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SUMMARY:Ménestrel
DESCRIPTION:We are happy to welcome Janelle Luckyk\, soprano and violin\, and Kerry Bursey\, tenor and lute. Based in Nova Scotia\, this popular duo will offer “In the Garden’s Folly” Here is how they describe their program: \n“Drawing inspiration from the English tradition of the Follies: those elegant\, ornamental pavilions found within landscape gardens\, where sitters could admire the surrounding decorative greens\, evoking both harmony and tempered wild beauty. Ménestrel has curated a program of Elizabethan airs\, French baroque from the court of Versailles\, paired with ballads and crystalline melodies that bring you into a sonic dreamworld celebrating all the colour and elegance of this ornate musical era!” \n  \n\n  \nRecital Program\n\n\n\nFarewell\, dear love\nPastime with good company\nÀ la claire fontaine\nMa bergère\nEn montant la rivière\nVos mépris chaque jour\nLove’s Constancy (Chaconne)\nSe l’aura spira\n                                \nRobert Jones (c. 1577–1617)\nHenry VIII (1491–1547)\nTraditional\nMichel Lambert (1610–1696)\nTraditional\nMichel Lambert (1610–1696)\nNicholas Lanier (1588–1666)\nGirolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)\n\n\n\n  \nIntermission\n\n\n\nJ’avois cru qu’en vous aymant\nÔ combien est heureuse\nMille regretz\nSi jamais mon âme blessée\nSi dolce è’l tormento\nLe doux silence\nFear an Bhàta (The Boatman)\nCan she excuse my wrongs\nCome again\n                                \nAnonymous (fl. 17th century)\nAdrian Le Roy (c. 1520–1598)\nJosquin des Prez (c. 1450–1521)\n Pierre Guédron (c. 1565–1620)\nClaudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)\nHonoré D’Ambruys (17th century)\nTraditional\nJohn Dowland (1563–1626)\nJohn Dowland (1563–1626)\n\n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n \nJanelle Lucyk is a leader among an emerging generation of Canadian artists specializing in old music and historically informed performance\, taking ideas from conception to the stage. \nJanelle is the artistic director of Ménestrel\, her ensemble with Kerry Bursey which produces alternative early music mixing ancient repertoire with oral folk traditons. In Since 2022\, Ménestrel has been producing a “Messiah-on-the-go!” congregating twenty emerging performers from across Canada to perform Handel’s masterpiece in historic Nova Scotian venues. Janelle is director of the new series ArtChoral at La Grande Salle du 9e\, the recently reopened historic Art Deco venue in Montreal. Following mentor and arts champion Barbara Butler\, Janelle is Artistic and Administrative Director of Musique Royale (est. 1985)\, a music presenter based in Lunenburg\, Nova Scotia which enriches historic spaces through the sharing of world class early music\, and much more. Programming includes over seventy concerts through the year in venues across the spectacular maritime province. \nWith well over a hundred concerts given in 2024\, Janelle performed and toured in all of Canada’s thirteen provinces and territories last year\, with many additional workshops\, masterclasses and outreach events shared. In the summer Ménestrel was in residency in Europe for concerts\, recording and outreach. \nIn fall 2022\, Janelle was invited by legendary organist Xaver Varnus to perform at his two sold out performances in Hungary\, including at the spectacular Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest. She has had the good fortune of working as a soloist with the Kings College Chapel Choir under five-time Grammy winner Paul Halley on many unforgettable concerts including Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and Selva Morale e Spirituale and multiple Bach Passions. Janelle graduated in 2014 with distinction from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Belgium and completed her Masters in Management at Durham University in the UK where she was awarded the Best Soloist by Music Durham\, and Best Female Soloist by her peers. While in Europe\, she formed Voces Desuper\, an ensemble performing regularly in the magnificent Cathédrale de Saints-Michel-et-Gudule\, and especially at the Te Deum ceremony for the King and Queen of Belgium. \nJanelle is ever grateful to the Canada Council of the Arts\, the Federal Department of Canadian Heritage\, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec\, Mécénat Musica\, Arts Nova Scotia and Brent Rinaldi for their support. \n  \n\n \nKerry Bursey is a Canadian tenor and plucked string instrumentalist from Montréal. An early music specialist and a versatile singer\, he is acclaimed for his “clear voice\, made of dreamy troubadouresque sweetness” (Ôlyrix) and “beneficent