Faculty and Guest Artist Concerts
We are proud to welcome guest artists to perform in our venues and showcase faculty members in exciting individual and collaborative programs at the Don Wright Faculty of Music.
In addition to the opportunities listed below, we are proud to host distinguished artists in residence, those visiting for residencies and public masterclasses, as well as those who perform each week during our signature "Fridays @ 12:30" concert series.
2024-25 Performances
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Friday, September 20 | 7:30pm - Concert
Saturday, September 21 | 10am - Masterclass
von Kuster Hall
Parsons and Poole Concert and Masterclass
We are honoured to welcome internationally renowned pianist Dang Thai Son as the guest artist for this year's Parsons and Poole Concert and Masterclass. Visit this page for more details and to purchase tickets.
Sunday, September 29 | 1pm (approx. 1 hour)
von Kuster Hall and via livestream
Homecoming Concert
Student winners of the 2023-24 Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition perform in a special Homecoming concert with faculty pianists Kyung Kim and Michael Kim.
Friday, October 4 | 8pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 1 hour)
Clarinetscape
This event has been cancelled.
Friday, October 25 | 8pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 2 hours)
Han and Heung Concert
Cecilia Kang, clarinet (Louisiana State University)
Angela Park, piano
In Korean culture, han (恨) signifies deep-rooted resentment and suffering, often arising from past traumas or injustices. In contrast, heung (興) captures a sense of exhilaration and joy in life. The Han and Heung program features newly commissioned works for clarinet, piano, and electronics, inspired by stories of struggle and hope from living composers worldwide.
Wednesday, October 30 | 7pm - special time! | von Kuster Hall (approx. 2 hours)
Death and the Maiden
Artists-in-Residence Concert: New Orford String Quartet
New Orford String Quartet, consisting of Andrew Wan and Jonathan Crow (violins), Sharon Wei (viola), and Brian Manker (cello) start the evening off with Mozart's unrelentingly dramatic K.421 quartet after which string performance students join in with the New Orford String Quartet for an electric performance of A Letter from the After-life by JUNO-winning composer Dinuk Wijeratne. Wijeratne’s work will thematically transition to the final programmed piece of the evening, Schubert's Death and the Maiden String Quartet as he includes recognizable quotes from Schubert’s chamber piece.
Monday, November 4 | 8pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 1 hour)
Guest Artists: HAAS
HAAS, a string duo composed of sisters Natalie (cello) and Brittany (fiddle) began their musical lives filling their childhood home with Bach suites and old-time tunes alike. It was on their own, however-following divergent paths through disparate musical traditions, countries, and cultures-that they both arrived as virtuosi and composers at the highest levels of contemporary string music. We welcome you to join us for a musical journey encompassing travels through time with representation from Nashville to Norway, the Celtic Isles to California. Preceding the evening concert, HAAS also joins us earlier in the day for a demonstration and Q&A moderated by faculty member Jonathan De Souza.
Supported by Music Undergraduate GiftFund
Wednesday, November 6 | 8pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 1.5 hours)
Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano
An evening of music performed by guest artist pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico from her new album Games of the Night Wind. The performance will include works by David Jaeger, Tōru Takemitsu, Alexandre Tansman, and Henryk Górecki. Earlier the same day, composer David Jaeger joins the pianist for a pre-concert talk entitled “Poetry and the Composer: a Glimpse Inside the Nocturnes of David Jaeger”.
Supported by Music Undergraduate GiftFund and The Canadian Music Centre
Saturday, January 25 | 3pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 1 hour)
Brass Day: Final Concert
Join us for the Brass Day finale concert featuring guest artist David Cooper, Associate Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, brass faculty Aaron Hodgson and Shawn Spicer, trumpets; Ron George, horn; Denis Jiron, trombone; Brent Adams, tuba, and brass students.
This concert is supported by the Don Wright Faculty of Music Undergraduate Gift Fund. No registration is required to attend this free recital. For more information about Brass Day and to register for a day of brass-filled activities, visit the Brass Day webpage.
