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THE EXQUISITE BACH VIOLINJAMES EHNES, VIOLIN

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 , 2020 AT 7:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

Join Grammy and JUNO award-winning violinist James Ehnes in a beautiful concert dedicated to the music for violin by Johann Sebastian Bach. The music of the first and second partitas for violin is virtuosic, soul searching, and performed with the necessity for complete humility and beauty in its expression. Named as “a violinist in a class of his own” by the London Times, James Ehnes is a Canadian violinist of international acclaim, gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism, and an unfaltering musicality.

BACH ODYSSEY FINALEANGELA HEWITT, PIANOSATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2020 AT 7:00 PMCarleton Dominion Chalmers Centre in Ottawa in collaboration with Ottawa Chamberfest

Angela Hewitt concludes her epic four-year Bach Odyssey with The Art of the Fugue. Do not miss the celebratory ending of this monumental project! Canada’s world-renowned classical pianist Angela Hewitt has inhabited the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the Bach Odyssey, showcasing her prowess as an interpreter of Bach’s piano music in a series of concerts presented around the world. In this ambitious project, she has performed Bach’s complete piano works in Ottawa, London, New York, Tokyo, and Florence, receiving rave reviews and securing her place as arguably the world’s chief interpreter of Bach’s piano music.

BEAUTIFUL BACH CONCERTOSTORONTO BACH FESTIVAL SUNDAY MATINEE, NOVEMBER 1, 2020 AT 2:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

Join us for a celebration of some of Bach’s greatest concertos, including the amazing Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, with Toronto’s top baroque musicians. Revel in the Bach Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043, Concerto for oboe in G minor, after BWV 1056, and more. Toronto Bach Festival illuminates the creative genius of western music’s preeminent composer through exhilarating, historically-informed, and innovative performances.

BAROQUESERIESConcerts available for purchase on September 14th.

ANGELA HEWITT

TORONTO BACH FESTIVAL

JAMES EHNES

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BEETHOVEN “TO THE DISTANT BELOVED”RUSSELL BRAUN, BARITONE CAROLYN MAULE, PIANO

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2020 AT 7 PMCarleton Dominion Chalmers Centre in Ottawa in collaboration with Ottawa Chamberfest

Renowned Canadian baritone Russell Braun and pianist Carolyn Maule share the stage for an intimate recital, exploring themes of separation, isolation, reunification, and rebirth, centred around Beethoven’s song cycle, “An die Ferne Geliebte” (“To the Distant Beloved”).

RESILIENCE AND REBIRTHGRYPHON TRIO WITH JAMAAL JACKSON ROGERSTUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020 AT 7:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

The myth of the Phoenix is explored, as well as the notion of rebuilding after world upheaval, such as the current pandemic that we all find ourselves in. Find beauty in Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel, The Angel Series by Astor Piazzolla, Beethoven’s Archduke Trio, and more. The Gryphon Trio is joined by the award-winning Ottawa poet laureate Jamaal Jackson Rogers.

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITIONSTEWART GOODYEAR, PIANO SUNDAY MATINEE, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 AT 2:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

Proclaimed “a phenomenon” by the Los Angeles Times and “one of the best pianists of his generation” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished Canadian pianist who has performed with major orchestras around the world. With his great imagination, Stewart Goodyear takes us to the Great Gates of Kiev and beyond with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. Imagine the magnificent sound of this music on the Isabel’s new Joan Tobin Hamburg Steinway piano!

THE VIRTUOSO WINNERS BRYAN CHENG, CELLOYOLANDA BRUNO, VIOLINWITH SYLVIE CHENG, PIANO

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020 AT 7:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

Virtuosi Extraordinaire! Bryan Cheng, winner of the 2020 Bader and Overton Canadian Cello Competition and Yolanda Bruno, winner of the 2017 Isabel Overton Bader Canadian Violin Competition join pianist Sylvie Cheng for an evening chamber music that includes the beautiful Brahms Trio in B major and more!

CLASSICALSERIESConcerts available for purchase on September 21st.

RUSSELL BRAUN

GRYPHON TRIO

JAMAAL JACKSON ROGERS STEWART GOODYEAR

YOLANDA BRUNO

BRYAN CHENGSYLVIE CHENG

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KASADOR

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020 AT 7:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

Kingston-based alt-rock outfit Kasador spent their first three years cutting their teeth on the road, garnering attention from their high-energy live performances. The concert includes a fabulous collection of songs built upon introspective lyrics, harmony-laden choruses, and guitar riffs.

MISS EMILYFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020 AT 7:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

Kingston’s Miss Emily is raking in the accolades including a pair of Maple Blues Awards for New Artist and Female Vocalist of the Year. Join us for a powerful and vibrant performance that will leave you cheering for more.

MICHELLE KASABOSKI FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2020 AT 7:30 PMIsabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts,Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall

Join us for an evening of rich vocals and heartwarming stories, the perfect escape on a winter’s night. In a year of so much change, Kingston-based jazz and adult contemporary artist Michelle Kasaboski explores her unique voice as a songwriter and singer.

KINGSTONCONNECTIONINDIE SERIESConcerts available for purchase on September 21st.

