KSO: Elinor Frey Plays Bach’s Cello Suites
Sun September 22, 2024 to Mon September 23, 2024Kelson Hall (330 St Paul St, Kamloops, BC, Canada)
Arts & Culture, Musical Performance
Kamloops Symphony
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Born in Seattle and living in Montréal, Elinor Frey is a leading American-Canadian cellist, gambist, and researcher. Her albums on the Belgian label Passacaille and Canadian label Analekta – many of which are world premiere recordings – include Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco Cello Sonatas, winner of a Diapason d’Or, and Early Italian Cello Concertos, winner of the 2023 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year (small ensemble). Her critical editions of Dall’Abaco’s cello music is published in collaboration with Walhall Editions.
Elinor is the artistic director of Accademia de’ Dissonanti, an organization for performance and research. She has performed throughout the Americas and in Europe in recital and with numerous chamber ensembles and orchestras (Rosa Barocca, Constantinople, Les idées heureuses, Il Gardellino, Tafelmusik, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, etc.). As a guest leader (London Symphonia, Ontario, Kingston Baroque Consort, Dorian Baroque, Siren Baroque, and others) Elinor specializes in Galant and early-Classical ensemble repertoire. In March 2023, she performed Boccherini and Sammartini concertos with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and in May 2023, she performed the Telemann Suite for viola da gamba and orchestra with Symphony Nova Scotia, Halifax.
Recipient of dozens of grants and prizes supporting performance and research, including the US-Italy Fulbright Fellowship (studying with Paolo Beschi in Como, Italy) and a recent research residency at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Elinor holds degrees from McGill, Mannes, and Juilliard. She teaches Baroque cello and performance practice at McGill University and the Université de Montréal and is a Visiting Fellow in Music (2020–2023) at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Frey was awarded Québec’s Opus Prize for “Performer of the Year” in 2021.
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Kelson Hall is a 20,000 square foot building in downtown Kamloops, previously the TELUS Annex located at 330 St. Paul Street. It has undergone a major renovation to create an ideal space for the Kamloops Symphony and Western Canada Theatre offices and schools, plus spaces for performances and rehearsals.