bassoon out loud concert no.2

OPHELIA

SPEAKS

Sunday, September 25, 2016 3pm, Heliconian Hall

NADINA MACKIE JACKSON, solo bassoon BIJAN SEPANJI, violin STEVE SANG KOH, violin RORY McLEOD, viola BRYAN LU, cello JOE PHILLIPS, bass

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Concerto no. 27 in E flat major, rv483 presto, larghetto, allegro MATTHIAS McINTIRE (b. 1986) Premise for Solo Viola (2014) Rory McLeod, viola J.S. BACH (1685-1750) Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello no.3 in C major Bryan Lu, cello ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto no.14 in C Minor, rv480 allegro, (andantino), allegro intermission

J.S. BACH Preludio from Partita no.3 in E major for Solo Violin, bwv 1006 Bijan Sepanji, violin

NADINA MACKIE JACKSON, solo bassoonist who plays well with others, has recorded commercially since the beginning of her career in 1981. While she never thought she would make so many recordings, she has plans to make many more and encourages you to do the same. solo recordings Scarlatti Sonatas k545, k213, k501, adapted for solo bassoon. Independent (2015) Canadian Concerto Project Lussier Oddbird, Le Dernier Chant d’Ophélie; Occhipinti Sicilian Proverbs, Thirteen Seconds; Buhr man will only grieve if he believes the sun stands still. msr Classics 1480 (2012; Juno nomination 2014) Vivaldi Concerti Volume 1 rv479, 480, 483, 484, 491, 495, 498, 499. msr Classics 1451 (2011) Romanza Hummel Concerto; Weber Andante & Rondo; Lachner Concertino msr. Classics 1232 (2008)

Bacchanale Hindemith & Lussier Double Concerti; Bassango & Spring Lullaby. msr Classics 1201 (2007)

Telemann Fantasias, Complete Flute Fantasias. Oddbird Studios (2000) chamber music

After Hours Shostakovitch, St Saëns, Rimsky-Korsakov, Paganini, Boismortier, Piazzolla. Independent (2010)

Three with Leslie Newman and Guy Few, Piazolla, Kuhlau, Couperin. Independent (2015)

24 Solos (1740), Jean-Daniel Braun Independent (2010)

Camera Music of David Occhipinti. lmc Media (2012)

Notes From Abroad Bitsch Concertino, Schreck Sonata; Lussier, Schurmer. Independent (2004)

Business of Angels Baroque Bassoon (2011)

Ever After, Prokofiev Sonata opus 94; Scarlatti Sonatas, Bach; Lussier Caprices. Independent (2003)

Aux Armes Citoyens! – Classical Wind Sextets. atma Classique (2010) Musica Franca: Michel Corrette Complete Délices de la Solitude; Le Phénix; Organ Concerto no.1 in G Major. msr Classics 1171 (2005) Musica Franca: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier msr Classics 1170 (2005) Caliban Does Christmas. atma Classique (2005) Feast. bis Northern Lights (2003)

J.S. BACH Andante from Sonata no. 2 in A minor for Solo Violin, bwv 1003 Steve Sang Koh, violin ANDREW DOWNING (b. 1973) Kontrbas Semaisi (2013) for Solo Bass Joe Phillips, bass MATHIEU LUSSIER (b. 1971) Le Dernier Chant d’Ophélie (2008)

The two Vivaldi concerti are included on Vivaldi Concerti Volume 1. Le Dernier Chant d’Ophelie is featured on the Juno-nominated Canadian Concerto Project . These discs are for sale at tonight’s concert, and online nadinamackiejackson.com

Bassoonatics. cbc Records (1997) baroque and classical orchestras Haydn Symphonies 62, 107 & 108, Toronto Chamber Orchestra. naxos 8572130 (2008) Pichel Symphonies, Zakin 8, 11, 14 & 16, Toronto Chamber Orchestra. naxos 8557761 (2005) Handel Israel In Egypt, Aradia Ensemble. naxos 8570966-67 (2008) Handel Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks, Aradia Ensemble. naxos (2006) Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks and Concerti a due chori, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra sony (1997; Juno Award 1998)

