Holocaust Remembrance Concert

In commemoration of the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), School of Creative and Performing Arts Music faculty, students and alumni present a concert of music by Jewish composers, including a string trio by Gideon Klein. This was Klein’s very last composition, written in the Terezin concentration camp in 1944. Soon after completing the work, he was sent to Auschwitz and from there to Fürstengrube, where he perished in January 1945.

The programme also includes Klezmer music, which essentially disappeared from Europe after the Holocaust. Then the music of Felix Mendelssohn, Ernest Bloch and Darius Milhaud will round out the program.

Opening address: Dr. Deborah Yedlin, Chancellor, University of Calgary

PROGRAMME:

Gideon Klein (1919 - 1945) – Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello (1944)

Ethan Mung, viola
Takumi Rodgers, cello
Edmond Agopian, violin

Ernest Bloch (1880 - 1959) – Nigun from Three Pictures of Chassidic Life

Rachel Kreyner, piano
Edmond Agopian, violin

Darius Milhaud (1892 – 1974) – Suite pour Violin, Clarinette et Piano

Sam Lucas, clarinet
Yuhan Zhao, piano
Edmond Agopian, violin

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) – Sonata for Violin and Piano in F minor Op. 4

Rachel Kreyner, piano
Edmond Agopian, violin

Klezmer arrangements by Edmond Agopian

Aaron Geislinger, trombone
Aine Kay Sison, tuba
Rachel Kreyner, piano
Ernest Flancia, drum set
Takumi Rodgers, cello
Isaac Willocks, violin
Edmond Agopian, violin

Presented by: UCalgary School of Creative and Performing Arts