Southminster Music for Charity and Community Concert Series 2009-2010

Upcoming Concerts

Duets on a Sunday Afternoon
Sunday April 25th, 2010 - 2:30 pm
Please come and celebrate an afternoon of charming piano excellence with Canada's premier heart surgeon/concert pianist Marc Ruel and Francoise Ruel. This concert is in support of the Ottawa Heart Institute and supported by the Alumni. Repertoire by Chopin (200th birth anniversary), Beethoven and Schubert. Famous selections.

Mother's Day Music Hall
Sunday May 9th, 2010 - 2:30 pm
We finish our season with a wonderful charming afternoon with Ottawa's own Garth Hampson (baritone) and Evelyn Greenburg (piano) with an inaugural appearance of Kitchener's lady of song and laughs, Sue Doran. This should prove huge fun for all of us in an afternoon to support the piano fund for SMCC. Come and laugh and cry at these wonderful iconic Canadian performers!

L'elisir d'amore (in concert)
Sunday February 14th, 2010 - 2:30 pm
Donizetti's tremendous comic opera will be presented in this concert version, from artistic and musical director Esther Gonthier, with Maria Knapik (Adina), Taras Kulish (Dulcamara), Alexander Dobson (Belcore), Mariateresa Magisano (Giannetta) and Fraser Rubens (Nemorino). But the greatest gift is our narrator, who will enthral you!

Debussy in Italy
Sunday November 8th, 2009 - 2:30 pm
We are honoured to sponsor a concert featuring the famed Sicilian pianist Laura Nocchiero with special guest sopranos Maghan McPhee and Maria Knapik, with violinist Janice Mah. We welcome our friends and charity sponsors Mentorship-After-Presence (MAP) and Out of the Cold Suppers to this great event.

Chansons d'amour
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 7:30 pm
SMCC is proud to sponsor a concert by one of Ottawa's most prestigious choirs led by Robert Filion. The De la Salle choral program has won acclaim for its tremendous accomplishments at home and abroad. This wonderful day of music development for the choir will culminate in a thrilling concert with emcee Julie Nesrallah (CBC Tempo) and guest piano performance of vocal professor and maestro Neil Semer of New York.

Songs of Travel
Monday, October 19th, 2009 - 7:30 pm
Join us for our season premiere featuring music of Vaughan Williams, Finzi and Corigliano, set to poetry of Shakespeare and Robert Louis Stevenson. With Matthew Larkin (piano), Fraser Rubens (tenor) and David Thies-Thompson (violin). In support of Christ Church Cathedral's men and boys choir. We are honoured to have this concert supported by the official patronage of the British High Commissioner, his excellency Mr. Anthony Cary and Mrs. Clare Cary.

Venue

- Southminster Church, 15 Aylmer Street, Ottawa (613-730-6874)
- Ottawa Folklore Centre 1111 Bank Street, Ottawa
- L'Arche-Ottawa Centre 11 Rossland, Ottawa (613-228-7136)
- Free parking at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada located just East of Southminster Church on the other side of Bank Street.