WELCOME to our 47th / 48th Season of FREE Noon Hour Concerts!
A very exciting season of 22 concerts is ready, featuring many favourite ensembles as well as 9 newcomers.
The half-hour concerts run from 12:15 – 12:45 with lunches ready for pickup in Hilliard Hall from 11:30. Remember to pre-order your lunches by THURSDAY NOON at firstunitedconcerts@gmail.com
The menu offers egg, ham, salmon or tuna on whole wheat bread; butter tart, date or nanaimo square; coffee or tea all for $10. Pickles are FREE! (Cash only please) Separate items may also be purchased. DONATIONS are also very welcome and necessary to allow us to continue. Hard copies of the schedule will be available in the Narthex from September 2nd.
Here's the fall schedule:
Tuesday September 16
Cuore Piano Trio (Poland – next European STARS!)
Zuzanna Budzynska - violin Antoni Orłowski - cello, Szymon Ogryzek – piano
Tuesday September 23
Mary-Catherine Pazzano - singer, Miriam Stewart-Kroeker - cello, Carol Ann Weaver - piano
Tuesday September 30
Juneyt - flamenco guitar
Tuesday October 7
The Ian Whitman Duo
“Jazz and Bossa Nova with a twist!”
Ian Whitman - double bass, Patti Payne - vocals & piano
Tuesday October 14
Autumn Debassige - singer/performer, Kathleen King Martin - piano/pipe organ
Tuesday October 21 (from Kiev)
Alena Buinitskaya - vocals, Petro Churkin - saxophone, Andrew Guerin - electric bass
Andriy Tykhonov - piano
Tuesday October 28
Penderecki String Quartet
Jeremy Bell & Jerzy Kaplanek - violins, Christine Vlajk - viola, Katie Schlaikjer – cello
Tuesday November 4
David Vanbiesbrouck Quartet
David - oboe, Kat Mrmak - violin, Nora Pelerin - viola, Ben Bolt-Martin - cello
Tuesday November 11
“Quartet for the End of Time” (Messaien - composed while incarcerated in a concentration camp)
Jerzy Kaplanek - violin, Peter Shackleton - clarinet, Cathy Anderson - cello,
Beth Ann de Sousa - piano
Tuesday November 18
Larry Larson - trumpet, Lori Gemmell - harp
Tuesday November 25
Kestral Quartet
Nora Pellerin & Rebecca Diderrich – violins, Allene Chomyn – viola,
Miriam Stewart-Kroeker- cello