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For immediate release - August 26, 2011
RBC Foundation supports Prairie Debut concert tours through Manitoba and Saskatchewan in 2011/2012
On behalf of the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Touring Project, Erickson RBC Branch Manager Steve Robson recently presented a $5000.00 cheque to Prairie Debut. This generous donation will help support the touring and concert activities of Prairie Debut musicians in Manitoba and Saskatchewan communities in the 2011/12 season.
RBC believes in the power of the arts to enrich lives and enhance communities and considers art a fundamental aspect of Canadian culture. Through the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artists Project, it supports more than 30 programs across Canada and will continue to help aspiring artists receive the exposure that they deserve and ultimately have their work appreciated on a national and international level.By supporting touring organizations such as Prairie Debut, the RBC Foundation realizes these cultural objectives.
The Prairie Debut organization contributes to the career development of Canadian classical and world music artists and endeavors to enrich the cultural life of the communities with which it works. In January 2012, the percussion ensemble TorQ will perform in 6 communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan including Minnedosa and Brandon. Violist Sharon Wei and pianist Angela Park will perform in Brandon, Snow Lake and the Pas MB in November 2011 and Estevan and Regina SK in January 2012. Classical accordionist Alexander Sevastian’s concert tour will include Brandon MB in October 2011 and Swift Current, Estevan, Weyburn, Kipling, Yorkton, Tisdale, Melfort, Biggar, Rosthern and Canora SK.
In addition to the RBC Foundation Emerging Artist Touring Project donation, these tours have also been generously supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Richardson Foundation, the Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation, the Burns Family Foundation and Golden West.
From left to right: Steve Robson (Erickson RBC Branch Manager), Lynne Bailey (Executive Director, Prairie Debut), Jackie Rempel (Customer Service Representative), Monika Lux (Customer Service Representative) and Bernard Magcawas (Customer Service Representative).
Prairie Debut 15th Season
Based in Onanole Manitoba and incorporated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Prairie Debut is a charitable status organization whose goal is to encourage community presenters to strive for artistic excellence in the presentation of professional classical and world music. The organization works to strengthen the interprovincial relationship of community presenters and contribute to the career development of Canadian classical and world artists by creating touring opportunities.
Since 1997, Prairie Debut has presented 85 artists in 35 tours to 62 communities in the Prairie provinces and Yukon. These tours have totaled over 425 concerts and reached more than 50,000 people.
For more information regarding this project and/or Prairie Debut, please contact: Lynne Bailey, Executive Director, Prairie Debut Box 273, Onanole, MB R0J 1N0 — T: (204) 848-7427 — e-mail: ldbailey (at) mts (dot) net — website: www.prairiedebut.com
For immediate release - September 12, 2008
The Banff Centre brings Chopin, Vivaldi to Alberta
Presented as part of the Alberta Autumn Tour 2008
This fall, alumni musicians of The Banff Centre will bring a program of classical music to towns throughout the province.
In an inaugural partnership between the classical music touring organization Prairie Debut and The Banff Centre, locally presented by the Alberta community presenters, the tour will host emerging Canadian artists for informal concerts at venues across the province. The select 12-piece chamber ensemble will present a program that includes Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and an arrangement of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1, with soloist Yuval Fichman.
“For 75 years The Banff Centre has been a home for artistic creativity,” says Barry Shiffman, director of music programs at the Centre. “This fall, we share the riches of some of our most talented young alumni in concerts across Alberta. These musicians bring an energy and enthusiasm to their art that is inspiring to witness. Mark your calendars ? this tour should not be missed.”
A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, soloist Yuval Fichman has performed with all of the major orchestras in Canada, including a role as guest soloist with the Montreal Symphony on its 50th anniversary European tour, and with the Vancouver Symphony on a tour of Japan. He has performed at venues around the world, including the Kennedy Centre in Washington, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto.
Prairie Debut is an inter-provincial touring network with a mandate to create opportunities for the presentation of professional classical and world music in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
“The history of Prairie Debut has been the promotion and celebration of Canadian artists and their artistic creation,” says Lynne Bailey, executive director of Prairie Debut. “The Banff Centre exemplifies this value and in their 75-year history, has continued to develop artists, both Canadian and international, of the highest artistic calibre. Prairie Debut is honoured to collaborate with The Banff Centre on this 75th Anniversary Alberta tour.”
Media contact:
Jill Sawyer, Media & Communications Officer, The Banff Centre
jill_sawyer (at) banffcentre.ca • 403.762.6475
Download Banff Tour Poster [PDF ~0.1 MB]