Date: May 22nd, 2016 at 3 p.m.
Location: Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Rd, Toronto -- parking information below)
Tickets: $10 for students/seniors and $16 for adults reserved online. Ticket sales are final, and tickets can be reserved online until May 21st.
At the door: $12 for students/seniors and $18 for adults at the door (cash only)
Proceeds will go towards a scholarship which young musicians can apply for.
Performers: Annie Zhou, Emma Fisher, Jasmine Lin, Catherine Ma, Madeleine Worndl, Naoko Sakata, Sophia Anna Szokolay, Amadeusz Kazubowski-Houston, and Kyoko Kohno.
The concert will also feature the winner of our 2nd MDA Young Musicians Competition.
Location: Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Rd, Toronto -- parking information below)
Tickets: $10 for students/seniors and $16 for adults reserved online. Ticket sales are final, and tickets can be reserved online until May 21st.
At the door: $12 for students/seniors and $18 for adults at the door (cash only)
Proceeds will go towards a scholarship which young musicians can apply for.
Performers: Annie Zhou, Emma Fisher, Jasmine Lin, Catherine Ma, Madeleine Worndl, Naoko Sakata, Sophia Anna Szokolay, Amadeusz Kazubowski-Houston, and Kyoko Kohno.
The concert will also feature the winner of our 2nd MDA Young Musicians Competition.
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Performers
Emma Fisher, cello
Eighteen-year-old cellist Emma Fisher was born into a musical family and introduced to the cello at the age of three. She made her solo orchestral debut at age 13 playing the Haydn Concerto in C Major with the late Jacques Israelievitch. She has also performed as soloist with the Canadian Sinfonietta under Maestro Tak Ng Lai.
Emma has received numerous awards and scholarships and won the top prize for the ARCT Level at the Ontario Music Festivals Provincial Finals in the Spring of 2015. This past November Emma travelled to Budapest, Hungary to compete in the David Popper International Cello Competition. Emma is a scholarship student at the Taylor Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music where she studies with David Hetherington. She has played in many master classes for such renowned cellists as Alisa Wellerstein, Raphael Wallfisch, Bryan Epperson, Denis Brott David Geringas, Richard Aaron, Prof. Thomas Wiebe and Phillipe Muller. Emma plays a Caussin-school cello made in 1762.
Eighteen-year-old cellist Emma Fisher was born into a musical family and introduced to the cello at the age of three. She made her solo orchestral debut at age 13 playing the Haydn Concerto in C Major with the late Jacques Israelievitch. She has also performed as soloist with the Canadian Sinfonietta under Maestro Tak Ng Lai.
Emma has received numerous awards and scholarships and won the top prize for the ARCT Level at the Ontario Music Festivals Provincial Finals in the Spring of 2015. This past November Emma travelled to Budapest, Hungary to compete in the David Popper International Cello Competition. Emma is a scholarship student at the Taylor Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music where she studies with David Hetherington. She has played in many master classes for such renowned cellists as Alisa Wellerstein, Raphael Wallfisch, Bryan Epperson, Denis Brott David Geringas, Richard Aaron, Prof. Thomas Wiebe and Phillipe Muller. Emma plays a Caussin-school cello made in 1762.
