, which was sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre, consisted of a one hour concert of Jan Jarvlepp's music followed by a question and answer session in which the audience participated. Performing were Pascale Margely - flute and piccolo, Lotta Lundsten - violin, Galina Rezaeipour - violin, Emmanuel Beaudet - viola, Armas Maiste - piano and Jan Järvlepp - cello and electric guitar.
On December 21, 2012 the Garbage Concerto was performed at the 2012 Midwest Clinic by the Walton Symphony Orchestra directed by Perry Holbrook. This took place in Ballroom W375E at the Hyatt McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The same performers also played the piece at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia on December 10, 2012. To see their YouTube video, click here.
http://www.midwestclinic.org/default.aspx http://www.waltonorchestra.org/ On December 6, 2012, Moonscape was performed at the Jean McNulty Recital Hall in The William H. Buset Centre for Music and Visual Arts at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The players were Mike Kennedy - alto saxophone, and Daniel Witt - electric guitar.
On November 24, 2012 the Stellae Boreaiis violin ensemble, organized into two "teams", performed the PIng Pong Game at Centretown United Church, Ottawa, Canada as part of their fundraising concert.
For more information: www.stellaeboreales.ca/ On September 28, 2012, le Quintette à vent Commixtus performed the Woodwind Quintet at the church of Villefagnan, France as part of the 2012 Commixtus Festival. The performers were Caroline Orzan - flute, Alice Clavel - oboe, Dominique Vincent - clarinet, Paul-Henri Astier - French horn and Franck Leblois - bassoon.
The third movement of the Atlantic Salmon Quintet was played by the Chamber Players of Canada at a special event called Music and Dining which blended musical selections with six courses of corresponding culinary selections. The performance of this piece was accompanied by Atlantic Salmon gravlax with gooseberry vinaigrette prepared by three of Ottawa's top chefs. The event took place on July 13, 2012 at Tabaret Hall, Ottawa. On July 14, Capital BrassWorks performed the last movement of the Symphony for Brass and Percussion in the auditorium of Technical High School in Ottawa. To see video, click here
http://musicandbeyond.ca/?lang=en Capital BrassWorks, under the direction of Angus Armstrong, gave the first performance of the Symphony for Brass and Percussion on June 12, 2012 at Parkdale United Church, Ottawa. This work is a City of Ottawa Arts Grant commission.
http://www.capitalbrassworks.ca On March 19 and 20, 2012 the third movement of the Atlantic Salmon Quintet, Playing with Dice, was performed in the informal bar setting of Maxwell's Bistro in Ottawa, Canada. Performing were Marie Bérard - violin, Guylaine Lemaire - viola, Julian Armour - cello, John Geggie - string bass and Andrew Tunis - piano.
For more information: http://chamberplayers.ca/home_en.html On December 17, 2011 violinists Nara Roske-Soda and Karen Jarvlepp gave the first performance of The Ping Pong Game at Trinity Anglican Church in Ottawa, Canada.
On December 12, 2011 the Luna Nova Ensemble presented Sunset in their Winter Concert at Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee. The performers were Robert Patterson, French horn and David Carlisle, vibraphone.
Click here to listen to their performance: http://www.lunanova.org/podcasts/Sunset.mp3 The 2011 Summer Chamber Music Festival presented Lament, the second movement of Quintet 2001, on July 7, 2011 in the French Parlor at Founder's Hall on the campus of the University of San Diego, USA. The performers were mandolinist Gary Payne, violinists Alyze Dreiling and Laura Welch, violist Sarah Welch and cellist Emily Balderrama.
On June 9, 2011, the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society performed the Atlantic Salmon Quintet at the Muriel Richardson Auditorium in the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
http://wcms.mb.ca/seasons/ The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Matthew Kraemer, gave 14 performances of the first movement of the Garbage Concerto during the 2010-11 season starting on Sept. 16, 2010 and ending on May 25, 2011. The program's theme "Rehearse, Reuse, Recycle!" was directed at young listeners. Percussionists from the orchestra were featured as soloists in these concerts which took place at Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York, USA.
On April 22, 2011 CBC Radio 2 broadcast nationally the Dance of the Wind movement from the Garbage Concerto as part of their Earth Day programming. This was on Tom Allen's FM program called Shift.
The Phoenix Symphony, under the direction of Joseph Young, performed the first movement of the Garbage Concerto in a Family Concert on March 19, 2011 at Phoenix Symphony Hall, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The solo players from Arizona State University were percussionists Brandon Blackburn, Joseph Drum, Jordan Millea, Matthew Hand and Joseph Perez . For more information:
http://www.phoenixsymphony.org/buytickets/calendar/view.aspx?id=4577 On March 12, 2011 at Trinity Anglican Church, Ottawa, the first two pieces of the series Music for Young Violinists were premiered. The Return of the Batmobile and The Trek were performed by young violinists Nara Roske-Soda and Karen Jarvlepp accompanied by the composer on cello.
On April 5, 2011, the Suite for Strings was performed at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at an event called "Ping!" by the Earl Haig/Claude Watson String Ensemble of Toronto conducted by Alan Torok. They had previously performed this suite at the Kiwanis Festival on Feb. 23, 2011 at the Cardinal Carter Academy, Toronto. They had also performed two movements of the suite on Dec. 15, 2011 at the December Music Showcase held at the MacMillan Theatre in Toronto, and on Nov. 23, 2011 at Boris Brott's Orchestral Workshop held at Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto. For more information:
http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.FA_dsp_details&eventsid=3087®ionid= The University of Ottawa Saxophone Quartet played the Saxophone Quartet at Café Paradiso, Ottawa on February 7, 2011 as part of the Contemporary Revolution concert put on by the ONMC (Ottawa New Music Creators). Performing were Victor Herbiet - soprano sax and instructor, Jacob Armstrong - alto sax, Maxime Brisson - tenor sax, and Jeremy Mulder - baritone sax. Jarvlepp also took part in the concert as a cellist playing Evelyn Stroobach's Bereft with violinist Ralitsa Tcholakova.
For more information: http://public.onmc-cmno.ca/ La Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez, under the direction of conductor Alfredo Ibarra, gave two performances of the Garbage Concerto at Sala Blas Galindo of the National Centre of the Arts (CENART) in Mexico City. They took place on November 28 and 29, 2009. Tambuco, Mexico's leading percussion ensemble, were the featured soloists. For more information: www.tambuco.org
To see a video of Tambuco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg-bOh9GDu0 The recently composed String Quartet No. 1 was featured in the Madawaska String Quartet's workshop of Nov. 1, 2010. It was held at Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto, Ontario.
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