Dance of the Desert Night
Sunday April 4 2027. Doors 1:30, Concert 2 pm
Harpist Lori Gemmell accompanied by viola and flute. Lori Gemmell has been the Principal Harpist with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony since 1999. She teaches at Wilfred Laurier University and for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Lori enjoys being involved in many solo and chamber music projects: with the Four Seasons Harp Quartet, with trumpeter, Larry Larson, harp duo with, Jennifer Swartz, and creating and touring Chamber Musicals that combine music, history and storytelling with her husband Tom Allen. Their shows J.S. Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow and Brahms in New York are currently touring Canada. Lori has two solo recordings, Prelude and Canadian Music for Harp, a harp duo recording with Jennifer Swartz, The Garden of Peacocks, and Divertissement with trumpeter Larry Larson. With a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, she commissioned Partita for Violin and Harp by Canadian composer and harpist, Caroline Lizotte, premiered with violinist Sheila Jaffe in 2023.
St. John’s United Church, 192 Mill Street, Creemore
