Francine Kay, Piano

– JANUARY 2024

Juno-nominated Canadian pianist Francine Kay will perform her program for solo piano Things Lived and Dreamt. Francine Kay, visiting from Princeton University will play repertoire from her recent CD recording of piano music by celebrated Czech composers Dvorak and Suk, Debussy, renowned living Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, and the brilliant but tragically short-lived female composer Vítězslava Kaprálová.

Kai Gleusteen, violin and Catherine Ordronneau, piano

– JANUARY 2024

Violinist Kai Gleusteen, and pianist Catherine Ordronneau. Returning once again from their home base in Barcelona, the virtuosic duo will perform an exuberant program to include works by Dvorak, Kreisler, R. Strauss, and the glorious theme tune from the movie Cinema Paradiso by Ennio Morricone.

Anna Pietrzak – Solo Guitar

– MARCH 2024

Award-winning Polish classical guitarist Anna Pietrzak will play a program of solo guitar repertoire by celebrated composers including Bach, Tansman, Rodrigo, and Assad.

Jane Coop – Piano

– MAY 2024

Welcoming back world-renowned Canadian pianist Jane Coop, who will close our 2023/24 season with an exciting program for solo piano including the great Chopin B minor Sonata, works by Beethoven, Ravel’s Oiseaux Tristes and Debussy’s L’isle Joyeuse.

Kai Gleusteen, violin, and Catherine Ordronneau, piano

– JANUARY 2023

Our new year of Music At Wentworth Villa opens with a recital by Canadian violinist Kai Gleusteen and French pianist Catherine Ordronneau. The players, based in Spain, were due to play for us in 2021 but were unable to travel due to the pandemic. Fingers crossed this time!

Alec Pearson, guitar

– MARCH 2023

Join us for an early springtime recital of music for classical guitar with Alec Pearson. Alec is based in Vancouver and is a well-known and respected recitalist and teacher. We are excited to welcome him to Wentworth Villa for the first time.

An Afternoon of Baroque Music

– MAY 2023

Performers Christi Meyers and Paule Préfontaine (violins), Christina Mahler (cello), and Marco Vitale (harpsichord) will perform an exciting program of baroque music, well-suited to our intimate concert space.

Meeks Duo – Piano music for 4 hands!

– MAY 2023

Our season will end with a virtuosic performance of piano music for 4 hands given by the Meeks Duo: pianists Scott Meek and Clare Yuan. Please join us for these exciting concerts, support our performers, and help bring our concert space alive once more with your appreciative applause.

Eliot Quartett

– SEPTEMBER 2023

This exciting, young string quartet based in Frankfurt will play a program of quartet music by Haydn, Tailleferre, and Schubert’s famous Death and the Maiden.

Trios for Flute, Cello, and Piano

– OCTOBER 2023

Victoria Symphony principal flutist Arin Sarkissian, and principal cellist Brian Yoon, will join celebrated pianist Monica Pfau to perform an exciting program of trio repertoire by Hummel, Gaubert, Villa-Lobos, and Weber.

Octet Victoria

– NOVEMBER 2023

Experience great choral music performed by an ensemble of eight exciting, young professional singers in unaccompanied repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the 21th Century!

Mark Anderson – Piano

– May 2022

Virtuosic American pianist Mark Anderson plays works by Liszt, Chopin, Von Bülow and Röntgen.

Fedorova & Takser Piano Duo – Concert in Aid of Ukrainian Refugees

– May 2022

Russian-Ukrainian Canadian pianists Daria Fedorova and Ilya Takser play an exciting program of music for 4 hands including works by Ravel, Grieg, Debussy and Glier (who was born in Kyiv)

Brian Yoon – Cello & Kimberley-Ann Bartczak – Piano

– May 2022

Brian Yoon (Victoria Symphony’s Principal Cellist) is joined by collaborative pianist Kimberley-Ann Bartczak (Pacific Opera Victoria) for a varied program of works for cello and piano by Bach, Bloch, Schumann, Louie, and Mendelssohn.

Irwin Shung – piano

– October 2022

American pianist Irwin Shung will perform (over two consecutive afternoons) the entire Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, by J.S.Bach.
Join us for this wonderful, festive season opener!

Benjamin Butterfield, tenor, and Robert Holliston, piano

–  OCTOBER 2022

AmCanadian tenor Benjamin Butterfield returns to Wentworth Villa for a varied program of songs for tenor and piano.
We are happy to welcome pianist Robert Holliston to Wentworth Villa for the first time.

