LYELL GUSTIN RECITAL SERIES 2024

Spectacular Strings!

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.

our past 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.

our past winter recital

The New Orford String Quartet

Friday, January 26, 2024 at 7:30 pm

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.

Please note our new venue for the 2024 season:

All recitals at St. John’s Anglican Cathedral,
816 Spadina Cres. East

Please use the northwest doors for entry. Paid parking is available behind the Cathedral; street parking is also available.