Time: 8 p.m.

Cover: $30 regular;$25 members;$10 student
3 concert flex pass $72/$60/$24
All four concerts- Get One Free $90/$75/$30

Mozart - Flute quartet No. 1 in K 285
Robert Kahn - Serenade Op. 73
David Jaeger - World Premier
Rachmaninoff - Trio elegiaque No.1
Brahms - Piano Quartet Op. 25

Lethbridge has the honour of hosting the final concert of the inaugural SoWeCa Chamber Music Festival on May 26 at 8 pm in the University Recital Hall, with a pre-concert presentation beginning at 7:15 p.m. In its first year, the SoWeCa Festival conducted a four city tour, which covered the East Kootenays in British Columbia and southern Alberta.

The Festival has close connections to the University of Lethbridge with three U of L music faculty members and an honourary doctorate recipient involved. Internationally renowned violist Rivka Golani, who received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the U of L last year in recognition of her contributions to the arts throughout her long career, is the Festival’s Artistic Director and Founder. She also performs on the series.

U of L faculty members Dr. Deanna Oye on piano and percussionist Adam Mason join 15 other musicians and artists from as far away as Tel Aviv, Israel; London, England; Tacoma, Washington, and as close as Cranbrook, Calgary and Vancouver for this exciting series of performances. In a pre-concert talk, U of L musicologist Dr. Brian Black discusses the lives of the composers and their music.

The performance in Lethbridge includes an assortment of chamber music by Brahm, and Rachmaninoff as well as two new compositions commissioned by the Festival to honour Blackfoot culture and history.

In British composer Benjamin Ellin’s Baker Massacre, narrators join forces with musicians to relive the 1870 historic and tragic event that led to the United States Army massacre of 200 innocent Blackfoot women and children.

According to Canadian composer Charles Heller, the idea for Two Ravens grew out of Rivka Golani’s work with First Nations and her commitment to the Jewish ideal of tikkun olam (“repairing the world”). Two Ravens pictures a meeting between a Jewish raven (found in the Psalms) and the iconic West Coast raven, famous as a trickster, but also important as a communicator. Through their singing and ecstatic flight they work together and encourage humans to do the same through music.

Tickets for the finale concert of the SoWeCa Festival are available online at www.soweca.com or at the door.