Bass Impact

Sunday, November 25, 2007
1:00pm
Erb Street Mennonite Church, 131 Erb St. W, Waterloo

Admission: free

Bass Impact is supported by the generosity of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.

This concert features Bass Impact, a local bass clarinet duo, as well as premier of a piano and vocal composition from the CFMTA Cross Canada Performance.

Programme
For Us	Aris Carastathis
Dance of the Loons (piano premiere)*	Lilian Safdie
Lullaby of the Iroquis (vocal premiere)*	Ernst Schneider
Eurhythmy	Peter Hatch
Incantations (premiere)	Todd Harrop
Overture from "The Triumph of Love"	Boyd McDonald

*Guest performers:
Darren Durocher, piano and Arielle Fortier-Lazure, voice


BASS IMPACT
Bass Impact is an exciting and innovative bass clarinet duo that is comprised of Kathryn Ladano and Tilly Kooyman.  As advocates of Canadian music, Bass Impact has commissioned and premiered a number of new works by some of Canada’s most prominent composers.  In 2005 Bass Impact made its international debut at the World Bass Clarinet Convention in Rotterdam, Holland performing an entirely Canadian programme.  The duo has also performed at various Canadian venues such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society concert series, ‘Sundays at the Centre’ series in Guelph, the Cambridge Galleries Performance Series, and the noon-hour series at the University of Waterloo, University of Guelph and the University of Western Ontario.  Later this season Bass Impact is looking forward to releasing its first CD.


Tilly Kooyman
Tilly is an active solo, chamber and orchestral musician with a special interest in contemporary music.  She has performed across Canada and toured Japan with the Higashi-Hiroshima Clarinet Ensemble.  This past summer, Tilly and poet/actor Rae Crossman were invited to perform at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest in Vancouver.  Tilly can be heard on four compact discs of music by Canadian composers and has premiered many new works that have been broadcast on CBC's Two New Hours and on West German Radio.  She has worked with renowned Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer for twenty years and has performed in many of his unique multi-disciplinary works of the Patria Cycle.Tilly's education includes a Master of Music degree in performance from the University of Western Ontario, an Associateship from the Royal Conservatory of Music and advanced studies at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts.  A former student of James Campbell and Robert Riseling, she has also studied ‘Deep Listening’ with Pauline Oliveros and free improvisation with Casey Sokol.


Kathryn Ladano
Kathryn Ladano MMus is one of Canada's premiere bass clarinettists. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across Canada and has been featured on CBC radio and in print and television across the country. Several works have been written for her over the past few years from some of Canada's most distinguished composers. Kathryn holds a masters degree in bass clarinet performance from the University of Calgary (studying under Stan Climie), and an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of Waterloo (studying under Tilly Kooyman). In 2004, Kathryn was a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant which allowed her to study with world renowned bass clarinettist Lori Freedman in Montreal. Kathryn has performed as a soloist at the Calgary New Music Festival, Calgary's Nach Hause concert series, the University of Waterloo and University of Guelph noon hour series' the Calgary high performance rodeo, the KW Chamber Music Society concert series, Toronto's Leftover Daylight series, the Guelph 'Sunday's at the Centre' series and at Calgary's Beat Niq jazz club. In 2006 Kathryn founded the KW Improvisers Collective (KWIC) with fellow musician Ted Harms. KWIC's mandate is to work to promote improvising musicians, and the improvised music scene in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.