An evening celebrating French Composers,

About the event

Trio Teneramente will be performing: Faure Trio Op.120, Debussy's "Estampes", and other French composers! Join us for a fabulous evening!

About this Event

Trio Teneramente formed in 2019, and has been having concerts ever since. We are: Jelena Cingara piano, Kishan Chouhan clarinet, and Stuart Mutch cello. This season so far by June we have already completed 5 concerts, with various exotic and eclectic repertoire, such as Johannes’s Brahms’s Trio Op. 114, Marko Tajcevic’s 7 Balkan Dances, and Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons for Buenos Aires. In addition to CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS TORONTO being performed, we perform pieces for solo instruments on our concerts as well. Upcoming performances include TORONTO CONCERTS at the Heliconian Club, and a GROUPMUSE, and in 2020: in March at Caledon Chamber Music Series, and in May in Sunset Music and Arts Series in San Francisco, California. We also have a facebook page that you can take a look at, with more videos, and information about us: https://www.facebook.com/Trio-Teneramente-2224279054500918/?modal=admin_todo_tour

More about the individual players:

Kishan Chouhan clarinet

Multi-instrumentalist, conductor, music director and music educator Kishan Chouhan received his B.Mus. in Clarinet Performance from the University of Toronto, and his MA in Music with research in multiple woodwind performance from York University. Notable and accomplished teachers he has studied with include: clarinet with Miles Jaques, David Bourque, Steve Pierre and Peter Stoll, flute with Peg Albrecht, Nina Martini-Dorey and Sara Hahn, oboe with Wendy Bornstein, Monica Fosnaugh and David Sussman.

As a performer, Kishan is in demand for his skills as a proficient woodwind multi instrumentalist, playing piccolo, flute, all clarinets, all saxophones, oboe, English Horn and bassoon with symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, opera companies and most notably, theatre pit orchestras across Toronto and the GTA. He has held orchestral principal positions in orchestras on each of the woodwinds he plays. Kishan has also recorded woodwinds for short films and has film credits in his name. Kishan assistant conducted the Rouge River Winds ensemble in 2015 and assistant music directed the Canadian premiere of “If/Then” the musical in 2018. Kishan was a Musician-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Early Fall 2018 where he had the opportunity to collaborate with up-and-coming Canadian artists, and record plenty of clarinet and bass clarinet on recitals and other songwriters’ tracks.

Anna Shabalina is a multi-instrumentalist (cello, piano, musical saw and guitar) and singer. She is a graduate of Gnessin’s Russian Academy of Music (Moscow); participant of international festivals in Italy, Spain, Germany; winner of regional, national and international competitions in the categories "Solo performance" and "Chamber Ensemble".

From 2013 to 2018, Anna was living in India (Goa), where she took part in lots of music jams, concerts and festivals with bands in different styles from all over the world. While living in India, Anna Shabalina recorded the cello part for few albums (Natalie Matos, Exhale; Kristian Bent, Campfire Stories).

She has moved to Canada recently as self-employed artist to explore new opportunities and to broaden her musical horizon.

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Anna Shabalina

Trio Teneramente formed in 2019, and has been having concerts ever since. We are: Jelena Cingara piano, Kishan Chouhan clarinet, and Stuart Mutch cello. This season so far by June we have already completed 5 concerts, with various exotic and eclectic repertoire, such as Johannes’s Brahms’s Trio Op. 114, Marko Tajcevic’s 7 Balkan Dances, and Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons for Buenos Aires. In addition to CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS TORONTO being performed, we perform pieces for solo instruments on our concerts as well. Upcoming performances include TORONTO CONCERTS at the Heliconian Club, and a GROUPMUSE, and in 2020: in March at Caledon Chamber Music Series, and in May in Sunset Music and Arts Series in San Francisco, California. We also have a facebook page that you can take a look at, with more videos, and information about us: https://www.facebook.com/Trio-Teneramente-2224279054500918/?modal=admin_todo_tour

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