(Posted 9:30
a.m., March 31)
Young
musicians use recital to prepare for upcoming music festival
By Fred Sherwin
Orléans Online
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 Thirteen-year-old
Lindsay White performs 'I Don't Know How To Love Him' from the musical Jesus Christ
Superstar at the Gloucester Music Club concert last Friday night. Fred Sherwin/Photo
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The Gloucester
Music Club held the third and final installment in its annual concert series on
the weekend and the lineup of young musicians who performed was deeper and more
talented than ever.
The
lineup for the Friday night concert was especially strong and varied, largely
due to the fact that many of the performers are in the midst of their final preparations
for the Kiwanis Music Festival which gets underway on April 6.
Besides
the large number of young pianists which usually dominate the Gloucester Music
Club recitals, there were four vocal performances, a violin recital and a recorder
solo.
Nine-year-old
Jeffrey Xia started the concert off with a spirited and mistake free performance
of the "Elephant Tune" by Nina Perry.
Xia
was followed on stage by youngsters Anne-Marie Lafortune and Magalie Labb� who
both played compositions by Nancy Faber. Lafortune chose "Alarm Clock"
for her recital, while Labb� went with "The Haunted Mouse".
Genevi�ve
O'Keefe then performed the lone violin recital of the evening, choosing Bach's
"Minuet in G+" to enchant the audience. She was followed on stage by
Rebecca Atkinson who delivered the first vocal performance of the evening, singing
the melodic "How Could I Ever Know" by Lucy Simon.
Following
a pair of piano recitals by Taneisha Kandiah and �milie Lafortune, young Bethany
Lau wowed the crowd with her rendition of "Madrigal" by Mel Bonis.
After
Lau's impressive performance, six year-old Alice Yang, dressed from head to toe
in pink and red, almost stole the entire show with an amazing performance of "Floating
Clouds" by Last that belied her young age.
Other
highlights of the evening included 11-year-old Meghan Lau's absolutely flawless
performance of Dabelli's "Sonatina in F+", 13-year-old Lindsay White's
vocal performance of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" from the musical
"Jesus Christ Superstar", and Kevin Yang's rendition of Spindler's "Sonatina
in C+". Yang recently scored a 94 on his Royal Conservatory of Music Grade
5 exam.
The
concert was brought to a close by a trio of veteran Gloucester Music Club performers
starting with Danielle Lemieux who sang "The Trees They Grow So High"
which is a British folk song made famous by Sarah Brightman.
Felix
Lu then performed Haydn's "Sonatina in D+", followed by 15-year-old
Rebecca Xu who brought the evening to a close with an incredible performance of
the rather ambitious "Ballade in Ab+" by Chopin.
XU
recently completed her Grade 10 RCM exam and is preparing to take her ARCT exam
next year. She will also be competing in the upcoming Kiwanis Music Festival,
which gets underway next week, along with many of the other musicians who performed
on the weekend.
The
Kiwanis Music Festival brings together the best young musicians and vocalists
from across the region, who then compete for a long list of bursaries and scholarships
that up for grabs.
The
Music Festival is spread out over the course of four weeks with classes held in
12 different venues across the city. The event wraps up with a Highlights Concert
featuring some of the top performers in the various instrumental and vocal categories
on May 14. For more information about the Kiwainis Music Festival visit www.ottawakiwanismusicfestival.com.
Here
is a complete list of Friday night's Gloucester Music Club concert program:
Jeffrey
Xu - "Elephant Tune" by Perry
Anne-Marie Lafortune - "Alarm
Clock" by Faber
Magalie Labb� - "The Haunted Mouse" by Faber
Genevieve
O'Keefe - "Minuet in G+" by Bach
Rebecca Atkinson - "How Could
I Ever Know" by Simon
Taneisha Kandiah - "Struttin" by Norton
�milie
Lafortune - "Inner-City Stomp" by Norton
Bethany Lau - "Mandrigal"
by Bonis
Alice Yang - "Floating Clouds" by Last
Julia Rougeau
- "Matchmaker, matchmaker" by Hornick and Boch
Armin Farhoudi - "Flower
in the Vase" by Ghuanea/Shabazian
Jeremy Xia - "Bour�e in D+"
by Graupner
Meghan Lau - "Sonatina in F+" by Diabelli
Natalie
Du - "Evening in the Village" by Bartok
Catherine Gallagher - "Poetic
Tone Picture" by Grieg
Sara Cowell - "Trotto" trad. 14th Century
Italian
Cynthia Taing - "Sonatina in A-" by Gurlitt
Lindsay White
- "I Don't Know How To Love Him" by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Tiffany Hnatiw
- "Romance" by Kuzmenko
Julia Lemieux - "Mississauga Rag"
by Norton
Kevin Yang - "Sonatina in C+" by Spindler
Oliver Ng
- "Invention No. 1 in C+" by Bach
Trisha Kandiah - "Simple Gifts"
Arr. Hayes
Anieke Walker - Sonatina in C+" by Mozart
Sabra Abdi - "Suite
in G+" by Fiocco
Danielle Lemieux - "The Trees They Grow So High"
Arr. Britten
Felix Lu - "Sonatina in D-" by Haydn
Rebecca Xu -
"Ballade in Ab+" by Chopin
For
more information about the Gloucester Music Club visit www.gloucestermusicclub.ca.
(This
story was made possible thanks to the generous support of
our local business partners.)
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