SERENATA MUSIC CONTINUES ITS COLLABORATION WITH LONDON SYMPHONIA AND THE DON WRIGHT FACULTY OF MUSIC.

We want to remind you that Serenata Music is still active in promoting good music for London and district audiences. Since the COVID epidemic we have reduced our efforts to produce regular chamber music concerts and concentrated on supporting outstanding guest artists with the London Symphonia and the Don Wright Faculty of Music. The concerts with Stewart Goodyear, James Ehnes, Janina Fialkowsaka, and Forbidden Music as well as the Musicians from Marlboro were all great successes.
We continue with two concerts at the Metropolitan United Church in 2025. On February 1, Rei Hotoda will conduct the London Symphonia in A New Moon Celebration featuring Scott St. John, violin and Lina Cao, gusheng. On April 5 Tania Miller will conduct the London Symphonia with guest violinist Kerson Leong in a performance of the Beethoven violin concerto.
The Musicians from Marlboro will return on February 14 to the von Kuster Hall, Western, for their third appearance under our sponsorship.
We look forward to seeing you soon. We encourage you to tell your friends to follow us at serenatamusic.com where we list all the interesting musical events in the London area for 2024-25. They can receive our email notices if they send us a note to serenatamusic@gmail.com or call us at 519-433 8332.
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See Concert Listings on the right column.
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The Serenata Music schedule for 2024-25 is as follows:

Saturday, February 1, 2025, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. Serenata Music will sponsor Rei Hotoda conducting the London Symphonia in A New Moon Celebration featuring Scott St. John, violin and Lina Cao, gusheng,
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Friday, February 14, 2025, von Kuster Hall, Western. Serenata Music in collaboration with the Don Wright Faculty of Music will sponsor the Musicians from Marlboro.
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Saturday, April 5, 2025, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. Serenata Music will sponsor Tania Miller conducting the London Symphonia with violinist Kerson Leong playing the Beethoven violin concerto.
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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.



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Past Concerts

Friday, November 10, 2023
Musicians from Marlboro in association with the Don Wright Faculty of Music. von Kuster Hall, Western.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Forbidden Music with the London Symphonia String Quartet and Tom Allen, Narrator, Metropolitan United Church
Saturday, May 20, 2023
JAMES EHNES, Violin, Presented by London Symphony and Serenata Music, Brahms violin concerto and Bethoven second Symphony conducted by Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser.
Saturday, April 30,2022
Stewart Goodyear, piano. Presented by Serenata Music and London Symphonia. Works by Gershwin Goodyear, Aaron Copland, and Scott Good.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Songs of London Poetry and Painting. With Oliver Whitehead, guitar, Stephen Holowitz, piano, Christine Newland, cello, Ingrid Crozman, flute, Sonja Gustafson, soprano, Adam Iannetta, baritone.
Saturday, November 23, 2019 Trio Tangere
Trio Tangere, Louis Trepanier, Jerome Ducharme, guitars, Marc Djokic, violin.
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Clarinetist Charles Neidich and Pianist Mariko Furukawa
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Jan Lisiecki, piano. Ravel, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and Chopin.
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Baroque Music in the London Theatre
Joseph Lanza, violin, Kate Helsen, alto, Heather Brandon-De Souza, soprano, Ariel Harwood Jones, soprano, Sharang Sharma, tenor, Brian McMillan, Bass, Sarah Wiebe, violin, John Wiebe, viola, Joel Tangjerd, cello, Joseph Phillips, bass violin, Borys Medicky, keyboards.
Handel, Purcell, and others.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Encore Made in Canada
The Mosäique project; 14 piano quartets by 14 Canadian Composers. Schumann, Piano Quartet in E Flat Major
Saturday, April 27, 2018
Special Concert. Anastasia Rizikov, piano, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Ravel.
Saturday, March 17, 2018
The London Connection 3, with Scott St. John, violin, Katie McBean, viola, Fiona Robson, cello, Joe Philips, double bass, and Angela Park, piano. Schubert, String Trio in B-flat; Fantasy for Violin & Piano; and the Trout Quintet.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Tom Allen, CBC Broacaster and Storyteller, and Lori Gemmell, harp. "The Death of Hercules: Greek Mythology in Story and Music" Marjan Mozetich, Songs of Nymphs, R. Murray Schafer, The Crowne of Ariadne.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
The Clarion Quartet, The Terezin Project. Works by Composers Banned by the Nazis. Schulhoff, Five Pieces for String Quartet, Ullmann, String Quartet No.3, Korngold, String Quartet No.3.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
David Jalbert, piano. Schubert, Four Impromptus, Prokofiev, Sonata No.2 in D Minor, Schuman, Waldszen, Stravinsky, Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka.
