April 17 at 1:30 pm, Kootenay Gallery of Art
Non-members $15, members $12
Tickets at the door.
Jonathon Crow
A native of Prince George, British Columbia, Jonathan Crow joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Concertmaster in 2011. Between 2002 and 2006 he was Concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and notably during this tenure, was the youngest concertmaster of a major North American orchestra. An avid chamber musician, Jonathan has performed at chamber music festivals throughout North America, South America, and Europe. He is a founding member of the New Orford String Quartet, a project-based new ensemble dedicated to the promotion of standard and Canadian string quartet repertoire throughout North America.
As a soloist, Jonathan Crow has performed with many Canadian orchestras, under the baton of such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, and Kent Nagano. An advocate of contemporary music he has premiered works by Canadian composers Michael Conway Baker, Eldon Rathburn, Barrie Cabena, Ana Sokolovic, Marjan Mozetich, Christos Hatzis, Ernest MacMillan, and Healey Willan, and includes in his repertoire major concerti by such modern composers as Ligeti, Schnittke, Bernstein, Brian Cherney, Rodney Sharman, and Cameron Wilson. He has recorded for the ATMA, Bridge, CBC, Oxingale, Skylark, and XXI-21 labels.
In 2005 Jonathan Crow joined the Schulich School of Music at McGill University as Assistant Professor of Violin and was appointed Associate Professor of Violin in 2010. He is currently Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Toronto.
Andrew Wan
Andrew Wan was named concertmaster of the OSM in 2008. As soloist, he has appeared with several orchestras under conductors such as Kent Nagano, Maxim Vengerov, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Peter Oundjian, James DePreist and Michael Stern. Mr. Wan has concertized extensively throughout the world, appearing in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Benaroya Hall, Jordan Hall and Salle Gaveau with artists such as the Juilliard Quartet, the International Sejong Soloists, the New Zealand Trio, Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang Lin, and recently recorded the Mendelssohn Octet with James Ehnes on the Onyx label. He is a member of the critically-acclaimed New Piano Trio and the Opus award-winning and Juno nominated New Orford String Quartet. He frequently serves as guest concertmaster for several North American orchestras and appears regularly at the Seattle Chamber, La Jolla, Aspen, Lanaudière and Agassiz festival. Mr. Wan graduated from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Masao Kawasaki and Ron Copes. He is currently on faculty at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.
Andrew Wan performs on a 1744 Michel’Angelo Bergonzi violin, and gratefully acknowledges its loan from the David Sela Collection.