{"id":105849,"date":"2024-07-10T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=105849"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T12:00:01","slug":"preview-five-guitars-ottawa-guitar-trio-simon-farintosh-adam-batstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2024\/07\/10\/preview-five-guitars-ottawa-guitar-trio-simon-farintosh-adam-batstone\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Five Guitars: The Ottawa Guitar Trio With Simon Farintosh & Adam Batstone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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L-R: Simon Farintosh & Adam Batstone; Ottawa Guitar Trio (Nathan Bredeson, Alex Bougie and Fran\u00e7ois Lacelle) (Photos courtesy of the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite some notable exceptions, the guitar doesn\u2019t make it to the classical music stage very often. Outside the genre, instrumental music as a whole is a hard sell in the world of mainstream culture.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a status quo that the Ottawa Guitar Trio, and their colleagues in music Simon Farintosh and Adam Batstone, would like to change. Add to that the notion of blurring the genres, and mixing up jazz, video game music and other styles as the muse strikes, and you\u2019ll get an idea of the music mix on offer.<\/p>\n

The Ottawa Guitar Trio \u2014 Nathan Bredeson, Alex Bougie and Fran\u00e7ois Lacelle \u2014 with Simon Farintosh and Adam Batstone, will be performing an eclectic program on July 27 at Annette Studio in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The Music<\/h2>\n

The program is varied, and includes Western classical music along with video game music and other genres as arranged for guitar(s), with work by Takashi Yoshimatsu, Jun Senoue, and Aphex Twin, among others.<\/p>\n

Takashi Yoshimatsu<\/strong> is a Japanese contemporary classical music composer. A native of Yoyogi, Tokyo, he studied other subjects through high school, in the hopes of making it to medical school. It wasn\u2019t until he was a teenager that he discovered Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, and eventually became an apprentice to poet and composer Teizo Matsumura \u2014 at the same time he was studying at the Faculty of Engineering at Keio University.<\/p>\n

While his early work was atonal, he\u2019s largely known for his later compositions in a neo-romantic style, with influences from jazz, rock, and Japanese classical music. He has composed a significant body of classical music, along with film scores, including the well known score for Astro Boy (2003).<\/p>\n

A native of Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, Jun Senoue<\/strong> began his musical career as a rock guitarist, and became perhaps even better known as a video game composer, notably for the Sega Sonic Adventure game.<\/p>\n

Aphex Twin<\/strong>, aka Richard David James, is a British composer, musician and DJ, known for his innovative and influential work in contemporary electronic music.<\/p>\n

‘Petiatl cx htdui’ from Richard D. James’ 2001 album Drukqs performed live by Simon Farintosh & Adam Batstone at the Metropolitan United Church, Toronto (May 2024):<\/p>\n