Public can see NAC Young Artists Programme, and Young Composers Programme participants in a series of masterclasses and workshops with Pinchas Zukerman and other NAC faculty members, June 18-July 5
June 18, 2003 -
Ottawa, Canada -- Music-lovers are invited to observe the gifted participants of the National Arts Centre's Young Artists Programme, Conductors Programme and Young Composers Programme in a series of masterclasses, recitals, chamber music and workshops open to the public at the University of Ottawa and National Arts Centre between June 18 and July 5.
The Young Artists Programme is now in its fifth year. Thirty-six instrumentalists are participating in the three-week intensive summer training course with Pinchas Zukerman and an international faculty from June 16 to July 4. The students, ranging in age from 15 to 25, come from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria, BC in Canada, as well as from China, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Spain, the USA and Uzbekistan.
The Conductors Programme is in its third year led by Jorma Panula and Pinchas Zukerman. This year there are eight conductors plus auditors participating from June 23 to July 3.
This is the inaugural year of the Young Composers Programme. There are four Canadian composers plus two copyists working under the guidance of Lead Composer Gary Kulesha. From June 25 to July 5 the participants will be workshopping their compositions on an ensemble of musicians.
NAC Young Artists, Conductors and Young Composers open events
A masterclass is a one-on-one session between teacher and student, or teacher and chamber ensemble, observed by an audience. Other Young Artists Programme sessions open to the public include recitals by participants and faculty. The Programme culminates in a chamber music concert featuring all the participants. The Young Composers Programme offers two public workshops to observe the participants' works in progress, as well as lectures by faculty members. The Conductors Programme ends with a concert featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra led by four of the participants.
June 18, 20:00
Pinchas Zukerman, violin, viola
Masterclass
Le Salon, NAC: Tickets $5
June 20, 19:00
Musicians of Young Artists Programme:
Wu Jie, violin, and Daniel Khalikov, violin Recital
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
June 21, 19:00
Hans Jorgen Jensen, cello
Masterclass
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
June 24, 19:00
Pinchas Zukerman, violin, viola
Masterclass
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
June 25, 19:00
Steven Dann, chamber music
Masterclass
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
June 26, 19:00
Amanda Forsyth, cello
Masterclass
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
June 27, 19:00
Alexina Louie, composer
Lecture
Rehearsal Hall B, NAC: Free admission (no ticket required)
June 27, 20:00
Faculty of Young Artists Programme
Recital
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
June 28, 19:00
Gary Kulesha, composer
Lecture, “Orchestration” (in English)
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Free admission (no ticket required)
June 29, 19:00
Gary Kulesha and participants in the Young Composers Programme
Composition Workshop I
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
June 30, 19:00
Gary Kulesha, composer
Lecture, “New Music” (in English)
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Free admission (no ticket required)
July 2, 19:00
Joseph Kalichstein, piano
Masterclass
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
July 3, 19:30
NAC Orchestra, led by participants of the Conductors Programme Final Concert
Southam Hall, NAC: Free tickets available in person at the NAC Box Office
July 5, 14:00
Gary Kulesha and participants in the Young Composers Programme
Composition Workshop II
Freiman Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
July 5, 19:00
Musicians of the Young Artists Programme
Final Concert
Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa: Tickets $5
Freiman Hall (Room 121) is located in the Perez Building (Music Faculty), 610 Cumberland Street at the University of Ottawa. Tabaret Hall (Room 112 – the Chapel) is at 550 Cumberland Street at the University of Ottawa.
The faculty of the Young Artists Programme is headed by Pinchas Zukerman, Manhattan School of Music and Music Director of the NAC Orchestra, and Patinka Kopec, who heads the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music. They are joined in teaching violin and viola by Grigory Kalinovsky, also from the Manhattan School of Music. Cello will be taught by Margaret Munro Tobolowska of the NAC Orchestra, with special guest artists Amanda Forsyth, principal cello of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Danish cellist Hans Jorgen Jensen, Professor of Music at Northwestern University in Chicago;
Piano is taught by Tatiana Goncharova of the Manhattan School of Music with special guest artist Joseph Kalichstein, famed American pianist of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio; chamber music by violist Steven Dann of the Glenn Gould Professional School at the Royal Conservatory of Music; and double bass by Joel Quarrington, principal double bass of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Orchestral repertoire is led by Walter Prystawski, concertmaster of the NAC Orchestra.
The Associate Sponsor of the 2003 Young Artists Programme is Galaxie: The Continuous Music Network. The programme is supported by the National Youth and Education Trust with special thanks to TELUS, Founding Partner of the Trust, Corus Entertainment, J. Armand Bombardier Foundation and Universal Music, as well as NAC Donors' Circle supporters and National Arts Centre Gala audience members. Canadian participants are eligible for full scholarships, including The Mitchell Sharp Promising Young Musician Award, the Galaxie “Rising Star” Award, the New Sun Award, the Joyce Conger Award for the Arts, the McKinlay Family Scholarship, the Ridgen Family Scholarship, the NACOA Scholarship, the Marjorie Goodrich Scholarship, the Fuller Family Scholarship, the Walter Prystawski Scholarship, the Bourse Roland Madou pour jeunes musiciens francophones en situation minoritaire, the Dr. Ruth M. Bell, C.M. Scholarship, and the Jenny and Hy Belzberg Scholarship in honour of Pinchas Zukerman, the Rosemarie Landry Scholarship for Young Artists, among others.
The NAC Conductors Programme is supported by the National Youth and Education Trust with special thanks to TELUS, Founding Partner of the Trust, Corus Entertainment, J. Armand Bombardier Foundation and Universal Music. Thanks also go to the Honourable Mitchell Sharp for establishing the Mitchell Sharp Young Musicians Endowment.
The NAC Young Composers Programme is supported by the National Youth and Education Trust with special thanks to TELUS, Founding Partner of the Trust, Corus Entertainment, J. Armand Bombardier Foundation and Universal Music. The SOCAN Foundation is also a supporter of the Young Composers Programme
