From the President
It is my pleasure to welcome you here, and sincerely thank you, our supporters, as we enter an exciting 10th season. When we were establishing the society nine years ago, we had no idea that it would grow to these levels, with a fantastic audience base, and a continuing series of world-renowned artists. It would not be possible without you!
We have established a great history of a yearly four-concert series that includes established stars, as well as rising talents. We were very proud to present, in her Canadian debut, Ingrid Fliter, who was the recipient of the prestigious 2006 Gilmore Award. This season we invited another great emerging talent, and we are happy to celebrate our 10th anniversary at this event of the season. The VCS proudly presents Rafal Blechacz, the winner of the 15th Warsaw International Chopin Competition in 2005. This great competition launched the careers of many great pianists: Ashkenazy, Davidovich, Pollini, Argerich, Ohlsson, Pogorelic, Zimerman, just to mention a few of these stars who have already become household names in a piano world. Among the younger names are Yundi Li and Ingrid Fliter.
The 10th Anniversary Gala Reception will be held after the concert. It is also a fundraising event with a price of $100. A tax receipt of $60 will be issued.
We are adamant on continuing to provide you with high-caliber artists, while maintaining the lowest possible price for subscriptions. We are able to do this because our society is entirely run by wonderful and dedicated volunteers.
Our society is also extremely interested in meeting you, and this is why we will continue to run our concerts in a format that is followed by a reception, to which the whole audience is invited!
It is also very important to us that we continue to support young artists by giving them an opportunity to perform, and rewarding them with publicity and scholarships.
We hope that we can continue to share our love of music with you in the following season. I am excited about all the artists that will be playing for us and I encourage you to purchase a subscription so that you can enjoy all that we have to offer this year.
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Wojciech Switala
Anton Kuerti
Amir Katz
Rafal Blechacz