Artists
Nancy Dahn, violin
Timothy Steeves, piano
“Powerfully charged performances” (Musical Opinion, U.K.) of “real chamber music, as it should be” (La Scena Musicale). Critics marvel over the “artistry, poetry and impeccable technique (La Scena Musicale) of Duo Concertante, the violin and piano team from Newfoundland, which has performed hundreds of recitals across Canada, the U.S. and abroad since 1997.
Julia Halfyard has delighted audiences in music ranging from popular to classical to musical theatre in settings ranging from cabaret clubs to the symphonic stage. She has worked with a variety of Musical Theatre companies throughout Canada including the Sunshine Festival in Orillia, Ontario, the Charlottetown Festival in PEI, Spirit of Newfoundland, TaDa events, and the Stephenville Festival. Selected credits include, My Fair Lady, Annie Get Your Gun, The Mikado, Chicago, Cats and the ever-popular Divas shows in St. John’s.
New to Kanon Artists! The award-winning Zodiac Trio has appeared in venues from Lincoln Centre to the Teatro de Atri in Italy and Izumi Hall in Japan - Formed in New York and based in Paris, these young players are laureates of numerous international competitions and are on the roster of the renowned Cziffra Foundation in Paris.
Gordon Stobbe, Fiddle
Greg Simm, Guitar
Nancy Dahn, Violin
Timothy Steeves, Piano
The violin and the piano. The fiddle and the guitar. These two pairs, one classically trainsed (Duo Concertante), one folk-oriented (Stobbe/Simm), come together to juxtapose, contemplate, and explore with the audience their seemingly disparate (or similar?) traditions and artistry. With virtuosity, insight, imagination and humour they present a thrilling musical experience spanning Bach to Benoit. Between the Duo Concertante’s ravishing renditions of the traditional classics, and Gordon Stobbe’s toe-tapping Metis fiddle tunes, maritime airs and his own heartwarming compositions, all musical possibilities are open to discovery.
New to Kanon Artists! – Canadian guitarist Raffi Altounian, who appeared in solo recital at the Four Seasons Centre’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre noon-hour series in June 2009.
New to Kanon Artists! Ang Li, the young award-winning virtuoso named among the top 30 pianists in the world by the Van Cliburn Foundation in 2009
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