Meet Mark Limacher - Canadian composer, pianist, arranger/orchestrator extraordinaire - who just happens to be a bonafide genius and one of my favourite people. We caught up with Mark hours before we premiered his piano concerto that I commissioned - RUMINATIONS - in Calgary with the Kensington Sinfonia this June. Mark shares with us his compositional process, what it means to bring a concerto to life that reflects our time - we talk Puccini, Messiaen and Mompou and dive into how this incredible concerto came to be. In typical Mark fashion, we of course even stray into Marxist psychoanalytic philosophy and the state of the world and how us as artists making music fits into our society and how much we both love Gen Micheletti! 🎻 Mark is a one-of-a-kind human who I can’t wait for you to meet!

You can watch the premiere of RUMINATIONS here!:

https://youtu.be/Fpd4wQXRJjU?si=FZ3Fay0tPriEfyZY

Thank you to Graham Lessard, audio engineer and Vicki Van Chau & Philip Bowen, videographers, for capturing the premiere so beautifully in our recording!

This is such a meaningful, dream-come-true project for us that would not be possible without support from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and the City of Calgary and the collaboration with the incredible artists of Kensington Sinfonia and the Calgary Philharmonic listed here:

Violin

Genevieve Micheletti

Eric Auerbach

Isaac Willocks

Erin Burkholder

Diane Lane

Sora Kim

Viola

Liza Scriggins Lowry

Patricia Higgins

Ethan Mung

Cello

Andrea Case

Kathleen de Caen

Takumi Rodgers

Bass

Matthew Heller

Flute

Emily Pernambucq

Clarinet

Cedric Blary

Horn

Peter Clark

Trumpet

Adam Zinatelli

Percussion

Chris Sies

You can follow Mark @mark.limacher on instagram

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