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Concerts Café Classico Series
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Stolen Gems is a programme of music taken from other instruments and arranged for the flute, always as faithful to the original as possible. Featured will be the famous violin Sonata in A Major by Franck and other works by Debussy and Mendelssohn, as well as a movement from Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto. LCMS faculty member Bernard Blary has arranged some of these works and will be joined by Eric Hominick on piano.
The concert will open with an informal conversation between LCMS’ Artistic Director Elizabeth Bergmann and the artists, followed by complimentary coffee, tea and refreshments before the performance. The performance will take place in the Rose Gellert Hall and will last approximately 60 min, with no intermission.
Commentary & Coffee – 2:30pm, Concert – 3:15pm
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BIOGRAPHIES
Bernard Blary, flute
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Bernard Blary began his musical studies at the age of four, studying piano with his mother. At the age of eleven, he began his study of the flute with Marian Žekulin and Maureen Bennie until finally studying under Philippa Fitzgerald-Finch (formerly Fullerton) at the University of Calgary.
Bernard has been a member and a featured soloist with a variety of orchestras and chamber groups and has performed concerts in the United States, Canada, Europe and South America. He was principle flutist with the Burnaby Symphony Orchestra while under the direction of Leonard Camplin and is currently flutist with both the Surrey City Orchestra and the Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra, and regularly plays with other local orchestras, including the Vancouver Island Symphony, the Canada West Chamber Orchestra and the Richmond Orchestra. He has premiered many works by Canadian, American and European composers and his contributions can be found on numerous recordings. More recently Bernard made his Austrian solo recital premiere in recitals with pianist Christopher Devine and harpist Zsuzsanna Aba-Nagy in Vienna.
Bernard Blary currently resides in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada and is a teacher at Langley Community Music School and works as a freelance teacher, flautist and arranger.
Eric Hominick, piano
Eric Hominick was born in Nova Scotia, studied piano at the Toronto Conservatory, and piano and voice at Dalhousie University. In 1983 he moved to Vancouver to join the music faculty at Vancouver Community College (KEC) and commence an eleven-year professional singing career with the Vancouver Chamber Choir. At present he is also on the faculty at TOOBA Physical Theatre Centre and accompanist for the choirs of the British Columbia Girls Choir.
Mr. Hominick is an experienced recital, workshop, rehearsal and audition pianist. He has worked with many of Vancouver’s finest choral ensembles, singers, instrumentalists, voice studios and music institutions. He has served on the music faculty of Douglas College (New Westminster), lectured to the piano class at University of British Columbia, and led both accompanist and vocal workshops for the BC Choral Federation. He also operates a Voice Studio in Vancouver and Richmond and free-lances as piano teacher, accompanist, arranger, baritone soloist and vocal coach. As a singer he is a veteran of numerous weddings, background vocal sessions and professional solo and choral singing engagements across Canada and overseas.
On the lighter side, Eric has been a Broadway rehearsal and show pianist, cruise ship entertainer, cocktail pianist, occasional lecturer on the topic “Crossing Over From Classical to Broadway”, and played and sung in a variety of traditional and contemporary gospel groups.
