CSO Chamber Nucleus - Tour Fundraiser Concert

PROGRAM

THE FRENCH QUARTER

Petite Suite Claude Debussy

I. En bateau

II. Cortege

III. Menuet

IV. Ballet

Danielle Lisboa, piano Ping-Shan Liao, piano

Piano Trio in A Minor

I. Modéré

Ping-Shan Liao, piano Marie Krejcar, violin Ryan Hoffman, cello

Sonata in A Major for violin and piano

Allegretto ben moderato Recitativo-Fantasia

Svitlana Remniakova, violin Danielle Lisboa, piano

Maurice Ravel

César Franck

THE ITALIAN QUARTER

Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12, "La Follia"

Svitlana Remniakova, violin

Ryan Hoffman, cello

Arcangelo Corelli

Violin Concerto in F Major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293 Antonio Vivaldi

The Four Seasons: "L'autunno" (Autumn)

I. Allegro

II. Adagio molto

III. Allegro

CSO Nucleus strings

Frank Ho, violin

TOUR FUNDRAISER

CSO is currently fundraising for its first international tour in 2024. The goal of this initiative is to promote less-known repertoire to a wider audience abroad and to introduce Canadian music to international audiences. Please consider a charita ble donation to CSO to support our fundraising efforts. Donations can be made by email at donations@concordia.ab.ca or online

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CSO NUCLEUS STRINGS

VIOLIN I

Frank Ho Jared Mosher

Arwen Bylsma

VIOLIN II Marie Krejcar

Linnea Barisoff Harold Steinbrenner

VIOLA

Darrell Soetaert Alan Dunn

Blaine Madsen

CELLO

John Fedor Katarina Kuhn Robi Szabo

Danielle Lisboa, piano

Brazilian-born Danielle Lisboa leads an active career as an orchestral conductor, music educator and scholar, regularly conducting community and professional ensembles. Lis boa holds a doctorate in orchestral conduct ing from the Eastman School of Music Uni versity of Rochester. On arriving in Canada in 2008, she became Orchestra Toronto’s first apprentice conductor, was named assistant conductor two months later and shortly after was appointed the orchestra’s music director and conductor. During her tenure, Lisboa be came known for her cutting-edge program ming and public engagement. Her vision and dynamic leadership took Orchestra Toronto into new paths for outreach and youth initiatives, including the Marta Hidy Concerto Com petition and the popular annual children’s concerts. Two years later she led Bellus Barbari, the Toronto Women’s Symphony Orchestra, in its inaugural Ontario tour.

Lisboa moved to Edmonton in 2013 and currently serves as Fine Arts Chair and Associate Professor of music at Concordia University of Edmonton in the areas of conducting and music theory. Lisboa is former music director and co-founder of the Edmonton Metro politan Orchestra and continues to maintain an active presence in the community with the Edmonton Philharmonic Orchestra in outreach concerts to local continuing care hospitals and schools as well as in guest-conducting engagements with the Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus.

Her current research interests encompass topics of women and leadership on the orches tral podium and analysis and transcription of sacred rituals of native peoples of Brazil with recent partnerships and publications in Portugal and Brazil. Lisboa reinstated the Concordia Symphony Orchestra as a new ensemble in fall of 2017. She spearheaded Con cordia’s first operatic project, developed a summer string camp for youth, and a provin cial concerto competition. Most recently, she led the Orchestral Training and Leadership workshop to mentor young conductors and orchestral players into leadership roles.

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Frank Ho, violin

Violinist FRANK HO enjoys a multi-faceted career as a chamber musician, soloist, and pedagogue. His early training was at the Alberta College (now MacEwan University) Conservatory of Music. Further studies with Sidney Harth and Erick Friedman (Yale School of Music) and Yfrah Neaman (Guild hall School of Music and Drama in London, England) led to performance opportunities on three continents . Highlights include concerts at venues such the Royal Festival Hall and the Purcell Room in London; Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall in New York City; and numerous campuses and concert series in western Canada. Many of his concerts have been featured on the CBC.

He is currently a faculty member of the MacEwan University Conservatory of Music, and sessional violin instructor at King’s University and Concordia University of Edmonton. Frank is an active adjudicator nationally and internationally--most recently as a member of the in ternational jury panel for the 2019 Hong Kong Music Schools Festival--as well as a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music. He is currently the con certmaster of the Concordia Symphony Orchestra. A sought-after private teacher, many of his students are previous prizewinners of local, provincial, and national competitions; in 2017, two of his students were chosen to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City through the American Protégé International Competition. Since November 2019, he has been the president of the Alberta String Association.

