Banff International String Quartet Festival 2024 Program
We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minirhpa" (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Métis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.
Mt. Bowlen, Rocky Mountain Range, Banff National Park.
Photo by John Price, Travel Alberta.
Hao Zhou and Lukas Schwarz, BISQFest 2023. Photo by Rita Taylor.
Lead Supporters: Anonymous
Jenny Belzberg Future Fund
Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust
"Sublime music in a magical place played by young musicians who are simply outstanding. We keep coming back, and our commitment gets stronger every time we do."
audience member stephen murgatroyd
Mayu Konoe. BISQFest 2023. Photo by Rita Taylor.
Welcome
Photo by Rita Taylor
Welcome to the 6th Ban International String Quartet Festival!
This year’s BISQFest is a wonderful nale to our Summer Arts Festival, which has celebrated the range of incredible work happening annually across artistic disciplines at Ban Centre. As we once again prepare for a competition year in 2025, we are thrilled to welcome back a passionate music-loving audience to a series of carefully curated concerts and events featuring past laureates and other celebrated artists from Canada and abroad.
A big thank you to Barry Shi man, Director of the Ban International String Quartet Competition and Festival, and the rest of the BISQFest team for once again assembling a roster of brilliant musicians from around the world to celebrate the incredible riches of the chamber music repertoire. As we begin our countdown to our 100th anniversary in 2033, it’s programs like these that continue to strengthen the international pro le and reputation of Ban Centre.
Finally, a big thank you to you, our biggest fans and supporters, for showing your continued commitment to music at Ban Centre.
Enjoy!
Chris Lorway, President and CEO Ban Centre for Arts and Creativity
Aiden Kane and Tate Zawadiuk of Viano Quartet. BISQFest 2023. Photo by Rita Taylor.
by Kari Medig.
Dear Friends,
I am thrilled to welcome you to the Ban Centre for the extraordinary celebration of music and community that is BISQFest.
This year we welcome a large roster of over 65 artists from Canada and abroad. To celebrate the dramatic growth of the festival we are excited to present the Ban Festival Orchestra with James Ehnes, and the Ehnes Quartet in the magni cent Jenny Belzberg Theatre.
Ban Centre has a reputation for enthusiastic audiences whose passion for live music inspires the artists on the stage. I know this reputation will remain strong this weekend!
I am so grateful for the many gifts of support that help make this festival a reality. Special thanks to our lead funders Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust, the Jenny Belzberg Future Fund, and our anonymous funder.
Finally, I encourage you to consider joining us next summer, August 25 – 31, for the Ban International String Quartet Competition, the event from which this festival was born.
Wishing you a wonderful experience.
Barry Shi man Director, Ban
International String Quartet Competition and Festival (BISQC / BISQFest)
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Concerts and Events Schedule
Schedule subject to change.
