Concert: Ian Tomaz, piano

Ian Tomaz is an American pianist currently based in Paris, France. He has studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot since 2021, working with Pascal Roge. He is in residence at the Fondation des Etats Unis in 2022-2023 as a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar, performing concerts as an Artist in Residence at the FEU and around Paris while working on themajor solo, chamber and art song compositions of Francis Poulenc.

Ian was an Emerging Artist in Residence at the LAMP from late 2019 to summer 2021, where he performed solo and chamber music recitals in the ‘Ludwig at LAMP’ 250th celebration and shared the stage with many musicians including Symphony Nova Scotia’s Rachel Desoer and soprano Jane Archibald.

He will perform excerpts from Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1: Prelude and Fugues; as well as Etudes Op. 10 (selections), Barcarolle in F Sharp Major Op. 60, and Polonaise Fantasie in A Flat Major Op. 61 by Frédéric Chopin.

For more information about the Bach Cycle Series by Ian Tomaz please visit this page of our website.

Entrance to this performance is $25.

*Kids 18 & under free with a paying adult. Reservations for children are required.

Concert: Ian Tomaz, piano

PLEASE NOTE THIS CONCERT DATE HAS CHANGED!

This event is now taking place on Friday December 13 @7pm

Ian Tomaz is an American pianist currently based in Paris, France. He has studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot since 2021, working with Pascal Roge. He is in residence at the Fondation des Etats Unis in 2022-2023 as a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar, performing concerts as an Artist in Residence at the FEU and around Paris while working on themajor solo, chamber and art song compositions of Francis Poulenc.

Ian was an Emerging Artist in Residence at the LAMP from late 2019 to summer 2021, where he performed solo and chamber music recitals in the ‘Ludwig at LAMP’ 250th celebration and shared the stage with many musicians including Symphony Nova Scotia’s Rachel Desoer and soprano Jane Archibald.

He will perform excerpts from Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1: Prelude and Fugues; as well as Etudes Op. 10 and Sonata in b minor, Op. 58 by Frederic Chopin.

For more information about the Bach Cycle Series by Ian Tomaz please visit this page of our website.

Entrance to this performance is $25.

*Kids 18 & under free with a paying adult. Reservations for children are required.

Preludes and Postludes: How the 17th & 18th Centuries Predict the Future

Finishing 2024 where we started: Preludes, preluding as improvisation and what it means to begin a cycle. Reflecting on music, the end of a year and beginning of another as we head into 2025 and musically into the 20th century.

Pianist Ian Tomaz presents a series of lectures and concerts which uses J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 to guide the general public towards a deeper understanding of classical music and trace its influence on later composers. Each cycle includes one concert, which pairs 6 of the 24 Preludes and Fugues with works of composers influenced by Bach; and three lectures, where specific musical characteristics of each Prelude and Fugue are connected to later works, showing the audience how the principles exemplified by Bach pervade all musical genres and eras. This series is inspired by Nadia Boulanger, whose work Ian has been studying in Paris since 2021, and takes place across Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

For more information about the Bach Cycle Series by Ian Tomaz please visit this page of our website.

Entrance to this music & information session is by donation.

Glenn Patscha, Nick Halley & Ian McGimpsey have agreed to return for one final jazz concert in 2024!

Preludes and Postludes: How the 17th & 18th Centuries Predict the Future

PLEASE NOTE THIS CONCERT DATE HAS CHANGED!

This event is now taking place on Sunday December 8 @2:30pm

Finishing 2024 where we started: Preludes, preluding as improvisation and what it means to begin a cycle. Reflecting on music, the end of a year and beginning of another as we head into 2025 and musically into the 20th century.

Pianist Ian Tomaz presents a series of lectures and concerts which uses J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 to guide the general public towards a deeper understanding of classical music and trace its influence on later composers. Each cycle includes one concert, which pairs 6 of the 24 Preludes and Fugues with works of composers influenced by Bach; and three lectures, where specific musical characteristics of each Prelude and Fugue are connected to later works, showing the audience how the principles exemplified by Bach pervade all musical genres and eras. This series is inspired by Nadia Boulanger, whose work Ian has been studying in Paris since 2021, and takes place across Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

For more information about the Bach Cycle Series by Ian Tomaz please visit this page of our website.

Entrance to this music & information session is by donation.

Point/Counterpoint: Explaining Fugues, Polyphony and Contrasts in Music

Our world is shaped by human interaction; communication between one another. We think of a song as one unified piece, but how can we learn to view music as independent voices speaking - agreeing and disagreeing, repeating or presenting new ideas? Learn to develop a new way of listening with Bach and Chopin.

