Toronto's Continuum Contemporary Music performs Wednesday, November 3 at 12 noon in Rolston Recital Hall at The Banff Centre. Works by composers currently attending the Centre's three month residency program will be performed. "This is a great opportunity for the composers in our residency program," says artistic director Isobel Moore Rolston. "It is so difficult for composers to get their work performed. Since Continuum is dedicated to presenting and promoting contemporary chamber music, this offers wonderful possibilities for our composers to have their work recognized by this well respected ensemble." With a reputation for presenting broad spectrum, innovative programs and performances of the highest quality, Continuum has rose from it's modest beginnings as a group of graduate students at the University of Toronto to a not-for-profit organization of national stature.   Continuum has participated in Toronto's Massey Hall New Music Festival since the festival's inception in 1996. The group launched its first CD featuring commissions from recent seasons, in November 1998 at a Massey Hall concert.

Afternoon recitals this week in Music & Sound's Chamber Music Room include a November 2 concert with residency program participants Melody Fader, piano (USA) and Staffan Sandstrom, piano (Sweden). November 4 features jazz saxophonist Silke Eberhard (Germany) and fellow residency program musicians performing a variety of jazz and contemporary music.

November 8 enjoy a variety of percussion music with Jonathan Eng (Canada) and Jonathan McCaslin (Canada). Afternoon recitals begin at 4:30pm and are approximately one hour in length.

Music & Sound's Fall Concert Series continues with a November 5 concert, 7:30pm at St. George's in-the-Pines Anglican Church. Located at 100 Beaver Street in Banff, this concert features musicians in Music & Sound's fall residency.

Musicians then travel to Canmore on November 7 for a Sunday afternoon concert at 2:30pm at Policeman's Creek Drop-In Centre, 701 9th Street with host Isobel Moore Rolston.

For more information or tickets please call The Banff Centre Box Office at 762-6301. Evening concert tickets are $12/$8, Sundays and noonhour concerts are pay-what-you-can and 4:30pm concerts are free.

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For more information contact:
Lisa Ramsey, Music & Sound, Communications Coordinator
phone: 403.762.6237, fax: 403.762.6338
e-mail: Lisa_Ramsey@banffcentre.ab.ca