Cozy up to the Classics on the UAlberta Campus

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For immediate release
January 13, 2013
Media contact:
Salena Kitteringham 780-248-5617 salena@ualberta.ca
Fine Arts Communications Lead, University of Alberta

Cozy up to the Classics on the UAlberta Campus:

Bach, Beethoven, Book Design & Shakespeare at the top of 2014 fine arts marquée

Edmonton, AB - The University of Alberta invites the public to cozy up on campus with some of the definitive masters of the classical canon at the top of 2014. The mainstage marquée in Convocation Hall includes On the Path to Bach at MACH: Windows into the Times, Teaching & Traditions (January 19 at 3 pm) and Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, Part Two (January 24 at 8 pm). At U of A Studio Theatre, Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost hits the Timms Centre for the Arts mainstage (February 6 to 15). In the FAB Gallery, another classic, the Book and its design, is celebrated, with the Alcuin Awards for Book Design in Canada (January 21 to February 15).

Our visionary UAlberta music and drama faculty, talented students and distinguished guest artists are exploring the universal themes inherent in these traditional repertoire pieces and hard at work interpreting these tried-and-true classics through the colourful lens of their contemporary perspectives. The lively presentations planned will surely delight the most avid classical music and theatre connoisseurs as much as new audience members discovering these treasured works for the first time.

On the Path to Bach at MACH: Windows into the Times, Teaching & Traditions
Sunday, January 19 at 3 p.m.
Convocation Hall, Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Tickets: $20 Adults | $15 Seniors | $10 Students available online at yeglive.ca/ualbertamusic and at the door.

Johann Sebastian Bach holds a pivotal place in the German musical tradition. Organist Marnie Giesbrecht and narrator Joseph F. Patrouch reveal the historical and musical forces that shaped Bach's ordered complexity.

Giesbrecht performs solo organ works from Paul Hofhaimer, Arnold Schlick, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Dietrich Buxtehude, leading us on the path to Bach. Keyboard artists Judy Loewen, Wendy Markosky, Joachim Segger and Jeremy Spurgeon join Giesbrecht to perform three of J.S. Bach's Concertos for harpsichords and a string quartet including violinists Guillaume Tardif, Yue Deng and cellist Josephine van Lier accompany.

Beethoven's Piano & Violin Sonatas, Part Two
Friday, January 24 at 8 p.m.
Convocation Hall, Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Tickets: $20 Adults | $15 Seniors | $10 Students available online at yeglive.ca/ualbertamusic and at the door.

Two first prize winners of the prestigious Montreal Symphony competition, Jacques Després (piano) and Andrew Wan (violin) have united to play all Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano over three consecutive years for the pleasure of our University of Alberta music audiences.

Després is a UAlberta Music Professor and coordinator of the Keyboard program. Wan is originally from Edmonton and now lives in Montreal where he is the concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra - one of the youngest to hold this position. Both musicians are graduates of the Juilliard School.

For this second annual concert in the series, Després and Wan perform Beethoven's Numbers 3, 5, and 7.

Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Thursday, February 6 to February 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Evening Tickets: $11 Student | $22 Adult | $20 Senior
Matinee Thursday, February 13 at 12:30 p.m.
Matinee Tickets: $11 Student | $17 Adult | $15 Senior
Tickets available through TIX on the Square and at the door.
No show Sunday, February 9
Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Avenue - 112 Street, Edmonton

U of A Studio Theatre welcomes UAlberta Augustana campus faculty member Kevin Sutley ('99 MFA Directing & '92 BFA Acting) as our guest director with the cast comprised of the graduating BFA actors (class of 2014).

This play asks what interferes the most with your studies? The Bard blames sleep, food, and above all, sex in this wacky comedy about moving into your rightful place and taking on your generation's needs as your own.

Alcuin Awards for Book Design in Canada
January 21 - February 15, 2014

FAB Gallery, 1-1 Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta, 112 Street and 89 Avenue, Edmonton

Free Admission

Great book design is quite possibly what keeps us yearning to hold on to the tangible, physical book as a classic on our shelves. To promote appreciation of books, reading, and excellence in book design and production, The Alcuin Society offers prestigious awards for excellence in Canadian book design and sponsors the only national competition that recognizes and celebrates fine book design in Canada. This show includes books in eight categories (Children's, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and Reference) published in 2012.

The final visual presentation for Grace Sippy (MFA printmaking) is featured in the FAB Gallery during the same time period.

See www.ualberta.ca/artshows for more UAlberta fine arts show and ticket information.

Why do UAlberta artists create? What is their inspiration? Where does the artistic process take us?
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