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Haydn's London
Haydn's Violin Concerto, performed by Concertmaster Lillian Scheirich, and his 'Surprise' Symphony, bring the heyday of London's music to life in the final concert of the series.
William Boyce
Sinfonia no. 4 in F major
Franz Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto in G major
J. C. Bach
Sinfonia no. 4 in D major
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony no. 94
in G major "Surprise”
Tickets $10-$25
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
St. Anne's Church, Tecumseh
This program also performed Friday in Windsor and Saturday in Leamington
John Morris Russell, Conductor
Lillian Scheirich, Violin
Lillian Scheirich
Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Lillian Scheirich studied violin at
the Detroit Community Music School, Detroit, Michigan, and was a scholarship recipient to the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, New York, where she graduated with a degree in Violin Performance and in
Music Education, studying with the late Catherine Tait.
Upon graduating from Eastman, Ms. Scheirich won the Assistant Concertmaster position with the Windsor Symphony, and two years later, was appointed Concertmaster, a position which she has held from 1991 until the present. In addition to her role as Concertmaster, Ms. Scheirich is the Violin Instructor at the University of Windsor,
and maintains an accomplished private violin studio.
Ms. Scheirich has played with various orchestras in Canada and in the United States, and has performed in music festivals in Europe, and North America. As a member of the La Corda Ensemble, the Ambassador Chamber Players, and the Detroit-Windsor Chamber Ensemble, she is involved in numerous concerts in the Windsor-Detroit area performing on violin and on viola. Since 1992, the Ambassador Chamber Players have been in summer residence at Schoolcraft College (Livonia, Michigan) for their summer chamber music programme. Ms. Scheirich has been recorded for CBC in various chamber music concerts in Ontario and Quebec, and in 2001 was awarded the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Music.
April 2006, marked the release of her first CD (a world premier) with pianist Mary Siciliano, and the Detroit-Windsor Chamber Ensemble, featuring the chamber works of Ignatz Waghalter. The CD has been heard on CBC Radio, WRCJ-FM in Detroit, and in Germany where it was featured at “Dussmann’s”, Berlin’s largest bookstore. In the Fall of 2006, Ms. Scheirich and colleague Mary Siciliano, recorded the Sonata for Violin and Piano by French composer Jacques de la Presle, which was released this Spring (2008) in France under the
“Polymnie” Label as part of a collection of his chamber music.
In July, 2008, Ms. Scheirich was awarded the Follow the Leader – Sun Life Financial Award for
Female Established Music Artist, and in May 2009, she joined colleagues Mary Siciliano, piano,
and Nadine Deleury, cello for a series of concerts in France featuring the works of Jacques de la Presle and his contemporaries. ❧