Tag Archives: Turning Point Ensemble
Colourful World
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 [...]
Members of Turning Point Ensemble perform with Bozzini String Quartet in Montreal!
Owen, Francois and I are in Montreal preparing for a performance and recording of an entire program of music composed by Owen in collaboration with the wonderful Bozzini String Quartet. Francois is performing Owen’s clarinet quintet – Still Image – and I’m performing his Trombone Quintet. In addition, the Bozzini’s are performing Owen’s string quartet [...]
A new season
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 [...]
Exhilarating First Rehearsal with Ballet BC!
TPE musicians, Ballet BC dancers, lighting and sound designers, choreographers…all sharing the Faris Studio at the Scotia Dance centre today (and there ’til we move to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre next week). It’s hard to believe we’re developing another large live music and dance presentation so soon after Firebird 2011 – but our double anniversary [...]
Double Anniversary with Ballet BC
Don’t miss our next foray into the world of dance with our collaboration with Ballet BC April 14 – 16 at QET. Great tickets till available at www.ticketmaster.ca. We are thrilled to work with Emily Molnar and Jay Rankin at the Ballet. Their choreographers, Wen Wei Wang, Donald Sales, Gioconda Barbuta and Serge Bennathan (who [...]
Firebird 2011 – Two Distinct Presentations
Turning Point Ensemble’s Firebird 2011 is actually two distinct presentations – and as we head into performances we are excited to share it with you. The first half of our show will be a very special concert presentation – no dance – music alone. It is an arrangement of some of Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet music. We had to obtain [...]
Musicians and Dancers together for LUFT
ENSEMBLE REHEARSES MORLOCK’S LUFT WITH DANCERS FOR FIREBIRD 2011 Tonight (Tuesday) was the first time the TPE ensemble, dance, and design team met at the same time to rehearse Jocelyn Morlock’s new work – now titled “Luft” — in the Birmigham studio at the Scotia Dance Centre. It’s a small space – but there’s something so invigorating in the proximity of [...]
TPE and a new Firebird Arrangement
This past week Turning Point Ensemble members read the most recent draft of Michael Bushnell’s arrangement of Stravinsky’s Firebird music. This new suite, specifically arranged for Turning Point Ensemble’s instrumentation (with permission from the Orchestral version’s copyright owners) is a stunning exploration of Stravinsky’s grand musical imagination focussed into a large chamber music experience. [...]
FIREBIRD 2011 IN DEVELOPMENT
Update on Firebird 2011 Turning Point Ensemble’s Rio Tinto Alcan Award winning project, Firebird 2011, is in multiple flights. Composer Michael Bushnell’s dining room table is full of Stravinsky’s magnificent scores for the ballet, the symphonic Orchestra, and for the piano – and the score on which Michael is fusing and diffusing to create a [...]
