*** Due to unforeseen and unavoidable scheduling issues, the 3 October 2024 premiere of Perceptions of Time: Four Songs for Soprano and Vibraphone by Jack Campbell has been cancelled. Purchased tickets will be refunded. Bohart and Jack Campbell deeply regret the inconvenience. ***
Thursday 3 October 2024
Performance: 7:30 pm
Inlet Theatre, 100, Newport Drive, Port Moody, BC V3H 5C3
Bohart is thrilled to present a concert program featuring Perceptions of Time: Four Songs for Soprano and Vibraphone the latest opus from composer, violinist, and guitarist Jack Campbell with Sarah Jo Kirsch (Soprano) and Greg Samek (Percussion).
Perceptions of Time is an indeterminate, event-based score that intertwines selections from the collected diaries, journals, writings, and letters of French philologist Jean-François Champollion’s (1790–1832) writings with musical expressions of those inherent ideas, notions and questions on themes of history, time, narrative, antiquity, and on the past as it is put on public display. Certain melodic devices of this work quote the music of George Fredric Handel (1685–1759) and Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), leaving parallels for the listener’s interpretation, extraction and recirculation.
Jack Campbell is a composer, violinist, guitarist, and arts leader from Anmore, BC who the London Daily News calls “a young master of the arts…demonstrating prodigal talents….and making waves across the Classical Music Scene”. He is currently creating new work and undertaking several collaborations in France, England, Germany, Switzerland, and across Canada. His compositional projects build bridges between contemporary classical music and visual arts, dance, and theatre. He performs as a touring soloist, chamber musician, improvisor, and recording artist for LP, video, radio, and sound installation in works that Fame Magazine says, “revives tradition with a modern twist.”
Sarah Jo Kirsch is a vocalist/soundmaker currently based in Coast Salish lands. A practiced soloist and choralist in the Western European classical tradition, they have performed song, oratorio, and opera across Turtle Island and beyond. SJ is also a session musician and improvisor, vocal coach, poet, composer, and sound designer. When invited, they offer their insight on music and sound in lecture, workshops, adjudication, and vocal instruction for arts organizations and academic institutions. The 2024-25 season holds the development of an immersive multidisciplinary work in residence at SUM gallery, the workshop and premiere of a series of new works for voice and electronics for Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival, visits to Montréal’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) and the Winnipeg Baroque Festival, and collaboration with a wealth of local composers/soundmakers on new or reimagined scored, collaboratively composed, and improvised works.
Greg Samek has spent the past decade at 240 Northern Arts Studio in Vancouver, crafting innovative works for percussion. Over the years, 240 Northern has become a vibrant hub for percussionists, hosting concert series, producing music videos, and fostering a dynamic creative community in Metro Vancouver.