Fire, Fury, and Folklore
2026-06-26 19:30 - 22:00 (America/St_Johns) | D.F. Cook Recital Hall, Memorial University of Newfoundland - School of Music, St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
Guest artists Violaine Melancon, violin, and Angela Pickett, viola, join Tuckamore Faculty in this magical and dramatic evening of chamber music by Turina, Marcus Barcham Stephens, Caroline Shaw, culminating in Dvorak’s beloved Piano Quintet.
On the Program

Stephens: Dancing and Spinning
Shaw: Entr’act (2011)
Turina: Piano Quartet
– Intermission –
Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81

Jon Kimura Parker, piano
2026-06-28 19:30 - 21:00 | D.F. Cook Recital Hall, Memorial University of Newfoundland - School of Music, St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker is known for his charisma, enthusiasm, and dynamic performances. A veteran of the international concert stage, he has performed regularly in the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, London’s South Bank, the Sydney Opera House, and the Beijing Concert Hall. He is the Creative Partner of the Minnesota Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Honens International Piano Competition, and Artistic Advisor for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.
A collaborator in a wide variety of styles, Jon Kimura Parker has performed with Doc Severinsen, Audra McDonald, Bobby McFerrin, Pablo Ziegler, and Sanjaya Malakar. As a founding member of Off the Score, he also performed with Stewart Copeland – the legendary drummer of The Police – for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival’s 20th Anniversary Season, featuring his own arrangements of music by Prokofiev, Ravel and Stravinsky. He has accompanied Frederica von Stade, Susan Graham, and Luca Pisaroni in recital.
A committed educator, Mr. Parker is Professor of Piano at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He has also lectured at The Juilliard School, and given master classes at Yale.
Join us as we welcome world renowned pianist – and audience favourite – Jon Kimura Parker to the stage!

On the Program
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.V. 311
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”
– Intermission –
Liszt: Years of Pilgrimage: Italy
del Patrarca: Sonetto 104
Ravel: Jeux d’eau
Americana! – selections from Chick Corea, Alexina Louis, John Adams, Oscar Peterson

Late Night: Of This Place
2026-06-30 21:00 - 22:00 | The LSPU Hall, Resource Centre for the Arts, 3 Victoria St., St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, A1C 3V2, Canada
Singer Matthew Byrne and storyteller Dave Paddon share a love of exploring people and places in Newfoundland and Labrador through their work, and delving into their own family histories through songs and recitations.

Brentano String Quartet in Admiral’s Cove
2026-07-01 19:00 - 20:30 | The Old Church in Admiral’s Cove, Admiral's Cove Rd, Cape Broyle, NL, A0A 1P0, Canada
SOLD OUT!
Join one of the world’s finest string quartets amid the scenic beauty and excellent acoustics of The Old Church.
Please note, this concert is not included with your Festival Pass.

Brentano String Quartet in Concert
2026-07-02 19:30 - 22:00 | First Light Centre for Performance and Creativity, 81 Cochrane St., St. John's, NL, A1C 3L7, Canada
With a career spanning over three decades, the Brentano Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism; and the Times (London) hails their “wonderful, selfless music-making.” Known for its unique sensibility, probing interpretive style, and original programming, the Quartet has performed across five continents in the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, thus establishing itself as one of the world’s preeminent ensembles.
Formed in 1992, The Brentano Quartet has received numerous accolades, including, in 1995, the prestigious Naumburg and Cleveland Quartet Awards. They have been privileged to collaborate with such artists as soprano Jessye Norman and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, as well as pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss. The Quartet’s notable recordings include Beethoven’s Quartet, Op. 131 (Aeon) which was featured in the 2012 film “A Late Quartet,” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken, and a 2017 live album with Joyce DiDonato, “Into the Fire—Live from Wigmore Hall” (Warner.) Their most recent release features the K. 428 and K. 465 (“Dissonance”) Quartets of Mozart for the Azica label.
Dedicated and highly sought after as educators, the Quartet has served as Artists-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music for the past decade. They also lead the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and appear regularly at the Taos School of Music. Previously, the Quartet served for fifteen years as Ensemble-in-Residence at Princeton University.
The Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” the intended recipient of his famous love confession.

Masterpieces and Milestones: Brentano String Quartet and Tuckamore Faculty
2026-07-03 19:30 - 22:00 | D.F. Cook Recital Hall, Memorial University of Newfoundland - School of Music, St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
Two genre defying works from the middle periods of Shostakovich (the deeply affecting Trio in E minor) and Beethoven (the daring and dazzling String Quartet op. 59 no 1).

Tom Allen: Brahms in New York
2026-07-04 19:30 - 21:00 | The Majestic Theatre, 390 Duckworth Street, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 1H8, Canada
Which childhood moments determine the adults we become? At age 9, composer Johannes Brahms was not yet the living successor to Mozart and Beethoven. He was just a very creative child whose parents very nearly sent him to America for a touring life of carnivals and minstrel shows. Who would this American Brahms have become, and what would the world, and the other Brahms have thought of him? With glorious music from a tremendous cast of players, Tom Allen brings us to 1880s Vienna for a chance meeting between the life that was, and the life that could have been.
Born in Montreal, Tom Allen is a passionate music lover, storyteller, accomplished trombonist, writer and CBC broadcaster. He written three books, been a Resident Artist with Soulpepper Theatre, delivered storytelling workshops at various University music programs and at the Banff Centre, been named an honourary Doctor of Letters by Thompson Rivers University, and hosted countless concerts across the country. He has also written a series of cabaret storytelling shows, entitled Chamber Musicals, including From Weimar to Vaudeville, The Missing Pages, A Poe Cabaret, Being Lost and JS Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow. Brahms in New York is the latest in this series.
Featuring narrator Tom Allen with Deantha Edmunds, soprano, Heather Kao, violin, Lori Gemmell, harp, Bill Brennan, piano, and Jim Vivian, bass.
This show is included in the Festival Pass.
