BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Wentworth Villa - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wentworthvilla.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Wentworth Villa REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251029T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T030140 CREATED:20250912T163441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T215912Z UID:10000195-1761764400-1761764400@wentworthvilla.com SUMMARY:Tending Eden: A Garden History of Victoria DESCRIPTION:Martin Segger will talk about the golden years of Victoria as a garden city\, 1890-1930. He will focus on those who commissioned and created the great estate gardens\, the social rituals they accommodated\, and their importance as symbols of social status\, wealth\, and of horticultural and aesthetic sophistication. \nMartin Segger is an architectural historian and urban critic who has written extensively on Victoria’s built environment. He is the author of numerous publications on the architectural history of Victoria and BC including (with Douglas Franklin) the path-breaking Victoria: A Primer for Regional History in Architecture 1843-1929 (1979) and The Buildings of Samuel Maclure: In Search of Appropriate Form (1986). He is also a former City of Victoria councillor and co-chair of the Provincial Capital Commission\, and has enjoyed a long career as a gallery curator focusing on BC historic and decorative arts. \nPlease reserve your seating below. URL:https://wentworthvilla.com/event/tending-eden-a-garden-history-of-victoria/ LOCATION:Wentworth Villa\, 1156 Fort Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3K8 CATEGORIES:Architecture,Heritage Homes,Lectures,Local History,Victoria Attractions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://wentworthvilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wilson-green-house.webp GEO:48.4232835;-123.3516214 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Wentworth Villa 1156 Fort Street Victoria BC V8V 3K8;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1156 Fort Street:geo:-123.3516214,48.4232835 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251026T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251026T163000 DTSTAMP:20260424T030140 CREATED:20250520T232827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250524T145746Z UID:10000183-1761489000-1761496200@wentworthvilla.com SUMMARY:Ida Pelliccioli DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome Italo-Croatian concert pianist Ida Pelliccioli\, making her Wentworth Villa debut\, on tour from her home base in Paris. She describes her program as “a journey from Spanish keyboard music to the Viennese Classic Style through the work of a forgotten composer – Manuel Blasco de Nebra.”\n  \n\n  \nRecital Program\n\n\n\nD. Scarlatti\n  \n  \n  \nW.A. Mozart\n   \n                                \nSonata in D major K.492\nSonata in G minor K.43\nSonata in C minor K.22\n  \nFantasia and Fugue in C Major K. 394\nFantasia in C minor K. 396 \n\n\n\n  \nIntermission\n\n\n\nM. Blasco de Nebra\n  \n  \n  \nF. Schubert \n                      \n Sonata n°6 in E minor\nSonata n° 1 in C minor\nSonata n°9 in A minor\n \nDrei Klavierstücke D946\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n \nIda Pelliccioli was born in Bergamo\, Italy. She studied at the Nice Conservatoire de Région and at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris – Alfred Cortot in the class of Serguei Markarov\, Unesco Artist for Peace. During her studies\, Ida Pelliccioli was awarded several scholarships\, amongst them\, one from the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation and one from Fondation Albert Roussel. \nIda Pelliccioli participated in number of master-classes\, among others with Jean-Claude Pennetier\, Gerard Wyss and received a double diploma in interpretation and pedagogy\, at the École Normale in Paris. \nShe received artistic guidance from Norma Fisher who teaches at the Royal College of Music in London and she is one of the rare pianists to have received guidance from the cuban concert pianist Jorge Luis Prats. \nIda chose to avoid the international competition circuit and\, before becoming a full-time pianist\, received a double master diploma at the Sorbonne University – in Italian Literature and in Ancient Greek History\, specializing for the latter in the practice of music during the Hellenistic period. \nIda has been performing throughout Europe\, Canada\, Australia and South Africa. In 2024 she has debuted in Sweden\, Lithuania\, Austria\, Iceland and Australia. She has debuted in Singapore and will also play for the first time in Thailand in 2025. During her 2024-2025 Season\, Ida will perform\, among other prestigious venues\, at the National Gallery in London and the Royal Theater and Concert Hall in Nottingham and the Lyceum Club in Florence in collaboration with Amici della Musica di Firenze. \nIda shows a great interest in contemporary music: in 2023 she has performed music by Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora with soprano Joanna Freszel live on French radio – France Musique – in September 2023. \nIda has always been opened to other forms of art and collaborations. She appeared on screen\, playing the role of a pianist\, for the american TV Series “Find me in Paris” – Season 1 and 2 (2017/2018) and the french TV Series “Munch” (2018) and “Le diplôme” (2025).