The ASA is your connection to the people and events that make up Alberta's vibrant string community.
Congratulations to violinist Jillie Hansen, winner of the 2017 ASA Concerto Competition!
Jillie will perform Vieuxtemps’ Concerto No. 5 in A minor, with conductor Cristian Neacsu and the Burman University Chamber Orchestra.
The concert will be held on April 8th, 8PM, at College Heights Church, Lacombe, AB (Campus Map).
Admission is free, with a freewill offering following the performance.
Upcoming Amici String Camp and Calgary Stringfest info:
String camp poster: amici-string-camp-poster-2017-2
Summer camp application: amici-summer-camp-application-2017
Stringfest: stringfest-application-2017
Strigfest poster: stringfest-camp-2017-poster-1
You are invited to attend the Alberta String Association’s December 2016 Annual General Meeting:
Alberta String Association Annual General Meeting
Dec. 4, 4:30 pm
3-17 Fine Arts Building
University of Alberta
Remote access (Google Hangout Tardifg)
If you are looking for even more string news or are interested in sharing news, events and interests, please contact us via the online contact form or by letter, phone or fax (listed on our contact page).
The Alberta String Association is always looking for volunteers for events, contributions to newsletters and other forms of participation. If you are interested in becoming a part of the ASA, feel free to contact our Interim President Renee Perez Rodriguez at perezrod@ualberta.ca.
The ASA Newsletter Spring/Summer 2016 is now available – https://albertastringassociation.org/newsletters/.
Your String Association has been very busy this term, with levels of activity reminding me of November 2004, when we held a large ASA Conference event in Banff and Calgary. Highlights include a report on the inaugural 2016 ASA Concerto Competition, and the recent 2016 ASA Conference in collaboration with Wilder & Davis and Emmanuel Euvrard (the Makers’ Forum). This issue also reflects your many activities – we enjoy hearing from you!
Please also welcome Renee Perez Rodriguez, interim President, who will lead the ASA during my sabbatical year at the University of Alberta.
We also hope to see you at Music Conference Alberta, which will be held at the Banff Centre (October 20-23). Our younger members should consider applying to the 2017 ASA Concerto Competition, and if you want to become involved with the ASA this year, please let us know.
Guillaume Tardif
This year, Music Conference Alberta will be held at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, October 20-23.
Join us for 4 days of interest sessions, interactive panel discussions, open rehearsals and rehearsal labs, masterclasses, One-on-One sessions, and concerts.
Music Conference Alberta is jointly presented by Choir Alberta, Alberta Band Association, and Alberta Music Education Foundation in cooperation with Alberta Kodàly Association, Alberta Registered Music Teachers’ Association, and Alberta String Association (*A special thanks to the AMEF and Crystal Krips for assisting the ASA in joining the Alberta Music Conference).
For more information, please visit http://www.musicconferenceab.ca/
This year, the ASA is sponsoring one of the two sessions offered by Bill Vandersloot:
Saturday, October 22
1:30-2:30PM Kinnear Centre (Interest Session) | From Twinkle to the New York Philharmonic – The Role of the Studio Teacher
4:15-5:15PM Kinnear Centre (Interest Session) | Development of Technique and Artistry in Young String Players
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Guillaume Tardif, violin – with Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp, piano – will also be exploring the artistic dimensions of working with transcriptions and arrangements for violin and piano, focusing on selections realized by Jascha Heifetz.
Friday, October 21
10-11AM Kinnear Center (Thematic Workshop)
1:30-2:45PM Kinnear Center (Open Rehearsal
4:30-6:00PM Eric Harvie Theatre (Recital; with Cantare Children’s Choir)
We are pleased to announced our masterclass participants for the 2016 ASA Conference, which will be held on April 20, 2016 at the University of Alberta:
WED | April 20 | 3:00-4:20PM
Andrew Wan, Concertmaster, Montreal Symphony
(room 1-29, fine arts bldg)
3:00PM
Sonya Shin | Ysaÿe Sonata no. 3
3:20PM
Esther Yao | Kreisler Variations on a Theme of Corelli
3:40PM
Kathleen Pickford | Bach Partita for Solo Violin no. 3, Preludio
4:00PM
Jillie Hansen | Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto no.5, I
WED | April 20 | 4:30-5:50PM
Jonathan Crow, Concertmaster, Toronto Symphony
(room 1-29, fine arts bldg)
4:30PM
Maya Budzinski | Sarasate Introduction and Tarantella
4:50PM
Alexa Miyashita | Dancla Fantaisie op. 86, no. 7 “La Cenerentola”
5:10PM
Gabrielle Després | Dvorak Romance, op. 11
5:30PM
Kyung Rok Moon | Berg Violin Concerto
The 2016 Alberta String Association Conference will be held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB on April 20, 2016, from 12:30PM to late evening.
Deadline to register: April 6, 2016
This year, we feature the following:
For full schedule see our 2016 ASA Conference brochure.
Register at https://albertastringassociation.org/conf2016/
The Edmonton Classical Guitar Society 2015-16 season
From Thailand – winner of the 2014 Guitar Foundation of America Competition!
EKACHAI JEARAKUL, guitar
Friday, April 8, 2016, 8:00 pm
Muttart Hall, Alberta College
10050 Macdonald Drive, Edmonton
Tickets
● $25 regular admission
● $20 students, seniors and ECGS members
Available at
● Tix on the Square (on Sir Winston Churchill Square, ph. 780-420-1757)
● Avenue Guitars (10550 82 Avenue)
● Acoustic Music Shop (9934 82 Avenue)
● online through the ECGS website
● at the door
$10 youth tickets (age 12 and under) available through the society and at the door only
For more information call 587-708-2044, or check the Edmonton Classical Guitar Society website at www.edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org
MASTERCLASS
7:00 pm, Thursday, April 7 (the day before the concert).
Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Drive, Room 428
Admission is free for both performers and auditors
For more information please call the Edmonton Classical Guitar Society at 587-708-2044
EKACHAI JEARAKUL
Thai guitarist Ekachai Jearakul was born in 1987 and began his study of the guitar at age thirteen. He is a graduate of the Mahidol University College of Music near Bangkok and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he studied with Marco Tamayo. Jearakul has won first prizes in numerous international guitar competitions, and has performed in over sixteen countries, including Thailand, China, France, Russia, Greece, Japan, Austria, England, Italy, Germany, Mexico and the United States. In 2014 he became the first Asian guitarist to win the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition, the most important event of its kind in the world. In addition to a cash award, his prize includes a fifty-concert tour in of Canada, the USA, Mexico and China, and a recording in the Naxos “Laureate” series with worldwide distribution.
“immaculate….colourful….a dizzying display of agility.”
– David Denton, David’s Review Corner
PROGRAMME
Rito de los Orisha Leo Brouwer
Fantasie, Op. 19 Luigi Legnani
Sonata, Op. 61 Joaquín Turina
Intermission
Selections from H.M. King Suite His Majesty, The King of Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Sonata Capriccioso Stephen Goss
Concertino Johann Kaspar Mertz
MORE INFORMATION
For more information on the concert and masterclass, please get in touch with David Grainger Brown (president of the Edmonton Classical Guitar Society) at 587-708-2044 or Ernst Birss (vice-president) at 780-482-3741. Information on the society can also be found on the internet at www.edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org.
More information on Ekachai Jearakul can be found at http://www.ekachaiguitarist.com/home.php
Listen to Ekachai Jearakul on YouTube.
Alberta String Association