Saturday May 6, 2017
Sarah Davis Buechner, piano. Mozart, Fantasy in D Minor; Sonata in D Major "Durnitz", Chopin, Introduction and Rondo in E Flat Major, Ibert, Histoires for piano, Taku, Variations on a Theme of Poulenc.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Tribute to London Master Organ Builder Gabriel Kney, with Angus Sinclair and Michael Bloss on the Kney Organ. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in G Minor; Passaglia, Prelude in E Flat Major, "St. Anne"; Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, Cook, Scherzo from 5 Studies in the Form of a Sonata, Cabnena, Homage I, X. Hughe's Hornpipe; Homage VII, III: Anton's Aria, I: Gabriel's Trumpet.
Saturday, February 17, 2017
Jan Lisiecki, piano. Bach, Partita No.3 in A Minor, Schumann, Klavierstücke, Chopin, Scherzo No.1 in B Minor, and Nocturnes, Schubert, Impromptus.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Joel Quarrington, double bass, Peter Longworth, piano. Schubert, Sonatine in D Major, Bach, Cello Suite #6 in D Major, Korngold, Garden Scene, Schubert, Sonatina in A Minor "Arpeggionne".
Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 8 P.M.
Scott St.John, violin, James Sommerville, French horn, Peter Longworth, piano. P. Dukas, Villanelle. C. Gounod, Melodies. V. Fung, Bounce. M. Bitsch, Variations sur Une Chanson Francaise. J. Brahms, Horn Trio in E flat Major, Op.40.
Sunday, May 15. 2016, 3 P.M.
An Afternoon of Jazz with
The LARA SOLNICKI QUARTET with award winning singer LARA SOLNICKI vocals, TED QUINLAN, guitar, GEORGE KOLLER, bass and ETHAN ARDELLI, drums.
Saturday, February 28, 2016, 8 P.M.
Anastasia Rizikov
F. Chopin- Ballade No. 1 and Ballade No. 4. S. Prokofiev- Sonata No. 2, F. Liszt- Ballade No. 2, M. Ravel- Gaspard de la Nuit, A. Scriabin- Sonata No. 4 . F. Chopin- Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 and Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52. S. Prokofiev- Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14. F. Liszt- Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171. M. Ravel- Gaspard de la Nuit: Ondine, le Gibet, et Scarbo. A. Scriabin- Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30
Saturday, January 16, 2016
The London Connection 2
Joe Lanza, violin, Scott St. John, violin, viola, Christine Newland, cello, Andrew Chung, violin, and Graham Lord, clarinet play Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major and Brahms' string quartet no.3 in B flat major.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Anastasia Rizikov, piano and Mary-Elizabeth Brown, violin, playing Schnittke, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev.
Saturday, October 31, 2015, 8 P.M.
The Canadian Guitar Quartet, featuring Julien Bissaillon, Renaud Côté-Giguère, Bruno Roussel and Louis Trépanier.
Saturday, May 2, 2015, 8 P.M.
Alon Goldstein, piano, in a program bridging the gap between the Romantic and the Modern musical periods. Works by Shubert, Liszt, Janáček, and Debussy provide an eclectic survey of where music was heading prior to the disrupting events of the first half of the 20th century.
Saturday, January 10, 2015, 8 P.M.
The London Connection
Six Musical Artists well known to London audiences; Ian Franklin, oboe, Mary Beth Brown, violin, Sharon Wei, viola, Jeremy Hake, cello, Josh Grunmann, Ron George, French horn, will play a variety of music suited to various instrumental combinations by Britten, Reineke, Loeffler and Mozart.
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Quartetto Gelato, Music with grace and humour
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Jazz for the age: a tribute to the jazz legends: Alain Trudel, trombone. Gene Di Novi, piano, Niel Swainson, bass, Ted Warren, drums
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Anastasia Rizikov, Pianist, in a program of Bach, Mussorgsy, Grieg, and Balakirev
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 8 P.M.
The EYBLER QUARTET in a program exploring early contributions to the quartet repertoire.
