Café Earle August 25/2023 Recital program:

Mozart

Sonata in E-flat K302      

I Allegro

II Rondeau (Andante grazioso)

Robert Fleming

Recollections      

Clara Schumann

From Drei Romanzen Op. 22    

I Andante Molto 

II Allegretto 

Grieg (arr. Sitt)

Einsamer Wanderer      

An den Frühling 

B R E A K

César Franck

Mélancolie       

Jessie Montgomery

Peace (2020)   

Mozart

Sonata in C Major K296   

I Allegro vivace

II Andante sostenuto

III Rondo (Allegro)

William Grant Still

Summerland      

Bambelele e Espin Garda   

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Montreal native, Laura Nerenberg, started playing violin at 3 and piano at 7. Laura has performed chamber music, orchestral music, jazz, pop, folk, and improvised music all over Canada's National Capital region. She has also performed all over North America. Laura is a founding member of Gatineau, QC's “Ensemble Prisme”, Courage4, the Ottawa Jazz Orchestra, the Triptych Piano Trio, and the Algonquin Ensemble. Laura is the director of a Suzuki violin and improvisation program.

Thomas Annand has performed across Canada, the United States, Europe, and South America. He has been a frequent soloist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Les Violons du Roy and has performed at the Carmel Bach Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, International Congress of Organists, Montreal Bach Festival and Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. In his 29 years as Director of Music at St Andrew’s Church, Ottawa he presented 200 weekly organ recitals including the complete symphonies of Widor and integral cycles of the works of Mendelssohn and Franck, and with the Choir presented performances of Bach cantatas.

Together, Laura Nerenberg and Thomas Annand have performed as a duo since 2016. Equally at ease on Baroque and modern instruments, they bring a warm and playful touch to the wide and varied repertoire they select. Most recently, they performed selections from Mozart to William Grant Still to Jessie Montgomery and Dawn Avery.