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Music makes US stronger

Music helps to strengthen relationships and connect individuals.  We produce professional concerts of music that otherwise would seldom be heard in our area, becoming Northwestern Ontario’s Baroque and Early Music specialists.  Our repertoire now covers many eras of classical music – Baroque and Beyond! 

Our mission is to educate as well as to entertain, to improve the quality of life in our community, to present concerts accessible to all, and to enlarge the city’s audience for classical music.

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Elizabethan Garland

AN ELIZABETHAN GARLAND: COURTLY AYRES AND DANCES

Consortium Aurora Borealis is thrilled to revive a long-standing musical tradition, presenting “An Elizabethan Garland”, a costumed, courtly evening of ayres and dance music from the time of Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare! Recorder player Rob Van Wyck, violinist Madonna Lee, harpsichordist Elizabeth Ganiatsos, and soprano Krista Hansen will perform works for instruments and voice by key Elizabethan composers: Thomas Morley, the foremost composer of secular music of that age; the great William Byrd; renowned lutenist John Dowland, noted for his melancholy musical moods; and Thomas Campion, poet, composer and physician, as well as by several other representatives. 

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FROM VENICE TO VIENNA: BAROQUE STRINGS

We have a splendid Consortium Aurora Borealis concert coming up for you, as we return to our very favourite period of music, the Baroque! People think primarily of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi, the chief and best-known representatives of the later stages of this period, and we do have a surprise by Vivaldi at the end of our concert. But it is the fascinating earlier years, full of fancy and eloquence, which have captured our imagination as performers on this occasion. We wish to introduce you to the delights of an exciting type of music as a brave new style emerged, with new forms and techniques, moving away from the balanced principles of the Renaissance to the drama and passion of the Baroque. Our musicians are violinists Katie Stevens and William Sirois, cellist Peter Cosbey, and myself on harpsichord, along with violist Patrick Horn, who will play in the last three pieces.

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Violinist Gregory Lewis in Concert

Thunder Bay-born violinist Gregory Lewis returns home to perform for us as we of Consortium Aurora Borealis launch our exciting 46th concert season on September 14, at Trinity United Church because of needing to use the wonderful piano there. Performing a diverse program of virtuosity and lyricism, he will be joined by the acclaimed Canadian pianist Paul Williamson. We are most privileged to hear Gregory on a very special instrument, whose three-year use he won through a competition in the late summer of 2023. It’s the gorgeous 1768 “Miller” Gennaro Gagliano violin, generously on loan to him from the Canada Council for the Arts’ Musical Instrument Bank. One year later, the critically-acclaimed Canadian cellist Cameron Crozman was awarded the use of an instrument by the same maker, a Gennaro Gaglianocello from around 1750.

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