Come together with us to launch the Celebration Series®, Sixth Edition in spectacular fashion.
With newly composed works and well-known repertoire performed by internationally acclaimed pianists including Stewart Goodyear, Angela Hewitt, and Jan Lisiecki, it will be a concert you don’t want to ...
Program:
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G Major, Hob.I:88
Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, op. 19a, BB82, Sz.73a (suite from pantomime)
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, op. 68
Hear the talented solo performers of The Glenn Gould School compete for the opportunity to perform a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra during the 2022-23 concert season.
Concert Program
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Hear the talented ensembles of The Glenn Gould School compete for over $14,000 in prizes.
2022 GGS Chamber Competition Results
Chamber Groups
1st Prize $4,000 Mykola Trio Daniel Dastoor, David Liam Roberts, and Godwin Friesen
2nd Prize $3,000 Highwood Quartet Hee-Soo Yoon, Daniel Dastoor, ...
Tania Miller, conductor
Jean-Luc Therrien, piano
Royal Conservatory Orchestra
PROGRAM
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (suite for full orchestra)
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S.125
I. Adagio, sostenuto assai - Allegro agitato assai
II. Allegro moderato
III. Allegro deciso - ...
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Antonio Vivaldi: “Laudamus te”
(Stella Heald, soprano, 1st year BMus; Lauren Smith, soprano, 1st year BMus; Rachael Kerr, piano)
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: “To Forget so Soon”
(Diana Agasian, soprano, 4th year BMus; Jennifer Tung, piano...
Program:
Hector Berlioz: Le corsaire, op. 21
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, op. 103 (“Egyptian”) (Thomas Torok, piano)
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Earl Lee is a renowned Korean-Canadian conductor and cellist, recently appo...
Andrei Feher, Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, has earned a reputation for his musical maturity and integrity, natural authority on the podium, and an imaginative and intelligent approach.
Part of the Temerty Orchestral Program at The Glenn Gould School (GGS), the Ro...
Barry Shiffman, violin & viola
Jeanie Chung, piano
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 (transcribed for viola)
Florence Price: Fantasie No. 1 in G Minor, for violin and piano
Florence Price: Adoration, for violin and piano, (arr. Ela...
April 28, 2019
Ivars Taurins, conductor
Winners of the Taylor Academy Concerto Competition
Academy Chamber Orchestra
PROGRAM
Charles Auguste de Bériot: Allegro-maestoso from Violin Concerto No. 7 in G Major, op. 76
(Sean Ping, violin)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Allegro from Piano Concerto No. 2...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor
PART ONE
1. Trauermarsch: In gemessenem Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt. (Funeral March: At a measured pace.
Strict. Like a cortège)
2. Stürmisch bewegt. Mit grösser Vehemenz (Tempestuously. With utmost vehemence)
PART TWO
3. Scherzo: Kräftig, nic...
Curated and conducted by Brian Current, the students of The Glenn Gould School perform the world premiere of Canadian composer Anna Höstman’s Abalone for distanced ensemble.
Daniel Dastoor, violin
Royce Richert, violin
Yanet Campbell, violin
Hee-Soo Yoon, violin
Christian Wrona, viola
Mat...
Glenn Gould School faculty member and Toronto Symphony Orchestra principal cellist, Joseph Johnson, will perform all five Beethoven Sonatas and three Variations for cello and piano with GGS pianists Eric Guo, Godwin Friesen, Alexander Malikov, Agnė Radzevičiūtė, and Sae Yoon Chon.
PROGRAM
Cécile Chaminade: “Villanelle”
Ella Farlinger, soprano, 2nd year BMus
Jennifer Tung, piano
Giacomo Puccini: “Che gelida manina” from La bohème
Tyler Cervini, tenor, 2nd year ADP
Jennifer Tung, piano
Michael Head: “Beloved” from Over the Rim of the Moon
Charlotte Anderson, soprano, 1st ...
An all-French program including the complete 1st Book of Debussy Preludes and various works for two pianos and one piano four hands.
PROGRAM
Claude Debussy: Préludes, Book 1, L. 117
1. Danseuses de Delphes: Lent et grave
Mariya Orlenko: 4
th year BMus from the studio of John Perry and David L...
The extraordinary artists of The Glenn Gould School vocal program perform their annual opera in Koerner Hall, this year in a concert version format.
Etruscan prince Tarquinius, who is leading Rome in a war against the Greeks, is tired of hearing his general Collatinus speak of his virtuous wif...
The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School is the only one of its kind in Canada, offering a rich curriculum for career development. Alumni of the program grace the world’s great stages, including Carnegie Hall, Wig...
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Brian Current, conductor
Yanet Campbell Secades, violin
Daniel Dastoor, violin
Royce Richert, violin
Hee-Soo Yoon, violin
Matthew Eeuwes, viola
Christian Wrona, viola
Mansur Kadirov, cello
Jacques Forest, bass
Sarah Pollard, flute
Michael Zaapavigna, flute
Anna Betuz...
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Jonathan Crow, concertmaster
Sae Yoon Chon, piano
Royal Conservatory Orchestra
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 (“Haffner”)
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Andante
III. Menuetto and Trio
IV. Presto
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto ...
February 16, 2018
Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven Born in Bonn, Germany, December 15 or 16, 1770; died in Vienna, Austria, March 26, 1827
Coriolan Overture, op. 62
This is the first great work in a genre now known as the ‘concert overture.’ It was a new gen...
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Friday, April 20, 2018
Program Notes
- September 26, 2019
Segei Prokofiev: Symphony No.5 in B flat Major, Op.100
Program Notes
September 28, 2018
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to La clemenza di Tito, K. 621
Program Notes
February 14, 2020
Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20
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