News and Events
Opening Play In 2019
Join us as we kick off a new year of making music together! Come play a few pieces with us, enjoy a performance by your teachers, and some refreshments following the play in. Everyone is invited! Students should arrive at the Great Hall at Conrad Grebel University at 9:40 and the performance will begin at 10:00. |
We're adding Cello!
The KW Community String School is pleased to welcome cellist Chris Sharpe to the teaching faculty starting in the Fall of 2015. This is an exciting addition to our program, and we look forward to hearing Chris play at the opening Play In on September 26, 2015. |
KWCSS Pops into Space!
KWCSS students to join KW Symphony for 3 Concerts!
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony has invited 34 young string school students to perform with them for their next Pops Concert series, Symphony in Space. These concerts will be taking place on February 18th at 8pm, February 19th at 2:30pm (a special shortened version for families) and 8pm. These keen young students have been busily rehearsing to prepare for this very special event. We are thrilled to have been asked as this will be an exciting adventure for our school. Performing as well as part of this event are the Amati Ensemble, providing music for the pre-concert show at the Family Edition of Symphony in Space, as well as some senior students who will be performing in a side-by-side concert with the members of the symphony. |
Grand Magazine
Grand Magazine Profile: String Theory on p. 76 - A beautifully written and photographed article about the string school in the current issue (July/August 2010) of Grand Magazine. This article is titled "The Sisters of Strings" as it features Martha and Olga Kalyniak, sisters and fellow teachers of the KW Community String School. |
Opening Play-In, September 26th, 2009
The Opening Play-In has been a long-standing, very special
event at the string school. The day begins with a group performance by the
students, led by their teachers and our accompanist. It is amazing to hear how
wonderful the students sound together, even after the summer break! After this
half-hour of playing together, the students are treated to a short concert or
demonstration by some of our finest local professional musicians. In the past
12 years, some of the featured performers have been early music and
baroque specialists, some of them in period costume, a professional
cellist, the symphony viola section playing the beautiful Bach Brandenburg
Concerto No. 6, a violin and oboe duo and a trumpet player. We have even had a
demonstration on how a pipe organ works and a bagpiper performing for the
students as well. They just loved marching out with her! This year, our students got a taste of something a little different. Larry Larson on trumpet and his buddy Ian Whitman on bass, gave the kids and parents a taste of jazz. It was so interesting to hear how each of them got their start in music and about the events in their lives that have led them to be able to play both jazz and classical styles of music. Larry and Ian played a lovely tune, "Summertime" by Gershwin, and they played it "straight" so that the kids could hear the tune as it was on the written page - then jazzing it up and improvising. Lots of heads were bobbing and toes were tapping today! Other favourites that were played today by this dynamic duo were "I Got Rhythm", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", the theme to the Flintstones cartoon show, and an amazing rendition of the Miles Davis tune, "So What". Thank you Larry and Ian!
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