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HOME CONCERTS TICKETS CONTACT LINKS ARCHIVES	THE 2012 CONCERT SEASON TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS Welcome back for our next series of extraordinary concerts, featuring world-class musicians from near and far. TO THOSE OF YOU JOINING US FOR THE FIRST TIME We are pleased to welcome you to the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall at the University of Victoria's School of Music. The hall's terraced seating, excellent sight lines, and laudable acoustics are perfect for each evening's inspired music making. Now in its seventeenth season, the Victoria Summer Music Festival continues its tradition of presenting fabulous concerts in an intimate setting. To enhance the festival feeling this year, we have artists returning for more than one concert so you can get to know them better and enjoy listening to them in a range of repertoire, playing with different combinations of instruments. Some are old favourites: Gary Karr and Harmon Lewis with Basses Loaded, the Emily Carr String Quartet, and the festival's music director, Arthur Rowe; others are making their first appearance: William Preucil, Eric Kim, Michelle Mares, and the Alcan Quartet. We are also bringing back the popular pre-concert talks we initiated in 2011. Join us at 6:35 on the evenings noted below for a sneak peek at some of the upcoming repertoire. We think you'll find this the perfect complement to our wonderful west coast summer evenings. See you soon! All concerts take place at 7:30 pm in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, School of Music, University of Victoria (see map). Parking is available outside the School of Music, with a parking meter conveniently located in the middle of the lot. Please telephone 250-385-8763 if you are disabled and need to be seated at the end of a row or if you require a space for your wheelchair. This will enable us to ensure that you are seated properly as there are a limited number of these seating locations. Tuesday, July 24 7:30 pm Basses Loaded XVI Gary Karr - double bass, Harmon Lewis - piano, and KarrKamp 2012 To open its concert series, the Victoria Summer Music Festival is delighted to welcome back Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano), and the army of double bassists from KarrKamp. The Basses Loaded concerts are renowned for their wonderful mixture of great musicianship, program variety, and humour! This event always sells out quickly, so order your tickets now. More about Gary Karr, Harmon Lewis and KarrKamp Thursday, July 26 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM William Preucil, Eric Kim, Arthur Rowe William Preucil, concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, and Eric Kim, professor of cello at Indiana University, are in demand worldwide as soloists and chamber musicians. Pianist Arthur Rowe and William Preucil began their partnership at Indiana University over three decades ago, and they have been performing with Eric Kim for the past 10 seasons. This is the trio's debut performance in Victoria. For their first festival appearance they will play piano trios by Brahms and Arensky. More about William Preucil More about Eric Kim More about Arthur Rowe Saturday, July 28 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM William Preucil, Eric Kim, Arthur Rowe, and the Emily Carr String Quartet Preucil, Kim, and Rowe return for a varied program of rarely heard masterpieces. In the first half we will hear violin-cello duos by Gliere, followed by a sonata for cello and piano. After intermission, Victoria's dynamic Emily Carr String Quartet - Müge Büyükçelen and Cory Balzer, violins; Mieka Michaux, viola; Alasdair Money, cello - returns to the VSMF stage for the first of two 2012 appearances, joining William Preucil and Arthur Rowe for Chausson's monumental Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet. More about the Emily Carr String Quartet Monday, July 30 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM Alcan Quartet and Michelle Mares The Alcan Quartet - violinists Laura Andriani and Nathalie Camus, violist Luc Beauchemin, and cellist David Ellis - has developed a reputation for excellence throughout Canada and internationally since its formation in 1989. Michelle Mares has been wowing audiences in Canada and Europe since she first appeared with the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, Austria, as an 11-year-old soloist. These two Canadian treasures combine forces to perform Cesar Franck's piano quintet. The Alcans will also perform a Beethoven quartet and Montreal composer José Švangelista's "Spanish Garland." More about the Alcan Quartet More about Michelle Mares Tuesday, July 31 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM Alcan Quartet and the Emily Carr String Quartet Mendelssohn's octet, written when he was just 16, has been described as "one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music." We round out the festival with this ever popular work, performed by the two quartets featured this summer - the Alcan Quartet and the Emily Carr String Quartet. This final program will also include quartets by Shostakovich and Kapustin.

