Free noonhour concerts Thursdays at Glenn Gould Studio

The November 19, 2006 broadcast of Music Around Us on Radio Two will feature Joseph Salvalaggio, oboe, with Peter Longworth, piano and the Tokai String Quartet.

The production will be taped live on Thursday November 9.

Beverley Lewis
He sits, spinning
(oboe, piano)

Lothar Klein
(1932-2004)
À la Rossini: Quodlibet for oboe on motives from The Barber of Seville
(oboe, piano)

Marjan Mozetich
(b. 1948)
Calla Lilies (from Oboe Concerto)
(oboe, string quartet)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Quartet in F for oboe and strings, K. 370
i. Allegro
ii. Adagio
iii. Rondeau: allegro
(oboe, string quartet)

Antonio Pasculli
(1842-1924)
Gran Concerto on Themes from Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani
(oboe, piano)

Joseph Salvalaggio, who is making a return visit to this series, began playing the oboe at fifteen and has studied at the Interlochen Academy for the Arts, McGill University and the University of Toronto. He has spent summers at the Banff Centre and as a member of the National Youth Orchestra and Hamilton's National Academy Orchestra. He has held positions with the Thunder Bay and Windsor Symphonies and has played with the National Arts Centre, Canadian Opera Company, and the National Ballet as well as the Key West Symphony in Florida.

In demand as soloist, Mr. Salvalaggio has performed with the Monroe Symphony in Louisiana, the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, Toronto's Sinfonia of Nations, the Windsor Symphony, the Canadian Chamber Academy Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and the Memphis Symphony. An active supporter of Canadian composers, he has premiered works by Beverly Lewis, Lothar Klein, Elizabeth Raum, Eric Ross and Christos Hatzis. His recent concert schedule has led to invitations to perform at the conventions of the International Double reed Society in Banff, Greensboro, NC, Austin TX, and Muncie, Indiana. Currently he plays principal oboe with the Memphis Symphony and with Oregon's Britt Music Festival.

An acclaimed solo performer, chamber musician and teacher, Peter Longworth is also making a return visit to this New Generation series. He has performed in Canada, the United States and Europe. He has been soloist with the Chicago Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic and other Canadian orchestras. He has appeared at the Caramoor Music Festival (New York), was artist-in-residence and featured soloist at the Icicle Creek Music Festival (Washington), and plays annually at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. He is a founding member of the Duke Trio which has performed in New York, Chicago and throughout Canada. He is heard often on CBC and his recordings include a collaboration with cellist Amanda Forsyth and a forthcoming Duke Trio recording of Shostakovich and Copland. He teaches at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, maintains a private studio, and is in demand as chamber coach and adjudicator at competitions and festivals. He began his piano studies in Brussels and completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory with Marek Jablonski, Leon Fleisher and Marc Durand.

This is the Tokai String Quartet's third appearance in this series. The Quartet had its beginnings in 2002 while three of its members were students at the University of Toronto, where the Quartet benefited from the guidance of the late Lorand Fenyves. This year the Tokai Quartet was ensemble-in-residence on the faculties of the Silver Creek Summer Music School at the University of Toronto and the Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute. In 2003 they were recipients of the Felix Galimir Award, the University of Toronto's highest award for chamber music. This led to a short concert tour of performances in collaboration with Scott St John, Douglas MacNabney and the St Lawrence Quartet. The following year the Tokai Quartet went on to receive the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Award for Young Canadian Chamber Music Ensembles, which has facilitated their participation in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and at the Stanford Summer Music Festival. They were further distinguished by the award of a Debut concert fully funded by the Frederick Gaviller Music Foundation, which took place in April 2005. Most recently, Debut Atlantic awarded them an extensive concert tour of Atlantic Canada, which will take place in the spring of 2007.