Ensemble Made In Canada, Canada’s premier piano quartet, brings together 4 musicians with solid individual careers: Angela Park, piano, Elissa Lee, violin, Sharon Wei, viola, Rachel Mercer, cello.
Awarded the 2006 CBC Galaxie Stars Award, EMIC has performed extensively throughout Canada. The group is grateful for support from FACTOR, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. EMIC has been Ensemble-in-Residence at Western University since 2014.
They will be performing a specially commissioned suite of piano quartets by 14 Canadian composers, each inspired by a particular region of Canada, including Fung’s Shifting Landscapes. CBC Radio has picked up the performance as well.
Program
BRAID, DAVID (Northwest Territories) Great Bear River Blues
CROALL, BARBARA (St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes) Nbiidaasamishkaamin/We Come Paddling Here
DOIRON, JULIE arr. Andrew Creeggan (New Brunswick) Blessed
DOWNING, ANDREW (Manitoba) Red River Fantasy
FUNG, VIVIAN (Alberta) Shifting Landscapes
GILBERT, NICOLAS (Québec) Ilôts
LAU, KEVIN (Yukon) Race to the Midnight Sun
LIZÉE, NICOLE (Saskatchewan) The Bessborough Hotel
MASCALL, RICHARD (Ontario) Petroglyphs
MOUSSA, SAMY (Nunavut) Orpheus in Nunavut
ROWSON, WILLIAM (Nova Scotia) Short Variations on Waves
SIGESMUND, DARREN (Prince Edward Island) Kensington Ceilidh
SLEAN, SARAH (Newfoundland) Jonny Pippy of Pouch Cove, on a Bicycle at Dawn
SOKOLOVIĆ, ANA (British Columbia) Splendor Sine Occasu
ENSEMBLE MADE IN CANADA
Angela Park, piano
Elissa Lee, violin
Sharon Wei, viola
Rachel Mercer, cello