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Our Christmas Student Recital is coming up Sunday Dec.15th 2pm and 3pm (two sections) in the Kinsroom at the School.
Many of our students will be performing. The recital will be in two sections to allow students and parents to come and go between the two sections as the room only holds about 45 in the audience.
The draft of the program will be up on Monday so everyone can see which students are going to be in each section.
Arthur Neele – baroque violin (Holland)
Konstantin Bozhinov – lute (Bulgaria)
Marina Hasselberg – baroque cello (Portugal)
Presenting a program of French and Italian Early Baroque Music, on period instruments
Music by Lully, Stradella, Visée, Marini and more!
Sunday November 24th, 3pm
McKee Heritage House, 4705 Arthur Drive. Delta BC.
Marina Hasselberg – cello
Marina is an active chamber musician and a founding member of Vancouver’s NOVO Ensemble. She runs her own cello studio and is on the faculty of the Mozart School of Music and the Blueridge International Chamber Music Workshop.
In 2008 Marina left her home country (Portugal) and moved to Canada in order to pursue a Master’s in Literature and Performance at the University of Western Ontario, for which she was offered several scholarships and awards. She completed this degree in 2010 passing her final recital with distinction. Since then Marina, has played among others with the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute Orchestra (Toronto), American Bach Soloists Academy Orchestra (San Francisco), Victoria Baroque Players (Victoria, BC), Orchestra London (London, ON), Okanagan Symphony Orchestra (Kelowna, BC), Kamloops Symphony Orchestra (BC), Orchestra Armonia (Vancouver, BC), NOVO Ensemble (Vancouver), The Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Redshift Music Society, Vancouver Pro Musica, Vancouver New Music, Stellaria, St. Andrew’s Wesley Oratorio Singers, and the Early Music Vancouver Cantata Project Players.
Marina’s experience also includes programming the Mozart School of Music Faculty Concert Series, studio work, performing with theatre companies and working in TV as performer, technical adviser and photo-double for musical scenes. She enjoys participating in projects that involve other arts besides music, such as theatre, dance and film.
Marina is passionate about baroque music and dedicates a lot of her time to playing and studying baroque cello and the repertoire and historically informed performance practice of the 17th and 18th centuries. As part of her ventures on exploring the world of baroque music, Marina has taken lessons from wonderful musicians Marc Destrubé (Orchestra of the 18th Century), Jaap ter Linden (Mozart Akademie), Tanya Tomkins (ABS, PBO), Christina Mahler (Tafelmusik), Viola de Hoog (De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht) and Allen Whear (Tafelmusik).
Marina plays an Italian cello from 1860 and a baroque cello copy by David Rubio kindly loaned by Dianne Miskey.
Konstantin Ruslanov Bozhinov began his musical activities as a self-taught guitarist at age 13, while living in South Africa at the time. Later on his principal instrument became the accordion and he spent many years playing folk music from his native Bulgaria. After moving to Canada he again turned to the classical guitar and attended Douglas College and the University of British Columbia, studying classical guitar under Michael Strutt. During an undergraduate history lecture, he was introduced to the wonderful music of Elizabethan England and his newly found love, the lute.
It was at UBC where Konstantin met with his most important teacher and mentor, the well-respected musicologist, luthier and performer, Ray Nurse. After quickly realizing how rich and vast the so-called ‘early music’ repertoire is, he decided to devote all time and energy to the lute. He became the first student to ever study and specialize in the lute at UBC.
He holds a Performance Diploma in Classical guitar from Douglas College, a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar and lute performance from the University of British Columbia. His graduate studies include a Master of Music degree from McGill University, where he studied basso continuo with Hank Knox and specialized in the French baroque lute, baroque guitar and archlute. He performed regularly with the University Baroque orchestra and took part in baroque opera productions.
He is currently working on a PhD degree at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. His main research focus is the music of the French Baroque, still an area that is under-explored today. He is co-founder and music director of the Renaissance group Ensemble Musica Humana and regularly performs and records on the archlute, theorbo, baroque and renaissance lutes. The album ‘Al Alba de España’, for which he is the arranger and audio engineer, was released in 2012. Konstantin made his recent debut with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, joining them in a series of concerts for the Pacific Baroque Festival, themed around the music of Henry Purcell. In addition, he writes regular reviews for the Coastal Spectator.
Violinist Arthur Neele studied with Vera Beths at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, The Netherlands. After finishing his studies, he worked with a variety of orchestras, including the Residentie Orchestra, the Dutch Ballet Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, Arthur has performed with a number of contemporary music groups, notably Porto’s Remix and Amsterdam’s Schoenberg ensembles. He has appeared on recordings with the Dutch Ballet Orchestra, the Residentie Orchestra and the Amsterdam Mozart Players.
Since coming to Vancouver Arthur has focused his attention on period performance, with a particular interest in the violin repertoire of the 17th Century. He is currently a member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and regularly appears with Early Music Vancouver’s Festival Orchestra and Cantata Players.
Next to his musical activities Arthur has over the last ten years pursued a career in health care and these days he divides his time between both interests. At present he works in the Critical Care Department of St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.
Wednesday Oct. 30th 7:30 – 9 pm at Delta Community Music School – $15 drop in fee.
Do you have an interest to learn music from other cultures? Have you wondered about what an African Drum Circle is? Playing the Djembe (african Drum) in a group like this is something for people of all ages and experience. If you have some experience, or even no experience with drums , we invite you to drop in and see what an African Drum Circle is all about. We will be playing Djembe and other drums, and we will have one or two on hand for you to try. If you don’t have a drum best to contact the office first to make sure we will have one for you for the evening!
Kris Bowerman: Having found the joy of music at age six on piano, Kris Bowerman begin playing trombone at 10, discovered jazz at fifteen and started teaching at 17. Later he received his Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance from San Francisco State University. He is a passionate improviser, has played with many kinds of groups, and has toured with Sweet Papa Lowdown as well as Kuimba, playing djembe/conga, recorder/flutes, trombone and vocals with the latter. He has also made several CD’s with Kuimba. As an instructor Kris enjoys passing on the knowledge of the trombone/brass and African djembe (hand drum). Needless to say, seeing students improve really brings out his smile.
McKee House Concert SeriesEmergency back surgery saved the life of Henry the little Daschund, after he awoke one morning unable to use his back legs. In the end Henry required not one but two separate surgical procedures this past summer.
His human family and friends and faculty from Delta Community Music School are holding a benefit concert and silent auction to help pay the bill.
Cheryl Carruther – piano,
Jared Burrows – guitar,
John Littlejohn – violin,
Garth Preston – piano,
Richard Coombes – piano,
Tracy Neff – voice,
Stephen Robb – clarinet / piano
Saturday November 2nd – 7:30pm
McKee Heritage House – 4705 Arthur Drive, Delta BC
Tix: $20 adults, $10 students 18 years and under.
Student Recital – Sunday June 2nd 2pm –
All Saints Anglicn Parish
Come to our final student recital of the year. Featuring students from Delta Community Music School. Also our annual scholarshp awards will be presented at the beginning of the program.
Jazz Night at Petra’s – Tuesday June 18th at 7pm
Come and hear live music at Petra’s Arts Cafe – our student jazz ensembles in concert. Starts at 7pm.
Petra’s Arts Kafe – 12th Ave at 56th Street in Tsawwassen.