Ping-Shan Liao, piano

Pianist Ping-Shan Liao has presented numerous recitals and fascinated audiences worldwide with her passion for music. Her performing career has brought her to many countries such as the United States, Taiwan, China, Russia, and Canada. Throughout her career, she has also collaborated as a chamber and concerto pianist, performing concertos with the International Chamber Ensemble De Rome, the Edmonton Festival City Winds, Concordia Symphony Orchestra, and the Prairie Jubilation Wind Ensemble.

Born and raised in Taiwan, Ping-Shan started her music study at a young age and was the prize winner of many competitions in Taiwan. After graduating from the National Taiwan Normal University, she pursued her graduate studies in the United States and received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance & Literature from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. During her time studying at Eastman, Ping-Shan was invited to present a solo concert at the Alexander Goldenweiser Memorial Museum in Moscow, as well as being selected to perform at the Taiwan National Recital Hall as part of the “Young Artists Series” concerts, which recognize the outstanding global achievements of Taiwanese musicians.

Besides her passion in performing, Ping-Shan has been serving as a piano adjudicator and clinician for many music festivals and competitions. Before moving to Edmonton with her husband and two daughters in 2005, she served as a Professor of Piano at the Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta. Ever since, she has been teaching piano, piano pedagogy and music theory at the Concordia University of Edmonton.

Svitlana Remniakova-Ostrovska, violin

Svitlana Remniakova-Ostrovska is an experi enced classical violinist who has worked in and collaborated with a variety of international symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles. Svitlana was born in Ukraine and obtained her Master’s Degree in Music with honours at the Tchaikovsky National Conservatory of Music in Kyiv (Ukraine), led by Professor E. Buchins ka, an aspirant of David Oistrakh, one of the most prominent violinists of the 20th century. Svitlana has 20+ years of teaching experience and a strong background in the Russian school of playing violin. She has been successfully preparing students for international contests and performances, such as B. Kotorovich International Youth Competition and Royal Academy of Music examinations. Svitlana’s students have won children’s regional competitions in Ukraine and proceeded to become accomplished violinists themselves.

Marie Krejcar, violin

Born into a musical family, Marie only devel oped an interest in music at age 10 when she picked up the violin and fell in love. Along with participating in a small community orchestra, Marie also played chamber music with her siblings. Coming from a small town in Northern Alberta, violin lessons were not always available in the region but with the help of community, online violin lessons, music teachers, and self-teaching, Marie was invited to perform for the Lieutenant Gov erner General of Alberta, Pinchas Zukerman, and the NACO during their Canadian tour of 2002.

In her teens, Marie moved to the Czech Republic where she lived with her grandparents and studied for several years at the music conservatory in Ceske Budejovice under Tuu la-Sivula Vacek.

Returning to Canada, Marie received her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Alberta in 2012, studying under Guillaume Tardif. During this time Marie also worked as a violin instructor and a substitute violinist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

After graduating, Marie continued to be an active performer, teacher, and substitute violin ist before moving to Ottawa with her husband. Once more in Edmonton, Marie works as a legal assistant in the health law sector as well as continuing to work as a substitute violinist with the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, the Stringbeans Quartet, and other ensem bles throughout the Edmonton region and Alberta.

Ryan Hoffman, cello

Ryan Hoffman is a cellist who recently moved to Edmonton from the United States. He has Suzuki teacher training, and teaches cello at Society for Talent Education, Edmonton Academy of Music, and Turner Guitar Studio, and teaches privately in Prince Charles. Ryan is active with Alberta String Association, Opus@12 Chamber Music Society, and Con cordia Symphony. In April 2022, Ryan was a featured soloist with Concordia Symphony, performing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. Ryan's academic degrees include a Doctor of Musical Arts from James Madison University, a Master of Music from Penn State University, and a BA in Music from Susquehanna University.

Prior to moving, Ryan taught and performed in and around Virginia. He taught both Suzuki and traditional students at several schools, including Eastern Mennonite University and Bridgewater College. He performed in several orchestras, including Altoona Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, Huntington Symphony, and Waynesboro Symphony, and as a chamber musician with Two Rivers Chamber Music and Melodious Strings.