2:30 pm
Friday, August 30
Rolston Recital Hall
CONCERT 1
Cheng² Duo
Romance, Op. 78 No. 2 (1915)
Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor, Op. 36 (1882-1883)
Allegro agitato
Andante molto tranquillo
Allegro molto e marcato
Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 (1880)
Portrait of the Imagined Sibling (2019)
7:30 pm
Friday, August 30
Jenny Belzberg Theatre
CONCERT 2
Itamar Zorman, violin
Robert Uchida, violin
Luri Lee, violin
Barry Shi man, viola
Keith Hamm, viola
Hezekiah Leung, viola
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G
Major BWV 1048 (1721)
Allegro moderato
Adagio Allegro
Ehnes Quartet Ban Festival Orchestra
Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47 (1905)
Glimpses of Muqam Chebiyat (2015) Wu Man (b. 1963) Score realized by Danny Clay (b. 1989)
Chebiyat Muqam – Muqaddima
Chebiyat Muqam – Third Dastan
2:30 pm
Saturday, August 31
Rolston Recital Hall
CONCERT 4
Israeli Chamber Project
Assa Weisman, piano
Itamar Zorman, violin
Guy Ben-Ziony, viola
Tibi Cziger, clarinet
Dumka for violin, viola, and piano (1940)
Verge for clarinet, violin, and piano (1997)
Almost too fast
Almost too slow
Almost too mechanical
Almost too dark
Almost too light
Almost too fractured
Almost too much
Almost too little
Almost too calm
Three Madrigals for violin and viola, H. 313 (1947)
Poco allegro-Poco vivo
Poco andante-Andante moderato
Allegro-Moderato
Kegelstatt Trio for clarinet, viola, and piano in E at Major K. 498 (1786)
Andante
Menuetto
Rondeaux: Allegretto
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Sebastian Currier (b. 1959)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
4:30 pm
Saturday, August 31
Margaret Greenham Theatre
PASSHOLDEREVENT
Artist talk with Time’s Echo author Jeremy Eichler
7:30 pm
Saturday, August 31
Rolston Recital Hall
CONCERT 5
Isidore String Quartet
Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923) Erwin Schulho (1894-1942)
Viennese Waltz
Serenade
Czech folk music
Tango
Tarantella
Isidore String Quartet
Andy Milne, piano
Chimeric Reveries (2024) *WORLD PREMIERE*
INTERMISSION
Isidore String Quartet
James Ehnes, viola
Edward Arron, cello
Souvenir de Florence for Strings, Op. 70 (1890)
Allegro con spirito
Adagio cantabile e con moto
Allegretto moderato
Allegro con brio e vivace
Andy Milne (b. 1969)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
10:30 am
Sunday, September1
Rolston Recital Hall
CONCERT 6
Ehnes Quartet
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1 (1808)
Allegro
Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
Adagio molto e mesto
Thème Russe
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (1893)
Animé et très décidé
Assez vif et bien rythmé
Andantino, doucement expressif
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Très modéré – En animant peu à peu – Très mouvementé et avec passion
2:30 pm
Sunday, September1
Rolston Recital Hall
CONCERT 7
Jeremy Eichler, author
Time's Echo Live
In Memoriam: Richard Strauss at the End of German Music
Ban Festival Strings
Metamorphosen (1944-1945)
Violin: Robert Uchida
Luri Lee
Itamar Zorman
Hao Zhou
Adrian Steele
Laura Veeze
Lucy Wang
Phoenix Avalon
Jonathan Schwarz
Julia Mirzoev
4:30 pm
Viola: Barry Shiffman
Hezekiah Leung
Keith Hamm
Mayu Konoe
Aiden Kane
Sunday, September1
Jenny Belzberg Theatre
PASSHOLDEREVENT
James Ehnes Masterclass
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Cello: Julie Hereish
Bryan Cheng
Adrian Fung
Tate Zawadiuk
Josh McClendon
Bass:
Joel Quarrington
Hilda Cowie
Malcolm Armstrong
7:30 pm
Sunday, September 1
Rolston Recital Hall
CONCERT 8
Viano Quartet
String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4 (1798-1800)
Allegro ma non tanto Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto Menuetto: Allegretto Allegro - Prestissimo
String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (1935-1936)
Molto allegro e appassionato Molto adagio Molto allegro (come prima)
INTERMISSION
Viano Quartet
Adrian Fung, cello
String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (1828)
Allegro ma non troppo Adagio Scherzo. Presto – Trio. Andante sostenuto Allegretto
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
"Getting feedback from the audience that they really loved us was the only thing we wanted. When we won BISQC, it was the best feeling in the world—overwhelming and a dream come true.”
violist devin moore, isidore string quartet
BISQC 2022. Photo by Rita Taylor.
