General Information:

2015 TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL

THE NEW WORLD
TENTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL
JULY 16 - AUGUST 9

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info@torontosummermusic.com
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Tickets start at $35

AMERICANS IN PARIS - Opening Night!

Thursday, July 16, 7:30pm
Koerner Hall
273 Bloor St. W

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Measha Brueggergosman, soprano

John Novacek, piano
Yao Guang Zhai, clarinet
TSM Festival Ensemble
 
Gershwin: Excerpts from Porgy and Bess
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Copland: Clarinet Concerto
 
Happy birthday to TSM! Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary in this special concert.
George Gershwin and Aaron Copland – America’s two most internationally revered composers –
take centre stage for this dynamic program. They studied in Paris, the primary hotbed of artistic
activities during the inter-war years. As this concert demonstrates, they absorbed all that was
new, exciting and daring in music and brought it home to blend with the jazz and folk flavours
of America. Three top-flight soloists join a special, all-star TSM Festival Ensemble to bring this
sensational music to life.

Champagne reception for the entire audience after the concert!

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THE HOLLYWOOD CONNECTION
Friday, July 17, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park
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Mark Fewer, violin

Axel Strauss, violin
Paul Coletti, viola
Denise Djokic, cello
John Novacek, piano
Peter McGillivray, baritone

Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 Op. 96 American

Barber: Dover  Beach 
Antheil: Violin Sonata No. 2
Korngold: Quintet for piano and strings
 
This richly emotional concert brings together three composers who either wrote music for movies –
Erich Wolfgang Korngold and George Antheil – with a composer, Antonín Dvořák, whose music has been
used extensively on film soundtracks (Driving Miss Daisy, The Departed, etc.). Dvořák’s beloved
‘American’ Quartet reflects his happiness at spending a summer in a Czech community in Iowa. The
melodious, full-textured textured Piano Quintet by Korngold maintains the late-Romantic style of
Brahms, and Antheil’s compact, playfully aggressive Violin Sonata No. 2 revels in the jazz-tinged side of
the ‘roaring twenties.’ The concert also features Samuel Barber’s gorgeous setting of Dover  Beach,
Matthew Arnold’s celebrated love poem.
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MENTORS & FELLOWS
Saturday, July 18, 4:00pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (July 18 may include Mark Fewer, Axel Strauss, Paul Coletti,
Denise Djokic, and John Novacek) share the stage with TSM Chamber Music Institute Fellows, a
collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s stars.

MENTORS & FELLOWS

Saturday, July 18, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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concerts/

A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (July 18 may include Mark Fewer, Axel Strauss, Paul Coletti,
Denise Djokic, and John Novacek) share the stage with TSM Chamber Music Institute Fellows, a
collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s stars.
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YOA ORCHESTRA OF THE AMERICAS with INGRID FLITER

Tuesday, July 21, 7:30pm
Koerner Hall
273 Bloor St. W

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Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

Ingrid Fliter, piano
In partnership with Orchestra de la Francophonie

Chávez: Symphony No. 2 Sinfonía India

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 From the New World

Desperately homesick for his native Czechoslovakia while living in the USA, Antonín Dvořák

poured all his feelings (as well as his fascination with African- and Native American music) into
his gloriously heartfelt ‘New World’ Symphony. It’s performed by the Youth Orchestra of
the Americas in partnership with Orchestra de la Francophonie, 100 professional-level musicians
representing 25 countries of the western hemisphere. They add Mexican master Carlos Chávez’s
fiery, percussion-sparked Sinfonia India, and team up with the brilliant Argentine pianist Ingrid
Fliter to channel every jazzy twist, cheeky turn and lyrical reverie of Ravel’s Piano Concerto.
Presented in partnership with TORONTO 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games arts and culture festival,
PANAMANIA presented by CIBC.
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CANADIAN NATIONAL BRASS PROJECT

Wednesday, July 22, 6:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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James Sommerville, conductor

Karen Donnelly, trumpet

Larry Larson, trumpet,
Larry Knopp , trumpet
Geoff Thompson, trumpet
Adam Zinatelli, trumpet
Stéphane Beaulac, trumpet
David Parker, French horn
Julie Fauteux, French horn
Gabriel Radford, French horn
Patricia Evans, French horn
Allene Hackelman, French horn
Peter Sullivan, trombone
Gordon Wolfe, trombone
Steven Dyer, trombone
David Pell, trombone
Keith Dyrda, trombone
Sasha Johnson, tuba
Nick Atkinson, tuba

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Gabrieli: Canzone
Bramwell Tovey: Newly Commissioned Work
Revueltas/Roberts: Sensemayá
Howard Cable: Newly Commissioned Work
Mussorgsky/Howarth: Pictures at an Exhibition

The crème de la crème of Canada’s symphonic brass players – including artists from the orchestras of
Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Edmonton – pool their superlative talents for this
spectacular extravaganza! You’ll be thrilled by a program that ranges from the glories of Gabrieli’s
Renaissance Venice through three newly commissioned works to an electrifying and sonorous
transcription of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

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Danilo Peréz 
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 8:30pm
Koerner Hall
273 Bloor St. W

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The PANAMANIA Lula Big Band with John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Miguel Zénon, Pedrito Martinez, Jane
Bunnett, 
& Berklee Global Jazz Institute. 

