Via Salzburg's 'The Rest is Silence' Kicks Off 2011-12 Season

On Friday, October 14, 2011 Via Salzburg will present its first concert of its 2011/12 season entitled The Rest is Silence. This concert will be the first time the ensemble performs at its new venue - the Rosedale United Church, at 159 Roxborough Drive, Toronto. The first concert of the season features music of innovation, tradition, and inspiration, as Debussy and Brahms usher in the voice of Mark Richards, one of Canada's finest young composers.

The programme for The Rest is Silence is:
Debussy - String Quartet in g minor
Brahms - String Quartet no. 2, op. 5
Mark Richards - Scenes from Hamlet

With the ensemble's thirteenth season, Via Salzburg returns to the very heart of the chamber music experience by embracing the intimacy of the string quartet as its core ensemble in the more traditional setting of a church. Via Salzburg's signature has always been the blending of art forms and diverse musical genres into the traditional classical music chamber concert experience. For this first concert of the season, the ensemble infuses the familiar with the new and moves the audience into exciting and sometimes challenging musical waters.

Tickets: $35/30/20/10 through Via Salzburg (416) 972-9193 or at viasalzburg.com.

The Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra was created in 1999 by Artistic Director, violinist Mayumi Seiler, with the mission of presenting high caliber chamber music concerts with an emphasis on strings. The orchestra boasts some of Toronto's top professional musicians and the best young talent in a group that plays to consistent critical acclaim. The Globe and Mail has hailed the Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra as an "elite band of string players, that performs with passion and dedication," while The Toronto Star has lauded its "ebullience and glowing tone." This dynamic and virtuosic chamber orchestra is comfortable in any repertoire. Each piece and every performance reflects the attention to detail and energy that is the signature of this group.

Artistic Director Mayumi Seiler began her musical upbringing in Osaka, Japan, where she was born of Japanese/German parentage. Wedded to the violin from the age of three, Ms. Seiler received her musical education at the renowned Mozarteum during the formative years of her childhood in Salzburg, Austria. She is currently based in Toronto, Canada where she lives with her two greatest accomplishments, her daughter Hana and her son Seiji.

With a busy schedule as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, the Far East and North America, Ms. Seiler is also the Artistic Director and founder of Via Salzburg Chamber Music, a Toronto based chamber music organization whose chamber orchestra Ms Seiler leads from the first desk. Via Salzburg is entering the 13th season with wonderfully imaginative programming and international guest artists performing with the best Canadian talent.

Ms. Seiler has performed with numerous renowned orchestras and conductors including Neville Marriner, Christopher Hogwood, Maxim Vengerov, Peter Oundjian, Sandor Vegh and has been the featured soloist with orchestras such as the City of London Sinfonia, the Royal Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony, the Moscow Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and has performed to critical acclaim in such major venues at Toronto's Roy Thompson Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Vienna's Musikverein, the Barbican and the BBC Proms in London. Ms. Seiler has recorded many of the violin concertos and chamber repertoire for such labels as Virgin Classics, JVC Victor, Hyperion, and Capriccio.

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