JVL SUMMER SCHOOL
FOR PERFORMING ARTS

Welcome from the Director

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the seventh season of the JVL Summer School for Performing Arts. As you browse through these pages, you will discover the breadth of our musical offerings. Our Preparatory, Intermediate and Advanced Studies program is carefully designed to provide an enjoyable musical experience and a thorough musical training for those students who are at the onset of their musical journey through to students who will become the next generation of young performers. The course offers its participants a wonderful opportunity to combine their intensive music studies and concert performances with recreational activities. The aim of the SSPA is to develop an appreciation of music that will last through their lifetime and ability for them to receive greater enjoyment of a musical performance through that knowledge and understanding.

The program of the School will include instrumental and voice private lessons, master classes and workshops, chamber music classes, orchestral and ensemble classes, concert performances, solo performances with the SSPA orchestras and seminars. Individual instruction is only one part of the JVL curriculum. By placing special emphasis on chamber music, JVL SSPA gives students the opportunity to work in small groups where their individual contributions can be appreciated and critiqued. Opportunities for performance are given to many chamber groups throughout the season. All that helps to create a rich tapestry of learning and exploration for children.

JVL SSPA's remarkable faculty - gifted and creative master teachers and musicians dedicated to the fine art of teaching, supports all of this musical activity.

It gives me a great pleasure to welcome new members, who will join the Faculty this season: Ms. Tina Torlone, who will lead our newly formed Vocal Department. She will also introduce a very special “Sing Out!” program. From St. Petersburg, Russia and Seoul, South Korea I’d like to welcome a brilliant pianist Mr. Yaroslav Pugach. Another great addition to the Faculty: from Toronto, courtesy of Toronto School for Strings, a wonderful bassist and composer, Mr. David Stone, as well as an excellent cellist, Mr. Peter Cosbey. And of course I also would like to welcome back our “usual” faculty: our very dear friends and very respected musicians Mary and Julian Fisher, Toronto School for Strings, Dr. Lee Joiner, Associate Professor of Violin, Wheaton College, Illinois, USA, Alina and Mikhail Mirzoev who are taking care of our preparatory division, Sharon Prater, internationally acclaimed soloist and chamber musician, Principal Cello of the Toronto Philharmonia, and a member of Ensemble Vivant, Mr. Marc Widner, one of the foremost Canadian pianist and pedagogue, Mr. Paul Zafer, Concertmaster of the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, USA and in particular Professor David Zafer who once again agreed to take part in this event and who continues to inspire yet another generation of young musicians.

And we certainly will continue using the premises of Canadore College on Lake Nipissing in North Bay, Ontario with large, air-conditioned rehearsals spaces, our own Auditorium, very comfortable accommodation and excellent recreational facilities, and the food promises to be something special.

These are the things that you must come to JVL SSPA to experience for yourself. I extend to you a warm welcome, and hope to see you at our Camp. Thank you for your interest in the JVL Summer School for Performing Arts.

Jacob Lakirovich, Director