{ Monthly Archives }
The Seattle Times: Obituary of flute professor Felix Skowronek: “Professor Skowronek was devoted to education, not only here but at the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Marrowstone Music Festival….” [No reference found to Skowronek in a search of the Banff Centre website.]
Kamloops This Week: “Looking more like an aboriginal painting, or palaeolithic cave drawing, Kamloops artist Ernie Kroeger’s large-scale print enlargements of pencil rubbings of pine beetle trails embedded in bark or wood reveal a startling world of complex patterns that are the basis of his show at the Kamloops Art Gallery titled Beetle Letters, which runs until May 28.”
Scoop (New Zealand): Banff Centre Theatre alumnus Wyn Davies conducts the Auckland Philharmonia in a concert featuring music inspired works by Shakespeare.
Canada.com: “After 17 years and almost 2,000 concerts, several Grammy and Juno Award nominations, performances in the world’s finest concert halls and a concert at the White House, violinist Barry Shiffman figured it was a fitting time to take up new challenges and say goodbye to his friends in the St. Lawrence String Quartet…. He will step down, after a tour of Australia in August, to become the director of music programs at the Banff Centre for the Arts.”
