New Time: Friday, July 4, 2008
5:30 PM
Westminster United Church
3025 13th Avenue
Donations welcome
Student/Faculty Recital, featuring the Cosbey Ensemble.
Thomas Cosbey, violin
| Mr. Cosbey began his career in Regina as a member of the Regina Symphony Orchestra and later served as Principal Second Violin of Sinfonia Toronto. Mr. Cosbey has been featured as soloist with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfonia Toronto, and has collaborated in concert with Gwen Hoebig, Paul Katz, Marc Durand, Steve Dann, and others. He has been broadcast often on CBC Radio, most recently with bassoonist |  | |
| Stéphane Lévesque. Prize-winner at the National Music Festival, Mr. Cosbey has also claimed top prizes at numerous other competitions, including the Saskatchewan Concerto Competition, the Saskatchewan Provincial Music Festival, and the Dr. Howard Leyton-Brown Bow Competition. Mr. Cosbey holds a Performance Diploma from the Glenn Gould School, where he studied with Erika Raum. He has also worked with Pinchas Zukerman, Lorand Fenyves, Mark Fewer, Claude Richard, and Yehonatan Berick. Mr. Cosbey is currently Concert Master of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. | ||
Michelle Zapf-Bélanger, violin
| Michelle Zapf-Bélanger is a Toronto-area string teacher and performer. She teaches violin, theory, and chamber music at the Etobicoke Suzuki School of Music, and is also the conductor of the Mooredale Junior Youth Orchestra. Michelle is a member of the board of directors for the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects, an organisation promoting Canadian music education for children. Born in Montréal, Ms. Zapf-Bélanger grew up in Toronto, and is a graduate of the Glenn Gould School of the Royal |  | |
| Conservatory of Music in Toronto. An active performer, Michelle especially loves to premiere new works, such as Wandering the Threshold of Delirium, a work by Christien Ledroit, commissioned by the Norman Burgess Memorial Fund, in association with the Canadian Music Centre, and String Quartet No. 1 by Thordur Swinburne, broadcast over Icelandic radio. She has studied pedagogy with Suzuki teacher trainers Elayne Ras and Karen Kimmet. | ||
Peter Cosbey, violoncello
| Peter Cosbey, a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music's Glenn Gould School as a student of Bryan Epperson, began his cello study in Regina with Cameron Lowe. His orchestral experience with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Orchestra was recently expanded with a one year term as Assistant Principle Cello with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. As well as regularly performing on the Alicier Arts chamber music series, Peter recently appeared on the Mooredale Concerts series, at the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, |  | |
| and with the Artists of the Royal Conservatory. Peter has been heard numerous times on radio, including a recent broadcast with pianist Mariko Kamachi. | ||
Mariko Kamachi Cosbey, piano
| Pianist Mariko Kamachi began her piano studies at the age of five with Mitsuo Yoshimo in her home country of Japan, where she was a laureate of the Piano Teacher's National Association competition (1990 & 1991). She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music's Glenn Gould School under the tutelage of Leslie Kinton. In Canada, she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician, most recently on the Regina Musical Club concert series and the Alicier Arts series in Toronto. |  | |