José Franch – Ballester, clarinet, and Jane Coop, piano

– NOVEMBER 2022

Our third concert features two wonderful performers based in Vancouver, Canadian pianist Jane Coop (who has performed on two past occasions at Wentworth Villa) and Spanish clarinetist José Franch-Ballester. They will perform music for clarinet and piano by Stanford, Brahms, Ravel, Debussy, and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Opus 109.

Shoko Inoue – piano

– DECEMBER 2022

We are excited to welcome back pianist Shoko Inoue who has previously performed at Wentworth Villa on a number of occasions. Her new program features works by Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Nikolai Medtner, and Beethoven’s well-loved Hammer-Klavier Sonata 106.

Voces Intimae Quartet – Nordic Voices

– January 2021

Voces Intimae Quartet performs works for string quartet by E. Grieg and J. Sibelius. During the COVID lockdown Voces Intimae Quartet perform a virtual concert, available here on our website.

A Potpourri of Song for the New Year!

– January 2020

Singers Ingrid Attrot, Sarah Fryer, Benjamin Butterfield, and Gary Relyea will join Toronto-based pianists Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata to perform a mix of art songs of special significance to them, followed by Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52 for vocal quartet and piano duet.

Rosanna Butterfield & Jannie Burdeti – Beethoven and Beyond

– February 2020

Rosanna Butterfield (cello) and Jannie Burdeti (piano) will perform an exciting program of works for cello and piano by Beethoven, Farrenc, Schumann, Debussy, and Martinu.

Álvaro Pierri – Classical Guitar

– March 2020

We are thrilled to welcome world-renowned classical guitarist Alvaro Pierri to perform at Wentworth Villa.
Originally from Uraguay, Professor Pierri now teaches in Vienna.

Fedorova & Takser Piano Duo

– May 2020

Russian pianists Daria Fedorova and Ilya Takser will perform a virtuosic program of music for piano four-hands: works by Debussy, Ravel, and Greig, E. MacDowell, as well as contemporary works by D.L. McIntyre, and A. Rosenblatt.

Shoko Inoue – Bach Up

– October 2020

Pianist Shoko Inoue performs works by J.S. Bach and S. Rachmaninov. During the COVID lockdown she gave a wonderful online concert, available on our website.

Jannie Burdeti – Piano: Piano Works inspired by Water

– January 2019

Exciting American concert pianist Jannie Burdeti will offer a program with a watery theme, including Chopin’s beautiful Preludes Op.28 composed on the island of Mallorca and Ravel’s Une barque sur L’océan.

Véronique Mathieu, violin, Stephanie Chua, piano – In Praise of Women: Music for Violin and Piano

– March 2019

We welcome violinist Véronique Mathieu and pianist Stephanie Chua who will offer a diverse program entitled In Praise of Women, featuring works for violin and piano by women composers spanning 350 years.

David Stewart – Violin & Jane Coop – Piano: Masterworks for Violin and Piano

– May 2019

By popular request, we welcome back esteemed Canadian pianist Jane Coop, with violinist David Stewart (concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic, and renowned solo and chamber musician) in a program of Masterworks for Violin and Piano by Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms.

Irwin Shung – Keyboard Music by J.S.Bach

– September 2019

Pianist Irwin Shung will open our 2019/20 season of Music At Wentworth Villa with a dazzling concert of Keyboard Music by J.S. Bach including the much-loved Goldberg Variations BWV 988.

Vetta Quartet – Masterworks for String Quartet

– September 2019

Maria Larionoff & Joan Blackman (violins), David Harding (viola), and Eugene Osadchy (cello) will perform quartets by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky

Schubert’s Schwanengesang D.597 for Voice and Piano

– November 2019

Tenor Isaiah Bell and collaborative pianist Anna Cal will perform Franz Schubert’s powerful song cycle written in 1828 in a special program interspersing Schubert’s songs with complementary folk-song arrangements by other composers.

Benjamin Butterfield – Tenor, Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata, piano: Masterworks for Voice and Piano

– January 2018

Renowned Canadian tenor Benjamin Butterfi will perform with pianists Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata, who received the Order of Canada for their longtime work running the concert series The Aldeburgh Connection in Toronto. Benjamin Butterfield is particularly acclaimed for his interpretations of the Lieder and English Song repertoire. This recital will include Schumann’s Leiderkreis Op.24 as well as two evocative works for voice and piano by English composers Benjamin Britten and Gerald Finzi. Pianists Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata will also play Schubert’s wonderful Rondo in A, D.951 for four hands.

