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They won the 2006 CBC Galaxie Rising Stars Award from
the Banff Centre, where they made their debut as a quartet.
This year, Chatelaine included them among 80 Women to Watch.
The four leading young Canadian soloists who comprise Made In Canada
perform at:
Mooredale Concerts,
Sunday, November 9, 3 p.m.
at Walter Hall, in the Edward Johnson Building,
80 Queen’s Park Crescent
(south of the ROM; Museum subway).
Tickets are $25; $20 seniors and students.
For tickets or information, call 416-922-3714, extension 103, or
visit
www.mooredaleconcerts.com.
The concert showcases the individual and collective talents of
violinist Judy Kang, violist Sharon Wei,
cellist Rachel Mercer and pianist Angela
Park.On the program are the Duo for Violin and Cello
by Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942), who perished in the Holocaust;
Darius Milhaud’s Quatre Visages for Viola & Piano; Improvisation
for Solo Violin by Canada’s André Prévost, and two works for
the full quartet – Schubert’s Adagio and Rondo Concertante in
F and Fauré’s throbbing Piano Quartet in C minor, Opus 15.
Anton Kuerti, artistic director of Mooredale Concerts, says, "Violist
Sharon Wei was a member of the Mooredale Youth Orchestra, then a
featured Young Artist on Mooredale Concerts, and in more recent
times a frequent performer in our series. She has organized this
exceptional quartet, which we are proud to present. The energy
and depth of this young foursome is breathtaking!"
MUSIC & TRUFFLES:
CHILDREN’S VERSION OF THE CONCERT
Made In Canada will play excerpts from their full concert program
in an interactive performance for children five and up, on
Music
& Truffles, Sunday, November 9 at 1 p.m. in Walter Hall, 80
Queen’s Park Crescent. Tickets, $10, are available via 416-922-3714,
ext. 103, or
www.mooredaleconcerts.com
Mike Petersen keeps things hopping as the colorful M.C., "Papageno"
Concert-goers receive a chocolate truffle at the conclusion.
BIO:
MADE IN CANADA QUARTET -
www.sharonwei.net/Sharon_Wei/Made_in_Canada.html
Each member of Made In Canada has forged an outstanding individual
career, and they come together with a wealth of experience and a
shared love of chamber music. After performing with each other in
various other formations over the past decade, the four have united
to explore the chamber music repertoire, creating varied programs
drawn from the sonata, duo, trio, and piano quartet literature.
Their chamber music backgrounds include performances at such prestigious
festivals as Marlboro, Ravinia, Banff, Orford, Musique de Chambre
à Normandie, Verbier, Prussia Cove, Pablo Casals, Ottawa Chamber
Music Festival, Festival of the Sound, and Evian. Among musical
celebrities with whom they have collaborated have been Joseph Silverstein,
Claude Frank, Gary Hoffman, Lawrence Lesser, Lorand Fenvyes, Gil
Shaham, James Levine, Felix Galimir, Scott St. John, Rivka Golani
and Lynn Harrell.
They have appeared at such prestigious venues as London’s Wigmore
Hall and New York’s Lincoln Center, and performed for the Steinway
Society of Chicago, New York Viola Society, Bargemusic, the CBC
Radio’s OnStage and Music Around Us series, and Montreal
Debut, Dame Myra Hess and Syrinx Series. Many of their performances
have been broadcast by CBC Radio.
All four Made In Canada members are winners of major prizes.
Judy Kang captured the Grand Prize in the CBC’s Young Performers
Competition and top prizes at the Kreisler and Naumburg International
Violin Competitions. Sharon Wei has been a prizewinner at
the Washington International Competition for Strings and was a National
Scholar. Rachel Mercer won the grand prize in the Vriendenkrans
Competition of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Angela Park won
grand prize in the Grace Welsh International Piano Competition in
Chicago and received awards of recognition at the World Piano Competition,
the Honens International Piano Competition and the Maria Canals
International Competition. They have pursued their studies on grants
from the Canada Council, the Alberta Council for the Arts, the Winspear
Foundation, and the Ontario Arts Council’s Chalmers Foundation.
Last season, Made In Canada performed for sold-out audiences in
Winnipeg’s Virtuosi series, London’s Jeffery Series, Lindsay Concert
Productions, University of Waterloo Series, Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber
Music Series, Toronto’s Syrinx Series and the Hart House Sunday
Concert Series, amongst other places. Besides the Ottawa International
Chamber Music Festival, this season’s schedule includes performances
for the Brockville Concert Association, Shingwauk Series in Sault
Ste. Marie, and Almonte in Concert. Sharon Wei and Angela Park
will be featured in a Debut Atlantic tour in 2009-10.
Made In Canada strongly believes in promoting the education of future
classical music audiences through outreach programs, and has enjoyed
working with music students of all ages. Last season included master
classes, chamber music coachings and talks at the University of
Western Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Manitoba
and Brandon University.
Judy Kang performs on the 1689 Baumgartner Stradivarius, on loan
from the Canada Council for the Arts. Sharon Wei plays a viola
on loan to her from the Banff Centre and Rachel Mercer performs
on the 1824 McConnell Nicolaus Gagliano cello, also awarded by the
Canada Council.
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