The Toronto Community Orchestra presents

Leonidas Varahidis Artistic Director/Conductor

Eastminster United Church May 6th, 7:30 pm

Violin IJoyce Mark, ConcertmistressJerry Brail Doug CuttellIosif DeacSang-Yup LimAlex Yanitsky

Violin IIPhilip Chan, Co. PrincipalJoyce Allen, Co. PrincipalSolomon HoasjoeChristina KimPeggy KryNicole MorinoSharon ScanlanMichael SchneiderLorette Steenman

The TCO gratefully acknowleges Eastminster United Church for its generous support and patronage. Special thanks to vocalists Elizabeth Polese and Michael Yaneff.

The Toronto Community Orchestra

ViolaBrianne Whyte, PrincipalMeredith CrouchCatherine InglisMarianne KhuranaMary NishioSue PemberKathy RobsonPamela Young

CelloDavid Lopez, PrincipalLesley BartlettOwen GriffithsDale HildebrandSusan KopulosLesley MeadEleanor MooreRobert RinkoffRita ShahinBonnie SheckterJane UbertinoMarion Wilk

BassRadek Puky, PrincipalDylan GambleKevin Hurley

FluteMarie Campbell, PrincipalRosalie Goldberg

OboeRuth Moses, PrincipalJennifer Jones

ClarinetKishan Chouhan, PrincipalIrv Brown

French HornTim Mallory, PrincipalHilary DawsonJane GengeDawn Hanley

BassoonAnne Whiteside, PrincipalNora Mular-Richards

TrumpetDarrin Hicks, PrincipalEdwin Lang

Trombone Richard Pereira, PrincipalAlex Redman

TimpaniMarlene Sagada

percussionGord FalkSusan KopulosMarlene Sagada

KeyboardMarion Wilk

Leonidas (Louis) Varahidis, Artistic Director/Conductor

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Program Frühlingsstimmen Johann Strauss II

Andante in C major for Flute K. 315 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Soloist: Marie Campbell, Flute

Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Edvard Grieg I. “The Abduction of the Bride. Ingrid’s Lament” II. “Arabian Dance” IV. “Solveig’s Song”

Soloist: Elizabeth Polese, Soprano

Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished” Franz Schubert I. Allegro moderato

Symphony No. 6 in B minor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky II. Allegro con grazia

Selections from “West Side Story” Leonard Bernstein (arr. Mason) Soloists: Elizabeth Polese as Maria

Michael Yaneff as Tony

BiographiesLeonidas Varahidis, Artistic Director/ConductorLeonidas (Louis) Varahidis is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Concurrent Teaching Education Program. He received his Honours Bachelor of Music and Education in

2012, as well as the Neil D. Graham Scholarship from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music for the graduate who has attained the highest proficiency in his or her field of study A teacher within the Toronto District School Board, he currently teaches instrumental music, English, and business studies at Riverdale Collegiate Institute. Outside of the classroom, Leonidas is the euphonium player for the Toronto Wind Orchestra, as well as a teacher facilitator for the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre Intermediate Arts Camp. This is Leonidas’ second season as Artistic Director of the Toronto Community Orchestra, and he is happy to be a part of a group that continues to grow both professionally and musically.

Elizabeth Polese, SopranoCanadian Soprano Elizabeth Polese is a Master’s student in Voice performance at the University of Toronto. As an experienced performer in opera and musical theatre, Ms. Polese has performed and studied

several roles including Despina (Così fan tutte), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Remeron in Rob Ford: The Opera, Maria (West Side Story), Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables) and many others. In June 2014, Ms. Polese will be travelling to Sulmona, Italy to perform the role of Amore in L’Incoronazione di Poppea. Ms. Polese is also an experienced recitalist and is the winner of the 2014 University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. She will perform Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate with the UTSO in the Fall of 2014. She will next appear in recital on May 3, 2014 with Mia Bach (piano) and Alheli Pimienta (flute), in Walter Hall, Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. This is Ms. Polese’s debut with the Toronto Community Orchestra.

Michael Yaneff, TenorMichael is thrilled to be singing with the Toronto Community Orchestra. He and his wife Lauren Lazar are the proud co-founders of StageWorks Toronto, and he has produced and performed in its past three seasons.

For StageWorks: Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf ), Urinetown (Assistant Director), Parade (Assistant Director/ “Tom Watson”). For Scarborough Music Theatre: Sweeney Todd (Beadle Bamford), Annie! (Drake/Bundles), Gypsy (Tulsa), Bye Bye Birdie (Conrad Birdie). For Vanier College Productions: West Side Story (Tony). For Onstage Productions (SCS): The Pajama Game (Sid Sorokin), Fiddler on the Roof (Motel). For First Act Productions: Little Shop of Horrors (Dentist), Guys and Dolls (Nicely Nicely Johnson). Michael recently directed The Drowsy Chaperone for Vanier College Productions’ 40th Anniversary Season at York University, and he will be co-directing StageWorks Toronto’s upcoming summer production of Assassins with Lorraine Kimsa. He is also an avid amateur astronomer and can often be seen carting his telescope to public spaces and helping others to discover the universe.

Marie Campbell, FluteBorn in Bahrain Island, Marie began her love affair with the flute at age 10 in New York after listening to Lily Pons singing The Nightingale, accompanied by a flautist. Marie then played a year in Santa Barbara,

California before coming to Toronto, where she continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Robert Aitken. She came to the Toronto Community Orchestra 40 years ago, when it was known as the Timothy Eaton Memorial Orchestra. The piece she is playing is dedicated to the orchestra’s founder and first conductor Jim Knights. He would be thrilled to know the orchestra is still gathering and going into the community to play at Seniors’ homes.

Please join us after the concert for a reception in the Auditorium.