Grammy Award-winning pianist Danilo Pérez gathers a stellar international ensemble to perform works by
Canadian composers and arrangers such as Hilario Durán and Roberto Occhipinti as well as the world
premiere of a new composition by Danilo Perez, commissioned by the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am
Games arts and culture festival, PANAMANIA, presented by CIBC. 

Co-presented by PANAMANIA, Toronto Summer Music and Lula Music and Arts Centre.

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GARRICK OHLSSON
Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 7:30pm
Koerner Hall
273 Bloor St. W

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ohlsson/

Beethoven: Sonata in E Major, Op. 109

Beethoven: Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Scriabin: Désir, Op. 57, No. 1
Scriabin: Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
Scriabin: Etude in D-flat Major, Op. 42, No. 1
Scriabin: Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 42, No. 5
Scriabin: Fragilite, Op. 51, No. 1
Scriabin: Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Major, Op. 53

Acclaimed as a major artist ever since he won the Gold Medal at the 1970 International Frédéric Chopin
Piano Competition – the first American to do so – Garrick Ohlsson has matured into one of the world’s
most respected and seasoned pianists. With his TSMF recital, he pays homage to the great and visionary
Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, on the centenary of his death. He also performs selected works by
Beethoven. He illuminates every facet of this music with all the power, delicacy and taste it demands.
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ART OF SONG RECITAL
Friday, July 24, 12:00pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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song/

Performances by selected Art of Song program Fellows. Mentored by Martin Katz, Soile Isokoski, and
Steven Philcox.

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ART OF SONG RECITAL
Friday, July 24, 4:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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song/

Performances by selected Art of Song program Fellows. Mentored by Martin Katz, Soile Isokoski, and
Steven Philcox.

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TRIBUTE TO ELIZABETH SPRAGUE COOLIDGE

Friday, July 24, 2015 at 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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Ernst Kovacic, violin

Jonathan Crow, violin
Steven Dann, viola
Henrik Brendstrup, cello
Huw Watkins, piano
Joanna G’froerer, flute,

Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 50

Poulenc: Flute Sonata
Britten: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25
Bloch: Piano Quintet No. 1
 
The astonishingly generous and insightful American arts patron, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
(1864-1953), commissioned A-list composers from several countries to create new pieces. This
concert displays both the superlative quality of this magnificent legacy and the diversity of its
contents, from the passionate emotional substance of Prokofiev and Bloch, to the cheeky humour
shared by the young Britten and the mature Poulenc.

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MENTORS & FELLOWS

Saturday, July 25, 4:00pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (July 26 may include Huw Watkins, Ernst Kovacic, Jonathan
Crow, Steven Dann, and Henrik Brendstrup) share the stage with TSM Chamber
Music Institute Fellows, a collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s stars.

MENTORS & FELLOWS

Saturday, July 25, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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concerts/
A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (July 26 may include Huw Watkins, Ernst Kovacic, Jonathan
Crow, Steven Dann, and Henrik Brendstrup) share the stage with TSM Chamber
Music Institute Fellows, a collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s stars.

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AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE
Tuesday, July 28, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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avant-garde/

Harumi Rhodes, violin

Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Afiara String Quartet
 
Cage: The Seasons (with readings of the writings of John Cage) (1947, 15)
Ives: Violin Sonata No. 4 ‘Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting’ (1916, 9)
Feldman: Intermissions (1950-53)
John Zorn: Cat O’ Nine Tails for string quartet (1988, 13)
 
Composers who occupied the front lines of their eras’ avant garde share this provocative
program. It embraces everything from Charles Ives’ toe-tapping sonata with its hymn-tune
quotations, through John Cage’s typically quirky dance score inspired by East Indian concepts of
the seasons, to Morton Feldman’s compact, spare-textured piano miniatures, and John Zorn’s
zany, cartoonish mash-up of blistering frenzy with snippets of kitschy dance rhythms.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Wednesday, July 29, 7:30pm
Thursday, July 30, 7:30pm
Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles St W

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Music by Jason Robert Brown starring Aaron Sheppard and Vanessa Oude-Reimerinck.
Jonathan Patterson, director

Broadway at its best! Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk winner The Last Five Years was named one of
Time magazine’s 10 best shows of 2001. It’s an emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two
New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love in the course of five years. The show’s
unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards, while Jamie, the
man, tells his story chronologically. The two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle
of the show.

