Festival 2026
All concerts will take place in Phillip T. Young Recital Hall at the University of Victoria
Poiesis Quartet
Friday, July 24 - 7:30 pm
Pre-concert talk: 7:00 pm
Daniel Lasagna: Circus of the Mind
Calvin Ray Shawler: Order
Jeff Scott, Tapestry of Beloved Beatified
Leilehua Lanzilotti, ahupua’a
Queen Lili’uokalani Arr. Duane Padilla, ‘O Kou Aloha Nō: The Queen’s Prayer
Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 135
Poiesis Quartet and Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt (viola)
Sunday, July 26 – 2:30 pm matinee
Pre-concert talk: 2:00 pm
Max Lang: commonplace little perils
Michi Wiancko: To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores
Maya Irizarry Lambright: forest of taldeni
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (transcribed for Viola) (1907)
David Boutin-Bourque (clarinet), Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt (viola), and Arthur Rowe (piano)
Tuesday, July 28 – 7:30 pm
Pre-concert talk: 7:00 pm
Henri Vieuxtemps: Sonata in Bb major for Viola and Piano Op. 36
Max Bruch: 8 pieces for Viola, Clarinet and Piano (#5,6,7), Op. 83
Rebecca Clarke: Morpheus for Viola and Piano
Brahms: Sonata in F minor Op. 120 no. 1 for Viola and Piano
James Ehnes (violin) and Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Saturday, August 1 – 1:30 pm matinee ***note day and time!***
Pre-concert talk: 1:00 pm
Sinding: Suite Op. 11
Brahms: Sonata in D Minor Op. 108
Carmen Braden: Imaginal
Bartók: Rhapsody No 1
Élisabeth Pion (piano)
Wednesday, August 5 – 7:30 pm
Pre-concert talk: 7:00 pm
Hélène de Montgeroult: Sonata in f sharp minor, op. 5, no. 3
Brahms: Three Intermezzi for piano, op. 117
Schubert/Liszt Transcriptions: selections
Albeniz: selection
Élisabeth Pion: selection
Ravel: selection from Miroirs
David Lakirovich (violin), Desmond Hoebig (cello), and Arthur Rowe (piano)
Sunday, August 9 – 2:30 pm (matinee)
Pre-concert talk: 2:00 pm
Beethoven: Sonata in G minor Op. 5, no. 2 for Cello and Piano
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Schubert: Trio in E flat major Op. 100 for Violin, Cello and Piano