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-Toronto Star Tafelmusik, Canada’s award-winning orchestra on period instruments, was founded in 1979 by Kenneth Solway and Susan Graves. Under the inspired leadership of Music Director Jeanne Lamon since 1981, Tafelmusik has achieved international stature, performing over 50 concerts a year at home in Toronto, touring extensively around the world, and producing numerous award-winning recordings. Tafelmusik maintains a rigorous touring schedule, spending seven to twelve weeks a year on the road with annual tours of Europe, Canada, the United States. The orchestra has been invited to perform in Europe’s most prestigious concert halls, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, and the Barbican Centre in London. Tafelmusik has been touring regularly throughout Asia since 1990, performing in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. A highlight of one tour through China was a performance and masterclasses at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. The only Canadian orchestra to hold an annual residency, Tafelmusik has been orchestra-in-residence at the Klang und Raum Festival in Irsee, Germany since 1993. In 2007—2008, Tafelmusik embarked on five major tours to three continents. A highlight of that touring season was an extensive tour throughout Asia, taking Tafelmusik to concert halls in Macau, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai in China; in addition, they performed two concerts at the Seoul Bach Festival in Korea. In October 2008, the ensemble traveled to Sinaloa in Mexico. Tafelmusik has a comprehensive discography of 76 recordings on the Analekta, CBC Records, Sony Classical, Collegium, Hyperion and BMG Classics labels. In 2006, Tafelmusik was honoured with the orchestra’s 8th and 9th JUNO Awards for their recordings of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 (Analekta/Sony BMG in Europe) and Baroque Adventure: The Quest for Arundo Donax (Analekta). Tafelmusik has also moved into the realm of television with performance documentaries Le Mozart Noir and The Four Seasons Mosaic. Produced by Media Headquarters, Le Mozart Noir is a documentary on Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a French Black composer contemporary to Mozart. Originally broadcast on CBC, BBC, PBS, TV5, and ARTV, the DVD was released in early 2005. THE GALILEO PROJECT Tafelmusick’s Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres was launched at the suggestion of University of Toronto Astronomy Professor and Tafelmusik patron John Percy, who proposed a concert to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s development of the telescope to coincide with the International Year of Astronomy in 2009. This inspired Tafelmusik’s Alison Mackay to develop a program for a narrated concert with the added theatrical components of set and lighting design, dramatic image projection and stage movement. Music of the Spheres received its premiere performance in Banff on January 9, 2009, after a seven day residency, with musical direction by Jeanne Lamon, narration by actor Shaun Smyth, set and lighting design by Glenn Davidson, stage direction by Marshall Pynkoski, and projections by Ben Chaisson. Ancient civilizations depended on an awareness of the natural world for their livelihood and survival, and enjoyed an intimate relationship with the daily, monthly and yearly patterns of the night sky. In late 16th-century Florence, the house of lutenist and composer Vincenzo Galilei was a fertile breeding ground for important innovations in the realms of music and science. Later in the year 1609, two exciting events took place in the city of Venice: the publication of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, and Galileo Galilei’s first public demonstration of the telescope. The worlds of astronomy and music were often intertwined throughout the baroque period. In Music of the Spheres, Tafelmusik has created an event which uses music, words and images to explore the artistic, cultural and scientific world in which 17th- and 18th-century astronomers lived and did their work. The orchestra performs from memory surrounding a 12-foot high round screen on which images are projected, including photos by astronomy writer and photographer Alan Dyer, animated films about Galileo’s writings made by the Calgary Planetarium, and images and video from the Hubble Space Telescope. Upon the completion of their residency at The Banff Centre, Tafelmusik brought the Galileo concert program back to Toronto audiences, then launched an Ontario tour in February and March, 2009. Tafelmusik is currently developing international tours for The Galileo Project in the USA, Mexico and Asia in 2009 and 2010-2011. May 2009 |
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