Academy Chamber Choir & Marcus Goddard, trumpet & Ellen Wang, organ
Don James, conductor
"...an evening of trumoet, organ & exhilerating vocal music..."
Saturday, November 9 at 8 PM ~ Academy Hall
[Program]
Admission $20 -
STUDENTS: 18 & under free with student ticket voucher (excluding Carols by Candlelight)
Tickets are available at the
Academy Box Office 7280 Kemano Street, Monday – Thursday 9:30 - 4:30
Tel 604 485 9633
And at the door 30 minutes before the concert
Marcus Goddard is the Associate Principal Trumpet with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and has performed with Vancouver New Music, Standing Wave, the Vancouver Opera, the CBC Orchestra and the VSO Brass Quintet. Recent performing highlights with the VSO include playing Mahler's Blumine movement from the First Symphony and the trumpet solo of Gyorgy Ligeti's virtuosic Mysteries of the Macabre. Goddard is a member of Vancouver's Turning Point Ensemble.
Goddard has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe. As principal trumpet of the Tenerife Symphony, he participated in a recording of Mahler's Third Symphony. He has held principal positions in the Owensboro Symphony, the Colombus, Indiana Philharmonic and has played Co-principal trumpet in the Spoleto Festival, the Aims Festival in Graz, Austria and the National Orchestral Institute. Goddard received a Bachelors Degree from the University of Michigan under Armando Ghitalla and Charles Daval and earned a Masters from Indiana University as a pupil of John Rommel.
As a composer, Goddard has over thirty-five works in his catalog, including four recent pieces for large orchestra as well as many works for varied chamber ensembles. His most recent work, I Send Only Angels, was commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and premiered in February 2007 with Roberto Minczuk conducting. Critics, musicians, and audience members alike praised the work, describing its "shimmering, translucent, winning eloquence" and "perfectly judged" form and structure. Following the critical acclaim of that premiere, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal programmed I Send Only Angels for performance in November 2007, to be conducted by Bramwell Tovey.
Goddard has had three other orchestral works performed during the last several years. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performed My End Is My Beginning and Stay On the Sea while the Victoria Symphony performed Angels. Goddard's Voices Rising, for chamber ensemble, was premiered by the Turning Point Ensemble in March 2006, was broadcast on CBC Radio, and was performed again in Powell River, B.C. by members of the Chicago, Columbus, Vancouver, and Victoria Symphony Orchestras. Alexander Varty of the Georgia Straight wrote in his review that "Marcus Goddard's Voices Rising was just beautiful."
Prior to his focus on works for orchestra and large ensemble, Goddard composed many pieces for chamber ensemble. He performed his work, Exothermic, for trumpet and piano trio, with both the Quiring Chamber Players and Standing Wave Ensemble. Goddard's Millennia Music for brass quintet was performed by the VSO Brass Quintet in 2002 and broadcast by CBC Radio.
His work for large brass ensemble, Supernovas Collide, was premiered by the Vancouver Brass Choir in the fall of 2001 and Desolation Sounds, for brass quartet, was premiered by members of the Chicago and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras in 2005. Goddard recently completed Reflections on Slayton Pond, a work for flute and piano commissioned by the Vermont duo, Sarabande. He has composed a piano trio and violin duo as part of a series of chamber works for young players in the Quiring Chamber Music School in Vancouver. Goddard's String Quartet was performed for many young audiences in British Columbia public schools during 2002.
Goddard composed and produced the score to the film, Breakfast at Sharkey's, and has composed two modern dance works, which were staged in Indiana.
Goddard was born in 1973 in Vermont to an American father and French Canadian mother.
He has participated in seminars with William Bolcom, William Albright, and Krystof Penderecki and has attended lectures of Philip Glass and Samuel Adler and is an associate composer with the Canadian Music Centre.
Ay-Laung Wang, organ is an active organ recitalist, conductor, adjudicator and teacher. Her outstanding musicianship, brilliant technique, and great personal charm make her a favorite with audiences and congregations wherever she performs. Currently Ms Wang is principal organist for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and First Baptist Church. In addition, she is a member of the faculty of Trinity western University and Assistant Conductor for the acclaimed TWU Chamber and Concert Choirs.
Ay-Laung graduated from Trinity Western University where she excelled in her piano and conducting studies. While at Trinity Western University, she served with great distinction as special assistant conductor to the TWU choirs. She continued her studies at UBC with Edward Norman receiving a Masters of Music with top standing in organ performance. She also holds performer and teacher ARCT diplomas from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto.
In 1995, the National Music Committee in her native Taiwan named her the New Musical Star. Since then, she has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (for which she continues as Principal Organist), the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio Brass, and the Taipei National University of the Arts Orchestra. Concert tours have taken her to Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Ay-Laung is well known for her extraordinary versatility. She was featured on CBC national television for the Easter Sunrise Celebration of 2004 and for the nationally televised memorial service for Sgt. "Smokey” Smith, the last surviving Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross. She has accompanied the Taipei Christian Children’s Chorus in concert at the Vatican and has performed for the renowned composer Fu Yu-Lin on national television in Taiwan. Each summer, she participates in Festival Vancouver, and frequently performs as member of the "Fanfares N' Fugues", a trumpets and organ trio.
The Academy Chamber Choir consists of thirty - two singers from a wide
variety of backgrounds and professions. It is an amateur choir that, since its inception in 1994, has developed into one of Canada’s dynamic chamber choirs,
In its short history the choir has had the privilege of working with such celebrated conductors as the late Elmer Iseler (Canada), Jesper Jorgensen (Denmark), the late Jan Szyrocki (Poland) and Fred Sjoberg (Sweden). The choir has toured in Venezuela, the Czech Republic, Canada, Spain and France.
The Academy Chamber Choir specializes in a cappella music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century and regularly commissionsnew works by Canadian composers. The choir frequently collaborates with soloists, instrumentalist and other choirs in the performance of major choral works such as Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Francis Poulenc’s Gloria and Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
In November the Academy Chamber Choir was the “Choir in Residence” for the Cowichan CoroFest 2003 and in April, 2004 a guest artist for America Cantat IV in Mexico City.
Pianist Maryna Gray holds a Masters Degree in piano pedagogy and accompanying from the Kharkiv State Institute of the Arts, Ukraine. She has 20 years experience as a piano teacher, solo performer and as accompanist for instrumentalists and vocalists.
Ms. Gray joins us from Brandon University where she has completed further studies in piano performance and has been the accompanist for the Brandon University Chorale, student recitals and juries, in addition to teaching piano in the Brandon community.
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SINGLE TICKETS are available through the Academy Box Office and at the door
SAVE 25% with the TEN CONCERT TICKET PACKAGE - $135
STUDENTS: 18 & under free with student ticket voucher (excluding Carols by Candlelight)
Academy Box Office
7280 Kemano Street
Tel 604 485 9633
Monday – Thursday 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
For more information call the Academy of Music at 604.485.9633