Voice, Violin & Piano Recital
This concert brings together a single sacred work, Baroque and early Classical repertoire, French art song, and new music reflecting on Canadian poetry, with an emphasis on fresh and detailed interpretation.
The program moves from F.Buencamino’s Ave Maria and Bach through late Baroque- early Classical Scarlatti sonatas, then to an excerpt from “classical reflections on Canadian poetry,” including the world premiere of West Wind, a three‑movement work for voice and piano composed by Houman Dehlavi on a poem by E. Pauline Johnson, a Canadian poet and performer of Mohawk and English ancestry.
The evening continues with songs by Fauré, Cui, and Poulenc and Massenet’s Élégie. It concludes with a new interpretation of Shur Daramads for kamancheh, piano and Voice, based on a newly developed compositional and notational approach that seeks to recover neglected aesthetics and nuances from non‑Western musical systems that have not been fully preserved under dominant Western notation practices; this line of research and composition has been developed by Kasra Faridi through a Chalmers Arts Fellowship from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC).
Program
F. Buencamino – Ave Maria (violin, soprano, and piano)
J.S. Bach – Violin Sonata No. 4 in C minor, BWV 1017 (first movement) (violin and piano)
Domenico Scarlatti – Sonatas K. 36, 19, 466, 17, 213, 43, 87, 39 (solo piano)
The selected sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti come from the late Baroque / early Classical period and are written in binary form with repeats. In this interpretation, the repeats are treated as opportunities for expressive variation rather than literal restatements: first statements remain more straightforward, while the repeats explore added ornamentation, shifts of colour, and flexible rhythmic nuance, allowing each return to feel like a fresh reading rather than a copy.
Houman Dehlavi – Pieces on Classical Canadian Poetry (voice and piano)
Including the world premiere of West Wind, a three-movement work for voice and piano on a poem by E. Pauline Johnson.
West Wind is a new three-movement work for voice and piano based on a poem by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Johnson was a Canadian poet and performer of Mohawk and English ancestry, born on the Six Nations Reserve in what is now Ontario, whose work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought Indigenous and settler traditions into dialogue and became a lasting part of Canadian poetry. This concert marks the first performance of the piece.Gabriel Fauré – Ici-bas (voice and piano)
Francis Poulenc – Le Bestiaire (voice and piano)
César Cui – Ici-bas (voice and piano)
Jules Massenet – Élégie (violin, soprano, and piano)
Kasra Faridi – Graphical Notations on Shur (kamancheh and piano)
Artists
The concert brings together three musicians working across piano, voice, violin, kamancheh, contemporary composition, and improvisation.
Asal Karimi
Violin & Kamancheh
Admission
This concert is pay what you can. We believe that music should be accessible to all, and that the opportunity to attend should not be limited by financial circumstances, social barriers, or previous familiarity with classical music. Tickets may be reserved in advance via Eventbrite.de.