Barry Shi man director
Barry Shi man enjoys a diverse career as a musician, educator, and administrator. He was co-founder of the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) and currently serves as both the Associate Dean and Director of Chamber Music at Glenn Gould School, and Director of the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
During his 17 years with the SLSQ he appeared in over 2,000 concerts in venues around the globe, and recorded several critically acclaimed discs under an exclusive contract with EMI Classics. While with SLSQ, Shi man served as artist-in-residence at Stanford University from 1998 to 2006 and as visiting artist at the University of Toronto from 1995 to 2006.
Shi man has also served in numerous roles at Ban Centre, including Director of Music Programs (2006-2010), Artistic Director of Summer Classical Music Programs (2010-2016), and Director of the Ban International String Quartet Competition since 2006. During his tenure at Ban Centre he introduced new programming in classical music performance, composition, popular music, and jazz and oversaw the dramatic growth of the Ban International String Quartet Competition, including the successful launch of the Ban Centre International String Quartet Festival in 2017.
In 2018, Shi man was appointed Artistic Director of Rockport Music in Massachusetts, overseeing all classical programming for the organization including a ve-week summer chamber music festival at the venerable Shalin Liu Performance Center. From 2009-2017, he was Executive Artistic Director of Music in the Morning Concert Society in Vancouver. A sought-after juror, he has served on the violin jury of the Tchaikovsky and Montreal Violin Competitions, and the String Quartet Competitions of London Wigmore Hall, Lyon, and Geneva.
Shi man received his formal studies at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, University of Toronto, Utrecht Conservatory, Hartt School of Music, Juilliard School, and Yale University. Summer studies included Ban Centre, Tanglewood, and Aspen. He is also the recipient of the Longy School’s Nadia Boulanger Prize for Excellence in the Art of Teaching, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Calgary.
Photo by Stuart Lowe
James Ehnes
violin, viola
James Ehnes is one of the world’s foremost violinists and a favorite guest of many of the world’s most celebrated orchestras and concert halls. Recent orchestral highlights include the National Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de France, Sydney Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. Alongside his concerto work, Ehnes maintains a busy recital schedule and is the Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society. His extensive discography has won many awards, including two Grammys, three Gramophones, and 11 Junos. He began violin studies at the age of four, debuted with l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal at age 13 and graduated from The Juilliard School in 1997, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the Order of Canada, and is a professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. James Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715.
Photo by Ben Ealovega
Ehnes Quartet
james ehnes, violin amy schwartz moretti, violin che-yen chen, viola edward arron, cello
“They meshed together like the old friends they are, themes passing seamlessly, unison writing blending perfectly as solo themes emerged, and the ebb and ow managed beautifully.” (The Strad)
Formally established in 2010 at the Seattle Chamber Music Society, where they maintain a yearly residence, the members of the Ehnes Quartet have played chamber music together in various formations for more than 20 years. The quartet’s highly re ned, sensitive and expressive performances have delighted audiences and critics across North America, Europe, and Asia, and have made them one of the most sought-after chamber groups performing today. Their award-winning discography includes quartets by Barber, Beethoven, Schubert, and Sibelius.
Winners of the 14th Ban International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The four began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and following a break during the global pandemic reconvened at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick. The ISQ has also studied with Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, Laurie Smukler, Roger Tapping, Misha Amory, Atar Arad, Miriam Fried, and Paul Biss. Their 23/24 season featured appearances in Berkeley (Cal Performances), Boston (Celebrity Series), Washington DC (Phillips Collection), New York (92nd St. Y), Chicago, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, Denver, Houston, La Jolla, Aspen, Vancouver, Calgary, and at Dartmouth College, and Spivey Hall in Georgia, among many others. European highlights from the last year include Edinburgh, Lucerne, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Hamburg’s ElbPhilharmonie.
