Jennifer Jones Plays in the Opening Concert of Changing Tides July 7 2019.

Violinist Jennifer Jones joins Shimon Walt; cello, his sister, Lorna MacDonald; soprano, and Peter-Anthony Togni; organ, for Togni’s new debuting composition; Elegy for David for the opening concert of the Changing Tides, Halifax Organ Festival.

Concert in Memory of Organist David MacDonald 

Sunday July 7

4-5:30 p.m.

Cathedral Church of All Saints

1330 Cathedral Ln, Halifax. 


Jennifer Jones has performed as a soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia, NSYO, Dalhousie Chamber Orchestra, Chebucto Orchestra, and Symphony New Brunswick. Over the past three decades, her work as a chamber musician has frequently been recorded by the CBC. She has performed at the Gerhart Chamber Music Festival in Alabama, the Salisbury Summer Institute in England, the Arcadia Music Festival in Maine, the Scotia Festival of Music, the Fredericton Music Festival, and many years at the Indian River Music Festival in Prince Edward Island.

Throughout her career, she has maintained a busy private studio, and is also a faculty member of Acadia University’s Department of Music. One of her greatest pleasures is coaching members of the NSYO. She has adjudicated exams and festivals and has been on the faculty of various summer institutes throughout the Maritimes. Symphony Nova Scotia is where Jennifer devotes most of her energy as she enjoys collaborating with so many fine musicians, along with her collaborations within the Blue Engine String Quartet and the Rhapsody Quintet.

Changing Tides, Halifax Organ Festival, July 7-11, 2019

Hosted by the Royal Canadian College of Organist, the five-day festival includes a series of concerts, workshops and spirited events examining the changing role of the organist while celebrating the pipe organ traditions.

(Photo and biographical information drawn from Symphony Nova Scotia website.)

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Jennifer Jones and David Longstroth with Rhapsody Quintet Serenade the Province House on May 14, 2019.

Along with their musical partners, Jennifer Jones and David Longstroth from the Rhapsody Quintet will provide an evening filled with well-loved music from jazz standards, film tunes, tangos to the Beatles and Queen at the Province House. 

May 14, 7:30 pm.
Red Chamber, 

Province House

1451 Barrington Street, Halifax.

Free and open to the public.

Tickets are limited to 60
Available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registration will open on April 30.

Rhapsody Quintet has been performing original arrangements of beautiful melodies from eras past and present like jazz, klezmer, tangos, movies and musicals since the mid 1980’s. Comprising of five classically trained musicians, Jennifer Jones, violin; David Langstroth, Bass; Diana Torbert, Piano; Eileen Walsh, Clarinet and Shimon Walt, cello; Rhapsody Quintet feel as at home in a symphony concert hall as they do in a jazz club.

Rhapsody Quintet has appeared twice as guest artists with Symphony Nova Scotia and performed in Ottawa in the National Arts Centre’s Atlantic Scene Festival, and as featured artists on Toronto’s Music Alive series.

The Quintet was honoured to be invited to perform for the re-opening of both the historic Public Gardens and Point Pleasant Park in Halifax following the devastation of Hurricane Juan and provided the music for the Premier’s Dinner in honour of the first recipients of the Order of Nova Scotia.

The Quintet has performed throughout the Maritimes on many series including the Dartmouth Community Concert Series, Acadia University’s Performing Arts Series, the deCoste Centre, the St. Bernard Concert Series, the Indian River Festival, the Moncton Community Concert Series, the Marigold Theatre, the Mahone Bay Concert Series and the Acadia University Alumni Series. They’ve presented The Melody Lingers On show at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax, the Imperial Theatre in Saint John, and performed in the Halifax waterfront Bishop’s Landing Series both with guest soprano Sung Ha Shin Bouey and on their own.

Rhapsody’s recordings have been used in ballet performances and professional theatre productions, including the Atlantic Theatre Festival and Neptune Theatre, and Chester Playhouse’s 2006 A Pitiful Ambition, a comedy by Lorne Elliott. They created a new show with collaborators actor/narrator Marcia Kash, cantors Tracey Scher and Ari Isenberg and Baritone Lowell Shore, entitled Kosher Ceilidh. And the group played their first European performance at beautiful Santa Margherita on the Italian Riviera for a private function – next door to Rod Stewart’s wedding party! The Quintet made a guest appearance on national TV on Candy Palmeter’s The Candy Show on APTN, and their music was used on the live to theatre Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring late theatre great, Brian Bedford. In 2013, 2015 and 2017, Rhapsody was awarded the silver or bronze medal in the category Best Classical Artist/Group in the annual Reader’s Poll in The Coast.

Rhapsody has performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Ministers of Canada and other visiting foreign dignitaries. They’ve also played for audiences ranging from women in prison to patrons in pubs, worked with local choirs and done many in-school performances through local residencies around Nova Scotia. Their Sgt. Pepper Lonely Heart’s Club Band show at the Cohn helped to raise close to $30K for cancer patients in Halifax. The 2017-18 season sees a return engagement to the National Arts Centre on the NAC Presents Series.

Rhapsody Quintet has released six CDs to date. All recordings can be found on their CDs page.

Biographical information summarized from http://www.rhapsodyquintet.com

Jane Archibald, Jennifer Jones in Annelies, presented by the Halifax Camerata Singers

Jane Archibald and Jennifer Jones will perform in the choral Annelies, presented by the Halifax Camerata Singers.

Annelies is based on The Diary of Anne Frank (whose first name was Annelies) by British composer James Whitbourn. 

Jane Archibald will sing the role of Annelies. The full ensemble features Jennifer Jones on violin, Shimon Walt (cello), Graham Lord (clarinet) and Camerata accompanist Lynette Wahlstrom (piano).

The concert takes place at Shaar Shalom Synagogue on Sunday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are expected to go quickly — see below for concert details.

Soprano Jane Archibald stars in Annelies on November 11

Jane Archibald received a Talent Trust scholarship to assist with her voice studies. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University. She also trained at the Orford Arts Centre and the Tanglewood Music Center. 

She’s performed with Opera Ontario (for Delibes' Lakmé, her professional operatic debut), Toronto Operetta Theatre, Symphony Nova Scotia, the San Frrancisco Opera, and the Vienna State Opera.

The Canadian Opera Company named Jane as their first-ever Artist-in-Residence for their 2017/18 season.

Jennifer Jones performs violin in Annelies on November 11

Jennifer Jones was awarded a Talent Trust scholarship to support her music studies. She trained at the Maritime Conservatory of Music and Dalhousie University, and completed her Master of Music degree in Performance and Pedagogy at Indiana University.

She’s performed as a soloist with the NSYO, Dalhousie Chamber Orchestra, Chebucto Orchestra, Saint John Symphony and Symphony Nova Scotia. She’s currently Assistant Concert Master at Symphony Nova Scotia and first violinist with the Blue Engine String Quartet.

Jennifer is a respected violin teacher, as a faculty member at Acadia University and the Maritime Conservatory of the Performing Arts. She’s taught from her private studio throughout her career, coaching members of the NSYO and serving on the faculty of various summer institutes throughout the Maritimes.

Concert details
Shaar Shalom Synagogue, Halifax
(Pepperell at Oxford Streets)
Sunday, November 11 - 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: purchase online at tickethalifax.com, or 
The Coast offices at 2309 Maynard Street, Halifax

Violinist Jennifer Jones in Concert - Music at Three Churches, Mahone Bay

Jennifer Jones photo courtesy Symphony Nova Scotia

Jennifer Jones will perform in the Music at the Three Churches concert series in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia on July 20.  

Presented by the Mahone Bay Summer Concerts Society, the 2018 season begins with a program of string quartets by Mozart, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky.

Alongside Jennifer on violin will be Halifax musicians Philippe Djokic (violin), Etienne Chenard (viola) and Benjamin Marmen (cello).

Jennifer received Talent Trust scholarships from 1987-90. She studied at the Maritime Conservatory of Music and Dalhousie University, and completed her Master of Music degree in Performance and Pedagogy at Indiana University.

She’s performed as a soloist with the NSYO, Dalhousie Chamber Orchestra, Chebucto Orchestra, Saint John Symphony and Symphony Nova Scotia. She’s currently Assistant Concert Master at Symphony Nova Scotia.

The String Quartets Concert takes place Friday, July 20 at St. James Anglican Church in Mahone Bay at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased at the door, or in advance at Kinburn Pharmasave (Mahone Bay), Shop on the Corner (Lunenburg) or Strings and Things (Bridgewater). To reserve tickets call 902 634-4280 or e-mail threechurches9@gmail.com.

Christianne Rushton, Jennifer Jones perform with Jeff Joudrey's Halifax Camerata Singers on March 10, 2018

Christianne Rushton

Jeff Joudrey's Halifax Camerata Singers presents Memories of the Heart on 

Saturday, March 10, 2018 
at 7:30 p.m. 
at First Baptist Church, Halifax.  

From their press release:
The choir is joined by mezzo-soprano Christianne Rushton and pianist Lynette Wahlstrom in a romantic program of songs and memories of childhood, of loves lost, forbidden or foolish, and songs of times gone by.
 
Mezzo-soprano Christianne Rushton and Camerata open the program with a challenging choral composition by Aaron Copland titled In The Beginning.  Christianne will also perform works by Gaetano Donizetti, Franz Schubert, and Ola Gjeilo. 

