Concert of I Medici di º«¹úÂãÎè Orchestra
Montreal, October 25, 2009... I Medici di º«¹úÂãÎè Orchestra continues its 21st season with a public concert on Monday November 9, at 8 pm at Oscar Peterson Hall, Loyola Campus of Concordia University located at 7141 Sherbrooke West under its conductor Iwan Edwards. This concert features Beethoven’s Violin Concerto op. 61 and Brahms’ 2nd symphony. The violin soloist Emmanuel Vukovich, recently completed his Bachelors of Music Studies at º«¹úÂãÎè University’s Schulich School of Music with Andre Roy and Denise Lupien.He was the first recipient of º«¹úÂãÎè’s prestigious Golden Violin Award, as well as being awarded the Arts Orford String Quartet Scholarship by the Ontario Arts Council Foundation. In addition to being a former student of Dorthy Delay and Masao Kawasaki at Juilliard School in New York, Vukovich worked alongside Anton Kuerti, Matt Haimowitz, and Ida Haendel, and performed in honor of the late Christopher Reeve.
Maestro Iwan Edwards has conducted I Medici di º«¹úÂãÎè since the year 2000. He also directs Concerto Della Donna and the Montreal Children’s Choir. Formerly a professor at º«¹úÂãÎè University he recently retired from being music director (and founder) of the St. Lawrence Choir, MSO Choir, Ottawa Choral Society and the Canadian Chamber Choir.
I Medici di º«¹úÂãÎè was founded in 1989 by Dr. A. L. Padjen of º«¹úÂãÎè’s Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The mission of I Medici is to provide musical content for various events in the life of the Faculty of Medicine, the University and the community and thus add a unique social dimension to medical education and to the profession. The orchestra also plays during an annual lecture series on ‘’Biology of Music’’. I Medici is available for fundraising events. The players come from the staff and students of º«¹úÂãÎè’s Faculty of Medicine and the ensemble is completed by players from the community, upon invitation and audition.
The musicians of I Medici are all volunteers. Admission to all I Medici public concerts is free but as there are costs associated with putting on each concert, a voluntary contribution of $15 at the door is strongly encouraged.