the 2017/18 season
march 22–24, 2018 8pm
SOUND & COLOUR Synesthesia & Scriabin
march 22 – 24, 2018
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repertoire
24 Preludes, Op. 11 Alexander Scriabin
Visual Music & Metaphor Talk There will be a 20-minute intermission
creative team Andrew Burashko Artistic Director & pianist
Dr. Richard Cytowic Neurologist
Kevin Lamotte Lighting Designer
Mike Romaniak Production Manager
about art of time ensemble Renowned concert pianist Andrew Burashko formed Art of Time Ensemble in 1998 by inviting a group of like-minded musicians and prominent figures in dance, theatre and other art forms to perform one-off concerts in Toronto. The company has gone on to become a leader in Toronto’s vibrant performing arts scene, through its subscription season at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre, regular appearances at Koerner Hall, album releases, performances with leading Canadian orchestras, and the tours of its unique offerings to dozens of cities throughout Canada and the United States. Exploring the relationship between classical music in its many forms and other genres such as jazz, pop, electronica, rock, folk, electroacoustic, gospel and others, Art of Time seeks to reveal the qualities that lie at the heart of all great music.
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Andrew Burashko is the founder and creative force behind Art of Time Ensemble. Born in Moscow, Burashko trained as a concert pianist across North America, making his solo debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the age of seventeen. As a soloist, Burashko performed with some of the world’s most renowned conductors, including Sir Andrew Davis, Pinchas Zukerman, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. His has shared the stage with such diverse artists as Branford Marsalis, Peggy Baker and Madeleine Peyroux. In 1997, Burashko formed the Art of Time Ensemble to produce unique concerts that ignore the barriers between genres and disciplines, with the aim of exposing audiences to a broad range of artistic possibilities. Under Burashko’s direction, Art of Time Ensemble has become a Canadian destination for today’s most accomplished artists working in music, dance, theatre, film, and literature. In addition to their annual concert series in Toronto, Art of Time Ensemble has toured extensively throughout Canada and the Unites States, as well as in Russia and Finland.
Kevin Lamotte is one of Canada’s leading lighting designers and has created lighting designs for most of the country’s theatre, dance and opera companies. He is Director of Lighting Design for the Shaw Festival and has ongoing associations with the National Ballet of Canada and Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company. Kevin has been with the Shaw Festival for over two decades as a lighting designer. His designs include The Magician’s Nephew, Mythos, The Baroness and the Pig, Henry V, Me and My Girl, Saint Joan, Middletown, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, A Woman of No Importance and “Master Harold” …and the Boys.
dr. richard cy towic Richard E. Cytowic, MD MFA, is best known for rediscovering synesthesia – the involuntary coupling of the senses – and returning it to mainstream science. Wednesday is Indigo Blue, a book Oliver Sacks called “a unique and indispensable guide for anyone interested in how we perceive the world,” won the Montaigne Medal. Dr. Cytowic writes “The Fallible Mind” at Psychology Today, and has spoken at the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum, and cultural institutions worldwide. The Duke alumnus is Professor of Neurology at George Washington University and a Fellow of the Southampton Writers Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities. His forthcoming Digital Distractions explores screen addiction and the limits of human attention.
In addition to his work at The Shaw, Kevin has created lighting designs for most of Canada’s theatre, dance and opera companies. Select lighting credits include A Doll’s House, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, III), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Royal Comedians, Endgame (Soulpepper Theatre Company); I Send You This Cadmium Red (Art of Time Ensemble); The Barber of Seville (Vancouver Opera); Belle Moral (National Arts Centre), A Raisin in the Sun (Theatre Calgary and Soulpepper Theatre). Additional lighting credits include Democracy (Tarragon Theatre), A Clean House and Of Mice and Men (Canadian Stage Company), An Italian Straw Hat and The Contract (National Ballet of Canada), and A Christmas Carol, Enron, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Theatre Calgary). Kevin is the recipient of the Province of Ontario’s Pauline McGibbon Award, a nominee for the 2006 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, as well as other national awards and nominations including the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award (Vancouver), a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto), the Betty Mitchell Award (Calgary) and Prix de la Masque (Montreal). Mr. Lamotte is a member of The Associated Designers of Canada.
