We are excited to announce our 2024/25 season of Music At Wentworth Villa! Once again, we are fortunate to have booked top-notch performers. Please consider joining us for all seven concerts. Save these dates, or consider purchasing a Season Pass, which affords a $40 saving. As usual, all performances will be on Sunday afternoons, starting at our regular time of 2:30 pm, except for our Christmas concert, which is on a Saturday afternoon.
We will be following our established format of two 35-minute halves, with a 20-minute intermission. Our performers will introduce their programs as they go, and there will be a chance to ask questions in a short Q and A at the end of the concert, after the encores.
Many thanks to our sponsors Burkett & Co. for their support, and to Tom Lee Music for loaning us the beautiful piano. Please support Music At Wentworth Villa and please pass on the link to your friends!
Venner Quartet
– SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20TH AT 2:30 PM
This exciting, newly-formed quartet is comprised of extremely experienced players, three of whom have already played in our series, and one who is making their Wentworth Villa debut! They will present an uplifting program to begin our new season with works by Zemlinsky, Schubert, Dvorak, and Piazzolla.
Joan Blackman (violin), Paule Prefontaine (violin), David Stewart (viola), Amy Laing (cello)
Songs for Tenor and Piano
– SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH AT 2:30 PM
Tenor Benjamin Butterfield and collaborative pianist Robert Holliston return by popular request to present Robert Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe Op. 48, and Winter Words Op. 52 by Benjamin Britten
Octet Victoria – Christmas at Wentworth Villa
– SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7TH AT 2:30 PM
Experience some well-loved familiar, and less familiar Christmas choral music performed by an ensemble of eight exciting, young professional singers!
Shoko Inoue, Piano
– SUNDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 2025, AT 2:30 PM
Celebrate the New Year with prize-winning concert pianist Shoko Inoue.
Duo Concertante – Romancing the Rock
– SUNDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 2025 AT 2:30 PM
The long-established and highly renowned JUNO-winning Duo Concertante will present a program of works for violin and piano by Beethoven, Maier, Franck, and a newly commissioned work by Canadian composer Luis Ramirez.
Nancy Dahn (violin), Timothy Steeves (piano)
Penderecki Quartet
– SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH, 2025 AT 2:30 PM
Celebrating their 36th anniversary, the JUNO award-winning Quartet in Residence at Wilfred Laurier University will play a program to include quartets by Haydn, Brahms, and Debussy.
Jeremy Bell (violin), Jerzy Kalanek (violin), Christine Vlajik (viola), Katie Schlaikjer (cello)
Baroque Smorgasbord for Spring
– SUNDAY, MAY 25TH, 2025 AT 2:30 PM
An uplifting program of baroque works to celebrate the joy of springtime, given by a trio of top baroque specialists.
Christi Meyers (violin), Chloe Meyers (violin), Alexander Weimann (harpsichord)
