61. SINFONIA TORONTO The season begins on October 28 with pianist janina fialkowska in a brilliantprogram titled Thunder and Lightning . Other highlights http://www3.sympatico.ca/maxmoore/artnews/sinfonia.htm

artworld news.cc www.artnews.to SINFONIA TORONTO CONCERTO COMPETITION March 24 - 25, 2001 SINFONIA TORONTO HOLDS NATIONAL COMPETITION Sinfonia Toronto will hold its first nationwide Sinfonia Toronto Concerto Competition during the 2000-2001 concert season. The First Prize winner will be featured as the orchestra's soloist at the final concert of the season on May 5, 2001 in Glenn Gould Studio at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ,and will receive an honorarium of $1,000.00. A total of $2,000 will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners. In making the announcement, Sinfonia Toronto's Music Director Nurhan Arman emphasized the orchestra's commitment to Canadian artists and repertoire. "We would like to bring forward the great concerto repertoire available for accompaniment by string orchestra. This repertoire is often neglected by symphony orchestras. This competition will put the spotlight on many hidden treasures." The competition is open to all Canadian citizens, landed immigrants or foreign students with a current student visa. The competition is open to musicians under the age of 28. Applications must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2001. For information

62. Pianists Polish Yellow Pages - Polska - Poland - Polen fialkowska, janina Website of Canadian-American concert pianist janina fialkowska.Includes biography, discography, repertoire and contact information. http://www.yellowpages.pl/ca/212770/Pianists/

63. Results From Alphabetical Browse Of Article Titles and pianist Ada Bronstein. Issue, date, page Volume 5, Issue 11, 10 February 1988,p. 6. Title Virtuosi Concert Daniel Lichti, baritone, and janina fialkowska, http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/archives/InEdition/action-2.cfm?title=v

64. New Guitar Composer Biographies In 1988, two worldclass performers, the double-bass player Gary Karrand pianist janina fialkowska, commissioned concertos from her. http://www.newguitar.net/2000-2001/comp00.html

Home Concert I Concert II Concert III Composers Performers News Tickets History ... Links Violet Archer Mark Armanini MARK ARMANINI studied composition with Elliot Weisgarber and Robert Rogers at the University of British Columbia. Apart from his composing, he is very active in the Vancouver music community, having been involved with a number of organizations, including being the founder/producer of The Vancouver Composers Showcase, president of the Vancouver Pro Musica, and vice-president of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. His music includes instrumental, chamber, vocal and orchestral works. Anne Lauber ANNE LAUBER was born in Switzerland. She began her studies at the Conservatoire national de Lausanne where she studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Andras Kovach and composition with Jean Perrin. She also took private lessons with the French composer Darius Milhaud. She moved to Montréal in 1967 and received her Canadian citizenship in 1972. Her training continued with private lessons with André Prévost (1974-78), and then at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montréal where she received her doctorate in music (composition option) in 1986. When he became familiar with her compositions, Darius Milhaud wrote: "Her music is based on solid technique; the works transmit a charming sensibility and absolute sincerity". Divertimento, for string orchestra, seems to be the starting point for the evolution of Anne Lauber's style. Beginning with her work for organ Cinq pièces, she uses serial technique. In the filmscore for L'Affaire Coffin, her language moves in the direction of superposing tonal and atonal systems for expressive effect. Anne Lauber masters this technique perfectly in Valse concertante, for piano and orchestra. In spite of these transitions, the lyrical and romantic character of her music remains a constant.

65. FactsCanada.ca -- Sunday Newsletter 2001-18Su Guelph, Ontario, May 7, 1894. janina fialkowska, pianist, born in Montreal,Quebec, May 7, 1951. Frank J. Selke, sports administrator http://www.factscanada.ca/sunday/sunday-2001-18-05-06.shtml

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66. M.Mozetich Biography 2000 the premiere of his Piano Concerto dedicated to Robertson Davies and createdfor and performed by the brilliant pianist janina fialkowska, received a http://www.mozetich.com/Biography.html

