St. Mary's Anglican Church, Crousetown

presents

 

SUMMER 2007

Baroque Concert Series

     

 

 

Concert I

 Saturday, July 7 – 7pm

 

Concert II

 Saturday, August 4 – 7pm

 

 

   Free Will Offering

     Reception following concerts

at

   Petite Riviere Winery

 

concerts brochure in

wheelchair accessible

 

 

 

Baroque Concert I

July 7, 2007

 

Brian Start, Organ

Born in Japan to Anglican medical missionaries, he began piano studies there and later in Brantford, Ontario.  He studied organ with Douglas Bodle in Toronto.  Brian has held several church music positions in Kingston, Ont. and in Truro and Halifax, NS.  He is on the Board of the Nova Scotia Early Music Society.  His interests are now focused on the harpsichord and fortepiano as well as on the construction and repair of instruments.  For a number of years he has acted as a music producer for CBC Radio.

 

Kate Glen, Flute

 

Kate Glen is a Grade 11 student at Lunenburg High School.  She began her flute studies six years ago, playing flute in her high school band.  Kate has studied with Angela Lake and Sandra Britten.  She has attended summer camps at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and The Boxwood School of the Wooden Flute. Kate has been a participant in the Lunenburg and District Music Festival for several years.  This year she represented the instrumentalists of this festival at the Provincial level. 

 

 

 

 

Oriana Singers

 

Oriana Singers are well known in Halifax and are regular performers at the Baroque Concerts.

 

 

 

Baroque Concert II

August 4, 2007

 

Bruce Fifer, Bass-Baritone

 

Bruce Fifer has sung with many leading orchestras and vocal ensembles in the USA and has performed as a soloist under some of the world’s most esteemed conductors (Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Sir Neville Mariner, Michael Tilson Thomas and Robert Shaw).  Mr. Fifer has done extensive opera work, with over 40 opera roles in his  repertoire.  He can be heard in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mulan.  He is a co-founder of the Philadelphia Singers and Chorus  America.  For 22 years, Mr. Fifer worked in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Currently, he is Head of the Arts Department and Choral Director at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.

 

 Phyllis Knox, Soprano

 

Phyllis Knox has sung oratorio and recital repertoire across Canada. Ms. Knox is a favourite of the 'Summer Festival' circuit including performances at the Stratford Summer Festival and the International Baroque Festival in Lameque, N.B..   She has performed in Grand Manan with Duo New Brunswick for the New Brunswick Summer Festival.  Opera Nova Scotia featured Ms. Knox in a cameo version of Mozart’s great Countess Donna Almaviva, and she has sung with The Sopranos Vocal Ensemble Concerts in Rothesay, N.B. Recently she sang with Trio 1795 at St. George’s Round Church in Halifax.   Ms. Knox studied primarily with Carol Lynn Reifel of Queen’s University and Hugette Tourangeau in Montreal. Ms. Knox teaches from her studio in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

 

 

  Paul Halley, Organ &

Harpsichord

 

Paul Halley is a five-time Grammy Award-winning composer, conductor, and performer. Mr. Halley is a pianist, harpsichordist and organist.  He is the Creative Director and Co-founder of Pelagos Music Recordings, Music Publishing Arts Management.  Mr. Halley is the founding Director of the Keramion professional choral ensemble.  He is the Artistic Director and Founder of Joyful Noise Inc., a not-for-profit arts organization comprising Chorus Angelicus, Gaudeamus, and The Battell Brass and Chamber Orchestra.  He was the Director of Music for thirteen years at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and was Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, Connecticut.   He has spent eighteen years as Principal Composer and Keyboardist with The Paul Winter Consort.  Mr. Halley is the new Director of Music at St. George’s Round Church in Halifax.

 

Alejandro Calzadilla, Cello

Alejandro Calzadilla is the latest addition to Nova Scotia's music scene. A scholarship student at Dalhousie University's Music Department, Mr. Calzedilla arrived from Venzuella just a few months ago.  He studied music at Colegio Emil Friedman and Mozarteum de Caracas, and attended the prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, USA, with full scholarship.  Mr. Calzadilla recorded Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Virtuosi de Caracas and Orquesta de Camara Mozarteum, and performed with other ensembles, including Arcos Juveniles de Caracas, Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas, Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra and Dalhousie Chamber Orchestra.  This concert marks Mr. Calzadilla's first public solo and chamber music performance in Canada.  Welcome to Nova Scotia Alejandro!

Peter Dunn, Violin

Peter Dunn graduated in Violin Performance in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1983.  From the beginning, his objective has been to teach violin for a living and to play violin for pleasure.    He has been teaching violin for 24 years.  In the early years he travelled an average of  5 towns a week, playing and teaching, and estimates he went the equivalent of 6 and 1/2 times around the world!  Happily, he now teaches from his studio next to his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  You can visit his website - Violin Works Music - at www.violinworks.net