THE 2012 CONCERT SEASON

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS

Welcome back for our next series of extraordinary concerts, featuring world-class musicians from near and far.

TO THOSE OF YOU JOINING US FOR THE FIRST TIME

We are pleased to welcome you to the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall at the University of Victoria's School of Music. The hall's terraced seating, excellent sight lines, and laudable acoustics are perfect for each evening's inspired music making.

Now in its seventeenth season, the Victoria Summer Music Festival continues its tradition of presenting fabulous concerts in an intimate setting. To enhance the festival feeling this year, we have artists returning for more than one concert so you can get to know them better and enjoy listening to them in a range of repertoire, playing with different combinations of instruments. Some are old favourites: Gary Karr and Harmon Lewis with Basses Loaded, the Emily Carr String Quartet, and the festival's music director, Arthur Rowe; others are making their first appearance: William Preucil, Eric Kim, Michelle Mares, and the Alcan Quartet. We are also bringing back the popular pre-concert talks we initiated in 2011. Join us at 6:35 on the evenings noted below for a sneak peek at some of the upcoming repertoire. We think you'll find this the perfect complement to our wonderful west coast summer evenings. See you soon!

All concerts take place at 7:30 pm in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, School of Music, University of Victoria (see map). Parking is available outside the School of Music, with a parking meter conveniently located in the middle of the lot.

Please telephone 250-385-8763 if you are disabled and need to be seated at the end of a row or if you require a space for your wheelchair. This will enable us to ensure that you are seated properly as there are a limited number of these seating locations.

Tuesday, July 24 7:30 pm

Basses Loaded XVI

Gary Karr - double bass, Harmon Lewis - piano, and KarrKamp 2012

To open its concert series, the Victoria Summer Music Festival is delighted to welcome back Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano), and the army of double bassists from KarrKamp. The Basses Loaded concerts are renowned for their wonderful mixture of great musicianship, program variety, and humour! This event always sells out quickly, so order your tickets now.

More about Gary Karr, Harmon Lewis and KarrKamp

Thursday, July 26 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM

William Preucil, Eric Kim, Arthur Rowe

William Preucil, concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, and Eric Kim, professor of cello at Indiana University, are in demand worldwide as soloists and chamber musicians. Pianist Arthur Rowe and William Preucil began their partnership at Indiana University over three decades ago, and they have been performing with Eric Kim for the past 10 seasons. This is the trio's debut performance in Victoria. For their first festival appearance they will play piano trios by Brahms and Arensky.

More about William Preucil
More about Eric Kim
More about Arthur Rowe

Saturday, July 28 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM

William Preucil, Eric Kim, Arthur Rowe, and the Emily Carr String Quartet

Preucil, Kim, and Rowe return for a varied program of rarely heard masterpieces. In the first half we will hear violin-cello duos by Gliere, followed by a sonata for cello and piano. After intermission, Victoria's dynamic Emily Carr String Quartet - Müge Büyükçelen and Cory Balzer, violins; Mieka Michaux, viola; Alasdair Money, cello - returns to the VSMF stage for the first of two 2012 appearances, joining William Preucil and Arthur Rowe for Chausson's monumental Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet.

More about the Emily Carr String Quartet

Monday, July 30 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM

Alcan Quartet and Michelle Mares

The Alcan Quartet - violinists Laura Andriani and Nathalie Camus, violist Luc Beauchemin, and cellist David Ellis - has developed a reputation for excellence throughout Canada and internationally since its formation in 1989. Michelle Mares has been wowing audiences in Canada and Europe since she first appeared with the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, Austria, as an 11-year-old soloist. These two Canadian treasures combine forces to perform Cesar Franck's piano quintet. The Alcans will also perform a Beethoven quartet and Montreal composer José Švangelista's "Spanish Garland."

More about the Alcan Quartet
More about Michelle Mares

Tuesday, July 31 7:30 pm Includes a pre-concert talk at 6:35 PM

Alcan Quartet and the Emily Carr String Quartet

Mendelssohn's octet, written when he was just 16, has been described as "one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music." We round out the festival with this ever popular work, performed by the two quartets featured this summer - the Alcan Quartet and the Emily Carr String Quartet. This final program will also include quartets by Shostakovich and Kapustin.