orchestre symphonique de montréal with charles dutoit Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Decca 421-443-2 (recorded 1987; released 1988; Juno Award 1989) Berlioz Harold in Italy, Overture ‘Rob Roy’, Overture ‘The Corsair’, Pinchas Zukerman. Decca 421-1932; re-edition #455361 (recorded 1987; released 1988) Berlioz Roméo et Juliette, opus 17, Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Jeffrey Budin, mso Choir. 2-Decca 417-302-2/ (excerpts) 425-001-2 (recorded 1985; released 1986) Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, opus 14. Decca 414-203-2 (recorded 1984; released 1985. Grand Prix du Président de la République-France, 1986; Prix de l’Académie du disque du Japon, 1997) Berlioz Le Carnaval Romain. Decca 028945248028 (recorded 1984, released 1997) Bizet L’Arlésienne Suites 1 and 2 (arr Guiraud); Carmen Suites 1 and 2. Decca 417-839-2 (recorded 1986 & 1987; released 1988) Chopin Piano Concertos 1 and 2. Jorge Bolet. Decca 425-859-2 (recorded 1989; released 1990) Debussy Images, Nocturnes. Decca 425-502-2 (recorded 1988; released 1990; Juno Award 1990) Debussy La Mer, Jeux, Le Martyr de St-Sébastien, Prélude à l’aprèsmidi d’un faune. Decca 430-240-2 (recorded 1989; released 1990; Grand Prix de l’Académie du disque du Japon, 1991) Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande, Didier Henry, Colette Alliot-Lugaz. 2-Decca 430-502-2 (recorded 1990; released 1991; Prix Félix adisq, 1991; Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, 1991; Juno Award 1992; Grammy nomination 1992) Elgar Enigma Variations, Falstaff. Decca 430-241-2 (recorded 1989; released 1991; Prix Félix adisq, 1991; Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, 1991; Juno Award 1992; Grammy nomination 1992)

Falla The Three Cornered Hat (complete ballet), El Amor brujo. Decca 71060/Decca 410-008-2/ Three Cornered Hat selections, Ovation 417-748-2 (recorded 1981; released 1983; Prix Georges-Auric de l’Académie du disque français, 1984; High Fidelity International Record Critics’ Award, 1984) Fauré Requiem, Pavane, Pelléas et Mélisande. Kiri Te Kanawa, Sherrill Milnes, mso Choir. Decca 421-440-2 (recorded 1987; released 1988) Fête à la Française: Bizet, Dukas, Satie, et al. Decca 421-527-2 (recorded 1987; released 1989) Franck Symphony - d’Indy Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français, Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Decca 430-278-2 (recorded 1989; released 1991) Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Guy Cowley; An American in Paris, James Thomson; Cuban Overture; A Symphonic Portait of Porgy and Bess. Louis, Lortie. Decca 425111-2 (recorded 1988; released 1989; Prix Félix adisq, 1990) Holst The Planets, Women of the mso Choir. Decca 417-553-2 (recorded 1986; released 1987; Juno Award 1987, Grand Prix du Disque, Canada, 1988; Edison Award, Amsterdam, 1988; Mumm Champagne Classical Music Award, 1988; Grammy Nomination, 1988; Grammy nomination Vidéo, 1996) Lalo Symphonie Espagnole; Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto no.3, Joshua Bell violin. Decca 425-501-2 (recorded 1988; released 1989) Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opus 61; The Hebrides; The Fair Melusine; Ruy Blas. Decca 417-541-2 (recorded 1986; released 1987) Mercure Kaléidoscope; Pantomime; Triptyque. 4-acm 35 (1990) Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibitio; Night on the Bare Mountain; Khovanshchina; Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture. Decca 417-299-2 (recorded 1985; released 1988; Grammy Nomination Vidéo, 1996)

Noël Noël. Leontyne Price, Tudor Singers of Montreal. Decca 410-198-1 (recorded 1983; released 1983; Grammy nomination, 1984) Offenbach Gaîté parisienne; Gounod Faust (ballet). Decca 411-708-2 (recorded; released 1984) Prokofiev Roméo and Juliet excerpts. Decca 430-279-2 (recorded 1989; released 1991) Prokofiev Symphony no. 1 ‘Classical’; Symphony no. 5. Decca 421-813-2 (recorded 1988; released 1989) Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kije, Jard Van Nes. Decca 430506 (recorded 1990; released 1992) Ravel Boléro; Alborada del gracioso; Rapsodie espagnole; La Valse. lon 71059/Decca 410-010-2/4-Jubilee 421-458-2/ 10-Decca 430-239-2/(Boléro, La Valse) Decca 414-406-2 (recorded 1981; released 1982; Prix Félix adisq, 1983; Disque d’Or, Canada, 1983; Disque de Platine, Canada, 1984) Ravel Ma Mère l’Oye complete ballet, Pavane pour une infante défunte; Le Tombeau de Couperin; Valses nobles et sentimentales. Decca 410-254-2/4-Jubilee 421458-2/(Pavane) Decca 414-406-2 (recorded 1982; released 1983) Ravel Orchestral Works. 4-Jubilee 421-458-2 (1988) Ravel Piano Concertos; et al. Pascal Rogé. Decca 410-230-2 (recorded 1982; released 1984; Prix concerto français de l’Académie du disque français, 1984; Prix Edisson, Amsterdam, 1984)

