Paul Luchkow
Ronelle Schaufele
Andrea Case
October 11, 2024

Paul Luchkow – Violin
Ronelle Schaufele – Viola
Andrea Case – Cello

Friday, October 11, 7:00 pm
All Saints by-the-Sea Anglican Church
110 Park Drive, Salt Spring Island

Paul Luchkow is a violinist well known to Salt Spring Islanders.  He has appeared as a soloist with Bach on the Rock and has performed twice for Salt Spring Baroque's concert series.  In addition to his varied appearances in BC, Paul is the concertmaster of the Alberta Juno award winning baroque ensemble Rosa Barocca (2023 Juno award in the category of best Classical Album of the Year – Small Ensemble), and for this concert he is joined by two of his Alberta colleagues Ronelle Schaufele on viola and Andrea Case on cello.

Their string trio will explore Bach's music through the lens of transcription, which demonstrates how flexible and transportable it can be. Works include a Trio Sonata written for organ, a selection of fugues arranged by Mozart with his own newly composed adagios to precede them, and a beautiful transcription of the keyboard monument: the Goldberg Variations.

If you don't wish to purchase tickets online, send us a note at info@saltspringbaroque.com and we will gladly reserve seats for you and you can pay by cash or card at the door.

PERFORMER BIOS

PAUL LUCHKOW

Paul Luchkow is a versatile violinist and violist whose activities cover the range of music from the 17th Century to the present day, on modern and period instruments. A regular feature of Western Canada's Early Music scene, Paul is a long-time member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and appears frequently in concerts for Early Music Vancouver. At home on Vancouver Island, he performs regularly with Victoria Baroque, Victoria Symphony, the Early Music Society of the Islands, as well as at Victoria's Pacific Baroque Festival.

A highlight of recent years has been his work with fortepianist Michael Jarvis and their exploration of Classical and Romantic sonata repertoire on period instruments.  Their latest recording – Trios for violin, viola da gamba, and fortepiano by Tommaso Giordani with the British gambist, Sam Stadlen, was released on the Marquis Classics label in the Fall of 2020.

As a recording engineer for 15 years Paul has made concert and CD recordings for many of the important small and medium sized ensembles on Canada's west coast, including Redshift Music Society (Jordan Nobles 2017 JUNO winning Classical Composition of the Year), Emily Carr String Quartet, Victoria Baroque, the Luchkow-Jarvis Duo, and the Luchkow Stadlen Jarvis Trio. In the past year Paul has been working closely with organizations like Music for the Pause, The Victoria Symphony, and Pacific Opera Victoria, recording for their numerous online offerings.

RONELLE SCHAUFELE

Canadian violist Ronelle Schaufele is an active solo, chamber, and orchestral musician who performs frequently throughout Western Canada as well as performances in Cuba, Brazil, United States, New Zealand, and Europe. As a soloist Ms. Schaufele has recently performed Horizons with pianist Luciance Cardassi, a concert tour which featured female Canadian composers. As an avid lover of new music Ms. Schaufele has been delighted to play works composed for her and looks forward to upcoming collaborations. In addition to performing music being created today, Ronelle greatly enjoys performing on period instruments and exploring the rich baroque tradition. Other solo performances include concerts at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, Euro Festival in Leipzig Germany, and the Music by the Sea Festival. As a chamber musician Ms. Schaufele's performances include the Musaeus String Quartet, the Fort Macleod International Festival, which was recorded and broadcasted by CBC. She performed with Neworks Calgary, Ensemble Resonance, Rubbing Stone Ensemble and the Millennium Music Foundation Series. In addition she has served as principal violist of the Urban Village Chamber Orchestra, and is currently assistant principal violist in the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra.

Her education includes a Music Performance Diploma from Mount Royal College with William van der Sloot, a Bachelor of Music with distinction from the University of Calgary, with Nicholas Pulos and an Artist Diploma at The Glenn Gould School studying with Steven Dann. Ms. Schaufele also completed an Artist in Residency program at The Banff Centre. An active instructor, Ronelle is currently on faculty at the Amici String Program. Ronelle has also enjoys working with talented young chamber musicians and was recently the Artistic Advisor for the Szekely/Rolston Young Musicians Program in cooperation with the Banff International String Quartet Competition. In the Fall of 2012 Ms. Schaufele founded the Banff String Academy of Music which offers gifted young students in the Banff area advanced musical training.

Ronelle plays on a viola by Canadian maker G.T. Walke in 2002 and an Italian violin made by Joseph Cavaleri made in 1746.

ANDREA CASE

Cellist Andrea Case has a Master's Degree in cello performance from McGill University where she studied on scholarship with Antonio Lysy. Andrea is co-founder and cellist of the Lily String Quartet, a group that has completed multiple tours across Canada, has performed for CBC Radio 2 and released a jazz CD with the award-winning Hutchinson Andrew Trio. Andrea has played with orchestras in Europe, Japan, California, Quebec and Alberta. She records regularly in multiple genres including pop/folk, jazz and classical. Andrea has 17 years of teaching and coaching experience from Mount Royal Conservatory, Amici String Program and Chinook School of Music, all in Calgary, and the Lippert School of Music in Toronto. Andrea adjudicates regularly at festivals throughout Alberta and British Columbia. She is an Artistic Director of Calgary's Kensington Sinfonia and performs regularly with this group along with baroque ensemble String Theory Music Collective and Lily String Quartet.