Photo by Jiyang Chen
Viano Quartet
lucy wang, violin
hao zhou, violin
aiden kane, viola
tate zawadiuk, cello
The Viano Quartet are one of the most sought-after performing young ensembles today and are currently in-residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program from 2024-2027. Since winning First Prize at the 2019 Ban International String Quartet Competition, they have traveled to nearly every major city across the globe, captivating audiences in New York, London, Berlin, Vancouver, Paris, Beijing, Lucerne, and Los Angeles. The quartet was named the inaugural June Goldsmith Quartet-in-Residence for the Music in the Morning series in Vancouver until 2025, where their focus will be to commission new works and lead extensive community engagement initiatives. The quartet has also held residencies at the Curtis Institute, Colburn Conservatory, Northern Michigan University, and Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. The Viano Quartet’s chief mentors include faculty of the Curtis Institute and Colburn Conservatory, as well as members of the Dover, Guarneri, and Tokyo string quartets. The quartet’s name was created to describe the four individual instruments playing together both harmony and melody, creating a uni ed instrument called the “Viano”.
Photo by Kevin Condon
Cheng² Duo
bryan cheng, cello silvie cheng, piano
Rooted by a sibling bond, the Cheng² Duo (pronounced Cheng Squared Duo) trans xes listeners through its impassioned expressivity and contagious joy. The pair have been making music together for nearly their entire lives, o cially performing as the Cheng² Duo at their 2011 Carnegie Weill Recital Hall debut. Since then, their artistry has left lasting impressions across the globe. In the 2023/24 season, the duo will appear as guest soloists with the Banatul Philharmonic (Romania), embark on extensive tours in Canada, South Africa, and India, and present recitals in Switzerland, the UK, and US. In the vanguard of creative programming, the duo is equally committed to presenting traditional masterworks, rediscovering neglected repertoire, and championing the music of their time. Since 2013, they have commissioned and arranged 15 new works. Cheng² Duo has released four critically acclaimed albums on Centrediscs and audite, and received two 2024 JUNO nominations for their latest album, Portrait. Raised in Ottawa, Bryan and Silvie are currently based in Berlin and New York City.
Photo by Andrej Grilc
Israeli Chamber Project
assaff weisman, piano itamar zorman, violin guy ben-ziony, viola tibi cziger, clarinet
Now in its second decade, the Israeli Chamber Project is a dynamic ensemble comprising strings, winds, and piano, that brings together the most distinguished musicians for chamber music concerts and educational outreach programs both in Israel and abroad. Based both in Israel and in New York, the ensemble was created so performers could give back to the communities where they began their musical education and to showcase Israeli culture. The ICP’s tours have garnered rave reviews and established the ensemble as a major artistic force on both sides of the Atlantic. These tours include appearances in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, New York, London, San Francisco, Ottawa, and Beijing, as well as in remote towns where access to live chamber music is extremely rare. ICP is a strong advocate for music education and for expanding the chamber music literature by commissioning both new works as well as new arrangements of existing works.
For over 30 years, two-time Juno Award winning pianist/ composer Andy Milne has demonstrated boundless versatility, collaborating with artists spanning multiple genres. A fearless improviser and respected voice at the heart of New York’s creative jazz scene, he has recorded and toured throughout the world with Ravi Coltrane, Ralph Alessi, Carlos Ward, Carla Cook and Steve Coleman, and has collaborated with a range of artists including Andrew Cyrille, Sekou Sundiata, Avery Brooks, Bruce Cockburn, Fred Hersch, Ben Monder, Dianne Reeves, Jen Shyu and Tyshawn Sorey. Milne has also scored lms, including seven Star Trek themed documentaries for acclaimed actor/director William Shatner and the recent CBC Television series “Black Life: Untold Stories”. He has released 12 recordings as a leader or co-leader, is a Yamaha Artist and a full-time assistant professor of music at The University of Michigan. Milne has received numerous awards and commissions, including the prestigious Civitella Fellowship in Italy.
Jeremy Eichler
A writer, scholar and critic, Jeremy Eichler is the author of Time’s Echo, an acclaimed new book on music, war and memory that was named “History Book of the Year” by The Sunday Times. Chosen as a notable book of 2023 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR, Time’s Echo won three National Jewish Book Awards including “Book of the Year,” and was a nalist for the UK’s premier non- ction award, the Baillie Gi ord Prize, whose jury described it as “a masterpiece of non- ction writing.”
