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Shattering the Silence 2014 (Feb. 1–8)

The Acadia New Music Society proudly presents its Seventh Annual Shattering the Silence, a celebration of new concert music by emerging and established Maritime artists, February 1–8, 2014, on the campus of Acadia University. This year, STS 2014 welcomes Allan Gordon Bell from the University of Calgary as Composer in Residence, sponsored by the SOCAN Foundation.

Concert 3 – Five Islands
Students free with valid I.D.

Program:

Melina Coolen * / New Beginnings (world premiere)
Vocal Ensemble, directed by Claire Mallin

Shane Barrett * / Dinant (world premiere)
Saxophone Quartet, directed by Tristan De Borba

Martin Campbell * / Perceptions (world premiere)
Guitar Quartet, directed by Eugene Cormier

Shannon Lauriston * / Phoenix Feathers
Sarah McCabe, viola
Ed Enman, piano

Leo Brouwer / Cuban Landscape with Rain
Guitar Quartet, directed by Eugene Cormier

Intermission
Philip Glass / String Quartet no. 5 
(arranged for guitar quartet by Eugene Cormier)
Guitar Quartet, directed by Eugene Cormier

Colin Macdonald / Prana
Saxophone Quartet, directed by Tristan De Borba

Ken Shorley / Five Islands
Paula Rockwell, mezzo-soprano
Ken Shorley, Naoko Tsujita, Patrick Lynch, Paige Morrissey, percussion
Liam Elliot – conductor

* Acadia Student Composer

Pricing: Donation

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Wolfville, Nova Scotia


 

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