LYELL GUSTIN RECITAL SERIES 2024
Spectacular Strings!
winter recital
New Orford String Quartet
Friday, January 26, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
St. John’s Anglican Cathedral, 816 Spadina Cres. East
Gustin House proudly welcomes the return of an elite Canadian quartet to the Lyell Gustin Recitals! “These four string virtuosos animate every note with uncommon power and passion as well as elegance. Listen and weep,” wrote the Toronto Star. Adored by audiences, critically acclaimed for gloriously beautiful tone and phenomenal technique, New Orford String Quartet has received Opus Awards and the 2017 Juno for Best Chamber Music Album. Quartet members are violinists Andrew Wan and Jonathan Crow, violist Sharon Wei, and cellist Brian Manker. They will perform works by Beethoven, Ravel, and Canadian composers Ana Sokolović and Caroline Shaw.
Tickets $50 regular / $30 student: St. John’s Music, Saskatoon Academy of Music, Gustin House Committee, cash at the door, or online.
N.b. Season ticket package for all 3 recitals available until January 26 inclusive – purchase below, or at locations as listed.
spring recital
Isidore String Quartet
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
St. John’s Anglican Cathedral, 816 Spadina Cres. East
Winner of the prestigious Banff International String Competition, the dynamic New York-based Isidore String Quartet has as its goal to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertoire––“approaching the established as if it were new, the new as if it were firmly established.” Their Banff triumph has brought the Quartet collaborations with eminent performers and extensive tours of the United States, Canada, and Europe. Praised for joyful vitality and for exquisite poise and balance as an ensemble, members are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon. Their recital includes compositions by Mozart, Dutilleux, and Mendelssohn.
The Isidore String Quartet’s appearance is supported, in part, by the Career Development Program of the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Visit https://www.banffcentre.ca/banff-international-string-quartet-festival/ for more information.
Tickets $50 regular / $30 student: St. John’s Music, Saskatoon Academy of Music, Gustin House Committee, cash at the door, or online.
summer recital
Cameron Crozman, cello and Meagan Milatz, piano
Tuesday, August 20, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
St. John’s Anglican Cathedral, 816 Spadina Cres. East
Montreal-based artists with prairie roots, rising stars on international stages, cellist Cameron Crozman and pianist Meagan Milatz dazzled and delighted the Lyell Gustin Recital audience in an earlier season. Crozman, named the 2019-20 Classical Revelation Artist of CBC/Radio-Canada, is one of the country’s leading cellists; Milatz is a sought-after collaborative pianist, about whom Montreal’s Le Devoir recently wrote: “a remarkable pianist . . . [whose] expressive palette seems limitless. The partnership she forms with Cameron Crozman is simply ideal.” In this recital, the duo’s musical exploration of light-in-the-darkness themes will include great cello sonatas, including that of Rachmaninoff.
Tickets $50 regular / $30 student: St. John’s Music, Saskatoon Academy of Music, Gustin House Committee, cash at the door, or online.
Season Ticket Package 2024
~ three recitals, a season of spectacular strings ~
$135 regular / $75 student available until January 26, 2024 incl.
Season ticket package available at St. John’s Music, Saskatoon Academy of Music, from the Gustin House Committee, and online.
Friday, January 26
New Orford String Quartet
premier Canadian quartet – virtuosic passion and elegance!
Tuesday, April 16
Isidore String Quartet
New York-based winner of 14th Banff International Competition!
Tuesday, August 20
Cameron Crozman, cello and Meagan Milatz, piano
rising stars in brilliant ensemble, returning by audience acclaim!
Please note new venue for the 2024 season:
All recitals at St. John’s Anglican Cathedral,
816 Spadina Cres. East