In summer 2024, Eichler concludes his 18-year-tenure as chief classical music critic of the Boston Globe and takes up a newly created professorship in music history and the public humanities at Tufts University. He also travels to Madrid and Barcelona for the launch of the Spanish edition of Time’s Echo, one of eight foreign language translations recently published or forthcoming. And during the 2024-2025 season, he serves as the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence.
Photo by Anna Yaskevich
Photo by Tom Kates
David Harrington
David Harrington is the artistic director, founder and violinist of the Kronos Quartet. For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has combined a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually reimagine the string quartet experience. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and in uential groups of our era, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 70 recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, and collaborating with many of the world’s most accomplished composers and performers. Through its nonpro t organization, Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA), Kronos has commissioned more than 1,100 works and arrangements for string quartet—including the recently completed 50 for the Future library of free, educational repertoire. Kronos has received more than 40 awards, including three Grammy Awards and the Polar Music, Avery Fisher, and Edison Klassiek Oeuvre Prizes—among the most prestigious awards given to musicians.
Adrian Fung
As founding cellist of the critically acclaimed A ara Quartet, Mr. Fung is a winner of the Concert Artist Guild International Competition, Young Canadian Musicians Award, 2nd prizes at Munich ARD and Ban International String Quartet Competitions, and the Szekely Prize for Best Interpretation of Beethoven. As a soloist, Mr. Fung has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall, and with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, and DJ Kid Koala. In addition, he served as a jury member for numerous competitions including the Ban International String Quartet Competition and Eckhardt-Gramatte National Competition. Mr. Fung received an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School and an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He is the Executive & Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Music In The Morning and founder and CEO of the Creative Edge Group. He plays on a cello made in 1787 by Benjamin Banks, on lifetime loan to him from an anonymous donor.
Photo by Mark Allan
Photo by Shevaun Williams
Robert Uchida
Canadian violinist Robert Uchida, Concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, enjoys a varied career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. His 2009 debut recording of Andrew Violette’s Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin won international acclaim, with Strings Magazine praising his “ravishing sound, eloquence and hypnotic intensity.” Robert is Artistic Director of the Longshadow Music Festival in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and has taught and performed at festivals throughout North America including the Arizona MusicFest, Jackson Hole Chamber Music, Music by the Sea, and the National Arts Centre Young Artists Program. Robert is a member of the Garneau String Quartet, currently serving as Ensemble in Residence at MacEwan University. He holds a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Ottawa. He performs on the "Dawes, de Long Tearse" Guadagnini violin with Peter Infeld strings by ThomastikInfeld Vienna.
Photo by Erik Visser
Ban Festival Orchestra
violin:
Robert Uchida, concertmaster
Solana Frebold
Russell Iceberg
Luri Lee
Julia Mirzoev
Ehren Moser
Evan Pyne
Jonathan Schwarz
Anna Stube
Laura Veeze
Lucy Wang
Hao Zhou
viola:
Keith Hamm
Aiden Kane
Mayu Konoe
Hezekiah Leung
Ronelle Schaufele
cello: Nigel Boehm
Adrian Fung
Julie Hereish
Lexie Krakowski
Sabina Sandvoss
bass: Joel Quarrington
Hilda Cowie
oboe: Michelle Feng
Tai Yokomori
horn: Allene Hackleman
Christopher Gongos
Supporters
Ban Centre for Arts and Creativity
would like to thank the following generous supporters of BISQFest, and BISQC 2025:
Supported by Anonymous
BISQC Endowments
Aurora Fund for the Advancement of String Quartet Music
The Eagles Nest BISQC Young Artists Endowment
Freeze Family Career Development Program Fund, BISQC
R.S. Williams and Sons Company Ltd. Endowment Fund
Sylvia and Jack Chetner Scholarship Endowment
Lead Supporters
David and Christine Anderson
Jenny Belzberg Future Fund
Christopher R. Head
Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust
Supporters
Elizabeth A.