Pianist Ian Tomaz presents a series of lectures and concerts which uses J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 to guide the general public towards a deeper understanding of classical music and trace its influence on later composers. Each cycle includes one concert, which pairs 6 of the 24 Preludes and Fugues with works of composers influenced by Bach; and three lectures, where specific musical characteristics of each Prelude and Fugue are connected to later works, showing the audience how the principles exemplified by Bach pervade all musical genres and eras. This series is inspired by Nadia Boulanger, whose work Ian has been studying in Paris since 2021, and takes place across Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

For more information about the Bach Cycle Series by Ian Tomaz please visit this page of our website.

Entrance to this music & information session is by donation.

Point/Counterpoint: Explaining Fugues, Polyphony and Contrasts in Music

PLEASE NOTE THIS CONCERT DATE HAS CHANGED!

This event is now taking place on Sunday December 1 @2:30pm

Our world is shaped by human interaction; communication between one another. We think of a song as one unified piece, but how can we learn to view music as independent voices speaking - agreeing and disagreeing, repeating or presenting new ideas? Learn to develop a new way of listening with Bach and Chopin.

Pianist Ian Tomaz presents a series of lectures and concerts which uses J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 to guide the general public towards a deeper understanding of classical music and trace its influence on later composers. Each cycle includes one concert, which pairs 6 of the 24 Preludes and Fugues with works of composers influenced by Bach; and three lectures, where specific musical characteristics of each Prelude and Fugue are connected to later works, showing the audience how the principles exemplified by Bach pervade all musical genres and eras. This series is inspired by Nadia Boulanger, whose work Ian has been studying in Paris since 2021, and takes place across Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

For more information about the Bach Cycle Series by Ian Tomaz please visit this page of our website.

Entrance to this music & information session is by donation.

LAMPs new totally free Tuesday lunchtime concert series. Reservations not required - simply come up to the third floor of the Lunenburg Academy at noon every Tuesday in October and November for a free concert. Duration changes by week, depending on the artists and the audience!

Singing in Music | Influence of choral to bel canto in Bach and Chopin

Note: This event was originally scheduled for Wednesday 20 November at 7pm.

From cavemen grunting to religious chanting and later singing in all forms, the voice is at the centre of art and communication. But how can we sing and speak without words as instrumentalists, and how do composers learn from singing? Learn with Bach and Chopin.

Pianist Ian Tomaz presents a series of lectures and concerts which uses J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 to guide the general public towards a deeper understanding of classical music and trace its influence on later composers. Each cycle includes one concert, which pairs 6 of the 24 Preludes and Fugues with works of composers influenced by Bach; and three lectures, where specific musical characteristics of each Prelude and Fugue are connected to later works, showing the audience how the principles exemplified by Bach pervade all musical genres and eras. This series is inspired by Nadia Boulanger, whose work Ian has been studying in Paris since 2021, and takes place across Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

For more information on the Bach Cycle Series, please follow this link.

Entrance to this music & information session is by donation.

Singing in Music | Influence of choral to bel canto in Bach and Chopin

PLEASE NOTE THIS CONCERT DATE HAS CHANGED!

This event is now taking place on Sunday November 24 at 2:30pm

From cavemen grunting to religious chanting and later singing in all forms, the voice is at the centre of art and communication. But how can we sing and speak without words as instrumentalists, and how do composers learn from singing? Learn with Bach and Chopin.

Pianist Ian Tomaz presents a series of lectures and concerts which uses J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 to guide the general public towards a deeper understanding of classical music and trace its influence on later composers. Each cycle includes one concert, which pairs 6 of the 24 Preludes and Fugues with works of composers influenced by Bach; and three lectures, where specific musical characteristics of each Prelude and Fugue are connected to later works, showing the audience how the principles exemplified by Bach pervade all musical genres and eras. This series is inspired by Nadia Boulanger, whose work Ian has been studying in Paris since 2021, and takes place across Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

For more information on the Bach Cycle Series, please follow this link.

Entrance to this music & information session is by donation.

With Cellist
Jeffrey Ho

LAMP’s new totally free Tuesday lunchtime concert series. Reservations not required - simply come up to the third floor of the Lunenburg Academy at noon every Tuesday in October and November for a free concert. Duration changes by week, depending on the artists and the audience!

Cellist Jeffrey Ho, here in Lunenburg for a week, will perform for us today.

With Pianist
Anna Han

This week’s Tunes on Tuesday features LAMP’s new Education Director, pianist Anna Han.

LAMP’s totally free Tuesday lunchtime concert series. Reservations not required - simply come up to the third floor of the Lunenburg Academy at noon every Tuesday in October and November for a free concert. Duration changes by week, depending on the artists and the audience!

The Verona Quartet - Beethoven Cycles

Sunday, Nov 10 @ 2:30pm

LAMP’s Artistic Directors, the Verona Quartet, embark on the first concert of their Beethoven String Quartet cycle, a six-part concert series featuring all sixteen of Ludwig van Beethoven’s monumental string quartets. This will be the very first time the entire Beethoven String Quartet cycle will be performed in Lunenburg.

