Music Across the Nook is again to supply chamber music in uncommon areas, with two performances on December 27 and 28. The live shows spotlight the music of Canadian composers, together with a piece from the group’s Name for Scores.
This system for each live shows contains new and up to date works, alongside a beloved work from the classical repertoire:
- Francis Malka: Quatuor 1
- Reena Esmail: String Quartet “Ragamala”
- Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Main
Performers
Emma Meinrenken, Violinist, Co-Director
Canadian violinist Emma Meinrenken earned a Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music and Grasp’s diploma from Yale. She is the recipient of Yale’s Presser Basis Graduate Music Award. She has gained a number of worldwide awards, together with first place on the Stradivarius Worldwide Violin Competitors and the Prix Ravel on the Ecole d’Artwork Américaines de Fontainebleau. Emma has carried out at a number of festivals internationally, together with the NUME Competition in Italy, Norfolk Music Competition, Verbier Competition, Krzyżowa Music Competition, and the 4 Seasons Winter Workshop. She made her orchestral debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on the age of ten, and has carried out as a soloist with many others over her profession, together with most not too long ago the Richmond Symphony. She has premiered compositions that had been devoted to her, together with her Carnegie Corridor debut performing a bit by Fred Lerdahl. Emma is presently pursuing a doctorate diploma at CUNY. She performs on the 1717 Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius, on mortgage from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Lynn Sue-A-Quan, Violist, Co-Director
A local of Toronto, violist Lynn Sue-A-Quan is presently a member of the Jacksonville Symphony. Lynn earned each an undergraduate and grasp’s diploma at The Juilliard Faculty. She has labored with a number of orchestras throughout North America as a soloist, together with the Aspen Music Competition Orchestra, Niagara Symphony, Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and Oakville Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. She has additionally carried out at a number of music festivals, together with the Lucerne Music Competition, Tanglewood Music Middle and Verbier Competition, and she or he is a founding member of the Toronto-based chamber music collective Music Across the Nook. Lynn can also be a passionate educator in her non-public studio, and she or he was a recipient of the Morse Instructing Artists Fellowship at Juilliard, the place she taught college students in New York Metropolis.
Diane Kim, Violinist
Korean-Canadian violinist Diane Dahyeon Kim has an lively worldwide profession. She carried out within the Nationwide Youth Orchestra in 2022 and 2023, the place she obtained the Stephen Sitarski Management Award and served as a Co-Concertmaster. In 2019, she was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Competition and was additionally a substitute violinist on the Millenium Symphony in Seoul, South Korea, the SFK Euro Symphony and the Kärnten Symphony Orchester in Klagenfurt, Austria. Diane made her orchestral debut with the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. She is a graduate of the Glenn Gould Faculty, the place she earned a Bachelor of Music diploma, and subsequently obtained her grasp’s diploma on the Gustav Mahler Privat Universität. Diane is presently pursuing an Artist Diploma program on the Glenn Gould Faculty.
Joanne Yesol Choi, Cellist
Korean-Canadian cellist Joanne Yesol Choi relies in Toronto, the place she pursues a profession in chamber music and training. She is the recipient of the 2025 Canada Council’s Virginia Parker Award, and was named as one among CBC’s 30 Beneath 30 Canadian Musicians. Joanne is a founding member of the award-winning Dior Quartet, and with them, she has toured and carried out on many outstanding levels worldwide. She leads Solegio Arts and the Artwork of 4 Chamber Music Program, two initiatives that advance accessibility, illustration, and innovation inside the realm classical music.
The Concert events
December 27: Youthful Vengeance
The live performance takes place at Youthful Vengeance, 1110 Dundas St W, at 7:30 p.m.
There shall be a sight studying occasion after the live performance, a relaxed jam session the place musicians come collectively to play by way of scores on the spot. Anybody can take part, and composers are inspired to carry items for the musicians to learn by way of.
- Discover tickets and live performance particulars [HERE].
December 28: Glad Day Lit
The live performance takes place at Glad Day Lit’s new location on 32 Lisgar St at 2 p.m.
- Discover tickets and live performance particulars [HERE].
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