Saint-Saëns Symphony no.3, Peter Hurford. Decca 71090/Decca 410-201-2 (recorded 1982; released 1983; Prix de la musique française de l’Académie du disque français, 1984) Stravinsky The Firebird; Scherzo fantastique; Feu d’artifice. Decca 414-409-2 (recorded 1984; released 1986) Stravinsky Pétrouchka, Le Chant du Rossignol, Quatre études, Art Maiste. Decca 417-619-2 (recorded 1986; released 1987; Laser d’or de l’Académie du disque français, 1988; Grand Prix du disque, Canada, 1988) Stravinsky The Rite of Spring, Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Decca 414-202-2 (recorded 1984; released 1985; Prix Félix adisq, 1985). In 1991, the Voyager Company of Santa Monica, California issued a cd-rom entitled The Rite of Spring using the mso recording with Dutoit. Suppé Overtures. Decca 414-408-2 (recorded 1984; released 1986; Prix Félix adisq, 1986) Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Capriccio italien, The Nutracker Suite, Marche slave. Decca 71058/ Decca 417-300-2 (recorded 1985; released 1986; Prix Félix adisq, 1987) Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no.1, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 2, Jorge Bolet. Decca 421-181-2 (recorded 1987; released 1988) Tchaikovsky Symphony no.4, Francesca da Rimini. Decca 421-814-2 (recorded 1988; released 1990) Tchaikovsky Symphony no.5, Hamlet. Decca 425-503-2 (recorded 1988; released 1990)

Respighi Pines of Rome, Feste Romane, Fountians of Rome. Decca 71091/Decca 410-145-2 (recorded, 1982; released 1983)

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto; Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Kyung Wha Chung. Decca 71058/ Decca 410-011-2 (recorded 1981; released 1983)

Rimsky-Korsakov Scherazade suite; Capriccio espagnol. Richard Roberts. Decca 410-253-2 (recorded 1983; released 1984)

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake; Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty (Highlights). Decca 028944355529 (released 1995)

“Bach’s Preludio in E Major opens the sixth and last set from his Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. In arguably the brightest sounding key on the instrument, this joyous piece features some of Bach’s more virtuosic writing for the violin with a dazzling array of sixteenth notes and fast string crossings, creating rich harmonies along the way.” Born in Tehran, BIJAN SEPANJI is a multi-faceted performer and educator based in Toronto. A member of the Ton Beau String Quartet, he regularly performs new compositions by up-and-coming composers as well as standards from the classical repertoire. This past season Bijan performed a number of concerts with tbsq in Toronto including at the Music Garden, Hart House Great Hall, the Alliance Française, University of Toronto and University of Guelph. Together, they have collaborated with Spectrum Music, Iranian Composers of Toronto (icot) and other composers such as William Rowson and Alex Goodman. Trained at Indiana and McGill universities, Bijan has had the opportunity to work with artists such as James Campbell, Mark Kaplan, Mimi Zweig, Jorja Fleezanis, Miriam Fried, Jonathan Crow and many others. His orchestral experience includes performances with Indianapolis and Kitchener-Waterloo and Thunder Bay symphonies, Hamilton Philharmonic, Toronto Concert Orchestra and the National Academy Orchestra in Hamilton. Bijan is a member of Sistema Toronto, a program aimed at bringing at-risk youth into a safe and positive community by means of orchestral music, choir and Pachanga (Cuban drumming).

