Tag Archives: Turning Point Ensemble

Compositions without Borders:

The feedback from our Ellington/Stravinsky/Douglas/Turner Jump for Joy program has been extremely gratifying. The size of audiences and diversity of perspectives from those I knew or now have met was very special What has really interested me is that I heard alot of thoughtful responses to the risky cross genre programming as well as the [...]

Music you can touch!

  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 [...]

Jump for Joy! Brad Turner

  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 [...]

20% off Regular Tickets for Jump for Joy Extending to March 19!

JUMP FOR JOY! Sunday, April 1 8pm at SFU Woodward’s   WEB SPECIAL 20% OFF REGULAR TICKETS ORDER TICKETS COUPON CODE: JAZZ (enter all capitals)   Premiere performances of music by Dave Douglas and Brad Turner plus music by Stravinsky and Ellington with special guest Jennifer Scott!  Jump for Joy!

MUSICAL MAGIC – NOW YOU DON’T HEAR IT, NOW YOU DO

Turning Point Ensemble’s Jump for Joy concert is just a bit more than a month away, and any day now we should be receiving some very special packages. As of today, I have musical scores and parts from Stravinsky’s Octet, Tango, Pastorale, and Three Pieces for Clarinet -but that’s it! Our three guest composers – [...]

Jump for Joy!

    WEB SPECIAL 20% OFF REGULAR TICKETS UNTIL MARCH 15 Tickets are available online or at the door (cash or credit card only, no interac available) PROMO CODE:  JAZZ (enter all caps)   April 1, 2012  8pm SFU Woodward’s at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre 149 West [...]

Rodney Sharman on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer

A New Civic Arts and Culture Advisory Panel?

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 [...]

Colourful World

  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 [...]

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

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 [...]