Pam Allen
Gail Allford
Ginger Anders & Joe Baker
Barb Atnikov and Albert Rosengarten
Rob Baker and Holly Sykes
Elizabeth and Alan Bell
Stephen Blayney
Peter Brandon
Ingrid Burger
Graham and Maureen Carpenter
Jack Chetner*
Shelley Currie and Roger Mah Poy
Alan Dornian
Susan Eadie
Ernest Enns
Je Faber
Mike and Gina Hall
Don and Amy Harris
Dr. Mark & Nancy Heule
Lisa Higham and Alan Covington
Ernest Howe
Anne Howells
C. Hunt/R. Holdsworth
S.B. Joe
Hsing Jou
Edward and Ann Kerwin
Marguerite and George King
Philip and Joan Leighton
Wendy Kunsman
Teresa Y H Lee
MacLachlan Ridge Family
Allan MacLeod
Ketty and Alex Magil
Outi McEachern
David and Ann Millican
Stephen and Lynn Murgatroyd
Joyce and Tom Orchard
Lorna and William Orr
Pamela Grigg Charitable Fund at Calgary Foundation
Lorna and Barry Parsons
Ann Phillips
Barry and Gail Pollock
Hugh and Rachel Prichard
Lore Ruschiensky and Dennis Weist
Edward and Edith Shillitoe
Juliet Simon
Tom and Ellen Smee
Alan and Bonnie Steele
Harry and Kathy Strub
Sandra Van Stolk
Constance Van Wijk
Robin and Joanne Walker
Betty Winston
David and Laurie Woo
Anonymous (6)
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Senior Leadership Team
Chris Lorway, President and CEO
Michael Code, Senior Vice President
Valerie Kapay, Vice President, Talent Management and Culture
Management Leadership Team
Kyla Conner, General Counsel and External Relations
Derek Fast, Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
Martha Haldenby, Executive Director, Development
Aliza LeBlanc, Chief Financial O cer
Josephine Ridge, Interim Executive Director, Arts
Mark Wold, Executive Director, Leadership
Ban Centre Board of Governors
Paul Baay (Chair) – Calgary, AB
Brinna Binkerho – Calgary, AB
Ron Hallman – Gatineau, QC
Chris Lorway (President & CEO) –Ban , AB
Lori Paine – Calgary, AB
Pinder Sandhu – Calgary, AB
Naomi Schmold – Edmonton, AB
Myron Tetreault – Canmore, AB
Ban Centre Foundation Board of Directors
Jill J. Price (Chair) – Vancouver, BC
Gavin R. Berger – New York, USA
David Gagnon – Montréal, QC
Susan P. Kololian – Toronto, ON
Sandy Martin – Calgary, AB
Michael S.H. McMillan MBA, CMA, CPA –Toronto, ON
Aly Khan Musani – Calgary, AB
Paul Baay, Chair (ex o cio) –Calgary, AB
Chris Lorway, President & CEO (ex o cio) – Ban , AB
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Rilian Trio
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Currently closed for renovations. Reopening February 2025.
Notes:
Tobias Elser and Joanne Yesol Choi, Dior Quartet, BISQC 2022. Photo by Rita Taylor.
"The Ban Centre provides the perfect musical oasis, a fabulous week of stellar musicianship by future string quartet stars. BISQC is a wonderful opportunity to experience music being made at the highest calibre in a magni cently refurbished theatre situated in an inspiring setting. What’s not to enjoy?"
audience member louise klaassen
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AUG. 25 – 31, 2025
"The combination of an extraordinary artistic level, unparalleled beauty of place, and dedicated following of classical music fans makes BISQC the only one of its kind."
director barry shiffman, banff international string quartet competition
Festival Supporters: Anonymous Jenny Belzberg Future Fund
