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| 2012 STUDIO ‘S’ MUSIC SERIES with ERIC FRIESEN  Internationally renowned musician and broadcaster Eric Friesen plays host to virtuoso performers from around the world as part of Studio ‘S’, the groundbreaking classical music series at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. Select Monday evenings will feature the noted CBC Radio personality in conversation with great musicians while they play a concert, all in the relaxed atmosphere of the Springer Theatre. Picture yourself with a glass of local summer wine, listening to your favourite music, as the sun goes down over the St. Lawrence River. It doesn’t get better than this!
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| Angela Hewitt – Piano
Monday July 16 7:30 p.m. The internationally beloved Canadian soloist, who makes her home in Italy. “I know of no musician whose Bach playing on any instrument is of greater subtlety, beauty of tone, persuasiveness of judgment or instrumental command.” (BBC Music Magazine)
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James Ehnes – Violin Monday Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m. Winner of six JUNO awards, a Grammy and a Gramophone, Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius, made in 1715. “The Jascha Heifet of our day” (Globe and Mail) |
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Georgy Tchaidze – Piano Monday July 30 7:30 p.m.
Named First Laureate of Canada’s Honen’s International Piano Competition (2009), a powerful Russian soloist, whose playing is “a rare blend of poetry and power.” (Eric Friesen) |
Katherine Whyte – Soprano
Monday, Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m. Ms. Whyte has performed on opera and concert stages across North America and Europe. Last year she made a stunning debut in Atlanta Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and her COC debut in the title role of Iphigenie en Tauride. |
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| Four-Concert Series | $128 (plus HST) |
| Individual tickets | $40 (plus HST) |