This month is going to be kind of a busy one -- but also the most interesting. It'll combine a rap concert, two concerto performances, three quartet concerts, and a competition in Japan.
May 8: Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar. Blunt Delphix. Todd Fox, epideMIC, Tony Pounds, 8W. Doors open 9 pm; performance at 10 pm. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
May 10 and 11: Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Oakville Symphony at the Oakville Centre for Performing Arts. Unfortunately, these concerts are sold-out. Oakville, Ontario.
May 13: Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society. Quartets of Beethoven: Op. 18, No. 1; Op. 95; Op. 132. Tickets are $25/20/15. 8 pm. Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
May 15: Christ Church Deere Park Noonday Series. Wolf Italian Serenade and Bartok String Quartet No. 3. Free. 12:30 pm. Toronto, Ontario.
May 15: Guelph MusicFest. Guelph Youth Music Centre. Beethoven Op. 18, No.1; Bartok Quartet No. 3; Mendelssohn Op. 13. $20/15. 8 pm. Guelph, Ontario.
May 20: Izumi Concert Hall. Osaka, Japan.
May 31: Teaching at Chamber Music North California, Kentsfield, California.
(June 1: Concert with Sierra Chamber Society. Shostakovich No. 7; Zorn; Beethoven Op. 132. Walnut Creek, California.)