"From the 2002 SOCAN Awards Marjan Mozetich is the recipient of the Jan V. Matejcek Concert Music Award in recognition for being the most performed and broadcast Canadian composer of the year receiving the highest paid royalties for concert music." Canadian composer, Marjan Mozetich , was born of Slovenian parentage in Gorizia, Italy in 1948 and emigrated to Canada in l952. He began his musical training in piano and theory at the age of 9 in Hamilton . Later he pursued studies in composition with John Weinzweig and Lothar Klein at the University of Toronto . In 1972 he received a Bachelor of Music Degree and an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto Diploma in piano performance. From l973-74, with the assistance of the Canada Council of the Arts , Mr. Mozetich continued his studies privately under the supervision of Luciano Berio in Rome Franco Donatoni at the Academia Chigiana Siena , and privately in London under the supervision of David Bedford Early in his career he was active in the avant guard music circles. He co-founded and was artistic director of the contemporary ensemble

67. Wish7.com - Start Searching! fialkowska, janina Website of CanadianAmerican concert pianist janina fialkowska.Includes biography, discography, repertoire and contact info. http://www.wish7.com/Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists/

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68. SOUNDS AND VIEWS: Premieres To Remember: An Addendum (01/12/97) 3 in E Flat (British premiere on November 4, 1990, with the Worthing Symphonyonly six months after the world premiere by pianist janina fialkowska). http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1997/029719.shtml

SOUNDS AND VIEWS Premieres to remember: an addendum It seems that the data in the concluding part (i.e., Part V) of my recent series "Premieres to Remember" is incomplete, for pianist Roman Rudnytsky (born 1942) also participated in noted first performances. He did the British, Latin American and Australian premieres of the recently discovered Liszt Concerto No. 3 in E Flat (British premiere on November 4, 1990, with the Worthing Symphony only six months after the world premiere by pianist Janina Fialkowska). The Latin American premiere of the Liszt score followed in 1992 and the Australian a year later, namely August 20, 1993, with the SBS Youth Orchestra in the Sydney Town Hall. The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), one of Australia's main TV channels, broadcast this performance in December 1993 as part of documentary titled "Discovering Liszt." Concerto No. 3 is not as impressive as Nos. 1 and 2, for the score comes from a very young Liszt, still not fully mature and masterful. But it is genuine Liszt, who at that approximate time wrote an entire opera, now also being produced and re-evaluated. Besides the Liszt, Mr. Rudnytsky attained a number of firsts connected with music of Ukraine. On March 26, 1974, he played the hauntingly beautiful "Slavonic Concerto" by Borys Liatoshynsky with the Edmonton Symphony in Canada. This was not only the first such performance in North America, but more importantly, it was the "de facto" unveiling of the work outside Ukraine.

69. DasChicas Deanna Oye pianist Deanna Oye recently completed the Doctor of Musical Crumb, StevenIsserlis, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Vignoles, janina fialkowska, and Anton http://people.uleth.ca/~patrice.jegou/DasChicas/biosDasChicas.htm

Das Chicas A Canadian Trio Dedicated to Contemporary and Theatrical Music Chenoa Anderson, flute Patrice Jegou, mezzo soprano Deanna Oye, piano Chenoa Anderson Chenoa Anderson Repertoire List Chenoa Anderson CV Email: Chenoa Anderson Patrice Jegou A mezzo-soprano, Patrice Jegou made her professional singing debut under the baton of Maestro Hans Graf as a soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in Leonard Bernstein's Mass. She recently completed a full scholarship teaching internship through the National Association of the Teachers of Singing at the State University of New York in Fredonia with master teacher Judith Nicosia, and spent the summer at the Banff Centre. Miss Jegou has been on faculty in the Department of Music at The University of Lethbridge since Fall 2002 and was the Director of the 2003 Richard Miller Vocal Pedagogy and Performance Institute. She holds a Master of Music degree in Performance from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee where she studied voice with Dr. Shirley Zielinski and a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance from the University of Calgary where she studied voice with Donald Bell. Miss Jegou has twice received the Calgary Opera Company Scholarship and is especially proud of her collaborations with Canadian multimedia artist Ken Doren, with whom she has recorded two digital opera projects and an audio installation.

