- November 11, 2024 | 2:00PM & 5:00PM
- St. Andrew’s-Wesley United
Shadows Into Dawn
Join us for a beloved community tradition that offers boundless and borderless musical visions of peace in response to the bitter costs of war.
-
Tina Chang, piano
Described as a "scintillating player" (Opera Wire) whose "...pianism was a wonder," (Opera Canada), pianist and coach Tina Chang is currently on the music staff at Vancouver Opera, and recently at Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland. Based in Vancouver, she has been involved with various arts organizations, including Arts Club Theatre, Chor Leoni, Sound the Alarm Music Theatre, City Opera, and Against the Grain Theatre. She holds her own private studio, and has held adjunct positions at University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University. Find out more about Tina at www.TinaChangPiano.ca.
-
Katherine Evans, trumpet
Praised for her “solo work of exceptional quality” by the Boston Globe, Katherine Evans is in her fifth season as principal trumpet of the Newport Symphony in Newport, OR. She previously held principal trumpet positions and appeared as a soloist with several regional symphonies around Boston, MA. In Vancouver, Ms. Evans can be heard primarily as a soloist and freelancer. She appears with Turning Point Ensemble, the Vancouver Brass Orchestra, and OneTwoTrio, and has been featured in multiple recital series including those at Holy Rosary Cathedral, St. Andrews-Wesley, and UBC. She is recorded on the Centuar, Chéldar, and Albany labels.
-
Marie-Claire Saindon
Marie-Claire Saindon is a Franco-Ontarian choral composer with a penchant for vivid imagery and a great affinity for setting text. Her experience while studying music at McGill University and Université de Montréal ranges from accompanying dancers, to scoring films, to fiddling in a team of folk musicians on a historical steam train. Based in Montreal as composer-in-residence for Chœur Adleisia, she runs creative choral/vocal composition workshops, scores films, and teaches fiddle. Recipient of multiple composition prizes, her choral works are published with Boosey & Hawkes, Hal Leonard, Cypress Choral Music, and her film scores can be found on documentaries hosted by CBC Gem and Radio-Canada.
-
Roydon Tse
Dr. Roydon Tse (1991) is an award-winning composer and educator who seeks to communicate with listeners from all backgrounds. His music, for orchestral, vocal and chamber forces, have been commissioned & performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Esprit Orchestra, the Atlanta Opera, Verona Quartet, & members of the Minnesota, Paris Opera and La Scala Orchestras, among others. Born in Hong Kong, Roydon was a teaching artist for the Canadian Opera Company and is a resident faculty for the Lunenburg Composition Academy in Nova Scotia. He completed his D.M.A at the University of Toronto and lives in Calgary, Alberta.
-
John Pamintuan
John August Pamintuan is a renowned Philippine conductor, composer, singer, clinician, and adjudicator. Since 2007, John is recognized by the American Federation of Musicians as an artist of sustained international acclaim. As a conductor he has given workshops, performed in concerts, and won in competitions in Asia, Europe, and North America. As a singer, he has sung in solo recitals at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and Moscow Glinka Hall. As a composer, John was awarded the composition prize in Tours (France), Tokyo (Japan) and has written around 450 pieces which have been performed by choirs from 30 countries.
-
Adam Podd
Adam Podd is a Vermont-bred, Brooklyn-based music director, pianist, organist, bassist, composer and arranger. He has worked with some of the top artists and organizations in his field including The National Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Pops, New York Pops, Houston Symphony, Idina Menzel, Megan Hilty, Darlene Love, James Monroe Iglehart, Frankie Moreno, Stephen Kellogg, Milton Delugg, Macy’s Entertainment and The Young People’s Chorus of New York City in such venues as Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Symphony Space, New World Stages, and others.
-
Henrik Dahlgren
Henrik Dahlgren, born in 1991, is an award-winning Swedish composer. He began his musical education at the Malmö Academy of Music, where he studied under the guidance of Professor Rolf Martinsson. He then continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London and the University of Aberdeen, where he studied with the highly renowned composer Paul Mealor. Henrik initially started his career as a drummer but soon traded his drumsticks for a composer's pen. Since then, he has worked in various musical genres and styles, both as a musician and a composer. Henrik's primary focus is choral music, and he has gained recognition for his work with ensembles such as the Vocal Art Ensemble of Sweden, VoNo, USC Thornton Chamber Singers, San Diego Master Chorale, Pro Coro Canada, John Bauer Brass, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, and the US Air Force Academy Band, as well as prominent british ensembles Voces8 and Apollo5.
-
Don Macdonald
Don Macdonald (born 1966) is an internationally recognized composer of film and choral music, and he has an eclectic musical background as a performer, producer, and educator. His diverse body of work spans music for theatre and dance, published choral works, and forays into everything from rock and jazz to world and folk music. A multiple Canadian Film Awards nominee and 3-time Leo Award winner, he has over 50 film music credits and has worked with many of the major studios including 20th Century Fox and Lions Gate Films. His orchestral score to the cult classic zombie film “Fido” won him the award for Best Soundtrack” at the Gerardmer Film Festival in France. A multi-instrumentalist, Don has performed professionally on saxophone, violin, and voice. His deep connection to choral music, cultivated from a young age, permeates his compositions, with highlights such as the two-hour opera “KHAOS,” the Da Capo Chamber Choir New Works Competition winner “Tabula Rasa,” and the six-movement piece “High Flight,” commissioned by Chor Leoni during his three-year tenure as composer in residence. His choral works have been performed and recorded by many fine ensembles all over the world including Rajaton (Finland), the Vancouver Chamber Choir (Can), the Luther College Nordic Choir (USA), Cantus (USA), and Papagena (UK).
-
Ēriks Ešenvalds
Ēriks Ešenvalds is one of the most sought-after composers working today, with a busy commission schedule and performances of his music heard on every continent. Born in Priekule, Latvia in 1977, he studied at the Latvian Baptist Theological Seminary (1995–97) before obtaining his Master’s degree in composition (2004) from the Latvian Academy of Music under the tutelage of Selga Mence. He took master-classes with Michael Finnissy, Klaus Huber, Philippe Manoury, and Jonathan Harvey, amongst others. From 2002–11 he was a member of the State Choir Latvija. In 2011 he was awarded the two-year position of Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. As of 2022 he serves as Head of the Department of Composition at the Latvian Academy of Music, where he has been teaching since 2004. He is married with four children.