\nIn 2019\, she has been casted to double the role of the pianist in the short movie „Quand on ne sait pas voler” directed by Thomas Keumurian and produced by FILMO. \nIn 2021 Ida also took up a teaching position at Paris Conservatoire du 8ème arrondissement. URL:https://wentworthvilla.com/event/ida-pelliccioli/ LOCATION:Wentworth Villa\, 1156 Fort Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3K8 CATEGORIES:Concerts,Victoria Attractions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://wentworthvilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ida.webp GEO:48.4232835;-123.3516214 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Wentworth Villa 1156 Fort Street Victoria BC V8V 3K8;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1156 Fort Street:geo:-123.3516214,48.4232835 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251005T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251005T163000 DTSTAMP:20260424T030140 CREATED:20250520T214244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T212419Z UID:10000182-1759674600-1759681800@wentworthvilla.com SUMMARY:Eliot Quartett DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming back the award-winning Eliot Quartett\, based in Frankfurt. The group first performed for us in September 2023\, playing a sold-out program of string quartets by Haydn\, Tailleferre\, and Schubert. This time\, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Shostakovich they will play an exciting program of Shostakovich and Beethoven. \n\n  \nRecital Program\nDmitri Shostakovich – Quartet No. 12 in D flat Major for Strings\, Op. 133 \n1. Moderato — Allegretto — Moderato — Allegretto — Moderato\n2. Allegretto — Adagio — Moderato — Adagio — Moderato — Allegretto \nIntermission\nBeethoven: Quartet in A minor\, Op. 132 \nAssai sostenuto – Allegro\nAllegro ma non tanto\nMolto Adagio – Andante Andante – Molto adagio – Andante–Molto adagio.\nAlla Marcia\, assai vivace\nAllegro appassionato – Presto \n  \n\n \nThe Eliot Quartett was founded in 2014 and has become one of the most engaging string quartets of its generation. Hailing from Canada\, Germany and Russia\, the quartet’s members formed the group in Frankfurt am Main and have since gone on to win prizes at major national and international music competitions\, including second prize at both the Mozart International Competition in Salzburg and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition\, the Prize of the German Music Competition as well as three additional special prizes\, and first prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of a piece by Karol Szymanowski at the inaugural International Karol Szymanowski Competition in Katowice\, Poland. \nThe Eliot Quartett has established itself as a cornerstone of the music scene in its hometown of Frankfurt\, Germany. In addition to appearances at the Alte Oper\, the Polytechnische Gesellschaft concert series and the Schumann Gesellschaft\, the Eliot Quartett is a regular guest at the Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt and founded its own festival ‘Eliots am Main’ in 2022. \nThe Eliot Quartett’s concert schedule includes performances at renowned festivals and concerts series throughout Europe. It has performed at the Bachfest Leipzig\, the Kasseler Musiktagen\, the Mozartfest Würzburg\, the Rheingau Musik Festival\, the Shostakovich Tage\, the Festival Musica Sur and Delta Chamber Music Festival in Spain\, the Styriarte in Graz\, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Schubertiade. \nThe four musicians began their chamber music instruction with Prof. Hubert Buchberger and went on to study with Prof. Tim Vogler at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and with Prof. Günter Pichler at the Instituto Internacional de Música de Camera at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. The Eliot Quartett has received valuable musical guidance from Valentin Erben\, Oliver Wille\, Martin Beaver\, and the Mandelring Quartet and enjoys a close working relationship with the esteemed pianist Alfred Brendel and the Belcea Quartet. \nThe Eliot Quartett is named after the American poet T. S. Eliot whose famous work “Four Quartets” was inspired by the innovative late Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven. Eliot\, like Beethoven\, attempted to establish a connection between past\, present and future by breaking away from the accepted classical forms of the time. \nThe Eliot Quartett has released several recordings on GENUIN classics. URL:https://wentworthvilla.com/event/eliot-quartett/ LOCATION:Wentworth Villa\, 1156 Fort Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3K8 CATEGORIES:Concerts,Victoria Attractions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://wentworthvilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/elliot.webp GEO:48.4232835;-123.3516214 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Wentworth Villa 1156 Fort Street Victoria BC V8V 3K8;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1156 Fort Street:geo:-123.3516214,48.4232835 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR