Thursday, November 10, 2022
Concert at 5:30pm
Centrediscs Album Launch : Monica Pearce – Textile Fantasies
Textile Fantasies is a set of works for various forces of percussion and keyboard instruments inspired by particular textile/patterns, and includes performances by TorQ Percussion Quartet, SHHH!! Ensemble, Barbara Pritchard, Wesley Shen, Cheryl Duvall, Shawn Mativetsky, and Joseph Ferretti. The album launch will take place at the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto on November 10th, at 5:30pm, featuring performances by SHHH!! Ensemble and Cheryl Duvall.
Performers:
silks – Cheryl Duvall, piano
leather – SHH!!! Ensemble, piano and percussion
Bio:
Monica Pearce is a Texas-based Canadian composer specializing in opera and chamber music with a penchant for toy piano—as heard throughout Textile Fantasies. In 2008, she co-founded the emerging composer collective, the Toy Piano Composers with Chris Thornborrow. From 2008 to 2018, the group presented over 120 new works and released a self-titled disc on Redshift Records. Pearce’s compositions have been performed and commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, International Contemporary Ensemble, New Music Detroit, Angela Schwarzkopf, Riot Ensemble, Chamber Cartel, Array Ensemble, Xenia Pestova, Bicycle Opera Talisker Players, New Fangled Opera, junctQín keyboard collective, and Thin Edge New Music Collective, among others. In 2022 she was nominated for Classical Composer of the Year by the 2022 East Coast Music Awards for Maureen Batt’s recording of Aunt Helen. Her operas have been performed across Canada and the United States and toured across Ontario, while her toy piano works are frequently played internationally—notably by celebrated performer Margaret Leng Tan.
Venue:
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601 x202
*The Canadian Music Centre is an accessible venue through a street level entrance to the right of the main entrance. The CMC has gender neutral washrooms. Contact info@cmccanada.org with any questions pertaining to accessibility.