art of time gratefully acknowledges and thanks supporters $65,000 or more Benefactor Eli & Phil Taylor Gary Slaight
$10 000 to $50 000 Sustaining Member James & Margaret Fleck
$5,000 to $9,999 Member Martha Burns & Paul Gross Timothy & Carol Deacon David & Anne Ellins Roger & Kevin Garland Margaret Grottenthaler & Doug Harrison Cheryl Hudson & Mike Say Valerie Hussey Joan & Jerry Lozinski Richard MacKenzie & Alexandra Rambusch Barbara & Ian Mason John McGowan John & Kay McKellar Lois Miles Robert Sirman The George Cedric Metcalf Foundation
$1,000 to $4,999 Patron David Abel Anonymous Andree Appleton & Alex Leman Ian & Libby Bandeen Monica Banting & Patrick O’Neill Mary Brock & Brian Iler Andrew Burashko The Butterfield Foundation Sandra Caldwell Tania & Christopher Carnegie Rita Davies & John McGrath Judith Gelber Carol & Grant Gooding Julia Holland & David Crawford Brett Ledger & Patricia Olasker
Lesley MacMillan & Bernard Le Corre Sam & Rosanne Marinucci Florence Minz James O’Connor & Michael Taylor Basia & Alec Stanimirovic Roger & Darla Steers Jane Thompson & Tim Murphy Antoinette Tummillo & John Carter Kim & Neil Wainwright
$500 to $999 Friend Rolake Adeniran Nichole Anderson & Alain Bergeron Anonymous Helen Burstyn Sandra Dudley & Ron Youd Joanne Eidinger Dorothy Engleman & Richard Quinlan Lawrence Herman & Beatrice De Montmollin Nancy Holland Tim Lang Adrian Macdonald Alexandra MacLennan Tenny Nigoghossian Molly Pocklington Julie Reid Caroline Suri Kathleen Ward Deanna Wolfe
$100 to $499 Member Lawrence Ballon Allan Beaty Amin Bhatia Carolyn Blackwell Scott Blair Ross Blundell Lorraine Butler & David Holt William Brathwaite Danielle Cerisano Debra Chandler Martha Digby Kristine Doherty Anne & Ross Eddie
Eleanor Engelman Maxanne Ezer Kathleen Freeman Melanie Foster Anamika Gadia Janet Haddock Doug & Debbie Herridge Consuelo Jackman Benjamin Jain Gerorge Karayannides Henriette Katz Horst Koschmider Lee-Ann Kovacs Suzanne Kavanagh Audrey Lengyel David & Irene Locke Larry Lubin Heather McDonald Carlene Mercer Andrew & Jennifer Moeller Siobhan Monaghan Richard Mozer Steve Munro John Munro Natasha Mytnowych Tim Patriquin Kenny Pearl Jo Ann Pynn Ross & Jane Reynolds Pamela Ritchie Levitt Don Rooke Ron Schlumpf Richard Shallhorn Abigail Slater Noah Soloman Jane Thompson Kristine Thompson Barbara Tinsley Colette & Michael Vosberg
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board of direc tors
Andrew Burashko Artistic Director
Ian Bandeen
David Abel Executive Director
Monica Banting
Kate Bangay Marketing & Communications Manager
Tania Carnegie
Mike Romaniak Production Coordinator
David Ellins
Tim Deacon, CA
Rita Kim, Marketing & Fundraising Intern Monnet Design Graphic Design Young Associates Chris Mustard & Julia Gaunt-Rannala Bookeeping
Margaret Grottenthaler Cheryl Hudson Valerie Hussey Tim Lang Rick MacKenzie Lois Miles, Chair James O’Connor Robert Sirman Eli Taylor
art of time gratefully acknowledges and thanks season title sponsor
season patrons
artistic development support
Eli & Phil Taylor season sponsors
Slaight Music
James & Margaret Fleck youth champion sponsor
foundation support
government support
corpor ate support
Stikeman Elliott
The S. M. Blair Family Foundation in-kind support
Taylor Smyth Architects
piano sponsor
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