MISS EMILY

TORONTO BACH FESTIVAL

KASADOR

MICHELLE KASABOSKI

Electric Circuits is back! Kingston’s festival of Electronic Music, Performance and Digital Art webcasts live from the stunning Jennifer Velva Bernstein Performance Hall at the Isabel.

Welcome the night and dance under the stars with local and national DJs, electronic music producers and performers accompanied by cutting-edge digital projections. Performances by Theland Kicknosway, Kingston Circus Arts and Polaris prize nominated artist Witch Prophet. Projections from VJ BunBun, Diagraf and SEKS with DJ SunSun, Matt and Mark Thibideau, DJ Elektra Kakaow, and more.

Join us for two nights of original performances which support a culture of acceptance and experimentation on the shores of our converging rivers, on unceded Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory. www.electriccircuits.org

WITCH PROPHET

KINGSTON CELEBRATES CREATIVITY!

ELECTRIC CIRCUITS FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, PERFORMANCE AND DIGITAL ART FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 AND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2020FROM 7 PM – 12 AMFREE: Isabel Digital Concert Hall and Facebook

THELAND KICKNOSWAY, Potawatami/Cree Nation singer, grass and hoop dancer, and youth advocate and member from Walpole Island, Bkejwanong Territory in Southern Ontario.

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A BEETHOVEN EPICIN THE BEETHOVEN YEARTHE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN TRIOSTHE GRYPHON TRIO THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 AND FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020 AT 7:30 PMFREE: Isabel Digital Concert Hall Join the Gryphon Trio two EPIC PERFORMANCES as they imaginatively perform the entire cycle of Beethoven trios for violin, cello, and piano over two evenings. As Beethoven himself stated, “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.”

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GRYPHON TRIO

THE GRYPHON TRIO: ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE

We are honoured that the Gryphon Trio is the Ensemble in Residence at the Isabel in 2020/21 where they will not only perform brilliantly but will be creating a new work for their ensemble.

“Is there a better chamber ensemble in Canada than the Gryphon Trio? There is not.”—Ottawa Citizen

FABULOUS FALL FESTIVALTICKETS

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General Public $ 64 —save 27% $ 22Faculty and Staff $ 60 —save 25% $ 20Students $ 16 —save 33% $ 6

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HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS:All tickets will need to be purchased online prior to the performance.There will be no box office ticket purchase service at the concerts.

PURCHASE ONLINE AT OR CALL THE ISABEL www.queensu.ca/theisabel FOR ASSISTANCE (613) 533-2424 Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 PM

ALL CONCERTS Single Ticket Price

General Public $ 39Faculty and Staff $ 35Students $ 10

(No subscriptions are available for Fall Festival attendance in-person.)

In preparation for the return of live audiences this fall, the Isabel BaderCentre for the Performing Arts at and Queen’s University at Kingston (the University) has put in place measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, however the University cannot guarantee that any individual attending the University property, using the University’s facilities, or participating in activities or events organized by the University, whether on-campus or off-campus will not become infected with COVID-19. Accordingly, all audience members are required to adhere to COVID-19 protocol, including but not limited to wearing a mask covering the nose, mouth, and chin, social distancing of 6 feet, handwashing, and not attending a live concert if ill or if the audience member has travelled internationally over the past 14 days. Any audience member not adhering to the prescribed COVID-19 protocol will be asked to leave the premises. The Government of Ontario declared a province-wide state of emergency under The Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act on March 17,2020 to protect the health and safety of all Ontarians and to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus (or COVID-19). COVID-19 is easily spread by contact with droplets produced by people who have the virus.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SEASON BENEFACTORS

Estate of Alexander Murray Jeffery

Marjorie Ernestine Bernstein in Memory of Jennifer Velva Bernstein

The Joseph S. Stauffer Foundation

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PROJECT CREATION@ THE ISABEL

IMAGINE

“What CAN we do during this pandemic period that would be tremendously meaningful to artists, students, creators, and educators?”

The Isabel is launching a three-part IMAGINE initiative for Kingston artists and beyond: SUPPORTING ARTISTIC CREATION: Artists can apply for two- to six-day artist residencies for diverse artistic creation projects where artists (groups up to six members) create new works and have the ability to showcase excerpts to the public through the Isabel Digital Concert Hall. EDUCATION: Artists can apply for support to undertake an online music education project for high school students and community amateur musicians online through the Isabel Digital Concert Hall. FILMING/RECORDING: Artists can create high-fidelity recordings (video and/or audio) of specific works to own, disseminate worldwide as free or monetized products, and/or to inspire and grow audience and presenter relationships during COVID-19 isolation . The IMAGINE program involves a competitive process and not all artists who apply will be chosen. Artists of all cultural and music genre backgrounds are both welcome and encouraged to apply including equity-seeking groups such as Indigenous people, women, people with disabilities, and members of visible minority groups. Applicants and their projects will be judged on artistic quality, originality, and impact. Application details will be available in late Septemberon www.getacceptd.com/theisabel.

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John Abberger, Artistic Director

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THANK YOU FOR LOVING MUSIC AS MUCH AS YOU DO. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU TO THE FALL FESTIVAL!

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