“The Andante of Bach’s Solo Violin Sonata no.2 represents deep introspection and contemplation. Written in two distinct voices, the lower maintaining a bass ostinato throughout the movement, while the upper sings an aria-like melody, similar to the second movement of his “Italian” Harpsichord Concerto. Bach illustrates that the concept of virtuosity can be perfectly embodied in the calm, tranquil counterpoint featured in the Andante.” STEVE SANG KOH is currently the Palmason Graduate Fellow in Violin, and the teaching assistant to professor Annalee Patipatanakoon at the University of Toronto. A passionate performer and teacher, Steve is currently pursuing a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. He received his Bachelor of Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas. After finishing his Bachelor’s degree, Steve continued his studies and received his Master’s in String Performance and Pedagogy at Northwestern University. Steve has studied with the members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Paris Radio Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. His teachers have included Yehonatan Berick, Clara Jumi Kang, Svetlin Roussev, Joel Smirnoff, Koichiro Harada, Gerardo Ribeiro, Kathleen Winkler, Helen Hwaya Kim, Irina Muresanu, and Krzysztof Wegrzyn. He has performed in solo and chamber music masterclasses for Cyrus Forough of Carnegie Mellon University, Paul Kantor of the Shepherd School of Music, Shmuel Ashkenasi of the Curtis Institute of Music, Hiroko Yajima of Mannes School of Music, the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin of the Berlin Philharmoniker, the Ébéne Quartet and for the Belcea String Quartet. Violist RORY McLEOD enjoys an exciting and varied career as a chamber musician, orchestral player, artistic director, and teacher.   Combining his passion for chamber music with a knack for getting people together to enjoy it, Rory is the founder and Artistic Director of Pocket Concerts, an exciting new series that presents top-quality concerts in homes and other intimate spaces in the Toronto area. Rory has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players in Washington dc , and at the SweetWater Festival in Owen Sound, The Toronto Summer Music Festival, the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival, and Le Domaine Forget.   This past summer, Rory pursued his passion for chamber music across the continent, performing in California with The Kensington Piano Quartet, the Archipelago Collective on San Juan Island, Washington and the Synapse Ensemble in Nelson, bc.

  Rory frequently plays with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He served as assistant principal viola of Symphony Nova Scotia from 2010-12. He is a member of Toronto’s all-star classical band, and the group of twenty seven chamber orchestra with whom he has played principal viola.   Rory holds a ba in English Literature from McGill University and a Performance Diploma from the Glenn Gould School, where he studied with Steven Dann. He has recently discovered the joy making Indian food at home, and can often be found at his local grocery stores trying to fit as much as possible into his bike pannier. www.pocketconcerts.ca/#!rory-mcleod/jci35

“This Sarabande was the first piece by Bach I learned as a child. The use of C Major allowed for the whole cello to resonate, which caused me to fall in love with the instrument at that very point.” Cellist BRYAN LU is a dedicated chamber musician, orchestral performer, and teacher. Bryan has served as principal cellist for numerous youth orchestras, and at the age of 15, was the youngest member of the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra. That same year, he was invited to debut as a soloist with the Port Credit Chamber Strings, performing Haydn’s second Cello Concerto in D Major. Bryan has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weil Hall, Symphony Space, and Staller Center for the Arts in New York and at many festivals including the International Musical Arts Institute, the Beethoven Institute, QuartetFest@Laurier, Orford Arts Centre Academy, and the Toronto Summer Music Festival. He is currently one of the Chamber Music Mentors at Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artist Program at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Bryan has collaborated with numerous acclaimed artists, including Ben Sayevich, Timothy Deighton, Colin Carr, Martin Storey, and members of the Emerson String Quartet.   A respected coach and tutor, Bryan taught undergraduate chamber music at Stony Brook University and in the pre-college program as a chamber music coach and theory instructor. He is currently a chamber music coach at the Royal Conservatory’s Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists. Brayn received his Masters of Music from Stony Brook University, Bachelor of Music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School. Previous teachers include Andrés Díaz, Desmond Hoebig, Colin Carr, and the Emerson String Quartet. Bryan will commence his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto this fall with Joseph Johnson, principal cellist of the Toronto Symphony. Born in Toronto, JOE PHILLIPS has carved out a career as one of Canada’s most versatile double bassists. Currently playing with Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, he has also played and recorded both bass and guitar with the likes of Pierre Schryer, Shane Cook, Nuala Kennedy, Sarah Slean, David Braid, Andrew Downing, Miranda Mulholland, A Fig For A Kiss, Ruth Moody and the Wailin’ Jennys. An accomplished

classical musician, Joe has been the principal bassist of Orchestra London Canada, Sinfonia Toronto and the Thunder Bay Symphony, and has performed with the Toronto Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company and many other ensembles. Joe has had the opportunity to play with some of the best chamber musicians in Canada and the world through his work with the Art of Time Ensemble, Sweetwater Music Festival, Festival of the Sound, and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. Joe lives in London Ontario with his partner Sylvie, and their two children.

