Toronto’s Music Round The Nook is again with two performances that function model new works chosen via their 2025 Name for Scores program. On this system are two world premieres by Canadian composers Kalen Smith and Pari Bahrami, alongside music by Amy Seaside and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The ensemble was based by Canadian violinist Emma Meinrenken and violist Lynn Sue-A-Quan in 2023, and options Toronto-born and based mostly classical musicians. Musicians have included members of the Toronto Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Indianapolis Symphony, together with current graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard College, Yale College, and McGill College. Music Round The Nook is dedicated to performances in community-based venues to introduce classical and Canadian artwork music to a variety of audiences within the Larger Toronto Space.
The Program
- Amy Seaside: Quartet for Strings (in a single motion)
- Kalen Smith: Vignettes for String Quartet
- Pari Bahrami: Gravity and Ghosts
- Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110
Expertise
Emma Meinrenken, Violinist, Co-Director
Canadian violinist Emma Meinrenken is at present working in direction of her Grasp of Musical Arts at Yale
College, finding out with Augustin Hadelich because the recipient of Yale’s Presser Basis Graduate
Music Award. She additionally earned a Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music. She made her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on the age of 10, and has carried out at festivals in Italy and France, on the Montreal Chamber Music Competition, and the 4 Seasons Winter Workshop, and not too long ago went on a chamber music tour of Europe. Contest wins embrace 1st place on the Stradivarius Worldwide Violin Competitors and the Prix Ravel on the Ecole d’Artwork Américaines de Fontainebleau. Emma performs on the 1717 Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius, on mortgage from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Lynn Sue-A-Quan, Violist, Co-Director
Toronto-born violist Lynn Sue-A-Quan is at present a member of the Jacksonville Symphony. She has additionally carried out with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Lynn has additionally collaborated with orchestras throughout North America as a soloist, and carried out at worldwide festivals, together with Lucerne Music Competition, Tanglewood Music Heart, and the Verbier Competition. Sue-A-Quan is a graduate of the Juilliard College, holding a bachelor’s and a grasp’s diploma. She has a busy personal instructing studio along with her performing profession.
Matthew Christakos, Cellist
Cellist and Toronto native Matthew Christakos was not too long ago been appointed because the Affiliate Principal Cello of the New York Philharmonic. He studied on the Curtis Institute of Music, and received the 2019 Canada Council for the Arts’s Michael Measures Prize. Matthew served as principal cello of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Nationwide Youth Orchestra of Canada, and Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. Christakos started finding out music in Toronto on the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Phil and Eli Taylor Efficiency Academy for Younger Artists. There, he wonthe concerto competitors and was a featured soloist with the Academy Chamber Orchestra.
Diane Kim, violin
Korean-Canadian violinist Diane Dahyeon Kim carried out as a part of the Nationwide Youth Orchestra in 2022 and 2023, the place she obtained the Stephen Sitarski Management Award, and served as a Co-Concertmaster. Diane graduated from the Glenn Gould College’s Bachelor of Music program, and subsequently earned her grasp’s diploma on the Gustav Mahler Privat Universität, finding out underneath Sae Gained Suh, and is at present working in direction of an Artist Diploma program on the Glenn Gould College finding out underneath Min Jeong Koh and Marie Berard. She has carried out with the Millenium
Symphony in Seoul, South Korea, the SFK Euro Symphony and the Kärnten Symphony Orchester in Klagenfurt, Austria, in addition to with Toronto’s Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra.
Pari Bahrami, composer
Iranian Canadian composer Pari Bahrami grew up steeped within the traditions of her native Iran. With a basis in piano efficiency, she is at present finding out composition on the College of Toronto. Her work has been carried out by numerous ensembles internationally.
Kalen Smith, composer
Award-winning Canadian composer and harpist Kalen Smith is working in direction of a Grasp’s Diploma in Music Composition at McGill College. His compositions have been carried out throughout Canada, and internationally within the USA and Ukraine. He likens his compositional type to an eclectic collage, characterised by a juxtaposition of extremes. As a performer, he was the winner of the 2024 USA Worldwide eighth Ruth Inglefield Composition Contest for Harp.
Performances
Listed here are the efficiency particulars.
Saturday August 9 at 5:00 p.m. at Glad Day Lit (32 Lisgar St, Toronto, ON)
Sunday August 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Youthful Vengeance Cafe & Gallery (1110 Dundas St W, Toronto ON)
After the live performance, there will likely be a sight studying social gathering — a spontaneous, casual jam session open to musicians and listeners alike.
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
