TO Summer Music
Wu’s Tai Chi Chuan Academy, Toronto
Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan – traditional martial arts for health and self-defense
The Wu’s Tai Chi Chuan Academy, Toronto will be performing with the Ironwood Quartet at the Toronto Summer Music Festival!
Tuesday July 11, 2023, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
University of Toronto Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building
80 Queens Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C5
For Tickets: Select Your Seats | The Royal Conservatory of Music (rcmusic.com)
Ironwood Quartet:
Jessica Linnebach, violin
Emily Kruspe, violin
Carissa Klopoushak, viola
Rachel Mercer, cello
Program:
Evan Mitchell: Wu Style – Music for 13 Form Spear (World Premiere)
Kevin Lau: String Quartet No. 4 (World Premiere)
Murray Schafer: String Quartet No. 6, “Parting Wild Horse’s Mane”
Alexina Louie: Music for Fast Form and Double Sword (World Premiere)
Toronto Academy:
Jonathan Krehm, Dave Robert, Evonne Tan
A unique, multi-disciplined, and all-Canadian event! The members of the Ironwood Quartet are joined by Tai Chi Chuan players including prize-winner Jonathan Krehm, David Robert, and Evonne Tan in a combined ode to the Chinese martial art and to Canadian artistry. Premiere works by Evan Mitchell, Kevin Lau, and Alexina Louie, alongside a performance of Parting Wild Horse’s Mane by one of Canada’s most widely-known composers, R. Murray Schafer, frame Tai Chi Chuan demonstrations of forms and weapons in this mesmerizing performance.
“Having performed this Schafer quartet as a Tai Chi Chuan player,” Jonathan Krehm writes, “I was inspired to commission the other music in this program. Combining the two arts that are the main inspirations in my life was a unique opportunity. I wanted to showcase the energy and elegance of the powerful martial art I have studied for 45 years with the drama it inspired in these composers. Accompanying these forms with art music written by Canadians is a multicultural exercise that is what I like best about what Canada has become: a place that welcomes and honours different cultures, a place where they thrive.”
For Tickets: Select Your Seats | The Royal Conservatory of Music (rcmusic.com)
WU’S TAI CHI CHUAN ACADEMY, TORONTO