Next Generation of Canadian Artists:
A series honouring Maureen Forrester
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Ms. Forrester has lived her entire life in Canada, always promoting and encouraging Canadian talent of great promise and enterprise. For this anniversary season, Summer Music is delighted to present three programs featuring young Canadian of exceptional musicality who have previously impressed our festival audiences with their performances.


Pius CheungProgram #1
Pius Cheung, marimba. First appearing in 2008 at Stratford City Hall, Council Chambers.

Thursday, August 19. 11:15am. St. Andrew’s Church. $10. Open Seating. One hour.

Pius will include his own composition, Symphonic Poem, in its Canadian premiere, and conclude with his own brilliant arrangement of J.S.Bach’s Goldberg Variations for solo marimba which was one of the moving moments of Summer Music’s eighth season.

www.piuscheung.com

Anne-Julie CaronMarc DjokicProgram #2
Anne-Julie Caron, marimba. First appearing in 2005 at City Hall Auditorium.

Today with Marc Djokic, violin. Friday, August 20. 11:15am. St. Andrew’s Church. $10. Open Seating. One hour.

Anne-Julie and Marc will include L’Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla, Tarantella by Anders Koppel and David Jones’ Legal Highs among the works for their two instruments. Each will also perform one solo work for his violin and for her marimba.

www.annejuliecaron.com | Marc Djokic online
Stephen RungeProgram #3
Stephen Runge, piano. First appearing in 2007 at City Hall Auditorium.

Saturday, August 21. 11:15am. St. Andrew’s Church. $10. Open Seating. One hour.

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann and the release of Stephen’s new CD featuring piano works of the German composer, this program’s repertoire includes Humoreske, Op. 20, Papillons, Op.2 and Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13.

www.stephenrunge.com