PROGRAM

Maurice Ravel - Valses Nobles et Sentimentales

Dmitri Shostakovich - Preludes and Fugues
no. 1 - C major
no. 15 - D-flat Major

Frédéric Chopin [masked])
Nocturne in C-sharp minor Op. 27 no 1 (1835)
Nocturne in B Major Op. 62 no. 1 (1846)
Waltz in A flat major Op. 42 (1840)

INTERMISSION

Franz Schubert, Sonata in G Major, D. 894

Pianist Rosemary O’Connor is an avid solo and chamber musician who collaborates regularly with members of the VSO and Opera orchestras and co-produces and performs regularly at the Evergreen Cultural Centre’s Chamber Music Series as a member of the Quiring Chamber Players with her husband , violist Reg Quiring. In this capacity she has performed with guest artists such as Ian Swensen, Anita Krause, Dale Barlthrop , Francois Houle, Andrew Dawes, Catherine French, and members of the St. Lawrence Quartet. Rosemary’s CD recording (ORF label) of Austrian composer Richard Stoehr’s piano music was featured on CBC Radio’s Espace Musique with Alain Lefevre as well as CFRO’s “West Coast Classics”, and ORF Radio in Vienna. She has also produced a CD of viola and piano works as a member of Davidsbündler Duo.

Rosemary has performed solo and chamber music concerts in the US, Canada, Germany, Lithuania, Brussels, Portugal and Italy. Her concerto appearances have elicited reviews such as “ Pianist defines Beethoven” in her performance of Beethoven’s 4th Concerto (Redlands Symphony) and “She brought audible reactions and a standing ovation with the energy of her performance” in Mozart’s Concerto K. 482 with original cadenzas (San Bernardino Symphony). Other concerts include Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Music at the Vinyards in Napa Valley, Pender Harbor Festival BC, Chintimini Chamber Music Festival in Oregon, Sundays at 4 from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Midi de Minimes festival in Brussels, Alora Festival in Ontario.

Rosemary’s love for teaching is inspired by her wonderfully varied mentors who include John Perry (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) . Nelita True (Eastman School of Music Rochester New York), Robert Levin (Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany) , Tibor Szasz (Musikhochschule Freiburg) and Vitaly Margulis (University of California, Los Angeles). She held teaching Assistantships at Eastman School and UCLA, and has taught on the faculties at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and Pasadena Conservatory of Music.

Rosemary currently teaches at the VSO School of Music and at her home studio in Coquitlam. For the past five years she has been the Director of the Quiring Chamber Music Camp which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2019.