QSCM’s Joyful Muse Event features works created entirely by women. Jocelyn Morlock, Chen Yi, Jesse Montgomery, and Rebecca Clarke: four women composers of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Read, listen, discover! Rebecca Clarke(1886-1979):Lullaby and Grotesque…
PART I: DUO THALIA: Women in Music Violinist Xueao Yang and cellist Kendra Grittani created Duo Thalia in 2019. Called after the Greek Muse whose name means joyous and flourishing, the duo has chosen to…
QSCM is excited to announce that we have been awarded an Ontario Arts Council grant to assist us with presenting “The Joyful Muse” featuring Duo Thalia (cello and violin). The program features music by women…
On the making of the virtuoso pianist: Leon Fleisher, brilliant and celebrated pianist and mentor-teacher of the last century, said of pianists: “We are athletes, but we’re athletes with small muscles.” To be a virtuoso…
While compiling the program notes for QSCM’s Between Friends III concert, June 11 I came across this statement by Leonidas Kavakos upon performing the premier of Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 4. “I have said…
Saturday June 11, QSCM’s “Between Friends III” event, live at St Paul’s United Church, Stirling ON (7 pm) celebrates connection and deep feeling. Performed by cellist Amahl Arulanandam and pianist Petya Stavreva, the program is…
The four movements of Haydn’s “Lark Quartet” are aptly described bycomposer and musicologist, Paul Epstein, in these words: “a story, a song, a dance and a party”. To find out why , check out Kai…
A QSCM interview with pianist, Petya Stavreva. Feb.13,2021 Pianist Petya Stavreva is currently completing the final requirements towards her doctorate degree in Piano Performance (Doctor of Musical Arts) at the University of Western Ontario under…
Celebrating the birthday of a great composer is always a joy if only because we all find ourselves playing or listening to great music! Here’s what Amahl Arulanandam had to say about Beethoven on the…