Via Salzburg's Christmas Concert Travels from the Baroque to 20th Century Canada With Music for String Orchestra
November 30 2012 - 12:21PM
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Via Salzburg Chamber Ensemble continues its 2012/13 season on
Friday, December 7th, 2012 at 8:00 PM with A Warm Place, a program
of lush and beautiful music for string orchestra.
Artistic Director Mayumi Seiler takes us over the world and
through the centuries with music from some of the world's best
known and loved composers. Come with us as we hear the strains of
France and Italy in the Baroque period, listen to one of Germany's
best loved sons of the Romantic era, then travel to Canada in the
modern day for the exquisite sounds of one of our own. The spirit
of the season is sure to visit and inspire!
A Warm Place will be held at 8PM at Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough
Drive, Toronto.
The program is:
Georg Muffat - Concert no.6, "Quis Hic?"
Marjan Mozetich - Postcards from the Sky
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony no.9 in C major, "Swiss"
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for Violin and Cello in B-flat majot, RV547
Now in its fourteenth season, the critically acclaimed Via
Salzburg Chamber Ensemble returns to the very heart of the chamber
music experience by embracing the intimacy between string ensemble
and audience in an acoustically wonderful setting. Via Salzburg
features Canada's finest young musicians and guest artists under
the direction of Mayumi Seiler, skillfully blending diverse musical
genres and art forms into the chamber concert form and moving the
audience into exciting new musical waters.
Tickets: $40/25/10 through Via Salzburg (416) 972-9193 or at
www.viasalzburg.com.
The Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra was created in 1999 by
violinist Mayumi Seiler, with the mission of presenting high
caliber chamber music concerts with an emphasis on strings. The
orchestra boasts some of Toronto's top professional musicians and
the best young talent in a group that plays to consistent critical
acclaim. The Globe and Mail has hailed the Via Salzburg Chamber
Orchestra as an "elite band of string players, that performs with
passion and dedication," while The Toronto Star has lauded its
"ebullience and glowing tone". John Terauds of Musical Toronto
praised Via Salzburg's most recent concert in October, 2012, with
the words, "Thank goodness for organizations like Via Salzburg for
not only programming rarities alongside well-known works, but
playing them as well as anyone else in the world." This dynamic and
virtuosic chamber orchestra is comfortable in any repertoire. Each
piece and every performance reflects the attention to detail and
energy that is the signature of this group.
Artistic Director Mayumi Seiler began her musical upbringing in
Osaka, Japan, where she was born of Japanese/German parentage.
Wedded to the violin from the age of three, Ms. Seiler received her
musical education at the renowned Mozarteum during the formative
years of her childhood in Salzburg, Austria. She is currently based
in Toronto, Canada.
With a busy schedule as a soloist and chamber musician
throughout Europe, the Far East and North America, Ms. Seiler is
also the Artistic Director and founder of Via Salzburg Chamber
Music, a Toronto based chamber music organization whose chamber
orchestra Ms Seiler leads from the first desk. Via Salzburg is now
in its 14th season, featuring wonderfully imaginative programming
and international guest artists performing with the best Canadian
talent.
Ms. Seiler has performed with numerous renowned orchestras and
conductors including Neville Marriner, Christopher Hogwood, Maxim
Vengerov, Peter Oundjian, Sandor Vegh and has been the featured
soloist with orchestras such as the City of London Sinfonia, the
Royal Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony, the Moscow Symphony, the
Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Camerata
Academica Salzburg and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and has
performed to critical acclaim in such major venues at Toronto's Roy
Thompson Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw
and Vienna's Musikverein, the Barbican and the BBC Proms in
London.Ms. Seiler has recorded many of the violin concertos and
chamber repertoire for such labels as Virgin Classics, JVC Victor,
Hyperion, and Capriccio.
Ms. Seiler's faithful partner in her musical travels is an
exquisite J.B. Guadagnini violin, circa 1740.
Contacts: Via Salzburg Chamber Ensemble Elaine Merritt (416)
972-9193info@viasalzburg.com www.viasalzburg.com