AUDIO SAMPLE

	Bellatrix
	Quantum Mechanics

COMPOSER(S)

Jeffrey Ryan

PERFORMER(S)

Scott St. John, Susan Hoeppner, Annalee Patipatanakoon, Roman Borys, Dave  Young, David Harding, Richard Thomson, Linda Bronicheski, Norman Engel, Erica Goodman, Beverley Johnston

ENSEMBLE(S)


Penderecki String Quartet

CONDUCTOR(S)

Gary Kulesha

ABOUT THIS CD

Jeffrey Ryan’s relationship with Music Toronto, Canada’s premier chamber music presenter, began in 1997, when MTO General Manager Jennifer Taylor named him Composer Advisor with the launch of its Contemporary Classics series. Ryan’s music was first heard on the Music Toronto stage in March of 2000, when MTO’s resident ensemble, the Toronto String Quartet, performed Quantum Mechanics, after taking it across the Atlantic provinces in a successful Début Atlantic tour. In the years that followed, the Toronto String Quartet evolved into the Music Toronto Chamber Society, Ryan introduced audiences to dozens of new works, and Music Toronto commissioned and presented two more of his quartets. The works on this disc were recorded during the Music Toronto Chamber Society’s final season, combining its outstanding string players together with a stellar array of guest performers. The result is the first CD devoted exclusively to the music of Jeffrey Ryan.

"The performances have an air of authenticity that leaves me incredulous at the thought they might ever be equalled, let alone, bettered."
- Bob Oxley, Audio Ideas Guide