The Music of Peter Allen with Peter Allen and the Blue Engine String Quartet on February 12, 2017 at 2 p.m.

Peter Allen, Piano;

Patricia Creighton, Flute; Richard Hornsby, Clarinet; and Blue Engine String Quartet (Jennifer Jones, violin and Hilary Brown, cello are former scholarship recipients as well)

Sunday, February 12

at 2 p.m.

Lilian Piercy Concert Hall
6199 Chebucto Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Peter Allen is one of Nova Scotia's best-known pianists and one of our most noted composers. This concert will feature his music for string quartet, clarinet, flute, and of course, piano.

You will find more information at http://www.stcecilia.ca/product/february-12-2017-200pm-the-music-peter-allen-peter-allen-piano-patricia-creighton-flute-richard-hornsby-clarinet-blue-engine-string-quartet/

Photo of Peter Allen: stcecilia.ca

Eszter Horvath to perform with Helios Vocal Ensemble on January 29, 2017 at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts

Photo and information from Cecilia Concerts website

Cecilia Concerts
January 29, 2017 – 2:00PM

Helios Vocal Ensemble

Eszter Horvath, Elisabeth Stones, Andrew Pickett, Garth MacPhee, and John Mark Dawson

Helios is Atlantic Canada’s premier vocal ensemble, performing sacred and secular music, specializing in Renaissance polyphony, a fluid and unifying musical language defining its time. The group’s classical a cappella concerts have been a hit across the Maritimes.

Eszter Horvath won the 2016 NSTT Kenneth Elloway Award. 

Concert LocationLilian Piercey Concert Hall
Maritime Conservatory of the Performing Arts
6199 Chebucto Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia

More information can be found on the Cecilia Concert website at https://www.ceciliaconcerts.ca/product/january-29-2017-200pm-helios-vocal-quintet-eszter-horvath-elisabeth-kleven-andrew-pickett-garth-macphee-john-mark-dawson/

Open Waters Festival with Gina Burgess and Janice Jackson from January 6-10, 2017

Open Waters Festival

January 6-10, 2017

Saturday, Jan. 7: 

Gina Burgess Trio, 10:45 PM at the Company House.

Sunday, Jan. 8: 

Vocalypse Productions Janice Jackson, PROTEST, 7:30 PM at Dunn Theatre.

The Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music celebrates the confluence of musical traditions, the mixing of the spontaneous and the calculated, the spray between the traditional and experimental.

Dalhousie Arts Centre Box Office: https://kil-dacweb-3.cohn.dal.ca/online

Further information for all 14 events can found at: http://www.upstreammusic.org/