MATTHIAS McINTIRE (Premise for Solo Viola) Composer, violinist, violist, and music educator, Matthias McIntire is active in a broad spectrum of contexts and styles. Currently in his second year as a dma candidate in composition at the University of Toronto under the guidance of Christos Hatzis, Matthias was awarded first prize in the Lyra Society’s 2016 Costello Competition for Composition, received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship to fund his graduate compositional work, and was selected as the 2015-16 Composer-in-Residence for the University of Toronto Concert Orchestra. For two years, he was a member of the Real Vocal String Quartet as violist, vocalist, and composer, touring extensively across America, performing and leading masterclasses in improvisation, composition, and contemporary string playing at such institutions as Scripps College, Eastern Illinois University, and the Longy School of Music of Bard College. In 2016, he released a new cd with rvsq called “Slacker Ridge.” Matthias has received commissions from the University of Toronto Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco’s conductorless chamber orchestra One Found Sound, The View from Bernal Hill, Vocallective, Real Vocal String Quartet, The Guerrilla Composers Guild, Phonochrome, Andres Vera (cellist of Quartet San Francisco), as well as pianist Emily Rho and cellist Sarah Gans. Current commissions include innovative contemporary dance choreographer Angela Blumberg, The One Found Sound Wind Quintet, and San Francisco based chamber ensemble LiveOak. A note from Matthias on tonight’s work: Premise for solo viola (2013) commissioned by violist Clio Tilton, was a quintessential social media phenomenon. Surfing my Facebook news feed one day, I saw a post:

“15–20 minute solo viola program – ideas? Anyone want to write me a short beautiful piece?” I contacted her immediately and heard back within half an hour. “Yes!” Deadline? “Next Monday” Oh, a whole week! I asked her what sort of piece she was looking for and she said to compose something “joyful, with a little sparkle”. This instructive tidbit became the genesis of the piece, and the opening character marking. The rest, as they say, is history. ANDREW DOWNING (Kontrabas Semaisi) Andrew Downing is a Toronto based double bass player, cellist, composer and educator born in London, Ontario in 1973. He plays primarily in the creative jazz scene in Canada, but also performs classical chamber music, improvised music, folk and roots music, and world music. He practices the unusual craft of tuning his bass in fifths an octave lower than a cello. His projects span a wide variety of styles and practices. Most recently, he has started a ‘quiet jazz’ ensemble of cello, alto saxophone, lap steel guitar, vibraphone, bass and drums called Otterville that will release its first recording in the fall of 2016. He also has a collaborative project in Istanbul, Turkey with Ud (Turkish lute) player Güç Basar Gülle that incorporates Ottoman Classical music in a collection of new compositions for ud, cello, percussion and kaval (a Turkish folk instrument). Their first album Anahtar was released in 2013 to critical acclaim. He also has a collaborative multi-media project with Canadian songwriter John Southworth and visual artist Yesim Tosuner called Easterween featuring songs written by John and arranged by Andrew for his seven-piece chamber ensemble. He also leads his chamber-jazz ensemble Melodeon, which plays live scores for silent films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Phantom of the Opera (with choir), Maciste in Hell, Impossible Voyage and The Shock. As a composer, Andrew has written pieces for the Nordic Folk group Ensemble Polaris, banjo player Jayme Stone, The Vancouver Bach Choir, Ensemble Meduse, Toca Loca and The Prince George Symphony, and has written arrangements for Patricia O’Callaghan, The Gryphon Trio, The Annex Quartet and The Art of Time Ensemble. He has won two Juno awards – one for his own recording Blow The House Down with his former group Great Uncles of the Revolution, and one with the Vancouver-based group Zubot and Dawson. He has also won two West Coast Music Awards, a Socan Award, and the Grand Prix de Jazz from the Montreal Jazz Festival. Andrew currently teaches double bass, composition and improvisation at the University of Toronto and has taught at Wilfred Laurier University, the Banff Centre’s Jazz Workshop and the Creative Music Workshop in Halifax.

