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Artscene 21 | Friday, February 28, 2014 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" Renowned violinist featured at local chamber orchestra concerts Guitar Trio goes to church The Montréal Guitar Trio will be showcasing the talents of three Canadian guitarists at St. Jude's Anglican Church Saturday (March 1). The band, comprised of Marc Morin, Sébastien Dufour and Glenn Lévesque, will be performing a program that fuses classical, jazz, world music and Flamenco beginning at 8 p.m. at the church on William and Thomas streets. The show is part of the church's Celebration of the Arts series, which aims to bring first-class musical performances to the community in a warm and intimate setting. The Montréal Guitar Trio are recipients of the 2011 Opus Prize for Concert of the Year in the Jazz/World Music category. The band has performed hundreds of concerts at prestigious venues in North America, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, including the BB King Blues Club in New York, the Rundetårn in Copenhagen, and the legendary Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Tickets to the performance cost $30 and can be purchased online at www. oakvilleconcerts.com or by visiting L'Atelier Grigorian, 210 Lakeshore Rd. E., Towne Square in downtown Oakville and the church office at 160 William St. Student rush tickets will be available at the box office for $10. Student identification is required. The Montréal Guitar Trio will be performing a program that fuses classical, jazz, world music and Flamenco at St. Jude's Anglican Church on William and Thomas streets. Showtime is at 8 p.m. | submitted photo A renowned violinist will perform at the said it will be a great honour for the chamber Oakville Chamber Orchestra's (OCO) up- to play alongside Israelievitch. coming concert Sweet Serenade. "For many years he was one of Toronto's Jacques Israelievitch, a conmost visible classical musicertmaster with the Toronto cians, as TSO concertmaster," Symphony Orchestra (TSO) for he stated in a press release. 20 years, will play Ludwig van "This pairing of Jacques Beethoven's Violin Concerto and playing the Beethoven ConJohannes Brahms' Serenade No. certo, and Brahms' wonderful 1 during the orchestra's two perSerenade No. 1 promises to be formances Saturday (March 1) at a blockbuster concert." Central Baptist Oakville, 340 ReIsraelievitch teaches and becca St. and Sunday (March 2) performs each summer at the at St. Simon's Anglican Church of Chautauqua Institution in Oakville, 1450 Litchfield Rd. PerChautauqua, NY. formance times are at 7:30 p.m. He is a faculty member at and 3 p.m., respectively. the University of Toronto and Jacques Israelievitch Tickets to shows cost $30 for York University. Among Israeadults, $25 for seniors, $20 for lievitch's numerous accomstudents and $15 for children. plishments, he is the recipient of the Toronto They can be purchased at the door, by Musicians' Association Lifetime Achievement calling 905-483-6787 or by visiting www. Award in recognition of his distinguished oakvillechamber.org. contribution to the performing arts in CanOCO Music Director Charles Demuynck ada. Literary group hosts poetry contest Residents are being challenged to express their creativity through poetry. In celebration of National Poetry Month, which takes place each year in April, The Oakville Literary Alliance is encouraging poets to submit an original poem for a chance to win a $50 first place prize or $25 second place prize. The deadline for submissions is March 31. Each poet may submit one entry to Oakville Literary Alliance President Elka Enola or Literary Café Event Co-ordinator Ivy Reiss by emailing ere@bell.net or ivy_reiss@hotmail. com. Enola explains poets are required to use the words "pair, pear and pare" to ensure the poem submitted has been specifically written for the contest. Entries will be judged on their content and style by Liz Benneian and Norm Brown. Eight finalists will be chosen and asked to read or perform the poem at Literary Café, held at the Moonshine Café on Kerr Street, on April 20 from noon-3 p.m. A poet must be in attendance to read his or her poem to be eligible for prizes. Reiss noted although content is important, the delivery of each poem will be taken into consideration. She added she's looking forward to the seeing what poets have come up with. "Some people say poetry is dying, but I think it's on the rise again," said Reiss, who has been co-ordinating Literary Café over the last two years. The meet-ups at Moonshine Café are held every two months to provide a venue for people to present both prose and poetry. Each event brings out guest literary professionals. In the past, guests have included authors Patricia Cooper and Sonia Faruqi as well as slam poets Brandon Williamson and Pat Connors.