Chamber music for piano and strings
ELIXIR
Ensemble
Enjoy our exciting new season
Welcome to Elixir’s 17th season of presenting gems of the chamber music repertoire! Enjoy the wonderful acoustics of Emmanuel Anglican Church, Saskatoon! We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting season of masterworks of the trio and song repertoire, featuring guest artist soprano Betty Allison, with celebrated songs by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Mozart and Schubert. Discover a new work by Saskatoon composer Roydon Tse!
Kathleen Solose, Artistic Director
Our talented
Performers
2025-2026 SEASON
Upcoming Concerts
Songs of Love and Remembrance
Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 3:00pm
Emmanuel Anglican Church
901 Dufferin Ave.
Saskatoon, SK
Elixir is joined by guest artist soprano Betty Allison who will perform exquisite songs by Clara Schumann followed by Robert Schumann’s moving Liederkreis, one of his most famous song cycles.
Elixir will conclude with another testament of the love of Robert and Clara, his Trio in D minor, written in 1847 at the height of his powers.
Program:
Clara Schumann: Lieder
Robert Schumann: Liederkreis
Robert Schumann: Trio Op. 63 in D minor
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Tales of Vienna Woods
Sunday, April 19, 2026 at 3:00pm
Emmanuel Anglican Church
609 Dufferin Ave.
Saskatoon, SK
This program features two composers who have made Vienna famous: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert. We begin with a set of exquisite songs by Mozart that have entranced audiences for over two centuries.
Schubert’s song cycle “Schwanengesang” or Swan Songs, is a beautiful cycle of songs set to the Romantic poetry of Rellstab, written near the end of Schubert’s short life.
We contrast this with a piece by Canadian Roydon Tse, who recently joined the composition faculty in Saskatoon. This piece contains memories of glittering chandeliers and whirling ballroom dances, popular in the Vienna of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
To conclude, the trio will perform Schubert’s virtuosic Trio in B flat major that is full of sunny optimism and his hallmark lyricism.
The entire program will be performed on a Viennese 1814 vintage fortepiano to immerse us into the sound-world of the times!
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