Participants of The Kessler Academy performing with Microcosmos Quartet.

The Kessler Academy 2025

The Kessler Academy 2025

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2025
THE ROUNDHOUSE | 181 ROUNDHOUSE MEWS | Google map
Doors open at 2:30PM. Concert at 3:00PM

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featuring:

Charles Daniels, tenor

The Microcosmos Quartet:
Marc Destrubé, violin I
Andrea Siradze, violin II
Tawnya Popoff, viola
Ben Goheen, cello

The Kessler Academy’s String Orchestra
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Led by Vancouver’s beloved Microcosmos String Quartet, the annual Kessler Academy String Orchestra brings together emerging string professionals and advanced students for a week of intensive rehearsals and orchestral music making.

At this year’s concert, celebrated English tenor Charles Daniels is the featured soloist for Benjamin Britten’s “Les Illuminations,” an evocative and luminous song cycle.  The orchestra also plays Michael Tippet’s popular and uplifting “Concerto for Double String Orchestra.”  It’s a perfect summer afternoon of great music making.

Programme

Benjamin Britten – Les Illuminations, with soloist Charles Daniels

Michael Tippett – Concerto for Double String Orchestra