SONGBOOK: Steven Page & the Art of Time Ensemble

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Friday, February 16, 2018
7:30 p.m.

SONGBOOK: Steven Page

and the Art of Time Ensemble

An evening of songs by Randy Newman, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Barenaked
Ladies, Leonard Cohen and more, reimagined and reinvented by Steven Page
and Toronto’s highly inventive Art of Time Ensemble.

Tickets starting at $24
2017
2018

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proudly presents

Songbook

Steven Page and The Art of Time Ensemble
Andrew Burashko, Artistic Director
THE ENSEMBLE
Steven Page, singer
Andrew Burashko, piano
Peter Lutek, woodwinds
Joseph Phillips, bass
Rob Piltch, guitar
Rachel Pomedli, cello
Stephen Sitarski, violin

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about art of time ensemble

Renowned concert pianist Andrew Burashko formed Art of Time Ensemble in 1997 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.

PERFORMED WITH ONE INTERMISSION

acknowledgements

Art of Time Ensemble gratefully acknowledges the support of:

Art of Time Ensemble Season Patrons
Eli & Phil Taylor

@stevenpage
@artoftime
#AoTEontour
Artoftimeensemble.com

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program

SONGBOOK

Tonight’s program will be selected from the following songs:

A Singer Must Die, Leonard Cohen, arranged by Gavin Bryars
Ashes To Ashes, David Bowie, arranged by Robert Carli

Brian Wilson, Barenaked Ladies, arranged by Jim McGrath
Chancellor, Gord Downie, arranged by Kevin Fox

Changing Opinion, Philip Glass, arranged by Phil Dwyer
Entourage, Steven Page, arranged by Bryden Baird

Everything Means Nothing To Me, Elliot Smith, arranged by Dan Parr
Famous Blue Raincoat, Leonard Cohen, arranged by Jonathan Goldsmith

Girl, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, arranged by Dan Parr
God’s Comic, Elvis Costello, arranged by Cameron Wilson
I’m Your Man, Leonard Cohen, arranged by Jonathan Goldsmith
Lion’s Teeth, The Mountain Goats, arranged by Jim McGrath

Marie, Randy Newman, arranged by Christos Hatzis
New Shore, Steven Page, arranged by Jim McGrath

Oh!, Darling, John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Paranoid Android, Radiohead, arranged by Robert Carli
Running Out of Ink, Barenaked Ladies, arranged by Cameron Wilson
Tonight We Fly, Divine Comedy, arranged by Kevin Fox

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about the artists

STEVEN PAGE
Steven Page’s distinctive and powerful tenor is among the most instantly recognizable voices in
popular music today. The singer/songwriter is a founding member of The Barenaked Ladies with
whom he toured the globe and sold millions of albums. On his own, Steven continues his artistic
evolution with a diverse array of solo projects. He has composed six Stratford Festival scores,
collaborated and toured with Toronto’s innovative Art of Time Ensemble and journeyed across
North America as host of TV’s The Illegal Eater while continuing to write, release and perform his
original music. In December 2016, Steven Page became a Chopped Canada Champion on a special
celebrity edition of the show. Steven released his latest opus, HEAL THYSELF, PT. I: INSTINCT
in 2016 followed by a two week critically acclaimed residency at New York City’s storied Café
Carlyle. Steven is currently in the studio finishing work on HEAL THYSELF, PT. 2.

ANDREW BURASHKO
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 eclectic musical interests have led him to share 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.

PETER LUTEK, reed instrumentalist, performs improvised music. His training as a classical
and avant-garde bassoonist led to extensive exploration of the clarinets and saxophones, as well as
composition and electronic synthesis. He has played with New Music Concerts (Toronto), NUMUS
(Waterloo), and the Freddie Stone Ensemble, and was a founding member of the 40 Fingers
saxophone quartet. Peter was also a member of the Toronto collective, Composers Workshop.
He leads ENGINE, and performs regularly with Tom Richards’ Riverrun, David Mott, David
Buchbinder, Andrew Downing, Circle Music Band, and the Avi Granite:6.

Lutek also works as a sound engineer. He was session engineer, editor, and mixer for the 40 fingers
quartet, and has been responsible for all phases of production in numerous recordings over the last
10 years for David Mott, Joseph Petric, and Tom Richards. Peter also mixed and mastered The
Tortoise, the acclaimed debut recording by Rob Mosher’s Storytime.

JOSEPH PHILLIPS, a Toronto native, studied double bass at the University of Toronto with
the renowned virtuoso Joel Quarrington. Joseph Phillips has been Principal Double Bassist with
Orchestra London since 2007, a position he has also held with the Thunder Bay Symphony
Orchestra and Sinfonia Toronto.

He plays regularly with violinist Mayumi Seiler in her Via Salzburg Chamber Music series and in
concerts with Art of Time Ensemble and the Sweet Water Music Festival. He performs with Sarah
Slean, Patricia O’Callaghan, Jenny Whiteley, Andrew Downing’s chamber-jazz group Arts &
Letters.

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about the artists cont...

Joe has contributed to many recordings, including Juno-nominated albums by the Pierre Schryer
Band, Joey Wright and The Wailin’ Jennys. Joe has written symphony orchestra arrangements for a
number of Canadian artists, including blues diva Rita Chiarelli, and songwriter Ian Tamblyn.

ROB PILTCH has worked with The Bernie Piltch Quartet, The Ted Moses Quintet and Blood,
Sweat & Tears. He has worked as a session player with Kim Mitchell, Shirley Eikhardt, Guido
Basso, and Rob McConnell, and has recorded two albums: Bells and Rob Piltch. Rob has also
performed and recorded with Colm Wilkinson, Molly Johnson, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Louise Pitre,
Steven Page, Sarah Slean, Sophie Milman, and The Art of Time Ensemble. His CD Chambers is
available on iTunes and on CD Baby.

RACHEL POMEDLI holds a Master of Music degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of
Music degree from the University of Toronto. Her principal teachers have been Andras Fejer,
Judith Glyde, Aldo Parisot and Shauna Rolston.

As a member of the Vinca String Quartet, formed at Yale, Rachel was a graduate assistant to the
Takacs Quartet at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Vinca Quartet were prizewinners at
the 2005 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana, and visiting artists
at the Aspen Music Festival, Vail Music Festival, and the International Musicians Seminar
in Prussia Cove, England.

Rachel has participated in the Spoleto USA Festival (Charleston, South Carolina) the Norfolk
Chamber Music Festival (Norfolk, Connecticut), the National Orchestral Institute (College
Park, Maryland), and spent six summers at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has performed in
masterclasses for Janos Starker, Desmond Hoebig, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Ralph Kirshbaum; and
intensively studied chamber music with Laurence Lesser and the Tokyo, Takacs and Juilliard String
Quartets.

STEPHEN SITARSKI is Concertmaster of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and held the
same position with the Esprit Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) for 15
seasons. Sitarski became Artistic Director of the KWS Baroque and Beyond.

Stephen frequently appears as soloist with many concertos in the standard repertoire as well as
concertos written especially for him by Canadian composers. Stephen is a founding member of
Trio Laurier, and is a regular participant in diverse chamber groups and festival events nationally
and internationally with many of Canada’s finest musicians.

As an arranger, Stephen has arranged music for the Emperor Quartet, Quartetto Gelato and the
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.

Stephen is also on the faculty of Wilfrid Laurier University, Toronto’s Glenn Gould School of the
Royal Conservatory of Music.

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