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AMERICAN ROMANTIC
Friday, July 31, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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romantic/

Martin Beaver, violin

Harumi Rhodes, violin
Eric Nowlin, viola
Mark Kosower, cello
Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Barber: String Quartet, Op. 11

Dvořák: String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97 ‘American’
Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 67
 
This program of glorious, tradition-oriented works includes Samuel Barber’s impetuous String
Quartet whose central movement is the original version of the celebrated Adagio for Strings; the
other, less familiar but equally enjoyable chamber work that Dvořák composed during his 1893
summer holiday in Iowa; and the warm, melodious quintet by Amy Beach, the first American
woman to find success as a composer of large-scale works.
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MENTORS & FELLOWS

Saturday, August 1, 4:00pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (August 1 may include Pedja Muzijevic, Martin Beaver,
Harumi Rhodes, Eric Nowlin, and Mark Kosower) share the stage with TSM Chamber
Music Institute Fellows, a collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s stars.

MENTORS & FELLOWS

Saturday, August 1, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park
http://www.torontosummermusic.com/index.php/festival-tickets/festival-program/mentors-fellows-
concerts/

A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (August 1 may include Pedja Muzijevic, Martin Beaver,
Harumi Rhodes, Eric Nowlin, and Mark Kosower) share the stage with TSM Chamber
Music Institute Fellows, a collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s stars.

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DANISH STRING QUARTET

Tuesday, August 4, 7:30pm
Koerner Hall
273 Bloor St. W

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quartet/

Firsts
Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1
Thomas Adès: Arcadiana
Nielsen: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 13

Praised by the Washington Post as “one of the best quartets before the public today,” the Danish String
Quartet brings a rewarding and unusual program to the Festival. The repertoire spans 200 years, from
Beethoven’s first published string quartet to the quartet that the artists’ accomplished fellow Dane, Carl
Nielsen, completed in 1888, to Arcadiana, a set of seven brief idylls by the celebrated contemporary
Englishman, Thomas Adès.

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TE AMO ARGENTINA
Wednesday, August 5, 7:30pm
Koerner Hall
80 Queens Park

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Antonio Lysy, cello

Borromeo String Quartet
Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo (dancers)

I Love You, Argentina is an exotic audio-visual journey that draws audiences into the heart of Argentina
and its fascinating, diverse culture. The event combines the talents of Latin Grammy-winning cellist
Antonio Lysy, the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet, and a pair of sizzling tango dancers who’ve been
featured on So You Think You Can Dance. From the Amerindian rhythms of the Andes Mountains, to the
city-street cafés of Buenos Aires, the combination of music, dance and projected media weave together
into an inspiring homage to Argentina.

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BORROMEO STRING QUARTET

Thursday, August 6, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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Bartók: The Complete String Quartets

Six masterpieces of chamber music – on one enthralling program! This concert offers the rare and highly
intriguing opportunity to follow the evolution of Hungarian genius Béla Bartók’s approach to composing
string quartets. The creation of these great works spanned, and reflected, a tumultuous period in music,
from 1909 to 1939. You’ll listen spellbound as Bartók worked through other composers’ influences and
achieved a unique and deeply satisfying approach to this crucial musical form.

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KARITA MATTILA in RECITAL

Friday, August 7, 7:30pm
Koerner Hall
273 Bloor St. W

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Karita Mattila, soprano

The magnificent Finnish soprano, a star on the world’s most prestigious stages, performs a breathtaking
recital of music. “With her powerful voice and dramatic intensity…Karita Mattila is undoubtedly one of
the greatest opera singers of the moment.” – Classic FM

MENTORS & FELLOWS

Saturday, August 8, 4:00pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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concerts/

A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (August 8 may include Aaron Schwebel, Shane Kim, Eric
Nowlin, Emmanuelle Beaulieu-Bergeron, Sarah Jeffrey, and James Anagnoson) share the stage with TSM
Chamber Music Institute Fellows, a collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s
stars.

MENTORS & FELLOWS 8

Saturday, August 8, 7:30pm
Walter Hall
80 Queens Park

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concerts/

A TSM audience favourite! Artist Mentors (August 8 may include Aaron Schwebel, Shane Kim, Eric
Nowlin, Emmanuelle Beaulieu-Bergeron, Sarah Jeffrey, and James Anagnoson) share the stage with TSM
Chamber Music Institute Fellows, a collaborative performance of established musicians and tomorrow’s
stars.