MATHIEU LUSSIER (Le Dernier Chant d’Ophélie) A versatile musician with a commanding grasp of early repertoire, Mathieu Lussier is increasingly in demand as a guest conductor in Canada and abroad. Appointed by les Violons du Roy as Conductor-in-residence in 2012, and Associate Conductor in 2014, Lussier has led the orchestra in numerous programs both in Quebec, and on tour in greater Canada, the United States and Mexico. Previous appointments include Artistic Director of the Lamèque international baroque music Festival, where he served from 2008 to 2014. in 2014, Lussier was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Jean-Marie-Beaudet conducting prize. Recent engagements include the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Festival international de Lanaudière, Orchestre de la mission saint-Charles, Arion baroque orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, where he conducted acclaimed productions of Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Grétry’s Zémire et Azor with les Violons du Roy. In 2015, Mathieu Lussier made his conducting debuts with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra (osm), and 2016-17 will see his debuts with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax. As a soloist, Mathieu has energetically and passionately promoted the modern and baroque bassoon as solo instruments for nearly two decades throughout North America and Europe. He has been associated with such ensembles as Arion Baroque Orchestra (Montreal), les Violons du Roy (Quebec City), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland). He devotes considerable time to chamber music as a member of ensemble Pentaèdre de Montréal. Since 2014, he has been Assistant professor at Université de Montréal. His numerous solo recordings include over a dozen bassoon concertos (Vivaldi, Fasch, Graupner, Telemann, and Corrette), a cd of bassoon sonatas by Boismortier, three cds of music for solo bassoon by François Devienne, and two cds of wind music by Gossec and Méhul. Lussier is also a respected composer, with a catalogue of over 40 titles heard regularly in the concert halls of North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has received commissions from artists such as Nadina Mackie Jackson, Guy Few, Lise Beauchamp, and George Zukerman as well as from the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Les Idées Heureuses. Dos Tropicos, a wind quintet written in 2001, has been performed over 100 times in Canada, Europe and the United Kingdom. His compositions are published by TrevCo Music (usa), Accolade (Germany), June Emerson (uk) and Gérard Billaudot (France). Le Dernier Chant d’Ophélie, ballad for Bassoon and String Orchestra, opus 2, was first created in 1997 as a piece for clarinet and strings, then morphed into a woodwind quintet, and took it’s final form in 2008 as a cbc commission for Nadina which she premiered at the Glenn Gould Studio with Alain Trudel conducting the Toronto Chamber Orchestra. Freely inspired by the soliloquies of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this work is conceived as a soundtrack of her last moments, a rhapsody of passion, pain, sadness and loss.

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Today’s concert is the second in a series! Here’s the rest of the season: october 24, 2016 7pm IN THE EVENT OF TRUE HAPPINESS Ninja poet Harry Posner reading his original works of poetry and prose. Nadina plays Silver Angel by Constantine Caravassilis.

march 27, 2017 7pm HIGH AND LOW Virtuoso flautist Leslie Newman joins Nadina for an evening of favourite duos including Villa-Lobos, Bozza, Francaix and Gebauer.

november 14, 2016 7pm FOLK TO BAROQUE Songs new and timeless, written and sung by Canada’s great Valdy Horsdal, with Karel Roessingh, piano and Nadina Mackie Jackson, solo bassoon.

april 10, 2017 7pm VALDY TO VIVALDI Valdy Horsdal, Karel Roessingh, piano and Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon, from the aldy songbook and beyond.

december 5, 2016 7pm KICK-ASS MUSIC FOR BASSOON AND PIANO Stellar pianist Stephan Sylvestre and Nadina Mackie Jackson play Prokofiev’s glorious Opus 94 and the mysterious, magnificently tortured Skalkottas Sonata Concertante for piano and bassoon. december 19, 2016 5pm VIVALDI CHRISTMAS CONCERT Nadina’s Holiday tradition, six festive and rarely-heard bassoon concerti performed by Toronto’s top professional bassoonists, including Michael Sweeney, Catherine Chen and Nadina, with chamber strings and harpsichord. january 22, 2017 7pm Recital by CATHERINE CHEN, wonderful new Associate Principal Bassoonist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with Rachael Kerr piano, performing works by Jeanjean, Elgar and Bourdeau, and a two-bassoon concerto performed with Nadina. february 14, 2017 7pm VOICE OF LOVE Paula Arciniega, mezzo soprano, and Paul Jenkins, harpsichord, join Nadina for gorgeous arias with obligato bassoon, from baroque to modern, solo works for harpsichord and selections from Les Delices de la Solitude.

may 15, 2017 7pm T-MINUS TEN, NINE, EIGHT... All new space-themed music with pianist and author Heather Taves, one of Canada’s finest soloists, performing her own works and reading from her memoir. Concert includes bassoon concerto Apollo X by Paul Frehner, and a Major Tom singalong! june 18, 2017 3pm DARWOOD’S WILD BASSOON A tale of transformation, told through the eyes of a young Dragon whose only wish is to be a bassoonist. Story narrated by a surprise celebrity guest accompanied by bassoon and Nadina’s life-sized paintings. Concert opens with a Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto.

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