Saturday, November 9, 2013, 8 P.M. -
MOSHE HAMMER, violin, WINONA ZELENKA, cello, JOSHUA GRUNMANN, piano, in a recital commemorating the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a special program co-sponsored by the London Jewish Community Center. The program, "Banned Composers, Forbidden Music"
Saturday, October 19, 2013, 8 P.M.
TRIPLE FORTE, Beethoven "Archduke" trio and Dvorak "Dumky"
Saturday, March 23, 2013
ERIKA RAUM, violin, STEPHAN SYLVESTRE, piano
Beethoven, Janacek, Daniel, Prokofiev
Saturday, January 19, 2013
JULIAN MILKIS, clarinet, FIONA WU, piano.
Bach and Beyond
Sunday, November 25, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
DON THOMPSON, piano & bass, GUIDO BASSO, flugelhorn, REG SCHWAGER, guitar, DIANA PANTON, vocal
Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon
Friday, September 21, 2012, 8:00 p.m.
JAN LISIECKI, piano
Sunday, May 20, 2012, 3 P.M.
Trio Desiree, Coenraad Bloemendal, cello, Erica Goodman, harp, Desiree Till, soprano, and Don Thompson, piano.
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 8 P.M.
Alain Trudel, Trombone and friends.
Sunday, January 15, 2012, 3P.M.
Charles Neidich, Clarinet, Mariko Furukawa, Piano.
Sunday, November 29, 2011, 3 P.M.
David Jalbert, piano
Sunday, November 13, 2011, 3 P.M.
Anastasia Rizikov, piano
Sunday, March 27, 2011, 3:00PM
Sergiu Schwartz, Violin, Joshua Grunmann, Piano.
Sunday, November 7, 2010, 3:00PM
Anton Kuerti, Piano.
Sunday, October 3, 2010, 7:30PM
Olivier Chauzu, Piano.
Sunday, May 9, 2010, 3:00PM
Sunday, April 25, 2010, 3:00PM
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 8:00PM
Les Violons du Roy.
Note: This concert will take place at First Saint Andrew's United Church, 350 Queens Avenue (at the corner of Waterloo Street)
Sunday, February 28, 2010, 3:00PM
Russell Braun, Baritone, Monica Whicher, Soprano, Carolyn Maule, Piano, Joshua Grunmann, Piano.
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 3:00PM
Sunday, May 10, 2009, 3:00PM
Friday, March 20, 2009, 8:30PM
Anton Kuerti, Piano and Kolja Lessing, Violin.
Sunday, February 15, 2009, 3:00PM
Sunday, January 18, 2009, 3:00PM
Anton Kuerti, Piano.
Sunday, November 16, 2008, 3:00PM
Inon Barnatan, Piano.
May 4, 2008
Coenraad Bloemendal, Cello, Erica Goodman, Harp, Suzanne Shulman, Flute
January 19, 2008
Eyal Ein Habar, Flute, Dudu Carmel, Oboe, Stéphan Sylvestre, Piano
December 1, 2007
Joseph Petric, Accordion, Normand Forget, Oboe.
October 28, 2007
Anton Kuerti, Piano.
May 20, 2007
Michal Beit-Halachmi, Clarinet, Noam Sivan, Piano.
January 28, 2007
Sara Davis Buechner, Piano.
November 25, 2006
Triple Forte: Jasper Wood, Violin, Yegor Dyachkov, Cello, David Jalbert, Piano.
October 15, 2006
Sergiu Schwartz, Violin, Ronald Turini, Piano.
It is with deepest sorrow that we note the untimely tragic death of Benjamin Rawitz, friend and artist, who was originally scheduled to perform in this recital.
September 10, 2006
April 30, 2006
Mary Lou Fallis, Soprano, Gary Relyea, Baritone, Joshua Grunmann, Piano, and friends
February 5, 2006
Joseph Petric, Accordion, and friends
November 13, 2005
Anita Krause, Mezzo-soprano, Andrew Tees, Baritone, Joshua Grunmann, Piano.
September 25, 2005
Anton Kuerti, Piano.
May 15, 2005
Monica Whicher, Soprano and Joshua Grunmann, Piano.
February 13, 2005
Madawaska String Quartet and Joshua Grunmann, Piano.
November 19, 2004
Vilma Indra Vitols, Mezzo-soprano and Joshua Grunmann, Piano.
September 12, 2004
Jackalyn Short, Soprano and Joshua Grunmann, Piano
Saturday, May 10, 2003
Theodore Baerg, baritone, Joshua Grunmann, piano