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Jasmine Lin, violin
Jasmine (Mengjia) Lin , age 17, is in her tenth year studying at the Taylor Performance Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. She is currently a full- scholarship student of Mr. Atis Bankas, and has had the privilege of performing with orchestras in Canada. Jasmine (Mengjia) began her violin studies at the age of 4, and has since then, made her debut with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic. She has also had the honor of winning top awards in numerous competitions, such as 1st Prize at the National Finals of the 2013 Canadian Music Competition and the 1st Prize and overall Laureate at the 2014 Kocian International Violin Competition in the Czech Republic. Previously, Jasmine has performed alongside the likes of Martin Beaver, and in master classes taught by renowned artists, such as Leila Joseifowicz, Vilde Frang, Victor Danchenko, Slyvia Rosenberg, and Joel Smirnoff. |
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Catherine Ma, piano
Born in 1998, Catherine began playing piano at the age of 5, and competed and won her first competition the same year. She began competing nationally and won 1st place at the Canadian Music Competition at the age of 8, and the following year, became the youngest scholarship student at the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists at the Royal Conservatory of Music, with Prof. Marietta Orlov. She has been invited to play in many concerts such as the Interharmony International Music Festival in Arcidosso, Italy, the Euromusic 20th anniversary Gala concert, the Piano Virtuoso series at the Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre, and has also performed in Carnegie Hall, New York City. She has also won numerous competitions and festivals, most recently, the Mayor’s Award for Top Achievement, 1st prize at the International American Protégé Piano Competition and 1st prize at the OCO Concerto Competition. |
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Maddie Worndl, soprano Madeleine Worndl is an 18-year old soprano. She is currently a first year undergraduate student at The Glenn Gould School (GGS) of The Royal Conservatory of Music, in the private studio of Stephanie Bogle. Before GGS, Madeleine studied voice with Jennifer Tung, in the Senior Voice Program at The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists, at the Royal Conservatory. Madeleine has participated in a number of competitions and festivals, placing first at the National Teachers' Association for Singers for High School Women, and has received first prizes in various vocal performance categories at the Kiwanis Music Festival of Greater Toronto and the North York Festival of Music. In June of 2015, Madeleine attended the Undergraduate Studio Artist Program for SongFest at the Colburn School in Los Angeles where she worked with acclaimed singers and coaches including Amy Burton and Suzanne Mentzer and had the opportunity to sing a work composed by world renowned contemporary opera composer, Jake Heggie, for the composer himself in a public master class. This summer, Madeleine will travel to Germany to attend the Saarburg festival, a specialized chamber music program, where she will be performing an array of chamber works with various instrumentalist groups and will be continuing studies with her teacher, Stephanie Bogle. |
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Naoko Sakata, piano Naoko Sakata is a full scholarship student at the Taylor Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She is also the founder and executive director of Musicians' Dream Aid. |
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Annie Zhou, piano
Born in 1998, Annie Zhou studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Marietta Orlov. She began her piano lessons at the age of four with Tanya Tkachenko. Annie has been a consistent winner at some of the world’s top piano competitions. Most notably, she won first prizes at the 9th Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition and the 13th Ettlingen International Competition in Germany. Annie made her orchestral debut when she was eight, and has since performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, and the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia. As a chamber musician, she played with the Fine Arts Quartet at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. Annie has performed in renowned concert venues across North America, including the Carnegie Hall in New York. Concerts overseas brought her also to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Liechtenstein, and China. Annie has been on local and national TV and radio, including her duo with world-acclaimed pianist Lang Lang on CTV’s Canada AM, as well as on US and German radio. Called by CBC Radio “Canada's next piano superstar”, Annie was a CBC Music Next! Artist for 2013, as one of the most promising young artists in Canada. Annie appeared as the Stockey Young Artist at the Festival of the Sound last summer, and earlier this year, she made her French debut at the prestigious Auditorium du Louvre. Currently in grade twelve, Annie attends the University of Toronto Schools. |
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Sophia Anna Szokolay, violin
Sophia Anna Szokolay made her international debut in October 2013, touring with the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra and giving solo recitals throughout Hungary. In 2014, she won the top prize at the Mary Smart International Competition in New York, and in 2015 she made her Koerner Hall debut with the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Sophia began her violin studies at the age of 3. At 13 she became a pupil of David Zafer, Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto and served as concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2012-14. Sophia graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Barry Shiffman and Victor Danchenko in 2015 and is currently pursuing a Bachelor degree at the New England Conservatory, studying with renowned violinist and pedagogue Miriam Fried. |
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Kyoko Kohno, piano
Kyoko Kohno is a piano student at the Taylor Academy and studies under John Perry and David Louie. She has won first prizes in CCC competition and will be performing the Beethoven Concerto No. 1 with Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra this coming fall as a winner of NYMF Concerto Class. |
Using Public Transportation
Use the subway to get to the St. Clair station on the Yonge line. Transfer to the streetcar and travel west on St. Clair to Russell Hill Road. Then walk north 2 blocks to Lonsdale Road. Or travel to the St. Clair West station and use the streetcar to travel east to the corner of Russell Hill and St. Clair. On weekdays only, the Forest Hill bus leaves the St. Clair West station every 20 minutes and travels north on Spadina, stopping at the corner of Lonsdale one block from the church.
Parking
Free parking on Russell Hill southbound weekdays and weekends, or northbound after business hours on weekdays and on weekends. Paid parking is available on Lonsdale. Parking is also available in front of Bishop Strachan School on the northeast corner of Lonsdale.