Guest violinist, Jennifer Jones, of Symphony Nova Scotia and Rhapsody Quintet, is featured in Eric Whitacre’s beautiful Five Hebrew Love Songs.  Christianne will also perform Whitacre’s arrangement of Goodnight Moon, whose text is from the famous children’s book by Margaret Wise Brown.

Music featured by the Camerata Singers includes Only in Sleep by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvald, Chant for a Long Day by Canada’s Stephen Hatfield, and songs from the American folk and gospel traditions.

Tickets are on sale now through Ticket Halifax.

Jennifer Jones, violin: David Parker, French horn will perform at Prismatic Arts Festival September 17, 2017

Prismatic Arts Festival presents Cris Derksen and her Orchestral Powwow Project

Jennifer Jones (photo: website Symphony NS)

Sunday, September 17 

David Parker (photo: website Symphony NS)

at 7 p.m.

Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 

Joining Derksen on stage will be eleven Indigenous dancer and musicians, and members of Symphony Nova Scotia:  Mark Lee and Jennifer Jones, violins; Susan Sayle, viola; Richard Simoneau, trumpet; David Parker, French horn and Eric Mathis, trombone.

Tickets are on sale now at the Cohn Box Office; please call (902) 494-3820 or 1-800-874-1669 ($15 and $20).

For more information go to: 
http://prismaticfestival.com/program/

Jeff Joudrey takes his choir Halifax Camerata Singers to Edmonton International Choral Festival

Text and Photo: Halifax Camerata Singers press release

The ECMA-nominated Halifax Camerata Singers (HCS) with special guests, Rhapsody Quintet and actor Jeremy Webb are taking Halifax 1917:  From Dreams to Despair to the first Edmonton International Choral Festival, June 1-4, as invited guests of Pro Coro Canada.

Camerata’s performance is on Friday, June 2 at 8:00 p.m. at All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Edmonton. www.halifaxcamerata.org

Artistic Director Jeff Joudrey commented “We wanted to tell a Nova Scotian story in Edmonton, and were delighted when the Artistic Director of Pro Coro Canada, Michael Zaugg, accepted our suggestion of taking the Explosion show to a Western audience.  We are also so excited to perform with Pro Coro and Sweden’s Voces Nordicae and to work with master choral conductor, Robert Sund.”

Also travelling to Edmonton are Halifax’s award-winning Rhapsody Quintet (Jennifer Jones, violin; Shimon Walt, cello; David Langstroth, bass; Eileen Walsh, clarinet and Diana Torbert, piano) and Halifax’s favorite actor/director/producer Jeremy Webb.  For more information on Rhapsody Quintet, please visit www.rhapsodyquintet.com and on Jeremy Webb:  www.easternfronttheatre.com

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Jeff Joudrey and Jennifer Jones are former NS Talent Trust recipients. 

Jennifer Jones to perform with Rhapsody Quintet on April 22, 2017 at 7:30 pm in Dartmouth

Jennifer Jones, violin performs with Rhapsody Quintet on

Saturday, April 22 

at 7:30 p.m. 

Woodlawn United Church, Dartmouth

The concert begins with Youth Performer's The Dartmouth Jazz Choir. 

Woodlawn United Church, 54 Woodlawn Road, Dartmouth, NS

Jennifer Jones, Hilary Brown and Susan Archibald to perform at the Music Room

Wonderful concert with three stunning musicians. 
Jennifer Jones, violin

Hilary Brown, cello
(Photo: Blue Engine String Quartet) 

Hilary Brown, cello
Susan Archibald, piano

Wednesday, March 9
at 7 p.m.
The Music Room, Halifax

John Ireland Phantasie in A major
Amy Beach Piano Trio Op. 150
Arthur Foot Trio Op. 5 (adagio motto)
Brahms Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87

Jennifer, Hilary and Susan are former NSTT Scholarship recipients. What a pleasure it will be to experience their performance together. Enjoy the concert!

Jennifer Jones, Associate Concertmaster with Symphony Nova Scotia and Hilary Brown, a cellist with SNS, are two of Nova Scotia’s most well known musicians. Susan Archibald, a Nova Scotian who has been first prizewinner in Canadian music competitions and performed chamber music with musicians with leading orchestras such as the Boston and Cleveland orchestra, has also performed on Bavarian Radio, CBC Radio/Radio Canada, and collaborated in recitals in the United States, Canada, and Germany. (Information from their press release.)

Tickets are $25 at the door.

The Music Room at 6181 Lady Hammond Road, Halifax
902- 429-9467

Jennifer and Hilary also perform with the Blue Engine String Quartet.

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