119th Season

Aizuri Quartet wins at Osaka

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Congratulations! The Aizuri Quartet have just won the Quartet Section of the 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. Miho Saegusa and Ariana Kim, violins, Ayane Kozasa, viola, and Karen Ouzounian, cello, are pictured here on the Walter Hall Stage, with Diane Martello, WMCT president (far left), and Robin Elliott (Tuning Your Mind speaker, and organizer of the pre-concert talks, far right) after their Music in the Afternoon performance on April 6. (Photo: Jim Kippen)

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Charles Richard-Hamelin’s “proper debut”

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Charles Richard-Hamelin plays Music in the Afternoon May 4 in his first solo Toronto recital. “I’m looking forward to my proper Toronto recital debut,” he said in a recent note to past president and Career Development Award chair Annette Sanger.

Annette presented Charles with first prize in April 2015 when he won the Career Development Award 10th Anniversary competition in Walter Hall.

That same year he went on to win silver in the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the Krystian Zimerman award for the best sonata at the competition.

Listen to Charles at the Chopin competition

17TH INTERNATIONAL FRYDERYK CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION 21 October 2015, Warsaw…
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Canadian composer John Beckwith delivers the Tuning Your Mind lecture on May 4 before the Charles Richard-Hamelin Concert.

The lecture in Walter Hall starts at 12:15 pm.

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Moving office…

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After many years at 56 The Esplanade, the WMCT office moved into new digs on a wickedly cold and rainy March 18.  Now sharing space with the National Youth Orchestra, the new address is:

59 Adelaide St. E. Suite 500, Toronto, On M5C 1K6

Phones remain the same: 416-923-7052

And concerts are still in the great Walter Hall at the Faculty of Music, U of T.

President Diane Martello, Arts Admin Shannon Perreault and volunteer Jerri Merritt Jones atop the packing.

Josh the Mover hauls them out while Jerri Jones presides.

Photo doesn’t reveal traffic ticket on windshield.

 

First day on the job.
New Arts Administrator Shannon Perreault checks computer.

Move over – Diane Martello enjoys all that new space.

 

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2017 March 9: Shaham, Erez, Wallfisch

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President Diane Martello, Raphael Wallfisch, Hagai Shaham, Amon Erez and Artistic Director Simon Fryer

Cellist Raphael Wallfisch greets WMCT members after the concert

Intermission at Walter Hall

Hagai Shaham, Amon Erez, Raphael Wallfisch

Volunteers display new Music in the Afternoon logo T shirts

Canadian composer John Beckwith celebrated his 90th Birthday at the concert

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Aizuri cellist wins Washington Award

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Aizuri cellist wins 2016 Washington Award

Aizuri Quartet cellist Karen Ouzounian has been awarded the 2016 Washington Award by the S & R Foundation. See Karen in Toronto when the Aizuri quartet plays Music in the Afternoon April 6. Toronto-born, Karen has been described as “radiant and “expressive” by the New York Times. She is a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet.

The Washington Award recognizes talented individuals with great potential and high aspirations in the arts, sciences and social entrepreneurship, especially those who are furthering international cultural collaboration.
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What’s Up With Our Scholarship Winners?

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Myriam Blardone, harp and piano, winner of the WMCT Centennial Scholarship in 2016/17 has told us of four upcoming performances.
March 3  at a Canadian Music Competition fundraiser, she is playing a solo harp piece – Remenyi Music, 210 Bloor West  7 pm.

March 31 –  she’ll perform her third year solo piano recital in Father Madden Hall at U of T at 5:30 pm. And on May 1 her third year harp recital in Walter Hall at 2:30.

April 9 Myriam will play harp with an Orchestra U of T concert at 7:30 pm in the MacMillan Theatre.

Watch Myriam on You Tube

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