{"id":22311,"date":"2014-10-30T14:52:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=22311"},"modified":"2014-11-02T13:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T17:39:54","slug":"whos-who-soundstreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/10\/30\/whos-who-soundstreams\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO’S WHO | Soundstreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Address: 302-579 Richmond St W, Toronto<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Phone: Box Office: 416-408-0208<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Email: <\/b>info@soundstreams.ca<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Web: <\/b>www.soundstreams.ca<\/b><\/span><\/a> and <\/b>www.soundmakers.ca<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Folks Behind It All<\/del><\/h1>\n
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Lawrence Cherney | Artistic Director<\/p>\n

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About<\/del><\/h1>\n

Led by Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney and Executive Director Susan Worthington, Soundstreams is a Toronto-based music presenter that commissions, develops, and showcases the work of contemporary Canadian composers and their international counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n

These innovative collaborations are performed by the finest artists from Canada and around the world, and are<\/span> presented in an annual concert series, our monthly Salon 21 series at The Gardiner Museum, in national and international tours, and through a variety of education and outreach activities. To mark its 30th anniversary season in 2012\/13, Soundstreams launched SoundMakers, an innovative website and smartphone app that invites music lovers to explore and create with Soundstreams\u2019 commissioned works.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past three decades, Soundstreams commissions have added more than 150 works to the musical repertoire worldwide, reflecting a diverse variety of genres and cultural traditions. Projects have included festivals and conferences such as the Northern Encounters festival, University Voices, and Cool Drummings percussion festival and conference, as well as new productions such as Thomson Highway and Melissa Hui\u2019s Cree opera Pimooteewin: The Journey<\/i>, R. Murray Schafer\u2019s Dora Award-winning site-specific opera The Children\u2019s Crusade, <\/i>and Brian Current\u2019s opera Airline Icarus<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Events<\/del><\/h1>\n

2014\/2015 CONCERT SERIES<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Vespers<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

November 25, 2014, at 8:00 pm, Trinity-St. Paul\u2019s Centre<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Nearly four centuries separate Claudio Monteverdi\u2019s monumental Renaissance masterpiece Vespro della Beata Vergine <\/i>from Gilles Tremblay\u2019s Les V\u00eapres de la Vierge<\/i>, commissioned to celebrate the 850th anniversary of France\u2019s Notre-Dame de Sylvan\u00e8s Abbey in 1986. Yet despite the striking juxtaposition of period and instrumentation, these two magnificent choral works\u2014both taking their titles from Vespers, the Catholic Church\u2019s sunset prayer service, and both evoking the medieval world\u2014express the same profound spirituality. Soprano Shannon Mercer joins Choir 21 and chamber orchestra conducted by the Toronto Consort\u2019s David Fallis in this transcendent evening of choral music.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Whisper Opera<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

February 26 to March 1, 2015, The Theatre Centre<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Feb 26 at 8pm, Feb 27 at 7pm & 10pm, Feb 28 at 2pm & 7pm and Mar 1 at 2pm<\/span><\/p>\n

Using a libretto compiled from search-engine responses to such prompts as \u201cWhen I think of you, I think of\u2026,\u201d Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang explores the tension between our private and online selves in a work that demands the most intimate live performance possible. Reprising their successes at Lincoln Center and Chicago\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Art, soprano Tony Arnold and Chicago\u2019s International Contemporary Ensemble\u2014hailed by The New York Times<\/i> as \u201cone of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music\u201d\u2014make their Canadian debuts in an opera so quiet, so delicate, that it can be experienced by just 52 people at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Song for Athene<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

April 16, 2015, at 8:00 pm, Trinity-St. Paul\u2019s Centre<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Performed at the funeral of Princess Diana, Song for Athene<\/i> is perhaps the best-known work by one of contemporary music\u2019s most popular composers. Britain\u2019s John Tavener, who died in November 2013, twice visited Toronto as the guest of Soundstreams, which commissioned and premiered his 2005 Invocations and Last Word. Now, to commemorate his passing, Choir 21 and the Toronto Children\u2019s Chorus collaborate in a program of highlights that also includes selections by his late compatriot Jonathan Harvey and Canada\u2019s Christos Hatzis\u2014composers with whom Tavener shared his passion for the universal power of spiritual expression through music.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Encuentros<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

May 24, 2015, at 3:00 pm, Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Presented in partnership with the Royal Conservatory\u2019s 21C Music Festival<\/span><\/p>\n

Sultry and sensual, the music of Latin cultures urges countless couples toward dance floors around the world\u2014and continues to exert a potent influence on other genres. Tango, flamenco, bossa nova, fandango, klezmer, afro-samba, and jazz are among the styles featured in an evening of musical \u201cencounters\u201d featuring internationally acclaimed guitar virtuosos Grisha Goryachev and Fabio Zanon. The all-star lineup also includes Argentinian bandoneon player Hector del Curto and Juno Award-winning pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian. Co-produced with the Royal Conservatory as part of its 21C Music Festival, and including the world premiere of a new piece for two guitars by Canadian composer Andrew Staniland, this colourful event also pays tribute to Toronto\u2019s hosting of the 2015 Pan American Games.<\/span><\/p>\n

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