Tag: Piano music
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Concert Review: piano-cello duo electrifies
By Jim Leonard – a special review for The Vernon Morning Star The North Okanagan Community Concert Association (NOCCA) kicked off its season Thursday September 22nd with a rapturous performance by cellist Yegor Dyachkov and pianist Jean Saulnier. Saulnier began by commenting, “this is not a cello accompanied by piano concert. We are equal partners…
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Wolak-Donnelly Duo – Sunday March 20, 2016
Wolak-Donnelly Duo – Piano & Clarinet Sunday March 20, 2016 7:30 pm BUY TICKETS Armed with a clarinet, a piano and a mischievous sense of humour, Polish born Kornel Wolak and Canadian Chris Donnelly, delightfully weave jazz into the classics. Playing favourites from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, to Oscar Peterson’s Hymn…
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Concert Review: Steinway’s last stand
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Sunday afternoon on February 21st, 2016 saw the swan song of the North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s 1887 Steinway piano. It was grand. NOCCA president Paul Maynes announced that all the keys on the association’s virtual piano, raising funds toward the cost of the association’s replacement Steinway, had…
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Sergei Saratovsky – Sunday February 21, 2016
Sergei Saratovsky – Piano Sunday February 21, 2016 2:00 pm BUY TICKETS Sergei has been here before. In 2013, when another artist became ill, he stepped in and totally wowed the audience! His enthusiastic reception was not surprising. The Russian-Canadian pianist has performed before the leaders of both his native and new lands. He is…
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BERGMANN DUO – piano, Friday April 24, 2015
BERGMANN DUO – piano Friday April 24, 2015 7:30 pm BUY TICKETS ELIZABETH and MARCEL BERGMANN are a duo – in marriage and in music. For more than two decades their energetic and eclectic keyboard concerts have inspired audiences around the world. They play with such passion it makes audiences hold their breath. As a…
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Concert Review: Parker Inspires & Connects With Audience
by Christine Pilgrim – Vernon Morning Star Published: Februray 5, 2014 The stage lit up (if somewhat late on cue) with concert pianist Ian Parker’s ebullient entrance and immediate connection with a virtually full house — despite competition from the NFL Super Bowl — at the North Okanagan Community Concert Association’s only matinée in its…
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IAN PARKER, PIANO – Sunday February 2nd, 2014
IAN PARKER – PIANO Matinee Performance Sunday February 2, 2014 at 2 pm BUY TICKETS Back by popular request! Magnetic, easy-going and delightfully articulate, Canadian pianist Ian Parker captivates audiences wherever he goes. An enthusiastic recitalist, Ian has performed across the United States, Western Europe, Israel, and throughout Canada on tours with Debut Atlantic and…
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RESIDE DAWSON DUO – Friday November 22nd, 2013
RESIDE DAWSON DUO – Piano & Flute 7:30 pm Friday November 22, 2013 BUY TICKETS CHRISTIE RESIDE, classically trained in Eastern Canada, is now principal flutist with the Vancouver Symphony. TERENCE DAWSON, also from the East, is a concerto soloist with the VSO and National Arts Centre Orchestra. Both are chamber musicians, award winning soloists…
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