THE ECCENTRICS⚡️featuring…
⭐️ Penderecki String Quartet
🗓️ May 30, 2026
⏰ 7:00pm
📍 Maureen Forrester Recital Hall
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, the Penderecki String Quartet is based in Waterloo, Ontario where they have been Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1991. Originating from Poland, Canada, and USA, they bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto Globe and Mail). The PSQ’s large discography includes over three dozen recordings including the chamber music repertoire of Beethoven and Brahms as well as the first Canadian release of the six Béla Bartók quartets. Their disc of Marjan Mozetich’s “Lament in the Trampled Garden” won the 2010 JUNO Award for Best Composition, and most recently they were nominated for a 2023 JUNO for their jazz album “Blue” with Diana Panton and Don Thompson. In October 2013, the PSQ worked with Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki on his Third Quartet (2008) and performed it at Symphony Space in New York City on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This followed with the recording of Penderecki’s Third Quartet along with quartets of Norbert Palej on the Marquis label. In 2022, the PSQ was featured in Howard Shore’s soundtrack to David Cronenberg’s film Crimes of the Future. Dedicated educators, the PSQ have been recent guests at Bloomington Indiana University’s String Academy, the Beijing Conservatory, University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and with their partner universities in Osnabrück, Germany and Lyon, France.
NUMUS celebrates the end of season 40 with this NUMUS/QuartetFest coproduction. Our thanks to QuartetFest and the Laurier team for hosting this event in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall.
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THE ECCENTRICS⚡️featuring…
⭐️ Cheryl Duvall, pianist
🗓️ May 30, 2026
⏰ 7:00pm
📍 Maureen Forrester Recital Hall
Toronto’s Cheryl Duvall is recognized as one of Canada’s foremost talents in contemporary music both for her work as a pianist and interpreter, but also as a presenter and for her tireless advocacy. Versatility is among her most celebrated artistic traits; she has immersed herself in a vast array of compositional aesthetics and collaborative contexts. In all of these scenarios, her thoughtful agility and nuance imbue both the sonic and evocative domains with power and depth. She has toured and performed throughout Canada, Japan, Europe, Argentina , New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. To date, Cheryl has released three solo albums featuring works by Canadian composers, two of which have been nominated for Juno awards for Classical Composition of the Year.
NUMUS celebrates the end of season 40 with this NUMUS/QuartetFest coproduction. Our thanks to QuartetFest and the Laurier team for hosting this event in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall.
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LA ZOZOBRA Music of Uncertainty
Curated by: Veda Hingert-McDonald
⭐️2026 Emerging Canadian Curator Competition Winner
Introducing Diane Kim, violin🎶
Diane Dahyeon Kim is a Korean-Canadian violinist who is actively performing worldwide. She was part of the National Youth Orchestra in 2022 and 2023 where she received the Stephen Sitarski Leadership Award and served as a Co-Concertmaster. In 2019, she was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and was also a substitute violinist at the Millenium Symphony in Seoul, South Korea, the SFK Euro Symphony and the Kärnten Symphony Orchester in Klagenfurt, Austria. She is currently a substitute member of Sinfonia Toronto and Ontario Philharmonic, and Windsor Symphony.
Diane was a student at the Phil and Eli Taylor Academy in the Royal Conservatory of Music and a member of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra for four years, serving as Co-Concertmaster. She graduated from the Glenn Gould School’s Bachelor of Music program, studying under Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman. She received her master’s degree at the Gustav Mahler Privat Universität, studying under Sae Won Suh. Currently, she is pursuing an Artist Diploma program at the Glenn Gould School under Min-Jeong Koh and Marie Berard. She is also a viola/viola mentor at the Oscar Peterson Program and actively teaches privately and as a faculty member at the Musical Arts Academy.
Ontario Arts Council 2025/2026 feature concert! Thank you for your support!
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