Jennifer Enns Modolo

Saturday July 10, 2010
2:00 pm
St. John’s Anglican Church
Ticket price: $28

Jennifer Enns Modolo – Mezzo Soprano
Loren Shalanko – Piano

Jennifer Enns Modolo is active as a soloist in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. Recent roles include Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat with the Elora Festival Singers, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Grand River Chorus, Tovey’s Requiem with Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir, Mozart’s Vespers with Menno Singers, Bach’s Missa Brevis and Handel's Messiah with the Elora Festival Singers, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Mozart’s Requiem with Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. In 2003, Jennifer performed the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Orford Arts Centre in Quebec. In 2002, she made her debut with Ontario Opera Chorus in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. Other opera roles include Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Weill’s Street Scene, and the premiere of Daryl Jamieson’s Mandragola. Jennifer has won Kiwanis music scholarships at both the local and provincial level and is a recent recipient of the NATS Most Promising Senior University Level Singer scholarship. In 2004, she was a finalist in the Annual Solo Competition with the Oratorio Society of New York.

Lorin Shalnko is a much sought out pianist in the community, providing instruction, accompaniment and coaching to the many local musicians on their way to making their mark in the recital, competition and performance world. Internationally, Lorin's career has taken him to France, where he lived and worked for several years. While overseas, he taught privately, accompanied various soloists and choirs and performed solo concerts in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy. Lorin Shalnko holds an honours degree in Piano Performance from Wilfred Laurier Univerisity. His Post Graduate studies in Accompanying and Chamber Music were at The University of Michigan. Lorin continues to accompany, coach, teach and perform at Wilfred Laurier University and The Beckett School of Music in Waterloo.

Todd Yaniw - Piano Recital

Saturday July 10, 2010
4:00 PM
Knox Presbyterian Church
Ticket price: $28

Beethoven: 32 Variations in C minor, WoO. 80
Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Liszt: Funérailles (from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
I Ondine
II Le Gibet
III Scarbo

 Winner of the Roy Thomson Hall First Prize at the 2005 Toronto Symphony National Piano Competition, 23-year-old pianist Todd Yaniw has also been a two-time national winner of the Canadian Music Competition, as well as silver medalist at the Eastman International Piano Competition and a semi-finalist at the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition. He received his Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto (ARCT) diploma shortly after his 12th birthday.

Since his debut with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at age 13, Mr. Yaniw has performed numerous recitals in Alberta and Ontario, and has performed with the symphony orchestras of Edmonton, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, and Guelph. Internationally, Mr. Yaniw has performed at the Monte Carlo Opera House in Monaco, the Jamaica School of Music in Kingston, Jamaica, several concert halls in China, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James’s Piccadilly in London England, the Piano Salon at Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. in New York City, and the Eastman Theatre in Rochester. He released his first CD on the Chestnut Hall Music label in September 2006.

Mr. Yaniw is also an accomplished violist, having received his ARCT diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at the age of 15 and has several years of orchestral experience.

Peter Appleyard
Swing, Swing, Swing

Saturday July 10, 2010
8:00 PM
Gambrel Barn
Ticket price: $51

Peter Appleyard, vibraphone
Ross Wooldridge, clarinet
Terry Clare, drums
Dave Young, bass
John Sherwood, piano
Carol McCartney, vocals
Peter Appleyard, vibraphone and leader
Saxophones: David Caldwell, Steve Bijakowski, Don Englert, Kira Payne, and Bob Leonard.
Trumpets: Charlie Gray, Alex Kundakcioglu, John Macleod, and Darryl Eaton.
Trombones: Laurie Bower, Bob Livingston, Mike Lawson and Bob Hamper.

Join Jazz legend Peter Appleyard and his big band as they pay tribute to the great Benny Goodman.

Peter Appleyard, jazz musician (b. at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, 26 August, 1928). A versatile studio percussionist and nightclub/TV personality in Toronto, he moved to Canada in 1951 as a drummer and soon turned to the vibraphone.

Appleyard's TV shows included the CBC's Mallets and Brass (1969, with flugelhornist Guido Basso) and the syndicated Peter Appleyard Presents (1977-80). Appleyard, who has conducted his Canadian career with a keen instinct for popular tastes, has recorded several light-instrumental albums, including Swing Fever (1982), as well as the jazz CDs Barbados Hot and Barbados Cool (1990). His version of The Lincolnshire Poacher was a pop hit in the early 1970s. Appleyard has worked abroad with Benny Goodman, Dick Hyman, Mel Tormé, Bob Wilber and other noted US jazz musicians. He was made an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1992 and was awarded an honourary doctor of letters degree from the University of Guelph in June 2010.