70. Canadian Piano Webpages Piano Six janina fialkowska, Piano Six Jon Kimura Parker. Christina Petrowska Quilico,a wellknown pianist, graduate of the Juilliard School who has premiered http://www.bbdsedson.com/keyconnect/music/canadians.htm

The Canadian Musicians Pianists Composers History Suggest a website ... MAIN PAGE Composers Born after / / Born between Our New Canadian Composers Sonances A Canadian page devoted primarily to 20th-century music. Canadian Music Centre Canadian Musical Heritage Society O Canada Guillaume Couture Alexis Contant 1858-1918 Alphonse Lavallee-Smith R. O. Pelletier Achille Fortier Amedee Tremblay Napoleon Crepault Joseph Vezina W. O. Forsyth Charles A. E. Harris Albert Ham Edward Broome Paul Ambrose Clarence Lucas Arthur Wellesley Hughes Healey Willan ... La Bolduc (Mary Travers) Suggest a Canadian Top of the page Colin McPhee Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte ... Robert Turner Robert J.B. Fleming Harry Freedman Harry Somers Pierre Mercure John Beckwith Clermont Pepin Alcides Lanza Serge Garant ... Top of the page Canada's New Composers Eckart Seeber Paul Tobey JAZZ Peter Hatch Victor Davies Justin Mariner Kenny Wheeler JAZZ Nicole Carignan Cheryl L. Cooney Laura Hoffman Tony K.T. Leung ... Alexina Louie Yannick Plamondon Bruce Current Top of the page Suggest a Canadian Top of the page Our Canadian Pianists Our great Glenn Gould!

71. Toronto Symphony Orchestra - About The TSO the liquor flowed freely. Plummer s distinguished family tree includes formerPrime Minister Sir John Abbott, and the acclaimed pianist janina fialkowska. http://www.tso.on.ca/season/press/press_releases/press02.50.cfm

ONLINE CONCERT SCHEDULE Search our concert listings: Join the TSO E-Mail Club and receive programme notes by e-mail Already a member? Log in here 15 to 29? Try Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee The Conductors' Podium is proudly sponsored by Ogilvy Renault Press Releases April 27, 2004 Michael Lankester , conductor Christopher Plummer , narrator The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Roy Thomson Hall Toronto, Ontario Michael Lankester conducts these TSO concerts of English pageantry; The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir lend their resplendent voices to these concerts, as well. The first half of the programme is all Handel: The King Shall Rejoice Water Music Suite No. 2 ; and Zadok the Priest , which has been performed at every English coronation since George II. The second half of the programme features Christopher Plummer Henry V: A Musical Scenario The venerable Christopher Plummer Henry V . Since then, he visited the TSO in 1994/1995 performing Grieg: Peer Gynt ; 1996/1997 performing Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible ; and 1998/1999 performing Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream , all with Michael Lankester conducting. Christopher Plummer has been hailed by

72. Glenn Buhr numerous commissions from many important ensembles and soloists, including the DetroitContemporary Chamber Ensemble, pianist janina fialkowska, the Montréal http://composers21.com/compdocs/buhrg.htm

T he Living Composers Project Buhr Glenn (b. 1954, Winnipeg). Canadian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works that have been performed throughout Canada and Europe and that appear on several recordings. Dr. Buhr received his BMus in 1979 from the University of Manitoba, his MMus in 1981 from the University of British Columbia and his DMA in 1984 from the University of Michigan. His principal teachers included Casey Sokol, Lawrence Ritchey, William Benjamin, Stephen Chatman, Leslie Bassett , William Albright, and William Bolcom Dr. Buhr has received several awards, including the Performing Rights Organization Canada Prize (for Beren and Lúthien ) and a prize in the CBC Young Composers Competition (for le rêve rêvient ). In addition, he has received the prestigious Italian Pro Loco Corciano Prize (for Epigrams ) and First Prize in the American Harp Society Composers Competition (for Tanzmusik ). More recently, winter poems won the Prairie Music Award for Outstanding Classical Recording of the Year for 2000 and compact discs featuring his works have earned him three Juno nominations. He became well known in Canada as co-founder, with Bramwell Tovey, of the Winnipeg New Music Festival. He was the composer-in-residence with the orchestra and curator of the New Music Festival from 1990-96, when the orchestra created the position of Artist Laureate for him. Recently, he was music director of the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre and artistic director of the Music in the Ruins festival in Manitoba and since 2002, he has been director of new music for the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra.

