Spring into the Music with a brand new line of performances in our Spring Noon Hour Concert Series.
Admission to the building is free, and a sandwich lunch is available for purchase prior to each recital between 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., with the concerts beginning at 12:15 p.m.
About Debra Lacoste
Debra Lacoste is a freelance trumpet soloist, member of the Full House Brass quintet, Principal Trumpet with the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, a private music instructor, and Director of the community service choir Fireside Voices. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, a Master of Arts and PhD in musicology from Western University, and an ARCT in Trumpet Performance. She has taught music history and trumpet studio at local universities and manages CANTUS: a Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant. This online research tool for Gregorian chant, now based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, is part of a university network of Digital Humanities’ research projects supported by the Canadian government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is also the Director and General Editor of The Institute of Mediaeval Music, a publishing company for academic books."
About Ann-Marie MacDairmid
Ann-Marie MacDairmid is the Director of Music at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Kitchener; Accompanist for the Grand River Chorus, Brantford; Director of Shoreline Chorus, Owen Sound and Director of Queen Street Singers, Kitchener. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Music degree from Western University. She has organized choir tours for Shoreline Chorus to travel to Cuba, Holland, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Germany. Her motto for choristers is "Leave your worries at home and come to sing!" Ann-Marie accompanies soloists, choirs and instrumentalists for church services and community concerts throughout southern Ontario.
Spring into the Music
Concert Series Lineup
MAY 17
DANIEL LICHTI bass
ANNA RONAI piano
MAY 24
SHORELINE CHORUS
DIRECTOR: ANN-MARIE MACDAIRMID
MAY 31
LUKE WELCH piano
JUNE 7
COLIN COUSINS - organ / silent movie
JUNE 14
PHOENIX TRIO
WENDY WAGLER flute
CATHY ANDERSON cello
BETH ANN DE SOUSA piano
JUNE 21
KOICHI INOUE piano