A pair of well-known classical musicians who released two CDs together last year will highlight some Latin American pieces from one of their albums at a Coquitlam show on Thursday.
Clarinetist François Houle and pianist Jane Hayes — aka Sea and Sky — will play the Evergreen Cultural Centre in a performance titled Zarabandeo, the name of their spring 2015 album.
And also on the roster will be Joan Blackman, the former assistant concertmeister with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra who will add violin to their mix.
The clarinet, piano and violin repertoire "is actually quite vast and rich in beautiful music that is rarely heard in Western Canada," Houle said.
The Evergreen program will include works by Carlos Guastavino of Argentina and Mexico's Arturo Marquez as well as Latin American-inspired compositions from Aram Khachaturian, Maurice Ravel, Astor Piazzolla, Peter Sculthorpe, Paul Schoenfield and Sergan Nichifor.
A faculty member at the Vancouver Community College of Music, Houle is also a clarinet instructor at the UBC School of Music. In 2008, the Juno-award nominee was appointed an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre.
Hayes is the keyboard studies director at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley, where she recently was named a distinguished teacher. This year, she performed in Europe with the Port Moody-based Yarilo ensemble to mark the 100th anniversary of Alexander Scriabin's birth.
• Tickets to Sea and Sky's Coquitlam show are $35/$30/$15 by calling the Evergreen box office at 604-927-6555 or visiting evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
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