Lara St. John, A HIGHLIGHT OF THE SERENATA MUSIC SEASON.
We anticipated a spectacular performance of Avner Dorman's Violin concerto No.2, Nigunim, by St. John and were not disappointed. The work varies from quiet understated moments to wild Gypsy and Klezmer like fiddling. Her encore with bassist Joe Phillips and cellist Ben Bolt-Martin wowed the audience with their improvisations.
Nicholas Ellis' thoughtful interpretation of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream overture and Copeland's Appalachian Springs Suite added to the musicality of evening.
We now look forward to our final presentation, April 18, Tom Allen will provide the commentary for The Brahms Effect. Clarinetist Graham Lord and the London Symphonia String Quartet, Joe Lanza, violin, Emile Pare, violin, Kelvin Enns, viola, and Ben Bolt-Martin will perform the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and other pieces.
We look forward to seeing you during this exciting season.
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See our concert listings on the right for more good music in the London area.
We encourage you to tell your friends to follow us at serenatamusic.com. They can receive our email notices if they send us a note to serenatamusic@gmail.com or call us at 519-852 8332.
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The Serenata Music schedule for 2025-26 is as follows:
Saturday, October 4, 2025. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church,
London Symphonia, Mozart, Ravel, and beyond. David Jalbert, piano.
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Friday, November 14, 12:30 to 2:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. The Musicians from Marlboro. Free concert.
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Saturday, January 17, 2026, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia, The Ancient Flame. Lara St. John, violin.
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Saturday, April 18, 2026. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. The Brahms Effect with Tom Allen, narrator, Graham Lord, clarinet.
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Please contact us if you are not on our mailing list at serenatamusic@gmail.com or 519-433-8332.
For tickets to all Serenata Music concerts scroll down.
Like us on Facebook: Serenata Music; or Twitter: @serenataconcerts.
Serenata Music concerts are at the von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, Western.
London Symphonia Concerts are at the Metropolitan United Church, 468 Wellington St., London.
Other performances are at the Wolf Performance Hall, London Public Library, 251 Dundas St.
We anticipated a spectacular performance of Avner Dorman's Violin concerto No.2, Nigunim, by St. John and were not disappointed. The work varies from quiet understated moments to wild Gypsy and Klezmer like fiddling. Her encore with bassist Joe Phillips and cellist Ben Bolt-Martin wowed the audience with their improvisations.
Nicholas Ellis' thoughtful interpretation of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream overture and Copeland's Appalachian Springs Suite added to the musicality of evening.
We now look forward to our final presentation, April 18, Tom Allen will provide the commentary for The Brahms Effect. Clarinetist Graham Lord and the London Symphonia String Quartet, Joe Lanza, violin, Emile Pare, violin, Kelvin Enns, viola, and Ben Bolt-Martin will perform the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and other pieces.
We look forward to seeing you during this exciting season.
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See our concert listings on the right for more good music in the London area.
We encourage you to tell your friends to follow us at serenatamusic.com. They can receive our email notices if they send us a note to serenatamusic@gmail.com or call us at 519-852 8332.
********************
The Serenata Music schedule for 2025-26 is as follows:
Saturday, October 4, 2025. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church,
London Symphonia, Mozart, Ravel, and beyond. David Jalbert, piano.
******************
Friday, November 14, 12:30 to 2:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. The Musicians from Marlboro. Free concert.
******************
Saturday, January 17, 2026, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia, The Ancient Flame. Lara St. John, violin.
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Saturday, April 18, 2026. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. The Brahms Effect with Tom Allen, narrator, Graham Lord, clarinet.
*************************************
Please contact us if you are not on our mailing list at serenatamusic@gmail.com or 519-433-8332.
For tickets to all Serenata Music concerts scroll down.
Like us on Facebook: Serenata Music; or Twitter: @serenataconcerts.
Serenata Music concerts are at the von Kuster Hall, Don Wright Faculty of Music, Western.
London Symphonia Concerts are at the Metropolitan United Church, 468 Wellington St., London.
Other performances are at the Wolf Performance Hall, London Public Library, 251 Dundas St.
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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Biographies
Jan Lisiecki, piano
Jan Lisiecki, piano, plays Chopin, Messiaen, Bach, and Mozart.
We were pleased to welcome 17 year old Canadian pianist, Jan Lisiecki, back to London in 2012. following a wonderful appearance with Orchestra London this year and a concert at the Stratford Summer Music Festival. Jan has recently recorded two Mozart concertos under Maestro Christian Zacharias with the Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks with Deutche Grammaphon. Born in Calgary, Jan has appeared around the world with orchestras and with the New Zealand String Quartet, Quatuor Ãbène, and the Penderecki String Quartet.
He returned to our stage in January of 2017 and thrilled the audience with performances of the Bach, Partita No.3 in A Minor, Schumann, Klavierstücke, Chopin, Scherzo No.1 in B Minor, and Nocturnes, Schubert, Impromptus.
On March 2, 2019, Jan graced us again with a program of Ravel, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Chopin. This was after he had won a Juno award in 2018 and preceded by one week the 2019 Juno awards that were presented in London.
He returned to our stage in January of 2017 and thrilled the audience with performances of the Bach, Partita No.3 in A Minor, Schumann, Klavierstücke, Chopin, Scherzo No.1 in B Minor, and Nocturnes, Schubert, Impromptus.
On March 2, 2019, Jan graced us again with a program of Ravel, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Chopin. This was after he had won a Juno award in 2018 and preceded by one week the 2019 Juno awards that were presented in London.