Music At Wentworth Villa – 2024/2025
We are excited to announce our 2024/25 season of Music At Wentworth Villa! Once again, we are fortunate to have booked top-notch performers. Please consider joining us for all seven concerts by purchasing a Season Pass, which affords a $40 saving. Any remaining tickets to individual concerts will be available for purchase on our website from September 1st. As in previous seasons, performances are on Sunday afternoons, starting at our regular time of 2:30 pm, except for our Christmas concert, which is on a Saturday afternoon.
We will be following our established format of two 35-minute halves, with a 20-minute intermission. Our performers will introduce their programs as they go, and there will be a chance to ask questions in a short Q and A at the end of the concert, after the encores.
Many thanks to our sponsors Burkett & Co. for their support, and to Tom Lee Music for loaning us the beautiful piano. Please support Music At Wentworth Villa and please pass on the link to your friends! We look forward to welcoming you back to Wentworth Villa in October.
– Sarah Fryer, Artistic Director, Music At Wentworth Villa
Venner Quartet
– SUNDAY, October 20TH AT 2:30 PM
This exciting, newly-formed quartet is comprised of extremely experienced players, three of whom have already played in our series, and one who is making their Wentworth Villa debut! They will present an uplifting program to begin our new season with works by Zemlinsky, Schubert, Dvorak, and Piazzolla.
Joan Blackman (violin), Paule Prefontaine (violin), David Stewart (viola), Amy Laing (cello)
Songs for Tenor and Piano
– SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17th AT 2:30 PM
Tenor Benjamin Butterfield and collaborative pianist Robert Holliston return by popular request to present Robert Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe Op. 48, and Winter Words Op. 52 by Benjamin Britten
Octet Victoria – Christmas at Wentworth Villa
– SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7TH AT 2:30 PM
Experience some well-loved familiar, and less familiar Christmas choral music performed by an ensemble of eight exciting, young professional singers!
Shoko Inoue, Piano
– SUNDAY, JANUARY 19th, 2025, AT 2:30 PM
Celebrate the New Year with prize-winning concert pianist Shoko Inoue. Shoko returns to Wentworth Villa with a program of Faure, Mozart, and the great Liszt Sonata in B minor.
Duo Concertante – Romancing the Rock
– SUNDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 2025 AT 2:30 PM
The long-established and highly renowned JUNO-winning Duo Concertante will present a program of works for violin and piano by Beethoven, Maier, Franck, and a newly commissioned work by Canadian composer Luis Ramirez.
Nancy Dahn (violin), Timothy Steeves (piano)
Penderecki Quartet
– SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH, 2025 AT 2:30 PM
Celebrating their 36th anniversary, the JUNO award-winning Quartet in Residence at Wilfred Laurier University will play a program to include quartets by Brahms, Debussy, and a newly commissioned work by Canadian composer Peter Hatch.
Jeremy Bell (violin), Jerzy Kalanek (violin), Christine Vlajik (viola), Katie Schlaikjer (cello)
Galavanting Through Europe
– SUNDAY, MAY 25TH, 2025 AT 2:30 PM
An uplifting program of baroque works to celebrate the joy of springtime, given by a trio of top baroque specialists.
Christi Meyers (violin), Chloe Meyers (violin), Alexander Weimann (harpsichord)