73. Style Manitoba Magazine Virtuosi Concerts – pianist janina fialkowska brings her famous touch to Chopinand others (Apr 3). The Virtuosi Internationale series follows with one of http://www.stylemanitoba.com/stepspr04.htm

Spring is here, and, really, it would be a shame to leave the season to birds and dogs. Following are some sterling reasons for leaving the house at last MUSIC COOL FM Concerts of the series known formerly as The Asper Foundation Jazz Performances continues with Peter Leitch Trio (Mar 28), singer Tierney Sutton (May 2), Cyrus Chestnut Trio (May 16) and Phil Nimmons Quartet (June 13). All concerts take place at Berney Theatre, Asper Jewish Community Campus, with concerts at 1 and 8 p.m. GroundSwell offers Quasar, a saxophone quartet that explores electro acoustic sounds (Mar 20, Eva Clare Hall, School of Music, University of Manitoba). Manitoba Chamber Orchestra The season continues with violinist Erika Raum (Mar 24), followed by Winnipeg mezzo-soprano Rosemarie van der Hooft (Apr 28). MCO principal cello Yuri Hooker ends the take place at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster United Church. Manitoba Opera bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci (Apr 24, 27, 30). MusikBarock Ensemble Virtuoso Soprano (Mar 16, Crescent Fort Rouge United Church). Prairie Performances return to Winnipeg (May 6-7, Winnipeg Art Gallery).

74. Bio.html Commissioners have included pianist janina fialkowska, for the Piano Six project,the Gryphon Trio, choreographer Ruth Cansfield and cellist Shauna Rolston, as http://www.brandonu.ca/carrabre/Frame2.htm

T. Patrick Carrabré Inuit Games recommmended at the IRC Composer-in-Residence, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Professor, Brandon University T. Patrick Carrabré (b.1958) has worked closely with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra since 1992. He is currently the orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence, a position he assumed in 2001, after five year’s in the role of “Associate Composer.” In addition to his work writing music, he is also co-curator of the WSO’s wildly successful New Music Festival. Also active in the media and as a conductor, Carrabré has just completed a four year term as Artistic Director of the Brandon Chamber Players, a string orchestra that presents a sold-out season of concerts featuring a broad range of repertoire from Baroque to Contemporary. Carrabré's best known compositions include Sonata No. 1, The Penitent , for violin and piano, which was nominated for a Canadian Juno award (in the category of Best Classical Composition), and The Gates of Heaven , written for violinist Gwen Hoebig and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (premiered at the New Music Festival in 1994 and later, in a revised version, by Toronto’s Esprit Orchestra). During this past season, The Dragon’s Tail has been performed by orchestras in Montreal, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, as well as in Tirana (Albania). Commissioners have included pianist Janina Fialkowska, for the Piano Six project, the Gryphon Trio, choreographer Ruth Cansfield and cellist Shauna Rolston, as well as the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

75. Piano Practice Page Jorge Bolet, John Browning, Bella Davidovich, Misha Dichter, janina fialkowska, RudolfFirkusny Reflections from the keyboard the world of the concert pianist. http://publish.uwo.ca/~elosseva/PianoPractice.htm

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten Ah, the joy of practicing... Welcome to my piano practice page. Give it a glance and I hope you'll find something of interest. Send me an email if you'd like to chat. I am always looking for people to play chamber music with. Contents of this page: Piano practice online resources Memory work Books: published interviews with pianists Other books on music and piano performance Miscellaneous Piano Practice Online Resources: (few but useful) http://www.mwsc.edu/~bhugh/practicetips/index.html provides collection of practice tips and advice by Prof. Brent Hugh http://www.siue.edu/MUSIC/html/ruths.html is an article by a great pianist Ruth Slenczynska on memory work (click here if the link doesn't work) http://www.alexandertechnique.com includes a list of online resources for Alexander technique (though I am highly skeptical of it myself) http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html

