Montreal Chamber Orchestra's Domtar Laureate Series: Third Concert Featuring Maarten Jansen Being Held on Monday, February 6

MONTREAL, Feb. 3, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Domtar is proud to be the Montreal Chamber Orchestra's Season Partner for the 2011-2012 Laureate Concert Series. Please join us for the third of five concerts in this series.

Featured:	Robert Schumann's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in A Minor Soloist: Maarten Jansen Conductor: Wanda Kaluzny
Also on the program: Symphony no.3 by Haydn and Sinfonia no.93 by Johan Christian Bach.
When:	Monday, February 6, 2012 at 8 p.m. ET
Where:	Bourgie Concert Hall Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1339 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, QC

For further information or to schedule interviews with the concert conductor and/or soloist, interested individuals and media can contact Mona Awad, MCO Executive Director, at [phone] or at [email protected]

About the soloist
Cello virtuoso Maarten Jansen will give us his fifth performance with the MCO, on February 6 - the first held in 1994 marked his North American début. He won first prize for the 1993 National Cello Competition in the Netherlands and has gone on to perform as soloist and in chamber music ensembles in Europe.

About the conductor
Born in Montreal, Wanda Kaluzny started her musical studies with lessons in piano and organ. She began her conducting career at the age of 11 when she assumed the position of organist and choir director at the Holy Cross Parish in Montreal, a position she held for eight years. A year later at the age of twenty, she founded the Montreal Chamber Orchestra making her at the time, the youngest and only woman conductor of a professional Orchestra. Kaluzny's conducting studies include working with Stefan Stuligrosz in Poland and with Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux Memorial Foundation in the U.S. She toured in Europe as Maestro Bruck's assistant and also guest conducted in North America and Europe. In April 1990, she was the first woman to guest conduct the Baden-Baden Symphony in Germany.

About the Montreal Chamber Orchestra
The Montreal Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1974 by its Artistic Director and Conductor, Wanda Kaluzny. Under her leadership the MCO has earned a reputation for excellence and has achieved international recognition: Korean tour including a television broadcast (1990-91); tour of Southeastern U.S.A. (Nov 1990); tour in California invited by Columbia Artist Management (Mar 1992). The MCO was also honored to be the first Canadian Orchestra featured in two PBS programs produced by Vermont Public Television, which included the memorial concert entitled "Requiem for September 11". The Montreal Chamber Orchestra can be heard on the compact discs Suites for Strings and Cinématique.

About Domtar
Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) is the largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world based on production capacity, and is also a manufacturer of papergrade, fluff and specialty pulp. The Company designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide range of business, commercial printing and publishing as well as converting and specialty papers including recognized brands such as Cougar^®, Lynx^® Opaque Ultra, Husky^® Opaque Offset, First Choice^® and Domtar EarthChoice^® Office Paper, part of a family of environmentally and socially responsible papers. Domtar also produces a complete line of incontinence care products and distributes washcloths marketed primarily under the Attends^® brand name. Domtar owns and operates Ariva^TM, an extensive network of strategically located paper distribution facilities. The Company employs approximately 8,700 people. To learn more, visit www.domtar.com.

 

 

For further information or to schedule interviews with the concert conductor and/or soloist, interested individuals and media can contact Mona Awad, MCO Executive Director, at [phone] or at [email protected]