INTIMATE ARTISTRY ARTISTS - Off Centre Music
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O F F C E N T R E M U S I C . C O M
INTIMATE ARTISTRY ARTISTS
THERE IS SOMETHING QUITE EXTRAORDINARY
ABOUT TURNING 22.
Of course the number itself is a palindrome – and
only the second one in Off Centre history. While we
are certainly not mathematicians, even we cannot
help but take note of the amazing coincidence: 2+2
= 2 x 2 = 22 = FOUR. What an incredible number!! And, as if that wasn’t enough, our first grandson was
born this past year on the 4th day of the month. How
could we not be smitten?
Four memories. Four seasons. Four winds. Four
cardinal points. Four-part harmony. Four hands. We are fascinated by this mysterious number. On the
fourth day of Creation, the stars appear… and in this
our 22nd season, we are feeling that our own stars
are aligning with four exciting programs that we
cannot wait to share with you.
This season, Off Centre Music Salon continues to curate
intimate concerts that tell a story and create personal
connection for audience and performer alike. We are
thrilled to be welcoming you back to the atmosphere
of the 19th Century Viennese Salon, but here, in our
Toronto home at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.
Inna Perkis and Boris ZarankinFOUNDERS AND ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENTPaul Truelove
PRESIDENT EMERITUSJohn D. McKellar, C.M., Q.C.
DEVELOPMENT OFFICERJoseph Macerollo, O.C.
MEMBERSEarl BarnsleyAlex Carswell
Isabel Bayrakdarian Michèle Bogdanowicz Russell Braun Ben Carlson
Lucia Cesaroni Lara Dodds-Eden Igor Gefter Deborah Hay
Joni Henson Adrian Kramer Peter McGillivray Maeve Palmer
Inna Perkis Ernesto Ramirez Mark Skazinetzky Giles Tomkins
Kathryn Tremills
Julia Zarankin
William Webster Boris Zarankin Ilana Zarankin
Pam and Ted MindenRoger MooreFlavia MordenKatalin ShaferPaul TrueloveNina and John Varga
Eyal KatzGil KatzTaketo MurataEva Saxell
PHOTOGRAPHEROlga Fershaloff
OUR SPONSORSAnna and Leslie DanVreni and Mark DucommunJackie and Horatio KemenyNezhat Khosrowshahi
HONOR ARY PATRON
VALERY GERGIEV | GENERAL AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Mari insky (Kirov) Theatre, St . Petersburg (Russia)
22ND ANNIVERSARY SEASON
2016/2017
Sustaining Season Sponsors: Jackie and Horatio Kemeny
Founders and Artistic Directors:
INNA PERKIS and BORIS ZARANKIN
22nd ANNUAL SCHUBERTIAD: 4 MEMORIES
TOUR DE 4...CE!SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 | 3PM SUNDAY JUNE 4, 2017 | 3PM
We remember our beloved Franz Schubert through the
eyes of his friends and contemporaries Franz von Schober,
Leopold Kupelwieser and Josef von Spaun. The concert’s
fourth memory is Schubert’s own – a musical one – in the
form of his Fantasia for four hands in F minor.
“Oh hallowed Art, how often, when depression and life’s wild circle had ensnared my space, have you aroused my heart to love’s compassion, have you removed me to a better place!” - Franz von Schober
Four singers, four hands and two of the most exciting love-song
cycles… Now that is an equation worth pondering! Schumann’s
Spanische Liebeslieder and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer sung by
some of our favourite voices.
OFF CENTRE PERFORMANCES TAKE PLACE AT
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
427 Bloor Street West
on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm
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at 2:00 pm in the lobby of Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.
“And the town is frozen solid in a vice, Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass.”
- Anna Akhmatova
WITH:
Michèle Bogdanowicz, mezzo soprano | Lucia Cesaroni, soprano Lara Dodds-Eden, piano | Adrian Kramer, tenor Peter McGillivray, baritone | Inna Perkis, piano | Boris Zarankin, piano
WITH:
Maeve Palmer, soprano | Inna Perkis, piano | Giles Tomkins, bass-baritone Kathryn Tremills, piano | William Webster, actor | Boris Zarankin, piano
WITH
Igor Gefter, cello | Joni Henson, soprano | Inna Perkis, piano Mark Skazinetsky, violin | Boris Zarankin, piano | Ilana Zarankin, soprano
WITH
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano | Russell Braun, baritone | Ben Carlson, actor Deborah Hay, actor | Inna Perkis, piano | Ernesto Ramirez, tenorBoris Zarankin, piano | Ilana Zarankin, soprano
RUSSIAN SALON: 4 SEASONS OF MOTHER RUSSIA
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 3PM
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A MUSICAL INVASION OF PARIS: THE MIGHTY 4
SUNDAY APRIL 2, 2017 | 3PM
In the words of Audrey Hepburn: “Paris is always a good idea.”
Our unlikely, but “mighty” four – Chopin, Wagner, Rossini
and Meyerbeer – certainly thought so. Our programme will
include Chopin’s twelve op. 28 Preludes, a piano four-hand
arrangement of Wagner’s Tannhäuser Ouverture as well as
beloved scenes from Rossini and Meyerbeer operas.
IF WIND AND WATER COULD WRITE MUSIC
-Yehudi Menuhin
WHEN AUTUMN COMES, I BLOOM ANEW…THE RUSSIAN FROST DOES WONDERS FOR MY HEALTH!
-Alexander Pushkin
AN ARTIST HAS NO HOME IN EUROPE EXCEPT IN PARIS
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“ “Oh summer fair! I would love you too, except for the heat and dust and gnats and flies…”
- Alexander Pushkin
“ “You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.”
- Robert Schumann
“Nightingales, a sigh, a whisper In a shady nook And the lullaby in silver Of a lazy brook.”
- Afanasy Fet
“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”
- Johannes Brahms
Featuring songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and
the Toronto premiere of Valery Gavrilin’s extraordinary song cycle
“Seasons”, as well as Arensky’s Piano Trio in D minor (op. 32).