The Seattle Times: Obituary of flute professor Felix Skowronek: “Professor Skowronek was devoted to education, not only here but at the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Marrowstone Music Festival….” [No reference found to Skowronek in a search of the Banff Centre website.]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Former Banff Centre photographer Ernie Kroeger exhibits beetle prints
Kamloops This Week: “Looking more like an aboriginal painting, or palaeolithic cave drawing, Kamloops artist Ernie Kroeger’s large-scale print enlargements of pencil rubbings of pine beetle trails embedded in bark or wood reveal a startling world of complex patterns that are the basis of his show at the Kamloops Art Gallery titled Beetle Letters, which runs until May 28.”
The Bard meets the Band
Scoop (New Zealand): Banff Centre Theatre alumnus Wyn Davies conducts the Auckland Philharmonia in a concert featuring music inspired works by Shakespeare.
Saying goodbye with his quartet on a high [Barry Shiffman]
Canada.com: “After 17 years and almost 2,000 concerts, several Grammy and Juno Award nominations, performances in the world’s finest concert halls and a concert at the White House, violinist Barry Shiffman figured it was a fitting time to take up new challenges and say goodbye to his friends in the St. Lawrence String Quartet…. He will step down, after a tour of Australia in August, to become the director of music programs at the Banff Centre for the Arts.”