The Music Gallery is a centre for promoting and presenting innovation and experimentation in all forms of music, and for encouraging cross-pollination between genres, disciplines and audience.
The Music Gallery is Toronto's Centre for Creative Music, founded in 1976 by Peter Anson and Al Mattes of the free-improvising group, CCMC. Since its inception, the MG has been a publicly assisted centre for the creation, development and performance of art music from all genres. Since 2001, The Music Gallery has found a home at St. George the Martyr Church, located at 197 John St., at the southern end of Grange Park. Currently programmed by artistic director Jonathan Bunce and guest curator Gregory Oh, the Music Gallery presents or co-presents more than 50 concerts per year. A variety of art music genres are represented in the five streams of programming, including contemporary classical, chamber and electro-acoustic music (Classic Avant series), free jazz and improv (Jazz Avant series), avant-rock, pop, folk and electronic music (Pop Avant series), and musics from the non-Western world (World Avant series). The Music Gallery season launches annually with the X Avant new music festival, first held in 2006, and featuring cross-programming from all concert series, and a mix of international and local artists. Contact
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| Thu Apr 19 2007 8pm The Music Gallery - $15/$10/$5 |
| Monica Germino |
| Jacob ter Veldhuis: Suites of Lux (2004) (Short version 2007)* for electric violin and soundtrack J.S Bach: Sarabande, from the d minor Partita II, BWV 1004 Louis Andriessen: Xenia (2005)* Philip Glass: Strung Out (1969) for amplified violin Heiner Goebbels: Part 6 from Bagatellen für Violine (1989-2006)* for amplified violin with distortion, and samples Nicholas Brown: The Bravery of Women (2006)* with film and soundtrack Michael Gordon: Industry (1992) for adapted violin and electronics *written for Monica Germino Biography: Violinist Monica Germino (USA/The Netherlands) has premiered numerous works throughout the world. Highlights include appearances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, the Holland Festival, Pontino Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Queensland Biennial Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Bergen International Festival, Ultima Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Germino performs often as a soloist and chamber musician with contemporary ensembles such as the Schönberg Ensemble, Asko Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding, MusikFabrik, Oslo Sinfonietta, Remix Ensemble, and London Sinfonietta. In 1997, she joined forces in founding ELECTRA, an Amsterdam-based, four-member modern music ensemble. A devoted advocate of contemporary music, Germino has worked with a multitude of composers, including Louis Andriessen, Martin Bresnick, John Cage, Heiner Goebbels, György Ligeti, Jacob ter Veldhuis, and Christian Wolff. She performed Andriessen’s violin solo, dedicated to Germino, in the Holland Festival and has recorded several of his works on CD and DVD. Germino and singer Cristina Zavalloni premiered Andriessen’s double concerto with subsequent performances worldwide, and will record the work in 2007. As a soloist, Germino habitually performs new works from memory. Interdisciplinary projects include collaborations with choreographers Nanine Linning, Dylan Newcomb, and Betsy Torenbos, the dance companies NDT, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and Krisztina de Châtel, film director Hal Hartley, and theater companies ZT Hollandia and Nieuw West. Jacob ter Veldhuis’ work for solo electric violin and soundtrack featured Germino on stage together with Scapino dancers in Nanine Linning’s large-scale choreography. Germino has led master classes and introduced new music in Vietnam, Canada, the United States, and throughout Europe. She has been a guest artist in residence at several institutions of higher learning, including the Eastman School of Music and the School of Music at the University of Michigan. Monica Germino holds diplomas with honors from New England Conservatory and Yale University, where she received the Charles Ives Scholarship for Outstanding Violin Performance and the Yale Alumni Association Prize. Her principal teachers were Syoko Aki, Vera Beths, James Buswell, and the Tokyo String Quartet. She won a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant and First Prize in the Crane New Music Competition. She plays a Joannes Baptista Ceruti violin from Cremona, anno 1802, on permanent loan from the Elise Mathilde Foundation. In 2003 she commissioned a custom-made ‘Violectra’, and is exploring new possibilities and soliciting new works for electric violin. |
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| Fri Apr 20 2007 8pm The Music Gallery - $10/$12 |
| Fembots with Nathan Lawr & the Minotaurs |
| Pop Avant series — co-presented with Undertones Music. The FemBots began as a home recording project of Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier. The duo quickly carved a unique space in the Toronto music scene bringing their post-industrial folk songs to the stage using tape loops and reel-to-reel machines mixed with often frantic live performances. With the release of their last two records, 2003's Small Town Murder Scene and 2005's The City, the FemBots have fused their signature junk pop fundamentals with the beauty of a traditional full band sound. For their Music Gallery performance they will be joined by Nathan Lawr on drums, Paul Aucoin (The Hylozoists) on Vibraphones and Greg Smith (The Weakerthans) on bass with other special guests and sonic surprises. Rock soul troubadours Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs will open the evening with their songs of rootsy, heartfelt tunes blistering with desolation and mystery. |
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| Sat Apr 21 2007 8pm The Music Gallery - $25/$15/$5 |
| Continuum Contemporary Music: CURV |
| The Vancouver-based composing collective CURV (Marci Rabe, Kristy Farkas, and Jennifer Butler) challenges the solitary paradigm of classical composition with 20 Silent Words, realised in collaboration with the musicians of Continuum. Incorporating sound, text, images, and movement, CURV’s work grows out of a year-long process of exchange and collaboration of letters, postcards, emails, sound recordings, photos, scores, and conversations. Reusing and recycling each other’s materials freely, the lines of creative ownership are erased. Performers: Marci Rabe (voice), Jennifer Butler and Kristy Farkas (electronics), Wallace Halladay (saxophones), Peter Pavlovsky (double bass), Greg Oh (piano), and Kimberley Pritchard (accordion). |
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| Sat Apr 28 2007 7:15pm The Music Gallery - $25/$15/$5 |
| New Music Concerts: The 96 Note Octave |
| Programme: Gilles Tremblay (Canada, 1932) – *L’infiniment petit (2003) Jacques Desjardins (Canada, 1962) – *Où va Pierrot (2003) Alain Bancquart (France, 1934) – Habiter l’ambre (2001) with tape Marc Patch (Canada, 1958) – *A l’affair en seize (2003) for two pianos Michel Gonneville (Canada, 1950) – *Naturel tempéré (2003) Bruce Mather (Canada, 1939) – *2 Pieces (2004) with ondes Martenot * Canadian work In 2000 Bruce Mather was the recipient of the Serge Garant Prize. As he felt very honoured and since this gift of $25,000 was a windfall, he decided to spend it on something which would prove of benefit to all. He ordered a 1/16 tone piano from Germany which is now housed at the Conservatoire de Quebec à Montreal and is available for the use of students there. Dividing the octave into 96 gradations, this is the only instrument of its kind in Canada. We feel that we are the most obvious organization to bring it to Toronto and present this unique, once in a lifetime experience to the Toronto public. The program consists of works especially composed for this piano by Canadian composers. Presented with the assitance of the Department of Canadian Heritage. |
| Box Office: 416-204-1080 |
| The Music Gallery 197 John St. Toronto ON 416-204-1080 |