Joan Blackman & Jane Hayes – Violin and Piano works from Mozart to Gershwin

– March 2018

We welcome two esteemed Canadian artists well known to audiences here on the West Coast and far beyond: violinist Joan Blackman and pianist Jane Hayes who will offer a varied program entitled From Mozart to Gershwin. Do not miss this exciting duo!

Sara Davis Buechner – Japanese Piano Music and Ibert’s Histories, with guest artist Yayoi Hirano (Japanese mask dancer)

– May 2018

Our season ends with an exciting return visit by internationally renowned pianist Sara Davis Buechner, who gave the inaugural recital at Wentworth Villa in May 2016. Now based at Temple University, Philadelphia, Ms Buechner is returning to the West Coast to play in Portland, Oregon, and we have been able to persuade her to include Wentworth Villa in her busy itinerary. She will perform an acclaimed program she gave at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York in June 2017. The program comprises Japanese Piano Music and French composer Jacques Ibert’s Histoires, choreographed and danced with Japanese masks by Yayoi Hirano.

Microcosmos & Sarah Fryer – Mezzo-Soprano: Three Twentieth-Century Masterworks for String Quartet

– September 2018

Microcosmos Quartet and mezzo Sarah Fryer return to present three powerful and evocative works, including Janáček’s String Quartet no.2 and Respighi’s lyric poem II Tramonto.

Claire Marchand – Flute & Albertina Chan – Harp: Contemporary works for Flute and Harp

– November 2018

Renowned Montreal-based flute player Claire Marchand will perform with harpist Albertina Chan in a thrilling contemporary program, which includes works by Canadian composers Gilles Tremblay, R. Murray Schafer, Caroline Lizotte and Owen Underhill. The program will also feature a newly commissioned work by Montreal composer Nicole Lizée.

Brenda Fedoruk, Sarah Fryer & Shoko Inoue – Music for Flute, Voice & Piano

– January 2017

Brenda Fedoruk, Sarah Fryer, and Shoko Inoue, will present a program of French and North American music for voice, flute and piano. The program will include love songs by Andre Previn, which feature the sultry sounds of the alto flute.

Shoko Inoue – Piano music of Robert Schumann – 2 Concerts

– March 2017

Shoko Inoue will be performing selected jewels from Robert Schumann’s extensive piano repertoire in two programs offered on consecutive afternoons.

Microcosmos Quartet – Two 20th Century Masterworks for String Quartet

– May 2017

Our final concert of the season will feature Microcosmos Quartet, based in Vancouver, and committed to performing string quartets written in the last 100 years. On this occasion they will perform powerful works by Bartok and Britten.

Jane Coop – Piano works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov

– September 2017

Our first concert of the season is an exciting performance of piano music by Beethoven and Rachmaninov given by internationally renowned pianist Jane Coop, who is at the start of a cross-Canada recital tour. We are thrilled that she has chosen Wentworth Villa for the first recital of her tour! The program includes Beethoven’s much-loved “Moonlight” Sonata Op 27 no.2.

Andrei Burdeti – Classical Guitar: Music from the South

– November 2017

Acclaimed young classical guitarist Andrei Burdeti will offer a varied program including beautiful works by Villa-Lobos, Albéniz and Dyens. We are especially excited to hear this wonderful instrument in the intimate recital room acoustic at Wentworth Villa, which promises to be a perfect match.

Marc Destrubé – Solo Violin Music from the 17th and 18th Centuries

– SEPTEMBER 2016

Our first artist Marc Destrubé grew up in Victoria and now enjoys an international career playing baroque and modern violins. His recital is a rare opportunity to hear Bach’s wonderful Chaconne, thought by many to be the greatest piece ever written for solo violin.

Jeanette Jonquil, Clarinet & Terence Dawson, Piano

– NOVEMBER 2016

Jeanette Jonquil is principal clarinetist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with whom she has performed notable solo works, as well as playing as guest soloist with other symphony orchestras and winning first prize in the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in Los Angeles. Jeanette has crafted a wonderful program for her Wentworth Villa performance that showcases the beauty of the clarinet. She will be joined by renowned pianist Terence Dawson, well known to CBC radio listeners for his numerous chamber music recordings and to audiences across Canada and beyond.