HCA Calendar
January 2020
Master Class with Brett Polegato and Robert Kortgaard
Catch a 'behind the scenes' look at how master artists work with emerging musicians in an intimate master class setting, with Brett Polegato and Robert Kortgaard working with four young vocal/accompanist duos on classical repertoire. Brett Polegato, baritone: Brett Polegato’s artistic sensibility has earned him the highest praise from audiences and critics: “his is a serious and seductive voice” says The Globe and Mail, and The New York Times has praised him for his “burnished, well-focused voice” which he uses…
February 2020
Valerie Tryon
Valerie Tryon is a world-renowned concert pianist. Born in England, the youngest student to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Music in London, she still travels to Europe annually to perform, and manages an extraordinary schedule, in North America and abroad, of recitals, recordings, master classes and teaching. Valerie’s repertoire is vast and diverse, with particular renown for her interpretations of the Romantic composers. Retiring with an honourary docorate from McMaster University, where she was Artist-in-Residence and Associate Professor for…
March 2020
André Laplante
Pianist André Laplante is a commanding recitalist, a chamber musician of distinction, and a concerto soloist of formidable virtuosity guided by a rare musical intelligence. Hailed as one of the great romantic virtuosos, he has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and has released a series of ever more impressive CDs. He garnered international attention after winning prizes at the Geneva and Sydney International Piano Competitions and capturing the silver medal at the International Tchaïkovsky Competition in Moscow…
April 2020
AYR Trio
HCA gratefully acknowledges our concert sponsors, François Verschaeve The AYR Trio (A for Angela Park, piano; Y for Yehonatan Berick, violin; R for Rachel Mercer, cello) are one finest threesome playing in Canada at present. Yehonatan was Professor of Violin at McGill, and is now at University of Ottawa. He has performed as a soloist all over Canada and much of the U.S. Rachel was a recipient of a Canada Council Stradivarius, among much else. She was for years cellist…