76. Cross Country Checkup janina fialkowska, concert pianist A Dog s Life by Peter Mayle (Knopf) Wildswans by Jung Chang (Anchor Books) Szymanowski by Teresa Chylinska (Twayne http://www.mrbauld.com/list95b.html

CROSS COUNTRY CHECKUP'S SUMMER READING LIST, JUNE 25, 1995 From Rex Murphy's introduction to the program: "Despite the fact that the world is wired, and that the computer and its urchin offspring the laptop are "hooking up" more lives, it is a comfort to know that the humble book, whether Penguin or parchment, retains the loyalty of millions.. remains a comfort, a solace and an uplift, that turning one leafy page after another is the chosen pastime, recreation, edification and ecstasy of individuals from one corner of this country to another. The book is the natural tributary, the perfect channel, carrying one mind's well garnished freight to another, and whether it be novel, poem, essay or excursus, there can be no fitter vessel, for heft, portability, texture, scent and feel, than, in all its myriad bindings, shapes, and design than our great familiar.. the book. For some, the approach of summer also means in varying degrees some loosening of the reins of preoccupation and employment, an unbinding of the attention to mundane or urgent pressure of living: for various reasons summer is a reading season. What is read is as crazy and mixed as the recreations we choose or where we choose to have them. Titles scanned last winter, weighty tomes of deep philosophy or recondite politics, the fluff of Spillane, the cat musk of Barbara Cartland, the dense and beautiful involutions of Nabokov, the macho liquorice of Tom Clancy, or the crafted wordiness of Ondaatje, Proulx, or Pete Dexter.

77. Biography all on the Dorian label), Sony s The Gift of Messiah and recordings of Lieder bySchubert, Schumann, and Brahms with pianist janina fialkowska on the Opening http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwmusic/faculty/dlichti/Biography.shtml

BIOGRAPHY: DANIEL LICHTIBASS-BARITONE Acclaimed as one of Canada's finest concert and oratorio singers, Daniel Lichti is a frequent guest soloist with major North American symphonic, choral, and concert organizations, and has also taken the stage in Europe, Japan, and Argentina. Active in opera as well, he has performed most recently at Teatro dell' Opera di Roma in "Giulio Cesare" by Handel, and just this past season with L'Opera de Montreal in Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" as Don Alfonso, as well as with Toronto's Opera in Concert as the King in Handel's "Ariodante". Mr. Lichti's past season included: an appearance with the Vancouver Chambre Choir in Brahms' Requiem, Handel's "Messiah" with Seattle Baroque, Bach's B Minor Mass at the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival in Berea, Ohio, Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in Regina, Saskatchewan, Haydn's "Die Jahreszeiten" in Fulda, Germany, and a featured performance in a Gala Benefit Night at the Elora Festival. A popular recitalist and Lieder singer, Lichti has sung Schubert's "Winterreise" at Washington's National Gallery, for Festival Canada in Ottawa, at the Shenandoah Bach Festival in Virginia, for Temple Square Concerts in Salt Lake City, and, he is slated to record this masterpiece for ATMA Classique next spring. Recently he has appeared in recital with Catherine Robbin in their duo recital "Songs from Venus and Mars", recorded and aired nationally by the C.B.C. This spring he presented an all Beethoven program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where he is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Voice for the Faculty of Music , and, made his recital debut in Germany for the Insel Klassik concert series on the Island of Reichenau near Konstanz.

78. Hutchinson News Preview Wichita symphony orchestra Featuring pianist janina fialkowska, 8 pm April17; 3 pm April 18. Century II Concert Hall, 225 West Douglas, Wichita. http://www.hutchnews.com/past/04-09-2004/preview/horizons.html

Community Page Lottery Numbers Newspaper in Education Search ... Printer friendly page Calendar listings are free. Send information two weeks before the publication date to The Hutchinson News, P.O. Box 190, Hutchinson, KS 6750-0190. Include a short description of your arts-related event, ticket information and a phone number where you can be reached. Horizons ART Artists studio open house - 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 24 Lindsborg artists open house. Visit working studios. Drawings with prizes. For participating studios, (785) 227-2217 or e-mail raymer@redbarnstudio.org. Summer art instruction - Begins June 15. Art Center, 405 North Washington. Limit 15 students. Schedule and registration available April 15 at area schools, Art Center, Outdoor Art Fair. Outdoor Art Fair - 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 1. Avenue A Park, Hutchinson. Original paintings, drawings, sculpture, glass, pottery, jewelry and more. AUDITIONS Opera singers - April 10 for Wichita Grand Opera for 2004-2005 season. Century II Concert Hall stage. Call (316) 683-3444 to schedule appointment. Headshot, resume, originals of audition repertoire required. WORKSHOPS Kid's Krafts - 10 to 11 a.m. April 10. Easter projects designed for elementary school aged children. $1 fee. Reno County Museum, 100 South Walnut. 662-1184

79. Framework - In The News 4 for the Left Hand by pianist janina fialkowska, to an evening of musicwith Latin guitarist Oscar Lopez and singer/songwriter James Keelaghan. http://www.framework-partners.com/publications/Herald_CPO.htm

CPO Unveils What May Be 'Best Season Ever': Program designed by Calgarians Taken from The Calgary Herald , June 5, 2003. by Bob Clark With the launch of its new season last week, the Calgary Philharmonic took a giant step forward. It's still too early in the recovery to label the orchestra's continued existence a miracle, but there seems little doubt the CPO has come up with programming that is not only imaginative and fresh, but also innovative. "For the first time, a CPO (season) program has been designed 100 per cent by people who live in this community and who have been sitting in that concert hall (the Jack Singer) for almost 20 years," says CPO bassoonist and sometime crooner Michael Hope. "We know what people react to, what they like - and what we think they will like." Hope and two of his colleagues - French horn player (and alphorn specialist extraordinaire) Bill Hopson and cellist Tom Mirhady - are among those who have spent long hours putting together a season designed to appeal to an increasing number of concertgoers. "The season we've just announced may be the best season ever," says Hopson. "Michael and I spend a huge amount of time in the lobby (before and after concerts) talking to people - asking them whether they liked the concert program, and what they would have liked to hear differently.

80. Parker Piano Preview training (his younger brother James Parker, also a pianist, will be a group of Canadianpianists including MarcAndré Hemelin, janina fialkowska, Angela Hewitt http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/scena_musicale/html/1997/sm2-8/parker.h

Parker Piano Preview by Martin Kamela In 1984 young Japanese-Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker shot into the spotlight taking the top prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in Britain. As a laureate of the Leeds Competition he joined the impressive fraternity of past winners which includes Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia. I first heard Parker live about ten years ago in concert with the Edmonton Symphony at the Jubilee Auditorium. Parker has a virile stage presence that immediately commands attention. His performance of Prokofiev's daunting Piano Concerto No 3 was unforgettable. With a rich, round piano tone he communicated both the lyricism and the sometimes furious excitement of the work. He did not hide behind the bravura notes but rather made the music his own and conveyed a genuine understanding of the piece. Since that memorable concerto I have heard Parker once more live with the Edmonton Symphony and several more times on CBC radio. At each hearing my initial impressions are confirmed: here is an artist truly in touch with his musical ideas, expressing them with conviction, ample technical ability and discipline. Parker's repertoire is eclectic. He is at home in the romantic as well as in the virtuosic neo-classical repertoire (check out the Telarc recording of the Barber Piano Concerto with Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra). To judge from the radio broadcasts, his Chopin has character and there is subtlety and discipline in his Mozart interpretations (unfortunately his Chopin discs seem to have been deleted by Telarc though his humorous duets with P.D.Q. Bach remain available). Another of Parker's musical interests is the repertoire influenced by jazz and North American music. He concluded several recent recitals with a medley of movements from Canadian and American compositions by Corea, Adams, Louie, Buczynski and Barber. Parker should be praised for introducing audiences to the contemporary classical repertoire which certainly deserves more attention than it gets.

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