KSO 2019.2020 concert season at-a-glance
Welcome to the KSO 2019 | 2020 concert season. We are very excited to continue fostering new audiences for classical music in the GTA and to return for a second year in the spring and summer of 2020 at Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Our opening night gala will be on October 19, 2019 at Flato Markham Theatre where we will also perform on December 14, 2019 and February 8, 2020.
Highlights of the season include Bartók’s Concerto for orchestra as well as Tchaikovsky’s Fourth and Fifth, Shostakovich’s Fifteen, Prokofiev’s Fourth and Rachmaninoff’s Third symphonies. We are thrilled to welcome back Maxim Bernard in Ravel’s Concerto for piano in G, Dong Xu in Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 4 for the left hand and Leonid Nediak in Rachmaninoff’s Piano concerto No. 4. Mary Kenedi will make her début with the KSO in Bartók’s Piano concerto No. 3, Sheng Cai and Charlotte Tan – in Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra and Leslie Ashworth – in Barber’s Violin concerto.
In June 2019, the KSO and Markham Contemporary Music Festival will return to Cornell Recital Hall for series of concerts presenting pieces by Stravinsky and a world première by Hong Kong Canadian composer Werner Chan. The concert season will conclude with a performance at the CBC Glenn Gould Theatre, led by renowned Chinese Maestro James Liu and a Canada Day celebration at Unionville Millennium Theatre.
James W. Campbell, Concerto for Harp and orchestra
Dr. Teresa Suen makes her Canadian début with the world première of the Concerto for Harp and orchestra by James W. Campbell. Kindred Spirits Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Kristian Alexander, Flato Markham Theatre, 2014.
Andrew Ascenzo and Conrad Chow performing Brahms Double Concerto with Kindred Spirits Orchestra
Conrad and Andrew talk about and play a few highlights from their upcoming concert with the KSO on December 17th, 8pm at the Flato Markham Theatre.
Welcome to the KSO 2018 2019 concert season!
Welcome to the KSO 2018 | 2019 concert season!
We are very excited to continue fostering new audiences for classical music in the GTA and to present in the spring and summer of 2019, concerts at Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Our opening night gala will be on October 20, 2018 at Flato Markham Theatre where we will also perform on December 15, 2018 and February 9, 2019.
Highlights of the season include Bruckner’s Fourth, Shostakovich’s Sixth, and Scriabin’s First symphonies, as well as a world premiere of Symphony No. 9 by Chan Wing-Wah featuring Hong Kong Oratorio Society and Vancouver Oratorio Society. We are thrilled to welcome back Christina Petrowska-Quilico for a recently discovered piano concerto by the Canadian composer André Mathieu, pianist Michael Berkovsky in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini and cellist Andrew Ascenzo in Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante.
In June 2019, the KSO and Markham Contemporary Music Festival will return to Cornell Recital Hall for series of concerts presenting pieces by Schnittke and Schönberg. The concert season will conclude with performance at the CBC Glenn Gould Theatre, led by renowned European Maestro Jiří Petrdlík and a Canada Day celebration at Unionville Millennium Theatre.
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KSO April 18, 2014 Maestro's intro
Maestro Kristian Alexander, Music Director of the Kindred Spirits Orchestra talks about the repertoire included in the Easter concert on April 18, 2014 at Flato Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts.
John Williams, On Willows and Birches
Ann Hobson Pilot, former Boston Symphony Orchestra's Principal Harpist, dazzles in On Willows and Birches, which John Williams wrote for Pilot to mark an outstanding 40 year career with one of the world's finest orchestras. Maestro Kristian Alexander leads the Kindred Spirits Orchestra in the Canadian première of the piece, recorded live at Flato Markham Theatre on November 14, 2014.
KSO on Rogers TV (November 1, 2013)
Kindred Spirits Orchestra's Music Director Maestro Kristian Alexander talks about the orchestra, its repertoire, musicians and upcoming concerts. Recorded life by Rogers TV at Cornell Recital Hall, Markham, Ontario, November 2013.
Welcome to the 2011.2012 season!
The Kindred Spirits Orchestra 2011.2012 concert season features internationally renowned soloists under the baton of Maestro Kristian Alexander. Highlights include Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Prokofiev Classical Symphony, Grieg's piano concerto with Christina Petrowska-Quilico, Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto with Jing Ye, as well as masterworks by Mozart and Beethoven, Broadway Kids Live! show, and premieres of contemporary Canadian and American compositions as part of Markham Contemporary Müsic Festival.
