Music that tells a story at St. Luke's
Pianist Mathew Walton and flutists Diana Lam and Jeff Stonehouse will be performing for the Gift of Music this Sunday, June 9, focusing on music that is inspired by stories. From excerpts from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ to ‘Peter Crouch,’ ‘The Disgruntled Pied Piper,’ the Flower Duet from Lakme and Poulenc’s musical interpretation of the first book of Babar, the little elephant much loved by children of all ages, the afternoon will bring music to life.
All three musicians met while doing their undergraduate studies in music at Wilfrid Laurier University. Walton arrived the year that Lam was graduating in performance, while Stonehouse, who pursued a degree in musical therapy as well as a degree in performance, graduated a year after Lam. Although they studied in different years, what they had in common was that they were all concerto competition winners in their respective years, which entitled them to perform a solo piece with full orchestral backup. After graduating from Laurier, all three members of the trio left Waterloo to attain graduate degrees in music performance, and two years ago decided to form the Laurier Trio.
Lam was principal flute of the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra from 2008 to 2011, and is involved in multiple chamber music collaborations in the Ottawa area. She has performed internationally, and has been an archival recording artist for the Canadian Music Centre. She currently resides in Ottawa and is on Flute Faculty for Carleton University and for the National Capital Suzuki School of Music.
Montreal-based flutist Stonehouse is a prize winner from several national competitions, including the TD-Canada Trust Young Artist Competition and the Ken Murray Concerto Competition. He is co-artistic director of Productions Berrisque, a Montreal-based company dedicated to alternative chamber music performance, and also performs with the harp trio Isosceles, the Burgundy Winds and l’Ensemble Paramirabo.
Walton currently resides in Edmonton, where he is undertaking doctoral studies in music at the University of Alberta. Outside of performance, he has also completed a Master’s degree in Musicology, with a research focus on the genre of the piano paraphrase and musical narrative.
Walton was recently awarded a scholarship to study the “poetry and performance” of lieder during a five-week master course at the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Austria this summer before returning to Edmonton.
Trio Laurier will be performing in Creemore this Sunday, June 9, at 3 pm at St. Luke’s Anglican Church. Following the concert, join us to meet with the musicians and enjoy complimentary refreshments. Tickets, at $15, are available at the Echo, Curiousity House Books and at the door.
