11/28/2024
We welcome Arc Ensemble on Saturday, November 30 at 7:30 in Immaculata Hall. The evening will begin with an announcement from Senator Mary Coyle.
Dear friends,
On Saturday November 30th at 7:30pm in Immaculata Auditorium, Antigonish Performing Arts will present a concert by the ARC Ensemble in cooperation with Pier 21 in Halifax, where the only other ARC performance in Nova Scotia will be presented the following day. ARC emsemble brings together distinguished artists of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, including Erika Raum, violin, Marie BĂ©rard, violin, Steven Dann, viola, Tom Wiebe, cello, and Kevin Ahfat, piano
ARC’s repertoire is unique to the ensemble. It is largely dedicated to music suppressed and marginalized under the 20th century's repressive regimes, works the ensemble has recovered and introduced to the repertoire.
Several important friends from the arts world and government will be in attendance.
The ARC Ensemble's concerts in Nova Scotia are generously supported by Dr. David Goldbloom and Dr. Nancy Epstein, Michael McCain, The McKenna Institute, The River Philip Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council.
The ARC Ensemble is a project of The Royal Conservatory of Music and is grateful to the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust, The Anderson Family Foundation, Janelle Lassonde, Judith Gelber, and the Nani and Austin Beutel Family Fund for their generous and ongoing support.
THE ARC ENSEMBLE
Established in 2002 as The Royal Conservatory’s ensemble-in-residence, the ARC Ensemble is one of Canada’s most distinguished cultural ambassadors, with awards that include three Grammy, four Juno and OPUS Klassik nominations. ARC’s repertoire is unique to the ensemble. It is largely dedicated to music suppressed and marginalized under the 20th century's repressive regimes, works the ensemble has recovered and introduced to the repertoire. The ensemble believes that we have a moral obligation to recover these works, and that through sins of omission, their neglect both sustains the ambitions of the original perpetrators, and presents us with a distorted view of musical history. A growing number of extraordinary works are joining the repertoire as a result of the ARC Ensemble’s work.
The ARC Ensemble has appeared at major festivals and series, including the Budapest Spring Festival, the Enescu Festival (Bucharest), New York's Lincoln Center Festival, Canada's Stratford Festival, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Wigmore and Cadogan Halls and W shington's Kennedy Center. Its “Music in Exile” series has been presented in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Toronto, New York and London, and its performances and recordings continue to earn unanimous critical acclaim, and regular broadcasts on stations around the world. The ensemble’s 11th recording, devoted to the chamber music of the hitherto unknown Viennese composer Frederick Block was released in October, 2024. ARC’s 2025/26 season includes appearances at Merkin Hall, New York and three concerts at the Wigmore Hall as part of its UK tour.
Comprised of the senior faculty of The Royal Conservatory's Glenn Gould School, with special guests drawn from the organization’s most accomplished students and alumni, the ARC Ensemble’s core group consists of piano, string quartet and clarinet with additional forces as repertoire demands. The ARC Ensemble has collaborated with a range of artists, including the late Leon Fleisher, piano, the bass Davóne Tines, novelist Yann Martel, actors Saul Rubinek and R.H. Thompson, and composers R. Murray Schafer, Omar Daniel and Vincent Ho.
EXIT: MUSIC, a documentary exploring the ensemble's work, premiered in November 2016 at Toronto’s Hot Docs Cinema. Subsequent screenings at international festivals led to distribution with First Run Features (US) and EuroArts (Berlin). James Conlon, Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera and a pioneer in the recovery of lost twentieth-century repertoire, is the ARC Ensemble's Honorary Chairman. ARC’s core members are Erika Raum and Marie Bérard, violins; Steven Dann, viola; Tom Wiebe, cello; Joaquin Valdepeñas, cello and Kevin Ahfat, piano. ARC’s Artistic Director is Simon Wynberg. arcensemble.com
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