UVic Music e-Pulse October 2019
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 | 7 PM
Lafayette Health Awareness Forum
Minding our Health in the Cyber Age: The impact of multitasking on our well-being
Are you overwhelmed with the volume of daily emails you receive? Do you have trouble concentrating because so many things are vying for your attention? If this sounds like you, join the Lafayette String Quartet and UVic’s Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health for their annual health forum where this year’s topic will examine the toll that digital multitasking is having on our well-being.
Guest speaker Paul Mohapel—neuroscientist and Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University—will report on recent startling research and scientific data about some of the negative impacts digital distraction and multitasking are having on our behaviour and neurological capacities. He will present strategies to create more balanced and healthy interactions with technology.
Now in its 14th year, this free forum brings health professionals and community members together to discuss common health concerns. The evening includes the presentation, a Q&A and short performances by the Lafayette String Quartet.
David Lam Auditorium | Free
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 | 8 PM
Faculty Chamber Music Series
Our Canadian Landscape
Canada’s rich classical music legacy has left a strong imprint on the Canadian musical landscape. This UVic Faculty Chamber Music concert offers an opportunity to hear solo and chamber works by composers from across Canada in a variety of styles.
The evening will feature music by Victoria-based composers Scott MacInnes, Leila Lustig and Anna Höstman. You’ll also hear works by Elizabeth Raum, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Ronald Hannah, Morley Calvert and Howard Cable. Bringing this great music to the stage is some of UVic’s finest performers including a brass quintet, pianist Arthur Rowe, sopranos Anne Grimm and Susan Young, and the Lafayette String Quartet.
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall | By donation
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 | 8 PM
UVic Wind Symphony
People and Places
The opening concert of the UVic Wind Symphony’s 2019/20 season brings together works about the people and places that have influenced and inspired our featured composers.
Conducted by Steven Capaldo, the program will include Cait Nishimura’s Lake Superior Suite, Handel in The Strand by Percy Grainger, Jodie Blackshaw’s Peace Dancer (based on the book by Roy Henry Vickers) and the Canadian premiere of An Irish Suite by Australian composer Peter Cavanagh.
The Farquhar at UVic | $10-$20 Buy online
OCTOBER 19-20
The Real Group
Based out of Stockholm, Sweden, The Real Group is one of the leading forces in the world of vocal music today, entertaining and inspiring international audiences using the voice as their sole instrument. The Real Group has toured the globe for over 30 years with performances that include opening for the FIFA World Cup in South Korea, serenading the Emperor of Japan, and performing for The Royal Family in Sweden.
CONCERT: SATURDAY, OCT. 19 | 8 PM
With guests Fifth Street & UVic Vocal Jazz
Don’t miss your chance to hear The Real Group during the only Canadian stop on their international tour.
The Farquhar at UVic | $34-$49 Buy online
MASTERCLASS: SUNDAY, OCT. 20 | 12 PM
The Real Group works with Fifth Street and UVic Vocal Jazz in this special masterclass open to the public.
David Lam Auditorium | $20 Buy online
Recieve $5 off the concert when you purchase a masterclass ticket
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Mexico’s award-winning Cuarteto Latinoamericano has been the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet for 30 years. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively and premiered more than a hundred works written for them. Two-time winners of the Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recording, they have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award and three times has received Chamber Music America/ASCAP's "Most Adventurous Programming" Award.
MASTERCLASS: 1 PM
Cuarteto Latinoamericano works with UVic School of Music string students in a chamber music masterclass. All are welcome to attend.
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall | Free
CONCERT: 8 PM
Delight in music by composers from Mexico, Spain, Brazil and Chile including José Evangelista, Francisco Mignone, Violeta Parra, Gabriela Ortiz and Ruperto Chapí.
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall | $12-$20 Buy online
Co-presented by the School of Music, this concert is part of the 35th Annual Colloquium of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. The colloquium includes academic presentations on music in the Hispanic and Italian worlds.
Cuarteto Latinoamericano's visit is made possible in part by México en Escena, a grant from Mexico’s National Fund for Culture (FONCA).
MONDAY OCTOBER 21 | 10 AM
Guest Lecture: Linda Bouchard, composer
Canadian composer Linda Bouchard talks about her recent works All Caps No Space and Convocation of Eagles.
Born in Québec, Bouchard has been an active composer, orchestrator, conductor, and producer for over thirty-five years. For the past ten years she has been creating multimedia work while continuing to compose music for the concert hall.
MacLaurin Rm. B037 | Free
OCTOBER 21-22
Orion Series in Fine Arts
Gabriel Dharmoo, composer and improviser
Gabriel Dharmoo is an award-winning artist with a musical practice that encompasses composition, vocal improvisation and research. He has worked with symphony orchestras, chamber music ensembles and soloists and his music has been performed around the globe.
WORKSHOP: MONDAY OCT. 21 | 7 PM
Learn to “awaken the sounds that sleep deep in the throat” in this unique vocal improvisation workshop. Dharmoo will lead participants through a series of vocal exploration exercises linked to breathing, the body and movement. He will also introduce “soundpainting,” a conducting method using hand signals to draw different sounds and behaviours from participants, using their voices or instrument of choice.
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall | Free
LECTURE: TUESDAY, OCT. 22 | 4 PM
Dharmoo talks about his work as a composer, including his thoughts about the inclusion of theatre, dramaturgy, staging and movement in musical works as well as humour, laughter and satire. With experience exploring inter-traditional/inter-cultural collaborations, Dharmoo will discuss some strategies that attempt to decolonize new music practices or challenge its Eurocentric roots.
MacLauirn Rm. A169 | Free
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 | 12:30 PM
Lieder at Lunch: Happy Birthday, Clara Schumann
A special recital in celebration of Clara Schumann's 200th birthday. This popular concert series is devoted to the exploration of the rich repertoire of German art songs (Lieder) with husband-and-wife duo, soprano Sharon Krebs and pianist Harald Krebs. Performances are augmented with talk, projected images and text translations. Bring your lunch!
MacLaurin Rm. B037 | Free
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 | 7 PM
Orion Series in Fine Arts
John Cage: Lecture on Nothing
With Kay Larson, art critic, columnist & author
Kay Larson, author of Where the heart beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism and the Inner Life of Artists, discusses and directs a performance of John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing, performed by UVic students and community members.
First performed at the 8th Street Artists’ Club in New York in 1949, the lecture is written as a piece of music organized around a series of “empty” time intervals or durations. The central statement of the lecture, ‘I have nothing to say and I’m saying it’ reads as an oxymoron at first, but when considered further reveals Cage’s inquiry into Zen. In this lecture, Larson explores how the “emptiness” that Cage was seeking is embodied in the “nothing” of Lecture on Nothing. Her insights are embodied in a performance structured as a proposition on emptiness.
This event is part of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's convening In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art, & Social Practice.
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall | Free
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