Saturday December 10th, 2pm
Christ Church Elbow Park
3602 8th Street SW Calgary
Tickets $15 from CSC Members or $20 cash at the door.
Children 12 and under are FREE.
If you play any instrument, you will not want to miss this fun workshop with Calgarian teacher and composer, Tim Janz (www.janzmusic.studio).
Monday, January 16, 7-9 pm
Banff Trail Community Centre
2115 20th Ave. NW Calgary
Fee: $25 (which will be applied to your membership fee if you decide to join CSC).
Elisa Sereno-Janz
Elisa Sereno-Janz is a violinist and violist specializing in baroque music and traditional styles. She is the founder and director of Baroque and Buskin’ Strings, which later became Blue Arch Strings, a community string orchestra for teens and adult amateurs in Calgary, Alberta from 1998-2017. Elisa is a graduate of Western University with both an Honours Bachelor of Music in Performance and a Bachelor of Education.
As a freelance musician, Elisa has performed with the Calgary Philharmonic, the Prince George Symphony, the Symphony of the Kootenays, the Red Deer Symphony and the Lethbridge Symphony, as well as her trio Fine Blend (1984-2005) with Tim Janz (flute) and Arthur Bachmann (viola).
Throughout her teaching career which spans almost forty years, she has been interested in the idea of teaching music through folk songs and folk music. She has written and arranged over 30 pieces for string orchestra and string quartet based on traditional music.
Elisa and her husband Tim Janz founded the Celtic traditional band, Prairie Ceilidh in 1994. In the eleven years that they were writing music, performing and touring, they also recorded two albums, Dry Island and A Prairie Ceilidh Christmas.
Elisa's interest in baroque music led to her attendance at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in 2003 and 2004. She has presented papers at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Aberdeen, Scotland (2006) and Derry, Northern Ireland (2012).
In 2010 Elisa returned to school to pursue her other artistic passion, and earned a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2014. Her multimedia project, FiddleLights where she integrates music and visual art has been presented at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts conference in London, England in 2013 and the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2015 in Cape Breton.
Elisa is happy to return to conducting, and is looking forward to an exciting season with the Calgary String Collective.
The CSC is a string orchestra for intermediate to advanced level players. There are no auditions for entry. Admission is at the discretion of the Music Director. Ideally players should have reached RCM Level 8 or higher. It is possible for players at RCM Level 7 to play most of the repertoire on our programmes, however to play the more advanced repertoire it is recommended to have the guidance of a music teacher.
Please fill in our registration form. You can scan or take a picture of the completed form and email it to us at calstrings@gmail.com
Fee is $300 per semester, $200 for each additional member from the same household.
CSC_Fall_Winter_2022_23_Registration.pdf