$12 cash at door.
KatzTollar Pop-Up Performances at Aga Khan Museum.
KatzTollar Pop-Up Performances at Aga Khan Museum.
KatzTollar Pop-Up Performances at Aga Khan Museum.
Brian Katz – guitar/piano and Ernie Tollar – sax/eastern flutes
Brian Katz is widely acclaimed for his personal approach to playing modern jazz and klezmer music on the classical guitar, and for his evocative compositions; saxophonist/ bansuri flautist/ney player, Ernie Tollar for his outstanding ability to synthesize diverse musical traditions. KatzTollar mostly performs original compositions and “comprivisations” (compositions made up on the spot!) in the “world jazz” genre: the music is rooted in the modern jazz tradition and extends outwards to embrace elements of Middle Eastern, East Indian, Classical and various world music traditions.
Ernie Tollar performed his first professional gigs at age 16 and has since toured Europe, India, Egypt, Kapuskasing, U.S.A., Argentina, Mexico and Canada. He has performed and recorded with an incredible array of artists including Holly Cole, Kenny Wheeler, Trichy Sankaran, Joe Lovano, Maze Mazé, Space Trio, as well as several bands with his wife, vocalist Maryem Tollar; their collaborative 2009 recording, “Cairo to Toronto,” garnered them a JUNO award nomination.
Of “Leaves Will Speak,” Brian Katz’s recent solo guitar recording, music critic, Stanley Fefferman of Opus 1 Reviews writes: “The whole vibe is Brian’s own blend of classical, medieval, Spanish, Jazz, Blues, finger-picking Folk, Greek, Middle Eastern and Klezmer— you can hear all those threads in the weave of this album’s harmonic fabric. You can enjoy the play of musical intelligence on this album, and dig into a rich horde of experience gathered along the way of Brian’s 30-year international career.”
Cupid, The Slyest Rogue Alive
The Toronto Temperance Society
An afternoon with The Cygnet Committee, Lara Solnicki, Brian Katz & George Koller
Tickets: $20, purchased at the door or in advance
$15 for purchasing 4 tickets or more in advance
“This fanciful concert, falling somewhere between the cracks of jazz and classical music, is the first full-length performance of a unique trio, formed a couple of years ago. I’ve wanted to call such an ensemble. The Cygnet Committee for a number of years, and now, of course, it also serves as a sort of tribute to the great David Bowie (imaginatively, if not musically)! The ensemble includes my friend– a most original voice on the classical guitar… wonderful performer, composer, improviser Brian Katz… and bassist extraordinaire, producer of my second album “Whose Shadow?“, George Koller… Along with creative arrangements of jazz standards, we will be performing unique interpretations of music by Henry Purcell, Maurice Ravel’s Greek and Hebrew melodies, music from de Falla’s Siete Canciones Espanolas, wordless songs by Ralph Towner… I will be singing in English, French, Yiddish and Spanish!”
Lara Solnicki
A Smorgasbord of Dalcrozian Delights with:
- Sharon Dutton: elementary music teacher, Halton District School Board; – vice-president, Dalcroze Canada
- Brian Katz: music pedagogy teacher, University of Toronto / York University; – performer, composer, inventor of YidRhythmics and JazzRhythmics
- Marianna Kotyk: Eutony and Dalcroze teacher; – collaborative artist with special interest in creativity and plastique animée
- Peter Merrick: music teacher, Upper Canada College, Toronto; – president, Dalcroze Canada
Presenting a variety of Dalcrozian pedagogical morsels, including rhythmic movement, aural perception, improvisation, and plastique animée.
Admission: Free for Dalcroze members; $20.00 (at the door) for non-members
Please RSVP at info@dalcrozecanada.com by May 26.
Jonno Lightstone (clarinet, flute), Brian Katz (guitar, piano)
Tickets: $10.00
Reservation: 416-658-5687
Toronto’s 3rd Annual Festivals of House Culture, solo guitar
(program also features dancer Sarah Porter):
Buzz code under Jane Clapp.
Home is wheelchair accessible; bathroom is not.
Full calendar: housecultureto.blogspot.ca
Leading the U of T Klezmer Ensemble
“Musicking” Session – Brian Katz
