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Music you can touch!

Written by admin on 3 April, 2012 — Leave a Comment

  Well, today is recovery day from an intensely gratifying presentation of our Jump for Joy program – the feedback from our audiences (in total over 500!) from our performances at the Langley Community Music School and SFU Woodward’s Fei and Milton Wong Theatre was quite overwhelming. I guess what also really hit me was [...]

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Jump for Joy! Brad Turner

Written by admin on 8 March, 2012 — Leave a Comment

  The occasional collaborations between musicians of a classical background and those of a jazz and improvised music background are very interesting to me.   These opportunities, which I have been lucky to have been involved in both as a performer and as a composer, tend to be notable (at least in Vancouver from what [...]

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Rodney Sharman on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer

Written by admin on 27 January, 2012 — Leave a Comment
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A New Civic Arts and Culture Advisory Panel?

Written by admin on 18 January, 2012 — Leave a Comment

Last Monday, I attended a session led by Vancouver’s Office of Cultural Affairs and also attended by a diverse cross section of Vancouver’s cultural sector as well as several City Councillors. The purpose was to discuss how best to create a civic Arts and Culture Advisory panel that would report directly to Mayor and Council [...]

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Colourful World

Written by admin on 12 January, 2012 — Leave a Comment

  Rodney Sharman on Fanny Kiefer Hear Rodney’s new work this weekend along with music by Debussy and Takemitsu! Sunday, January 29, 2012 8pm   Enjoy this rare opportunity to be musically engaged with a new chamber symphony by Rodney Sharman, the Canadian premiere of Toru Takemitsu’s Archipelago S.  and a new arrangement of Debussy’s Jeux [...]

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Berio’s Folksongs – the reason there is a Turning Point

Written by admin on 7 November, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Tonight was our first run through of Berio’s Folk Songs with our guest vocalist Fides Krucker. Listening to her distinctive and beautiful interpretation, and the musicians playing so intimately together really reminded me of why we founded Turning Point Ensemble. Berio’s Folk Songs is a true masterwork of the 20th century, music that is easily [...]

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Colourful World

Written by admin on 14 October, 2011 — Leave a Comment

January 29, 2012 8pm presented in partnership with Turning Point Ensemble reflects on a century of colourful and vivid soundscapes with Colourful World – a program built around the premiere of Rodney Sharman’s  new large-scale commission. Turning Point pairs Sharman’s new work with pieces by Claude Debussy and Toru Takemitsu. Composer Michael Bushnell has created for [...]

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A new season

Written by admin on 25 August, 2011 — Leave a Comment

It’s only August, but all eyes are on the fall with the public announcement of Turning Point’s 11/12 season!  The production of our brochure (please download a copy from this web-site!), beautifully designed by James Glen with the photography of Chris Randle and Tim Matheson feels like an event itself – but in a way [...]

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