Kristian Alexander and Christina Petrowska-Quilico on Rogers TV Daytime show (November 2, 2011)
Maestro Kristian Alexander and pianist Christina Petrowska-Quilico discuss the Kindred Spirits Orchestra upcoming nearly sold-out concert on November 5, 2011 at Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts. A live-to-air interview with Jeff Moore and Jacqueline Betterton.
KSO Educational and Community Outreach Programmes 2016
Through various educational and community outreach programmes, courses, and events, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra works together with children, adolescents, students, parents, life-long learners, teachers, educational leaders, public and private schools, colleges, and universities. For more information about the Kindred Spirits Orchestra educational and community outreach programmes, visit KSOrchestra.ca
Young piano virtuoso Anson Hui
Piano virtuoso Anson Hui raises money for his rare disease
The curious teenager has glycogen storage disorder Type 1, which means his body can't make glucose, and he has to eat every three hours.
Anson Hui (pianist)
Fifteen-year-old Anson has given concerts throughout Europe, the USA and Canada. He recently won first prize at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and performed the Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 with the ISO in the summer of 2013, followed by an evocative performance of Chopin's Concerto no.1 with the Canadian Sinfonietta last November at Glenn Gould Studio. He also performed with New York Concerti Sinfonietta when he was only 11 years old and received the following review:
This was soul-satisfying Mozart. Anson is a major talent whose gifts deserve careful nurturing. One could readily imagine that one was hearing Mozart himself—as a child prodigy—at the keyboard, so preternaturally profound was young Anson's interpretation. It is unlikely that Mozart could have played this concerto any more convincingly than Anson did.
The Epoch Times, New York.
Anson is currently studying with Pianist Edward Auer and Junghwa Moon Auer from Indiana Jacob School of Music in Indiana University. He also took master classes with Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Emanuel Krasovsky, Eugene Pridonoff and among others.
Anson performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City after winning the American Protégé International String and Piano Competition (2010). He was also the winner of the Canadian Music Competition and was awarded The Kemble Trophy, the Tonoco Trophy, and the Concerto Trophy at the Markham Music Festival. He won the Concerto Trophy at the North York Music Festival and performed with The Kindred Spirit Orchestra at the winner's Gala. In 2012 he was given the Special Grand Prize at the Royal Burlington Music Festival. He has also received the Most Promising Award at the Mandarin Lions Music Festival, the Most Outstanding Talent Award at the Richmond Hill Music Festival, The Best of Bach Trophy at the Music Scarborough Piano Competition, The Best of Bach Trophy and The Most Promising Trophy at the Canadian CCC Music Festival. He has won the first place and received scholarships from many other Canadian music competitions, such as The Kiwanis Music Festival of Greater Toronto, The Davenport Music Festival, The Peer Music Festival, The York Region Music Festival and The Pickering Music Festival.
Anson is a homeschooler and currently pursuing his Grade 11 academic courses. In his leisure time, he loves building Star Wars Lego while listening to Bach. At the age of 8 he managed to assemble the 5195-piece Millennium Falcon Lego. He has an extremely wide range of interests, including advanced theories in physics.
Isabelle interview about Broadway Kids Live!
TV report on Broadway Kids Live presented by Kindred Spirits Orchestra in Markham. KSO link is:
Conversations@TheWholeNote.com - October 15, 2011 - Christina Petrowska Quilico
October 15, 2011: David Perlman, Publisher of The WholeNote Magazine (thewholenote.com) in conversation with pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico ( Topics include career highlights; the music of composers such as Ann Southam, Frank Liszt and Edvard Grieg; performing with the Kindred Spirits Orchestra at the Markham Theatre on November 5, her new recording Tapestries (Centrediscs 2011); and maintaining a balance between performing new music and classical repertoire.
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John Lennon & Paul McCartney - Penny Lane - CCSU Wind Ensemble
The Central Connecticut State University Wind Ensemble performs Penny Lane by John Lennon & Paul McCartney.
This song was adapted for Woodwind Ensemble by Mr. S. Anthony Moro (conductor) and features the Wind Ensemble Woodwind Choir of Central Connecticut State University.