Instrumental Society of Calgary
St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, 1121 14th Ave S.W. Calgary, AB, Canada

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, Feb 28 at 2 p.m. with Jonathan Wielebnowski, an emerging Canadian bassist, composer, and bandleader based in Calgary, Alberta. www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, Feb 21 at 2 p.m. with Jiajia Li, Flute, Classically-trained flutist Jiajia Li is being praised as one of the city’s finest and most adventurous flautists" www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, Feb 14 at 2 p.m. with Flint & Feather (Joal and Lauren Kamps) are a free-spirited husband and wife duo that are passionate about connecting with people through folk/roots music www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, Feb 7 at 2 p.m. with Cree-Dene hand drum singer, songwriter, music educator and music therapist Sherryl Sewepagaham www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, January 31 at 2 p.m. with hip-hop artist LYRIQUE www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, January 24 at 2 p.m. with cellist Morag Northey www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, January 17 at 2 p.m. with pianist Linh Nguyen www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Please join us for Winter Solace, a free livestream concert event this Sunday, January 10 at 2 p.m. with percussionist Afo Fapojuwo www.wintersolace.ca This program is made possible by AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care, Instrumental Society of Calgary, The Asylum for Art and by the generous support of Calgary Foundation

Happy New Year! Please join the ISC along with AHS Patient & Family-Centred Care and the The Asylum for Art for WINTER SOLACE, a free livestream concert series on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. www.wintersolace.ca Our sincere thanks to the Calgary Foundation for its generous support of this programming.

It saddens us to announce that we are unable to have an audience for the October 4 concert. Quite understandably, St. Stephen's is still learning from their experiences of having attendees at their Sunday service and are not yet ready to welcome us home. However, we are excited to announce that we will be recording the concert and will share a concert link in the coming weeks. Note that instead of a cello quintet, we will have a string quartet perform the works of Janacek, B...eethoven and Shostakovich. If you’re able, please consider turning your ticket purchase into a charitable donation to the Instrumental Society of Calgary. Alternatively, we will offer a refund. Please let us know your preference by October 4, 2020. We continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and will take all necessary steps to protect the health and safety of our performers, patrons and volunteers. We are hopeful that we will be able to welcome you in person at our November 8th concert. Please visit our website (https://instrumentalsociety.ca/) or follow us on social media for more updates as they become available.

We are happy to announce that we have elected a new president! Join us in welcoming, Brad Mahon to the ISC board. Here is a little bit about Brad: Day Job:... I’m Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education at Mount Royal University. Mount Royal’s Conservatory of Music is also in my portfolio. Moonlighting: When I’m not in committee meetings or studying spreadsheets, I regularly sneak off campus to moonlight as a guitarist, adjudicator, clinician, and lecturer. I’ve released three commercial CDs, have appeared as a guest on several other recordings, and continues to maintain my long-standing affiliation with the Royal Conservatory of Music as an examiner and administrative lead for its guitar program. Past Lives: I have also held senior leadership roles at the University of Regina Conservatory of Performing Arts and the Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance. Why the ISC? I am excited to join the ISC because of the tremendous contribution it makes to the Calgary Arts Community. From featuring Calgary’s best musicians in concert, to education and outreach programs that take the arts into schools, seniors’ homes, hospitals, and other venues, to connecting music to health and healing. I’m so proud to be part of this organization.

Happy Canada Day

Check out 2020/2021 Season Brochure at the link below https://bit.ly/3ftuHsy We are cautiously optimistic about proceeding with our programming but due to changing covid restrictions, please check our website or follow our social media for any updates regarding our concert season. As always, we remain committed to presenting calgary’s finest chamber musicians.

ATTENTION FRIENDS OF ISC We hope that you are all staying safe and healthy in these strange times and we want you to know that we are busy getting everything ready for our 2020 2021 season. It is going to be great. Artistic Director Rolf Bertsch has assembled yet another fabulous line-up for "ECLECTIC". As we look forward we are calling on Instrumental music lovers everywhere to consider joining our board and help with molding what ISC concerts look like in a post COVID world. For more information about board positions and about our upcoming season, please send an email to: [email protected]. www.instrumentalsociety.ca