A Banff Summer Arts Festival tradition - a beautiful, calm, and intimate setting to enjoy a classical music concert - just a block away from the bustle of Banff Avenue.

This evening's chamber music concert includes Birtwhistle's 9 Settings of Lorine Niedecker performed by the Diagenesis Duo and Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 59 No. 2 performed by the Larchmere Quartet. 

FREE!

Diagenesis Duo presents their Canadian debut with a performance of Mischa Salkind-Pearl's Hands and Lips of Wind (written for them in 2010). This is the first concert in conjunction with their residency at the Banff Centre's chamber music program for pre-formed ensembles. 

$25 General Admission, Seniors and Students $20, Children $15 

Kallisti presents an opera by Viktor Ullmann.

Viktor Ullmann's powerful chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, written in 1943, while the composer was interred in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. When the opera's obvious references to the Nazi regime were discovered during rehearsal, the work was banned it had tragic consequences for the composer and his family. Miraculously, the work survived.

The story is a type of fable. After a protracted and violent war, Death discovers that his job has been taken away from him by the Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Death decides to go on strike all of a sudden the concept of war, victory and defeat becomes irrelevant. The result is moving and heartbreaking. 

The cast includes sopranos Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander and Alice Teyssier, guest artists Vince Vincent, Gerald Seminatore and Ryan Reithmeierand, and UCSD Professor Philip Larson in the role of Death. Professor Steven Schick conducts UCSD's new music ensemble palimpsest. The production team also includes Orli Nativ, costume designer (UCSD Department of Theater and Dance), as well as scenic designer Gaeun Kim.? ?Der Kaiser von Atlantis is an initiative of kallisti, whose mission includes presenting works of modern music theater in an intimate setting, led by Susan Narucki.

Tickets: $10.50-$15.50

Box Office:  (858) 534-3448

Kallisti presents an opera by Viktor Ullmann.

Viktor Ullmann's powerful chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, written in 1943, while the composer was interred in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. When the opera's obvious references to the Nazi regime were discovered during rehearsal, the work was banned it had tragic consequences for the composer and his family. Miraculously, the work survived.

The story is a type of fable. After a protracted and violent war, Death discovers that his job has been taken away from him by the Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Death decides to go on strike all of a sudden the concept of war, victory and defeat becomes irrelevant. The result is moving and heartbreaking.

The cast includes sopranos Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander and Alice Teyssier, guest artists Vince Vincent, Gerald Seminatore and Ryan Reithmeierand, and UCSD Professor Philip Larson in the role of Death. Professor Steven Schick conducts UCSD's new music ensemble palimpsest. The production team also includes Orli Nativ, costume designer (UCSD Department of Theater and Dance), as well as scenic designer Gaeun Kim.? ?Der Kaiser von Atlantis is an initiative of kallisti, whose mission includes presenting works of modern music theater in an intimate setting, led by Susan Narucki.

Tickets: $10.50-$15.50

Box Office:  (858) 534-3448

Kallisti presents an opera by Viktor Ullmann.

Viktor Ullmann's powerful chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, written in 1943, while the composer was interred in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. When the opera's obvious references to the Nazi regime were discovered during rehearsal, the work was banned it had tragic consequences for the composer and his family. Miraculously, the work survived.

The story is a type of fable. After a protracted and violent war, Death discovers that his job has been taken away from him by the Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Death decides to go on strike all of a sudden the concept of war, victory and defeat becomes irrelevant. The result is moving and heartbreaking. 

The cast includes sopranos Tiffany Du Mouchelle, Bonnie Lander and Alice Teyssier, guest artists Vince Vincent, Gerald Seminatore and Ryan Reithmeierand, and UCSD Professor Philip Larson in the role of Death. Professor Steven Schick conducts UCSD's new music ensemble palimpsest. The production team also includes Orli Nativ, costume designer (UCSD Department of Theater and Dance), as well as scenic designer Gaeun Kim.? ?Der Kaiser von Atlantis is an initiative of kallisti, whose mission includes presenting works of modern music theater in an intimate setting, led by Susan Narucki.

Tickets: $10.50-$15.50

Box Office:  (858) 534-3448

A celebration of the centenary of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. The concert features the world premieres of companion pieces by composers Andrew Allen, Yeung-Ping Chen, Aaron Helgeson and Paul Hembree as well as a performance of Schoenberg's seminal work, Pierrot Lunaire. 

FREE!

Jennifer will play microtonal music as part of a full sensory experience installation by Brian Griffeth-Loeb. The installation space is open and free to the public to explore. 

FREE!

Jennifer will play microtonal music as part of a full sensory experience installation by Brian Griffeth-Loeb. The installation space is open and free to the public to explore. 

FREE!

Diagenesis Duo will present a short, interactive concert of music for cello and voice. 

FREE!

Diagenesis Duo performs as guest artists for UCSD's Mondays at Noon concert Series. The concert will include works for cello and voice by Stravinsky, Kallembach, Ordway, and Salkind-Pearl.

FREE!