Spotlight Concert 1FRIDAY, OCT 26, 3:00 p.m.
McDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Bishop Carroll High School Virtuosi Strings
Edmonton Saxophone Quartet Part of the Alberta Emerging Musicians Festival PerformersBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL VIRTUOSI STRINGS
Bishop Carroll High School has one of the largest music programs in the province of Alberta, with over 350 students involved in Strings, Bands, Choirs, Jazz Band, and wind, brass, percussion and vocal jazz ensembles. The Strings program is comprised of four award-winning ensembles: Ensemble Eruditio, Ensemble Intermezzo, Cantabile Strings and the Virtuosi Strings.
Virtuosi String students are enrolled in private lessons and participate in sectionals and large ensemble rehearsals. Each year, they study with Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra clinicians and Mount Royal University Conservatory faculty, and attend an annual Strings Camp. The Virtuosi Strings consistently attain “Superior” rankings at the Calgary Performing Arts Festival (CPAF), often perform at the Stars of the Festival concert, and are multi-year recipients of the CFAC-TV and Jeanette Sharples awards for top-ranking orchestra. In December 2017, they proudly represented Canada at The Midwest Clinic in Chicago during our country’s sesquicentennial year. A number of students in the ensemble are members of the Calgary Youth Orchestra, the Calgary Fiddlers, and Mount Royal Conservatory’s Academy for the Gifted, Honours & Advanced Performance Programs. Individual ensemble members have garnered numerous prizes and awards as finalists and winners including the Rose Bowl (top CPAF performer), the Frank Simpson Concerto competition, the C3 Concerto competition, the Alberta Provincial Music Festival string solo classes, the Klein International String Competition (San Francisco), the Johansen International Competition (Washington D. C.), the Concertino Praga Competition (Czech Republic), the OSM Manulife Competition (Montreal), the Canadian Music Competition (CMC), and the Canadian National Music Festival (String category and Grand Prize winners.) Each year, Bishop Carroll music students have the opportunity to travel, with recent trips to China, Italy, New York City and Whistler. Graduates of the program have gone on to study music professionally at Berklee, the Barcelona Conservatori Liceu, Bard College, The Glenn Gould School, McGill University, the New England Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Toronto. We look forward to our inaugural performance at Music Conference Alberta! EDMONTON SAXOPHONE QUARTET
The Edmonton Saxophone Quartet has been performing throughout North America for more than twenty-five years, striking a balance championing new works with creative interpretations of more traditional music. Their immediate musicality and warm stage presence have enticed and excited ears in expected (and some unexpected) places, and they have taken a prominent place in Edmonton's cultural fabric. ESQ has commissioned and premiered a number of new works for saxophone quartet from Canadian and international composers and they enjoy frequent support from provincial and national government arts organizations. ESQ’s current membership features instructors of saxophone Alberta's top universities: Allison Balcetis [University of Alberta], Raymond Baril [MacEwan University], Chee Meng Low [University of Lethbridge] and Charles Stolte [The King’s University].
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Spotlight Concert 2SATURDAY, OCT 27, 3:00 p.m.
McDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH John G. Diefenbaker High School Chamber Choir
Roger Admiral, piano, & Guillaume Tardif, violin Part of the Alberta Emerging Musicians Festival PerformersJOHN G. DIEFENBAKER HIGH SCHOOL CHAMBER CHOIR
Laurie Schwartz, conductor 
Ensemble biography coming soon!
ROGER ADMIRAL, pianist
Canadian pianist Roger Admiral performs solo and chamber music repertoire spanning the 18th through the 21st century. He works regularly with New Music Edmonton and Aventa Ensemble (Victoria), and performs as part of Kovalis Duo with Montreal percussionist Philip Hornsey. Roger teaches piano and also coaches contemporary chamber music at the University of Alberta.
Recent performances include György Ligeti's Piano Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the complete piano works of Iannis Xenakis for Vancouver New Music, and recitals for Curto-Circuito de Música Contemporânea Brasil, New Music Concerts (Toronto), Open Space (Victoria), Groundswell (Winnipeg), New Works Calgary, Bradyworks (Montreal), La Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur (Montreal), Franz Liszt Academy (Budapest), University of Debrecen, Kodály Pedagogical Institute (Kecskemét), Music Centre Slovakia (Bratislava), and the Festival of Polish Contemporary Music (Wrocław.) György Ligeti's Piano Concerto with Victoria Symphony conducted by Tania Miller; three cross-Canada tours with Philip Hornsey as part of Kovalis Duo, performing new music for piano and percussion; Sir Ernest MacMillan Award for chamber music, Hammerhead Consort; First Prize in chamber music, CIBC National Music Competition, Hammerhead Consort. B.Mus. (Western); M.Mus., D.Mus. (Alberta). He has released two CDs. GUILLAUME TARDIF, violinist
Guillaume Tardif is Associate Professor of Violin and serves as String Area Coordinator at the Department of Music, University of Alberta. His current research explores various aspects of the history and practice of the violin, and often features new or neglected works - such as Gallois-Montbrun’s accompanied version of Paganini’s 24 Caprices, which he presented with Roger Admiral at Carnegie-Weill Hall. Guillaume Tardif has appeared widely as a violin soloist and guest professor, collaborating with ensembles and distinguished artists in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. He produced a number of CD recordings, violin arrangements, and cadenzas, and led projects such as the Dare to Discover Series with the Enterprise Quartet and the SSHRC-sponsored Genius of the Violin video-documentary.
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