Debut Atlantic Launches 35th Anniversary Season
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 9th, 2014
HALIFAX, NS – Celebrating 35 years of ‘bringing extraordinary classical music home,’ Debut Atlantic is pleased to begin the 2014/15 touring season and celebrate our incredible sponsor and funding partners.
The 2014/15 season kick’s off on September 12th at PEI’s Indian River Festival with the eclectic group Constantinople. Known for their cross fertilization of musical genres from Mediterranean Europe to the East and New World Baroque, this opening concert will also feature a short performance by Debut Atlantic’s 2014 Award for Musical Excellence recipient pianist Vivian Ni from Fredericton, NB. Constantinople will also perform on September 19th for the Moncton Community Concert Association in Moncton NB and on September 20th for the Mount Allison Performing Arts Series in Sackville, NB (complete details attached). The artists will also visit schools in Nova Scotia and participate in a Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation video-conference with students from around Newfoundland and Labrador on Thursday, September 18 at 11:30am AT/12:00pm NT. A live webcast of this event can be viewed at: http://www.cdli.ca/backstage
October brings the striking sounds of Trio Lajoie, a young piano trio from Quebec featuring Ariane Lajoie (violin), Julie Hereish (cello), and Akiko Tominaga (piano). In November, the delightful collaboration between Lebanese-Canadian soprano Miriam Khalil, mezzo-soprano Lauren Segal, and Acadian pianist Julien LeBlanc is sure to enchant audiences across the region. February welcomes the elegant combination of harp and violin with Duo Milot-Bareil with young Québec harpist, Valérie Milot and violinist Antoine Bareil. Debut Atlantic’s season will wrap up with dynamic, Nova Scotia native, pianist Lucas Porter. Atlantic Canadian audiences will be treated to one of Mr. Porter’s own compositions as a part of his Debut Atlantic program.
Founded 35 years ago in 1979, Debut Atlantic’s first season featured then-emerging and still-unknown artists – pianist Jon Kimura Parker, tenor Ben Heppner, as well as Canada’s Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik who will be welcomed back to the maritime provinces with a tour in November 2014. Debut Atlantic is pleased to celebrate its 35 years by partnering with long-time presenter Antigonish Performing Arts Series in presenting Tafelmusik on November 28 at Immaculata Hall on the St. Francis Xavier University Campus.
Debut Atlantic is extremely fortunate to have the support of the public and corporate communities. The consistent and generous support of our partners allows Debut Atlantic to bring extraordinary live music to the entire Atlantic Canadian region. Our continued success would not be possible without the partnership of the following funders and sponsors, committed to the dissemination of excellence in classical music:
Sustaining Partners: Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, the Province of New Brunswick, and Bell Aliant
Educational Partner: Nova Scotia’s Department of Education
Exclusive Tour Sponsor: AVIS
Season Partners:Business for the Arts & Canadian Heritage, Maritime Chiropractic, Pink Larkin, Support 4 Culture, and Westmont Hospitality
Full details on Debut Atlantic’s season can be found at www.DebutAtlantic.ca
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For further information, please contact:
Mhiran Faraday, Executive Director or Erin Sparks, Program Officer
902.429.6812
CONSTANTINOPLE – SEPTEMBER 2014 TOUR DATES
Indian River, Prince Edward Island
7:30pm, Friday September 12th, 2014
Indian River Festival
St. Mary’s Church
Route 104
Tickets: $26/ $24
1-866-856-3733 or music@indianriverfestival.com
indianriverfestival.com
Moncton, New Brunswick
7:30pm, Friday September 19th, 2014
Moncton Community Concert Association
First Church of the Nazarene
21 Fieldcrest Drive
Tickets: $18/ $5 Students
(506)-852-4491 or trysummer@rogers.com
monctonconcerts.googlepages.com
Sackville, New Brunswick
8:00pm, Saturday September 20th, 2014
Mount Allison Performing Arts Series
Brunton Auditorium
134 Main Street
Tickets: $28/ $15
506.364.2662 or performarts@mta.ca
www.mta.ca/performingarts
Constantinople – Biography
Kiya Tabassian, setar
Pierre-Yves Martel, viola da gamba
Didem Başar, kanun
As musician-inventors and musician-travelers, Constantinople aims to make migration and the mixing of cultures their territory. Drawing inspiration from the ancient trailblazing city illuminating East and West, Constantinople, founded in 1998 in Montreal, was conceived as a forum for encounters and cross-fertilization between a wide range of musical avenues: from medieval manuscripts to contemporary aesthetics, from Mediterranean Europe to the East and New World Baroque.
Constantinople is regularly invited to international festivals, where it is acclaimed by the public, music professionals and critics alike. It has performed on many of the world’s major stages, including Salle Pleyel (Paris), the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France), the World Sacred Music Festival of Fez (Morocco), the Festival d’Île de France (Paris), the Onassis Centre (Athens), the Festival de México en el Centro Histórico (Mexico) or the Festival de Lanaudière (Quebec). Alongside its tours around the world, Constantinople presents a successful season of creations and revivals in Montreal every year.
Over the course of the decade, the ensemble has created over 35 works and traveled to nearly 120 cities in 20 countries.