Sunday Oct 20th, 3pm to 5pm,
$20 / PWYC, cash only
There will be 3 sets (approximately 30 mins) featuring each guest artist:
Set 1
Rod Campbell (voice, trumpet) with Eugene Martynec will perform a non linear journey through Chinatown, Kensington Market and a "Lecture on Nothing" with electroacoustics, trumpet, poetry and prose. Reading from Denison Ave by Christina Wong and illustrations by Daniel Innes, a Lecture on Nothing by John Cage and LSD Leacock by Joe Rosenblatt.
Set 2
Jenna Geen (vocalist & poet) with Bill Gilliam and Eugene Martynec will improvise and perform Jenna's poems
Set 3
Penn Kemp (performer) with Bill Gilliam will improvise from Penn's sound opera, Dream Sequins, and pieces from her collection Incrementally.
The studio is up one flight of stairs and there is seating for 30 people. Please come early as the street door will be closed during each set.
Art of Improv Salon Series
Kensington Sound,
170a Baldwin St, Toronto
Sunday Sept 22nd, 3pm to 5pm
$20 / PWYC (cash only), BYOB
Featuring cellists Margaret Maria & DORA Award nominee Kye Marshall, accompanied by JUNO Award nominee Bill McBirnie (fute), Michael Palumbo (modular synths), Bill Gilliam (piano), & JUNO Award winner Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics)
This "Art of Improv" salon on Sunday Sept 22nd is at Kensington Sound, 170a Baldwin St in the afternoon from 3pm to 5pm. It's an intimate studio space up one flight of stairs with a wonderful grand piano.
Set 1:
Bill Gilliam (piano), Margaret Maria (cello), Michael Palumbo (modular synths)
Set 2
Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics), Kye Marshall (cello), Bill McBirnie (flute)
Sat July 6th, 12 noon
First Baptist Church
140 Laurier Ave West
Ottawa
A special SuzukiMusic Fundraiser, to benefit the SuzukiMusic cello program!
Margaret Maria, with her improvising duo pianist, Bill Gilliam, will perform on July 6, 2024, 12pm at First Baptist Church (141 Laurier Ave.) along with cello faculty members Sonya Matoussova and Emma Grant-Zypchen (with the amazing Liko Yamane as collaborative pianist). There will be a live-stream (TBA) of the concert if you are not able to make it in person.
The program will include:
David Popper’s requiem for three cellos
Marybyllia - improvised cello & piano pieces by Margaret Maria & Bill Gilliam in the style of our album “Uncountable Spheres”
Click on this page to see details of the event and for the livestream link for today’s concert and the link to purchase tickets or donate / contribute.
Suggested livestream contribution is $20 or pwyc
Thank you for your generous support of SuzukiMusic!!