tenderness” (Le Temps). He is a sought-after lutenist and guitarist\, notably invested in self-accompaniment\, from lute songs to folk music. Recently\, he made his European debut as a soloist at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence\, Manchester International Festival\, Bregenzerfestspieler and the Southbank Centre. In 2024\, he will sing at the Muzikgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Ruhrtriennale. \nHe regularly works as a soloist with early music groups such as Ensemble Caprice\, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal\, Harmonie des Saisons\, Theatre of Early Music\, les Idées Heureuses\, la Nef\, Pallade Musica\, Infusion Baroque and Clavecin en Concert. He tours internationally with his ensemble\, Ménestrel\, co-founded with soprano Janelle Lucyk. He is a member of Quartom\, the leading classical vocal quartet in Québec. \nKerry is frequently hired as a session musician and creative collaborator because of his broad musical output\, from pop to video games. He composed and performed the soundtrack of award-winning thriller\, 444\, which premiered at Fantasia Festival\, and worked on the sci-fi movie Mistral Spatial. He frequently works with Ubisoft and notably sang gregorian chants as a monk in the game Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. \nKerry holds a masters’s degree in classical guitar from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and has studied voice performance at McGill University. He was a winner at the 2011 Grand Prix de Guitare de Montréal.
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LOCATION:Wentworth Villa\, 1156 Fort Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3K8
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SUMMARY:Peter Cotton: A Life in Design
DESCRIPTION:join us for a weekend of offerings celebrating the wide-ranging life and career of Victoria architect\, furniture designer and heritage restorationist Peter Cotton (1918-78). Held in conjunction with the Victoria Design Festival\, we will be presenting both an exhibit and a panel discussion about this seminal figure in our local design history. \nOn Sunday May 3rd\, join Wentworth Villa Curator Ben Clinton-Baker and design historian Allan Collier for a discussion about Cotton’s fascinating life and work. The speakers will focus on different aspects of Cotton’s career\, from his early days as a modernist furniture designer in Vancouver and Victoria to his pioneering work in restoring and preserving iconic buildings such as Craigflower Manor\, Emily Carr House\, and many others in Victoria. \n 
URL:https://wentworthvilla.com/event/peter-neve-cotton/
LOCATION:Wentworth Villa\, 1156 Fort Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3K8
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SUMMARY:Mahara Woodlands
DESCRIPTION:Title Search: Four Families at Mahara Woodlands\, 1925-2025\nRichard Mackie explores the tenure\, architecture\, and inhabitants of a house on Tsehum Harbour in North Saanich known as Mahara Woodlands — Mahara being a Maori word meaning “memory” or “recollection.” The four owners include the daughter of an English baronet\, a silent film actor\, a decorated captain of the North Atlantic run\, and an eminent zoologist. Mackie\, who has made contact with all four families\, shares their remarkable stories that were enacted\, sometimes literally\, on the stage of Mahara Woodlands. \nBC Historian Richard Somerset Mackie has an honours MA in mediaeval and modern history from the University of St. Andrews. He is the publisher of the British Columbia Review.
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SUMMARY:An Artist in Chinatown
DESCRIPTION:“From 1976 until about 1990 I was part of the art community which grew up in Victoria’s Chinatown. A combination of the colourful streetscapes and the fascinating crew of creative people who made it their home provided me with great subject matter for my paintings and my writing in the Times-Colonist. I’ll share lots of pictures and stories to help you remember those wonderful days.” \nRobert Amos grew up in Toronto and discovered Victoria in 1975. His day job at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria merged nicely with the night-life in the studios of Fisgard Street. Since 1981 he has made it his goal to document Victoria\, beginning with our unique Chinatown. Documenting the architecture of our town in words and pictures he has published a dozen books on the subject. In recent years he has become the official biographer of artist E. J. Hughes. Amos was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the University of Victoria. You can learn more about him at robertamos.com.
