February - Nr. 2
Art of Time Ensemble’s Songbook
Featuring STEVEN PAGE
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Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 8 PM
Toronto, ON -
Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Steven Page performs
his favourite songs with Toronto’s
Art of Time Ensemble
on Thursday, March 4,
8pm at
Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory’s TELUS Centre for Performance
and Learning. The concert is part of a 12-city tour in
support of A Singer Must
Die, a new CD featuring the Art of Time Ensemble with Steven Page,
available February 16, on the Toronto-based label Pheromone
Recordings.
The concert (and album) includes songs originally performed by
Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Jane Siberry, Paul Simon, Rufus
Wainwright, Radiohead, and others, in fresh new arrangements
created by composer-musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz and
classical music, including such Canadian talents as Gavin
Bryars, Glen Buhr, Rob Carli, Phil Dwyer, Kevin Fox, Jonathan
Goldsmith, Jim McGrath, and Cameron Wilson. The live program
will also feature Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor for Violin
and Piano.
Toronto-based musician
Steven Page has long been
admired for his dynamic, physically exuberant performances,
powerful tenor, quick wit and songwriting styles that span the
gamut between humour and pathos. Perhaps best known as founding
member, lead singer and principle songwriter of the music group
Barenaked Ladies, who
collectively have sold nearly 15 million albums worldwide, Page began his solo
endeavours in 2005 with an album titled
The Vanity Project, a
co-writing partnership with musician Stephen Duffy (Tin Tin),
and more officially, upon leaving Barenaked Ladies and
contributing music for a theatre production which debuted at the
Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2009.
A Singer Must Die is Page’s first post-BNL release, preceding a solo
album to be released later in 2010.
Steven Page joins Art of Time Ensemble musicians which feature
some of Canada’s finest jazz and classical players:
Andrew Burashko
(piano/Artistic Director),
Benjamin Bowman
(violin), Rob Carli
(sax), Amy Laing
(cello), Joe Phillips
(bass), and Rob Piltch
(guitar).
Art of Time Ensemble
was formed in 1998 by pianist
Andrew Burashko and
has steadily grown in reputation as an ensemble that undertakes
and delivers programs that are at once thought provoking and
compelling. Committed to finding new ways of blending classical
music with other genres as well as other art forms including
theatre and dance, Art of Time Ensemble has presented over
twenty programs through the years – each uniquely different in
theme and content.
This concert is presented by The Corporation of Massey Hall and
Roy Thomson Hall in association with The Royal Conservatory. |