Saturday, February 1 | 6 p.m. | von Kuster Hall (approx. 1.5 hours)
Kenneth & Casey Tse Canada Tour 2025
Guest artist concert featuring Kenneth Tse, saxophone and Casey Dierlam Tse, piano.
This recital takes place after a series of masterclasses taking place earlier in the day. Visit the Masterclasses and Residencies webpage to learn more. Supported by Music Undergraduate GiftFund
Tuesday, February 4 | 8pm | von Kuster Hall and via livestream
Winterreise
Metropolitan Opera star baritone Joo Won Kang and faculty member Kyung Kim, piano, will perform Franz Schubert’s epic Winterreise — a haunting, nostalgic winter journey and story of lost love as told through Schubert’s musical settings of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. This recital is expected to run approximately one hour and 15 minutes in duration and is performed without intermission.
A masterclass will take place the next day. For details, visit the Masterclasses and Residencies page.
Saturday, February 8 | 4pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 1 hour)
Tafelmusik Residency with Early Music Studio
This concert will feature the Early Music Studio performing side by side with Tafelmusik musicians Christopher Verrette, violin, and Keiran Campbell, cello, as well as Western faculty members.
Friday, February 14 | 8pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 2 hours)
Musicians from Marlboro
The Musicians from Marlboro touring program artists (Sang Yoon Kim, clarinet; Maria Ioudenitch and Stephanie Zyzak, violin; Hiroki Kasai and Natalie Loughran, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello; Evren Ozel, piano) kick off their tour with this concert before heading to Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia, Washington, Rockport and Greenwich! The touring artists program was created as an extension of Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival which is noted for their joyous performances that offer valuable touring experience to artists at the beginning of their careers. Programmed works for the concert included pieces by Schumann, Kurtág and Brahms. Violist Natalie Loughran will give a public masterclass the evening before; for details, visit the Masterclasses and Residencies page.
Supported by Renee Silberman and Ted Medzon of Serenata Music and Dr. Günes Ege, a long-time supporter of the Marlboro Festival
Sunday, March 9 | 3pm | von Kuster Hall (approx. 1.5 hours) - NEW DATE (rescheduled from Nov. 3)
Leslie Kinton, piano - REVISED PROGRAMME
Faculty member Leslie Kinton performs a solo piano recital featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, including Bach’s Partita No. 1, Mozart’s Sonata K. 310, Schubert's Six German Dances and Beethoven's op. 57 (Appassionata).
Tuesday, April 1 | 7:30pm | von Kuster Hall
Vancouver Recital Society Visiting Artist Series: Steven Osborne, piano
Pianist Steven Osborne, OBE, is one of Britain’s most treasured musicians with an immense depth of musicality and exceptional refinement of expression across diverse repertoire be it in Beethoven or Messiaen, Schubert or Ravel, Prokofiev or jazz improvisations. His numerous awards include The Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year, two BBC Music Magazine Awards and two Gramophone Awards.
Admission is free. Pre-registration is available to reserve your spot. Visit Alumni Western to register for concert and/or masterclass.
Planned program:
- Robert Schumann: Arabesque
- Claude Debussy: Nos. 4, 2, 5, 3 from Children’s Corner
- Claude Debussy: Two Arabesques
- Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen
- Marion Bauer: From the New Hampshire Woods, Op. 12 No. 1, White Birches
- Meredith Monk: Railroad (Travel Song)
- Frederic Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues from Four North American Ballads for Piano
- Steven Osborne: Improvisations
- Keith Jarrett: My Song (trans. Osborne)
- George Gershwin: I Loves You Porgy (trans. Osborne)
- Mallard MacDonald & James F. Hanley: Indiana (trans. Osborne)
This concert is part of the Vancouver Recital Society Visiting Artist Series and supported by alumna Elaine Adair. A masterclass with Steven Osborne, piano, featuring current students will take place on Tuesday, April 1 from 10am until 12 noon in von Kuster Hall (NEW DATE). All are welcome to attend.
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