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SUMMARY:Sara Davis Buechner
DESCRIPTION:We are so happy to welcome back Sara\, who gave our very first concert at the newly opened Wentworth Villa Architectural Heritage Museum\, on May 15th\, 2016. Ten years later\, she returns with an exciting program of Handel\, Mozart\, and Chopin\, as well as a set of colourful Spanish pieces by Federico Longás. We can guarantee that the afternoon will end\, just as it did in 2016\, with virtuosic fireworks!\n  \n\n  \nRecital Program\n\n\n\nMinuet from “Berenice”\n     transcription by Mieczyslaw Münz\n \nSonata in E flat major KV. 282\n     Adagio\n     Menuetto I – Menuetto II\n     Allegro\n \nBallade no. 3 in A flat major op. 47\nPrélude in A flat major op. post.\nWaltz in A flat major op. 69 no. 1\nIntroduction and Rondo in E flat major op. 16\n                     \nG.F. Händel (1685 – 1759)\n \n \nWolfgang Mozart (1756 – 1791)\n \n \n \n \nFrédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)\n \n \n \n\n\n\n  \nIntermission\n\n\n\nFive Spanish Pieces\n     Bulerias (Danza Ibérica)\n     Un Sueño en Granada\n     Guajira\n     Catalana (Impresión Española)\n     Aragón\n \nRhapsody in Blue\n     solo arrangement by the composer\n                                               \nFederico Longás (1893 – 1964)\n \n \n \n \n \n \nGeorge Gershwin (1898 – 1937)\n \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n \nNoted for her musical command\, cosmopolitan artistry\, and visionary independence\, Sara Davis Buechner is one of the most original concert pianists of our time. Lauded for her “intelligence\, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times)\, “thoughtful artistry in the full service of music” (Washington Post)\, and “astounding virtuosity” (Philippine Star)\, Japan’s InTune magazine sums up: “Buechner has no superior.” \nIn her twenties Ms. Buechner earned a bouquet of top prizes at the world’s premiere international piano competitions — Queen Elisabeth (Brussels)\, Leeds\, Mozart (Salzburg)\, Beethoven (Vienna)\, and Sydney. She was a Bronze Medalist of the 1986 Tschaikowsky Competition in Moscow and the Gold Medalist of the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. \nMs. Buechner has performed in every state and province of North America — as recitalist\, chamber musician and soloist with top orchestras like the New York Philharmonic\, San Francisco Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra; and in venues such as Carnegie Hall\, the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl. She has toured throughout Latin and South America and Europe; and she enjoys a special following in Asia\, where she has been a featured soloist with the Sydney Symphony\, New Zealand Philharmonic\, New Japan Philharmonic and Shanghai Philharmonic\, among many others. \nShe has commissioned and premiered important contemporary scores by composers such as Michael Brown\, John Corigliano\, Ray Green\, Dick Hyman\, Vitězslavá Kaprálová\, Jared Miller\, Joaquín Nin-Culmell\, and Yukiko Nishimura. Ms. Buechner’s performance versatility extends to unique collaborations with film and dance (including tours with the Mark Morris Dance Group\, and Japanese kabuki-mime-mask dancer Yayoi Hirano). \nMs. Buechner has released numerous acclaimed recordings of rare piano music by composers such as Rudolf Friml (“a revelation” — The New York Times)\, Dana Suesse\, Joseph Lamb\, Joaquín Turina\, Miklós Rózsa\, and Ferruccio Busoni (including the world première recording of the Bach-Busoni “Goldberg” Variations). Stereophile magazine selected her Gershwin CD as “Recording of the Month\,” and her interpretation of Hollywood Piano Concertos won Germany’s coveted Deutsches Schauplatten Preis. Most recently her recorded traversal of the score to Carl Dreiser’s silent movie classic Master of the House (1925) may be heard on Criterion Collection DVD. \nSara Davis Buechner joined the faculty of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in 2016\, after previously teaching at the Manhattan School of Music\, New York University and the University of British Columbia. She has presented masterclasses and workshops at major pedagogic venues worldwide\, adjudicated important international piano competitions\, and is also a contributing editor for Dover Publications International. In 2017 Ms. Buechner marked her 30th year as a dedicated Yamaha Artist. \nAs a proud transgender woman\, Ms. Buechner also appears as a speaker and performer at important LGBTQ events\, and has contributed interviews and articles about her own experience to numerous media outlets worldwide. \nSara is a dual American-Canadian citizen who makes her home in Philadelphia.
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LOCATION:Wentworth Villa\, 1156 Fort Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3K8
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