BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250502T215519EDT-9126veagpE@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250503T015519Z DESCRIPTION:Programme\n\nAlexis Hauser\, conductor\n Alexey Shafirov\, piano \, winner of the 2024–2025 Classical Concerto Competition\n Jesse Maker\, c omposer\, winner of the 2022–2023 Andrew Svoboda Composition Award\n\nJESS E MAKER Sun Shower (premiere)\n WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major\, K 467\n PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F Minor\ , Opus 36\n\n\n Tickets are available online\, at the Salle Pierre-Mercure Box Office.\n\n \n Programme Notes\n\n Sun Shower is inspired by the powerful \, rapidly changing weather I have experienced while living in the scrubla nd of Northern Texas. In the late spring\, temperature swings between the day and night often span 20 degrees Celsius\, as intense sun-baked heat is broken by velvety mists of rain – or torrential thunderstorms and tornado s. Sun Shower takes advantage of the orchestra’s huge variety of color to create a soundworld of ever-shifting intensity. Reedy brightness is engulf ed in blurry shadows\; re-emerges as powerful brassiness\; is engulfed aga in\; and so on\, in perpetually changing cycles of dark and light\, clarit y and blurriness\, dullness and resonance.\n\n Jesse Maker is a writer and composer writing and composing in Arlington\, Texas. His music is characte rized by its breathless intensity. Dr. Maker's music has been performed in New York\, Chicago\, Philadelphia\, Boston\, Ann Arbor\, Montreal\, Italy \, and Germany\, by ensembles such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra\, Ta k\, Ensemble L’arsenale\, AndPlay\, and Departure Duo.\n Long-term composit ional projects include music for speaking instrumentalists and the develop ment of a Wordmusic notation\, straddling the border between sound poetry and music. In addition to his compositional activities\, Jesse actively en gages in research into linguistic and semiotic models for composing music\ ; meaning in music\; and conceptions of sense and nonsense.\n Dr. Maker is on faculty at the University of Texas\, Arlington where he teaches composi tion and music theory. He holds degrees from ɬÀï·¬\, Bowling G reen State University\, and Oberlin College and Conservatory.\n\n Alexey Sh afirov was born in Ulan-Ude\, Russia\, and moved to Israel at the age of s ix\, where he began his piano studies under the guidance of Mrs. Inna Lern er. After five years of deep involvement in software development\, he deci ded to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the Jerusalem Ac ademy\, where he studied with Yaron Rosenthal and Eitan Globerson. Alexey holds a Master's degree in piano performance from the Schulich School of M usic of ɬÀï·¬\, where he is now pursuing a doctorate under the tutelage of Michael McMahon and Ilya Poletaev. Alexey has won several pri zes in solo piano competitions\, including both Piano Concerto Competition s at ɬÀï·¬ in 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Alongside his solo achi evements\, collaboration with vocalists remains central to his artistic pa th. A graduate of the prestigious ɬÀï·¬-UdeM Piano-Vocal Arts Residency\, he has learned from the leading experts in vocal music. Alexey has accomp anied numerous award-winning vocalists in competitions both in Israel and Canada\, including Sara Schabas\, with whom he participated in the Franz-S chubert Institute in Austria\, performing for some of the world's foremost interpreters of the German Lied. Alexey has been generously supported by scholarships from America-Israel Cultural Foundation\, Younes & Soraya Naz arian Family Foundation\, and Jenny Panitch Beckow Memorial Foundation.\n \n DTSTART:20250405T233000Z DTEND:20250406T013000Z LOCATION:Salle Pierre-Mercure\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H2X 3X6\, Centre Pierr e-Péladeau\, 300\, boul De Maisonneuve Est SUMMARY:ɬÀï·¬ Symphony Orchestra URL:/music/channels/event/mcgill-symphony-orchestra-35 9247 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR