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Catherine Vickers, pianist, opens the Debussy Centenary. January 12, 2018

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From the Store of Treasures, Things New and Old. February 18, 2018
Wonderful music from across the centuries and reflections by a celebrated writer began the new year Sunday inter-arts programs at Gustin House. Pianist Gregory Schulte performed Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, a Haydn Sonata, and Alexina Louie’s Music for Piano, composed some 25 years ago and well-known for its individual pieces, including Enchanted Bells and Once Upon a Time.
Guest speaker was Guy Vanderhaeghe, author of five novels, four short story collections, and two plays, and the multiple award winner of prestigious literary prizes. In an engaging and thought-provoking talk, he discussed “Childhood Memory: The Writer’s Storehouse,” and explored how early memory is often the source of many writers’ work.
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from left, Gregory Schulte, pianist, and Guy Vanderhaeghe, author and guest speaker
Jim Lee and Sally Rigden
Lauren Ansaldo captures a photo memory for her grandson Jamie
Gregory Schulte and Jim Wood
from left, Karen Sterner, Sheryl McKee and Lorene Nickel amid reception refreshments
Mr. Vanderhaeghe and Lorene Nickel listen as Victoria Neufeldt makes a dramatic point
Karen Sterner serves guests: from left, Sylvia Legris, Victoria Neufeldt, Ellen Parchomchuk
from left, Debbie Milne, Valerie Stubbs; in the near background, Carol Shaw
Sylvia Legris and Mr. Vanderhaegh
from left, Edna Thiessen and Donna Thomson, both Gustin Studio graduates
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Chooi Brothers and Philip Chiu, in recital. March 15, 2018

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Art Songs & Medieval-Renaissance Instruments. Sunday, June 10, 2018
Tenor Michael Harris and pianist Gregory Schulte performed the sixteen exquisite pieces of Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love), regarded as the finest of Schumann’s song cycles, as well asworks by Schubert, Delius and Vaughan Williams. The artists are an inspired ensemble who share a deep passion for the lieder repertoire—voice in full artistic partnership with piano—and for music of all eras.
Master luthier Weldon Gray displayed his beautifully crafted early instruments and described their history, use, and design as based on his study of Medieval and Renaissance paintings and carvings. Mr. Gray and a musical assistant fascinated the audience with their demonstration of the performance and the sounds of early instruments: lute, Renaissance guitar, organistrum, hurdy-gurdy, and harps.
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Tenor Michael Harris, after his performance, shown with son William
Weldon Gray, master luthier, with the magnificent harp he handcrafted
Pianist Gregory Schulte (left) commenting on the array of early instruments
Mr. Gray’s assistant accompanies her singing of the medieval Latin hymn, Conditor alme siderum
Preparing to demonstrate the organistrum
Douglas Dahlgren––distinguished pianist listens intently to the afternoon’s music
Jeannette Schuler with her grandson, Nicholas Belfour
from left, Marjaleena Repo, Ann Burton, John Parry and Sheila Cameron-Hopkins
from left, Richard Burton, Ewen Coxworth and Joan Adair
Linked through Ethel Keele, their music teacher in the Kuroki-Wadena district, and through the Lyell Gustin Pianos Studios, left to right: Maidra Creswell (Victoria, BC), Carol Gronsdal, Mildred Kerr and Joan Halmo
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Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano, with pianist Rachel Andrist. August 21, 2018

The summer recital featured soprano Leslie Ann Bradley and pianist Rachel Andrist, performing “Songs of Evening.” Their rich and wide-ranging program delighted all with beloved music, from opera arias and Romantic-era lieder to 20thcentury works. Barbara Montalbetti gave an enlightening pre-concert talk. A Canadian based in New York, Ms. Bradley appears across the continent in opera and in recital, as well as with orchestras; Ms. Andrist, originally of Estevan, Saskatchewan, is an international collaborative pianist and faculty member at the Glenn Gould School of Music and Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.
This recital, with its inclusion of a song cycle by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), brought to conclusion the Gustin Series’ season-long commemoration of the composer’s Centenary. All three 2018 recital programs have included Debussy’s music, a tribute to one of the most important and influential musical figures of the later 19thand early 20thcenturies. Gratitude to the artists!
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Celebrating Women Composers Across the Ages! Sunday, October 28, 2018
At the season-opening event at Gustin House, the Mathieu-Chua Duo paid musical homage to the many innovative women composers of various times and cultures. The afternoon program for violin and piano spanned more than three centuries of music, from a Sonataby Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729), to Romancesby Clara Schumann (1819-1896) and Amy Beach (1867-1944), to the 21stcentury work Éxtasisby Alice Ping Yee Ho (b. 1960). The artists–Dr. VéroniqueMathieu, University of Saskatchewan, with Toronto-based pianist Stephanie Chua–interspersed their performance with commentary on the lives and music of the composers.
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the artists: violinist Véronique Mathieu and pianist Stephanie Chua
Darcy Hildebrandt, with Jonathan Lee on his visit home from California
from left, Gregory Schulte, Bob Hickie, Doreen Hickie, and Lilian Lee
from left, Stephanie Chua and Kathleen Solose
from left, Victoria Neufeldt, Jean Williamson, Mildred Kerr and Jeanette Schuler, with Véronique Mathieu
Alda Behie examines scores and biographies of women composers
from left, Joan Halmo with Diane Davis and Kathleen Solose
Véronique and Deborah
youngest attendee, arriving for the reception
finale, in the Gustin House kitchen!
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Old Songs in a New World: Folk-inspired Music for Two Pianists. November 25, 2018
Folk music, the traditional music of a people or country, has for centuries inspired composers with its rhythms, melodies and textures. In a program of duets and solo music as well as a work for two pianos, Katherine Dowling and Clark Schaufele took their audience on a wonderful journey from Andalusia to Oslo to Bali. Music by Brahms, de Falla, Tveitt, Dvorak and othersdrew on rich ethnic traditions and time-honoured songs reflective of universal human experience. Dr. Dowling and Dr. Schaufele are currently engaged at the University of Regina and at the University of Regina Conservatory of the Performing Arts respectively.
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Clark Schaufele and Katherine Dowling, pianists
From left, Mary Whicher, Lucia Zuin, Glen Dowling and Michael Pomedli
Darcey Anton and Sheryl McKee
Joan Halmo, John Senior and Ewen Coxworth
From left, Alicia Klopoushak, Katherine Dowling and Sheila Dowling
Heather Schnare and Donald Roach
From left, Clark Schaufele and Gregory Schulte in conversation, while Douglas Dahlgren looks on
The artist with her parents, Glen and Sheila Dowling of Regina
Sharing her perspectives as a pianist, Anne MacMillan (centre)
Michael Pomedli and Joan Halmo
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