Entrance to this performance: $35

The Verona Quartet: Beethoven

Friday, Nov 8 @ 7:00pm

This performance will be a sneak preview of March's Beethoven String Quartet Half Cycle. The audience is  invited into the inner sanctum of preparing a collection of works from this mammoth composer of the string quartet canon. The program will feature selections from several of the great string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven as well as the complete String Quartet No. 1  "Kreutzer Sonata" of Leoš Janáček, so titled after Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, famously known as the "Kreutzer". If you like what you see, return in March of 2025 for the two series Beethoven Half Cycle to hear complete works.

Tickets for this event are $35

*Kids 18 & under free with a paying adult. Reservations for children are required. All programs are subject to change.

LAMPs new totally free Tuesday lunchtime concert series. Reservations not required - simply come up to the third floor of the Lunenburg Academy at noon every Tuesday in October and November for a free concert. Duration changes by week, depending on the artists and the audience!

Ian Tomaz: All About Bach

Get to know Bach through his music and biography, learning how his professional and personal life, as well as his interests in religion, science and philosophy, created a musical style which influenced all of western music. 

Pianist Ian Tomaz has been presenting a wonderful series of lectures and concerts using J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 to guide the general public towards a deeper understanding of classical music and trace its influence on later composers.

To date the events have been well attended and enjoyed by all and during the October 16 event, Ian announced one additional session on October 30 at 7pm. This will be dedicated entirely to Bach, whereas his other events include works and discussion on other composer as well as Bach.

For more information on the Bach Cycle Series, please follow this link.

Entrance to this music & information session is by donation.

With Pianist
Chris Au

LAMP’s new totally free Tuesday lunchtime concert series. Reservations not required - simply come up to the third floor of the Lunenburg Academy at noon every Tuesday in October and November for a free concert. Duration changes by week, depending on the artists and the audience!

LAMP’s new Development Director, pianist Chris Au, will perform today.

With Pianist
Ian Tomaz

LAMP’s new totally free Tuesday lunchtime concert series. Reservations not required - simply come up to the third floor of the Lunenburg Academy at noon every Tuesday in October and November for a free concert. Duration changes by week, depending on the artists and the audience!

Ian Tomaz has been the start of the show on our Tunes on Tuesday - this week will be his last as he gets a well-deserved few weeks off!

LAMPs new totally free Tuesday lunchtime concert series. Reservations not required - simply come up to the third floor of the Lunenburg Academy at noon every Tuesday in October and November for a free concert. Duration changes by week, depending on the artists and the audience!

Concert: Anna Han, pianist

Hailed by the Washington Post as “prodigiously gifted… a display of imagination, taste and pianistic firepower far beyond her years,” American pianist ANNA HAN strives to deliver heartfelt performances through a variety of classical piano repertoire. Second prize winner of the 2023 Naumburg International Piano Competition and first prize winner of the 2023 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Auditions, she has performed eleven different concerti with orchestras, over seventy solo concerts, and over a hundred chamber music recitals. Recent highlights included Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, National Concert Hall of Taipei, Newport Classical Chamber Series, Schubert Club, Performing Arts Houston, and Yellow Barn, and chamber recitals with Steven Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian, Randall Goosby, and the Verona Quartet.

As pianist-in-residence at the LAMP, she has performed over twenty solo and chamber concerts here, including nearly five hours of Beethoven’s music as part of his 250th birthday celebration, and two different solo Schumann programs. Her repertoire also includes thirty works by living composers, including Michael Brown’s Suite for Piano, which she recorded for the Steinway and Sons label.

Tonight YAM faculty pianist Anna Han will perform for the participating young artists and for the general public.

Further details of repertoire to be announced.

Entrance to this performance is $25 OR purchase a series ticket to all four performances for only $50.

Presenter: Anna Han

INTERACTIVE CLASS SERIES: Lectures and guided activities which allow you to partake in the musical process

Monday, September 2, 6:00pm | How do I build a program to perform?

The context in which a piece of music is heard can be extremely powerful. Pianist Anna Han shares her programming process, using her upcoming concert (September 6) as a case study, and analyzes other programs. This will be the first of several programming workshops this year, where participants (regardless of musical ability) learn to build their own hypothetical programs from pieces they love.

Concert: Young Artists

Young Artists who have participated in LAMP’s inaugural Young Artist Masterclass (YAM) program from August 29- Sept 1 will perform this afternoon at 2:30pm. This week long festival for talented pianists and string players, aged 13-18, included private lessons, daily group activities and masterclasses - guided by exceptionally talented emerging artists as faculty: Anna Han (piano), Janice Lu (piano) and SoYoung Choi (voilin). For more information on this program, follow this link.

Entrance to this performance is by donation, OR purchase a series ticket and attend all four YAM concerts for only $50.

Donations over $25 will receive a Canadian charitable tax receipt.