About

Join Musique Royale at St John’s Anglican Church in Lunenburg to hear a performance by flutist Patricia Creighton and pianist Peter Allen. Flutist Patricia Creighton is celebrated for her ravishing tone, deep natural musicality and great interpretative intuition. She is well known to Maritime audiences for her role as principal flautist with Symphony Nova Scotia from 1984 to 2022. Peter Allen is well known and loved by audiences throughout Canada for his captivating interpretations, regularly performing solo recitals, concertos with orchestra, and chamber music. Patricia and Peter have been collaborating for years and their upcoming concert includes works by Bach, Bartok, Poulenc, Rachmaninov, Copland, as well as an original piece composed by Patricia. Join us on Sunday January 19 at 3pm to hear these two exceptional musicians.

Program

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1020
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Sonata “Undine”, Opus 167
Allegro
Allegretto vivace
Andante tranquillo
Allegro molto

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Suite Paysanne Hongroise
Chants populaires tristes
1 - Rubato
2 - Andante, Poco sostenuto
3 - Poco rubato
Vieilles danses
2 - Allegretto
3 - Allegretto
4 - L’istesso tempo (quasi trio)
5 - Assai moderato
6 - Allegretto
7 - Poco più vivo
1 - Allegro

Intermission

Frances Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata (1957)
Allegretto malincolico
Cantilena
Presto giocoso

Patricia Creighton (b. 1958)
For All Our Relations

Macedonian Traditional ORO

S. Rachmaninov 1873-1943
Preludes for Piano, Op. 23

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Duo for Flute and Piano
Flowing Poetic, somewhat mournful
Lively, with bounce

About the Artists

Patricia Creighton – flute

Patricia Creighton was Principal Flautist with Symphony Nova Scotia, from 1984 to 2022. During that time, she played thousands of orchestral concerts and many hundreds of chamber and solo concerts. She is celebrated for her ravishing tone, deep natural musicality and great interpretative intuition.

As a chamber and orchestral artist, she has shared the stage with such distinguished artists as Julius Baker, Robert Cram, Victor Yampolsky, Robert Uchida, Isaac Stern, Maureen Forrester, William Tritt, Steven Dann, Fred Sherry, Malcolm Lowe, Erica Goodman, Anton Kuerti, Peter Allen, Jeanne Lamon, Georg Tintner, Simon Streatfeild, Mario Bernardi, Grant Llewelyn, Denise Djokic, Rene Fleming, Bernhard Gueller, James Ennes, Andrew Armstrong and many others.

She has been a regular guest artist with the Scotia Festival of Music and many Nova Scotian concert series. She has performed across Canada and has guested in the United States, Germany, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and Mexico.

Patty will now be dedicating her time to solo and chamber music performances and flute teaching both privately and at Dalhousie University’s Fountain School of the Performing Arts.

Abraxas, her 1st compact disc with pianist Peter Allen, produced by CBC, includes twentieth-century flute and piano repertoire. Her 2nd CD, The Transcontinental, represents musical snapshots of different countries. Her 3rd disc is a completely improvised disc with flute, percussion, and didgerido called The Twelve Celtic Winds, depicting the various characteristics of the winds that the ancient Celts studied in order to carry out their daily living. Patty’s 4th disc, Melodies of Love, is a disc of beautiful melodies the world loves with her Nova Brilliante duo partner, harpist Karen Rokos. This disc was nominated for Best Classical Album for both the East Coast Music Awards (ECMAs) and the Music Nova Scotia Awards. Her 5th disc, called Wind Song, was a live CBC broadcast performance with pianist Peter Allen and includes works by J.S. Bach, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Debussy, Colgrass, and Bartok. Wind Song was nominated for the 2009 ECMA Best Classical Album. Her discs can be bought through CDBaby and iTunes.

Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she won prizes at an early age in the Kiwanis Music Festival – the Ontario Top Prize, the Guelph Spring Festival Competition, and the CBC Du Maurier Search for the Stars. She received a Bachelor of Music at the University of Toronto, where she studied with Nora Shulman and Jeanne Baxtresser. During and following university studies, Patty attended the Banff Centre for the Arts and won her first audition to become Principal Flutist of Symphony Nova Scotia the year she graduated from university in 1984.

During her first year in Halifax, Patty won a B-Grant from the Canada Council to pursue further studies in Banff. She has also attended the Johannesen International School of Music and individual master classes and/or lessons with Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Galway, Marcel Moyse and Louis Moyse, Robert Aitken, Robert Cram, William Bennett, Jeanne Baxtresser, and Julius Baker. She had private flute lessons for over 10 years with Louis Moyse. Two years of that time was spent exclusively in Brattleboro, Vermont with the Grand Master. Creighton has been heard over the years regularly on CBC National and Regional Radio and on September 11, 2021, was the host of THIS IS MY MUSIC.

Peter Allen – piano

As a concert pianist, Peter Allen is well known and loved by audiences in the Maritimes and throughout Canada for his captivating interpretations. He regularly performs solo recitals, concertos with orchestra, and chamber music. He has recorded two solo piano compact discs for CBC, one featuring some of his own very popular Bagatelles, another an all-Haydn disc, and numerous duo CD’s with flautist Patricia Creighton.

For many years he has been a regular performer with local concert presenters such as “Music on the Hill” Concert Series at UNB Fredericton,the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival, the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, the Antigonish Performing Arts Series, the St. Cecilia Concert Series and the Kincardine Music Festival in Ontario.Peter has also performed multiple times with the PEI Symphonyand Symphony New Brunswick as well as performing over a dozen concerto appearances with Symphony Nova Scotia. Peter has performed as solo recitalist in most communities in the Maritimes, to rave reviews and standing ovations.

Peter is currently Associate Professor of Piano at Dalhousie University’s Fountain School of Performing Arts, a post he has held since 2005. He teaches piano, chamber music, orchestration, and also conducts the Dalhousie Symphony Orchestra.

Before winning this position, Peter was Artist in Residence for four years at the University of New Brunswick’s Centre for the Performing Arts, at Fredericton. Before that, he taught piano at Acadia University and St. Xavier University.

As a chamber musician, he has performed with many illustrious musicians throughout Canada and around the world. He was the faculty pianist at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts for five years prior to his return to Nova Scotia and performed there with an international roster of fabulous artists.

Peter is an Associate Professor of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC), a member of SOCAN and a member of The Living Composers Project. Peter has a BMUS from Mount Allison University, and a Masters of Music in Performance from Yale University.