O F F C E N T R E M U S I C . C O M

INTIMATE ARTISTRY ARTISTS

THERE IS SOMETHING QUITE EXTRAORDINARY

ABOUT TURNING 22.

Of course the number itself is a palindrome – and

only the second one in Off Centre history. While we

are certainly not mathematicians, even we cannot

help but take note of the amazing coincidence: 2+2

= 2 x 2 = 22 = FOUR. What an incredible number!! And, as if that wasn’t enough, our first grandson was

born this past year on the 4th day of the month. How

could we not be smitten?

Four memories. Four seasons. Four winds. Four

cardinal points. Four-part harmony. Four hands. We are fascinated by this mysterious number. On the

fourth day of Creation, the stars appear… and in this

our 22nd season, we are feeling that our own stars

are aligning with four exciting programs that we

cannot wait to share with you.

This season, Off Centre Music Salon continues to curate

intimate concerts that tell a story and create personal

connection for audience and performer alike. We are

thrilled to be welcoming you back to the atmosphere

of the 19th Century Viennese Salon, but here, in our

Toronto home at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.

Inna Perkis and Boris ZarankinFOUNDERS AND ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENTPaul Truelove

PRESIDENT EMERITUSJohn D. McKellar, C.M., Q.C.

DEVELOPMENT OFFICERJoseph Macerollo, O.C.

MEMBERSEarl BarnsleyAlex Carswell

Isabel Bayrakdarian Michèle Bogdanowicz Russell Braun Ben Carlson

Lucia Cesaroni Lara Dodds-Eden Igor Gefter Deborah Hay

Joni Henson Adrian Kramer Peter McGillivray Maeve Palmer

Inna Perkis Ernesto Ramirez Mark Skazinetzky Giles Tomkins

Kathryn Tremills

Julia Zarankin

William Webster Boris Zarankin Ilana Zarankin

Pam and Ted MindenRoger MooreFlavia MordenKatalin ShaferPaul TrueloveNina and John Varga

Eyal KatzGil KatzTaketo MurataEva Saxell

PHOTOGRAPHEROlga Fershaloff

OUR SPONSORSAnna and Leslie DanVreni and Mark DucommunJackie and Horatio KemenyNezhat Khosrowshahi

HONOR ARY PATRON

VALERY GERGIEV | GENERAL AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Mari insky (Kirov) Theatre, St . Petersburg (Russia)

22ND ANNIVERSARY SEASON

2016/2017

Sustaining Season Sponsors: Jackie and Horatio Kemeny

Founders and Artistic Directors:

INNA PERKIS and BORIS ZARANKIN

22nd ANNUAL SCHUBERTIAD: 4 MEMORIES

TOUR DE 4...CE!SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 | 3PM SUNDAY JUNE 4, 2017 | 3PM

We remember our beloved Franz Schubert through the

eyes of his friends and contemporaries Franz von Schober,

Leopold Kupelwieser and Josef von Spaun. The concert’s

fourth memory is Schubert’s own – a musical one – in the

form of his Fantasia for four hands in F minor.

“Oh hallowed Art, how often, when depression and life’s wild circle had ensnared my space, have you aroused my heart to love’s compassion, have you removed me to a better place!” - Franz von Schober

Four singers, four hands and two of the most exciting love-song

cycles… Now that is an equation worth pondering! Schumann’s

Spanische Liebeslieder and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer sung by

some of our favourite voices.

OFF CENTRE PERFORMANCES TAKE PLACE AT

Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre

427 Bloor Street West

on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm

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PLEASE NOTEOn the day of the concert, any remaining tickets will go on sale

at 2:00 pm in the lobby of Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.

“And the town is frozen solid in a vice, Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass.”

- Anna Akhmatova

WITH:

Michèle Bogdanowicz, mezzo soprano | Lucia Cesaroni, soprano Lara Dodds-Eden, piano | Adrian Kramer, tenor Peter McGillivray, baritone | Inna Perkis, piano | Boris Zarankin, piano

WITH:

Maeve Palmer, soprano | Inna Perkis, piano | Giles Tomkins, bass-baritone Kathryn Tremills, piano | William Webster, actor | Boris Zarankin, piano

WITH

Igor Gefter, cello | Joni Henson, soprano | Inna Perkis, piano Mark Skazinetsky, violin | Boris Zarankin, piano | Ilana Zarankin, soprano

WITH

Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano | Russell Braun, baritone | Ben Carlson, actor Deborah Hay, actor | Inna Perkis, piano | Ernesto Ramirez, tenorBoris Zarankin, piano | Ilana Zarankin, soprano

RUSSIAN SALON: 4 SEASONS OF MOTHER RUSSIA

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2016 | 3PM

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A MUSICAL INVASION OF PARIS: THE MIGHTY 4

SUNDAY APRIL 2, 2017 | 3PM

In the words of Audrey Hepburn: “Paris is always a good idea.”

Our unlikely, but “mighty” four – Chopin, Wagner, Rossini

and Meyerbeer – certainly thought so. Our programme will

include Chopin’s twelve op. 28 Preludes, a piano four-hand

arrangement of Wagner’s Tannhäuser Ouverture as well as

beloved scenes from Rossini and Meyerbeer operas.

IF WIND AND WATER COULD WRITE MUSIC

-Yehudi Menuhin

WHEN AUTUMN COMES, I BLOOM ANEW…THE RUSSIAN FROST DOES WONDERS FOR MY HEALTH!

-Alexander Pushkin

AN ARTIST HAS NO HOME IN EUROPE EXCEPT IN PARIS

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“ “Oh summer fair! I would love you too, except for the heat and dust and gnats and flies…”

- Alexander Pushkin

“ “You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.”

- Robert Schumann

“Nightingales, a sigh, a whisper In a shady nook And the lullaby in silver Of a lazy brook.”

- Afanasy Fet

“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”

- Johannes Brahms

Featuring songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and

the Toronto premiere of Valery Gavrilin’s extraordinary song cycle

“Seasons”, as well as Arensky’s Piano Trio in D minor (op. 32).