PROGRAM:

• George Enescu: Impressions d’Enfance, “Ménétrier”

• Trevor Wilson: Sonatina for Violin & Piano (Premiere)

• Beethoven: String Trio Op. 9 No. 3, I. Allegro con spirito

• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blues Forms

• Kevin Lau: The Seeker

• Oliver Hill: Sand Braid (Premiere), featuring choreography and dancers from Quinte Ballet School

• Mozart: K. 575 String Quartet

• Joseph Suk Piano Quintet

Saturday, July 13, 2024 7:30pm

St. Mary Magdalene
335 Main Street, Picton, ON KOK 2T0

This season’s opening concert will celebrate childhood, the start of composers' outputs, and enduring creative sparks. The program spans centuries, traversing from one of Beethoven's earliest chamber music compositions to George Enescu's musings on childhood, and presenting two world premieres by MPM Academy alumni Trevor Wilson and Oliver Hill. Other stops along the way include works by Mozart, Kevin Lau, Joseph Suk, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. The night's string players visit Port Milford from their leadership positions in Montreal's Orchestre de l'Agora, the Harlem Chamber Players, and the Mannes School of Music. They are joined by JUNO-award winning pianist Angela Park.

Program

• Haydn: Op. 64 No. 6 String Quartet

• Margaret Brouwer: Demeter Prelude

• Mozart: Duo for Violin & Viola

• Ann Southam: Glass Houses, No. 11

• Brahms Piano Quintet

Saturday, July 20, 2024 7:30pm

St. Mary Magdalene
335 Main Street, Picton, ON KOK 2T0

Celebrated members of the Cavani Quartet, Cassatt Quartet, Cecilia Quartet, Blair String Quartet, Duo MH & CBJ, and McGill's Early Music Faculty return to the Port Milford stage for a night of musical wit and tenacity. Works by Haydn and Mozart will be presented alongside Margaret Brouwer's portrayal of the goddess Demeter and a focused solo piano work by Ann Southam. The program will close with Brahms' compositionally hard-fought and timeless Piano Quintet.

Program

• Ravel: Piano Trio, I. Moderé

• Ian Cusson: Cure of Madness for String Trio

• Schumann: Arabesque

• Ellington: In a Sentimental Mood

• Schubert: Cello Quintet, II. Adagio

• Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major

Saturday, July 27, 2024 7:30pm

St. Mary Magdalene
335 Main Street, Picton, ON KOK 2T0

Members of the Tokai String Quartet collaborate with Warp Trio pianist Mikael Darmanie, National Arts Centre Orchestra violist Paul Casey and genre-bending violinist Rachel Handman to perform a program of introspection, awe and love. Ian Cusson's musical portrait of Hieronymus Bosch's Ship of Fools will be paired with Ravel's elegant Piano Trio, Schumann's Arabesque for solo piano, and a tune by Ellington. Time will stand still for the Adagio from Schubert's Cello Quintet, performed in honor and memory of long-time MPM friend and supporter, Harriet Gale de Boer. The night will close with the dances and tunes of Dvorak’s A Major Piano Quintet.

Program

• Schubert: Quartetsatz

• Schumann: Piano Trio Op. 63, I. Mit Energie und Leidenschaft

• Gabriella Lena Frank: Leyendas - An Andean Walkabout for String Quartet

• Morten Lauridsen “O Magnum mysterium”

• Borodin: String Quartet No. 2

Saturday, August 3, 2024 7:30pm

St. Mary Magdalene
335 Main Street, Picton, ON KOK 2T0

For three decades, Canadian Opera Company concertmaster Marie Berard, musical polymath Rohan Gregory, and National Ballet cellist Paul Widner have collaborated as the Port Milford Chamber Players. This summer, they are joined by two former MPM students: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra principal violist Emilie Grimes and New York-based pianist Charlotte Hill. "Romanceros" takes its name from the subjects of Gabriella Lena Frank's musical melting pot, Leyendas. It nods to the other works of love on the program: Schubert's Quartetsatz and Schumann's Piano Trio in D Minor. With this concert and title, we celebrate the memory of the kind, gentle, and ever romantic Dr. Arthur Cole, a founding Board member and dear friend of MPM. In honor of Dr. Cole’s adored and adoring wife of 28 years, Judy Cole, the MPM season will close with Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2, written for the composer’s wife on the occasion of their twentieth wedding anniversary.