This year, Frank’s piano recital, Project F, includes guests Hwa-Ing Arianne Ewing-Chow (premiered The Week After) and Michele Jacot (premiered Alchemist’s Brew), at the Canadian Opera Company.

UPDATE: Thank you for your support of WWF-Canada. Through tickets and individual donations we raised over $1500!

Programme:
Prelude & Fugue No. 14 in F sharp minor, BWV883 (WTCII) – J.S. Bach
Sonata in B flat major, K.333 – W.A. Mozart
Sonata in D major, K.381, one piano/four hands – W.A. Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, 2nd mov’t – W.A. Mozart
Étude, Opus 25 No.1, Harp – F. Chopin
Filler’ up – F. Horvat
The Week After – F. Horvat
plus the premiere of a new composition by Frank Horvat called Alchemist’s Brew, for Bass Clarinet and Electric Organ

Guest Artist: Arianne Hwa-Ing Ewing-Chow (piano)
Arianne Hwa-Ing Ewing-Chow is a piano teacher, examiner with the Royal Conservatory of Music, performer, and founder and organizer of ‘Music with a Cause’ concerts. These concerts have raised funds for the MS Society of Canada, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Canada, The North York General Hospital, The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada, and The Canadian Cancer Society.

Arianne received her Bachelor of Music from U of T, and an Artist-Teacher diploma from the Glenn Gould Professional School. Her former teachers include James Anagnoson, Carol Birtch and Boyanna Toyich. She has performed and attended international masterclasses in the Almalfi Coast, Italy and Bad Bertrich, Germany where she studied with Luiz de Moura Castro, Brian Ganz and John Perry. Arianne is a member of the Toronto Heliconian Club, and the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association.

Guest Artist: Michele Jacot (clarinet)
Michele Jacot received her Bachelor of Music degree in Performance at the University of Toronto and her Master of Music degree at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She has performed in a variety of solo and chamber music recitals, and has played with several Canadian orchestras. In addition to her active orchestral and chamber music involvement, a portion of her freelance career includes work on film soundtracks and in musical theatre. Ms. Jacot has also been a faculty member at several music festivals across Canada. As well as teaching in her private studio, she is active as a workshop and masterclass instructor.

What Is Project F?
Organized by Frank Horvat, Project F is a fundraising performance that aspires to raise funds for a worthy cause in the community while providing an evening of ecletic music.

About WWF-Canada
Founded in 1967, WWF-Canada has become one of the country’s leading conservation organizations with a mission to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world’s biological diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable; promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.