Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver
Cameron Crozman & Meagan Milatz: The Early Romantics
Works by: Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn
Artists: Cameron Crozman, cello & Meagan Milatz, fortepiano
Hailed as “Canada’s next big cello star” by CBC Music, Cameron Crozman makes his Early Music Vancouver debut playing on a c. 1750 Gennaro Gagliano cello, generously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Instrument Bank. Meagan Milatz, fortepiano, is “a remarkable pianist with a seemingly limitless palette of expression” (Le Devoir) and is quickly emerging as one of the most sought-after collaborative artists in Canada.
Together, this cello-fortepiano duo will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Mendelssohn. Their concert will feature EMV’s stunning Graf fortepiano built by Paul McNulty.
Generously sponsored by Jens and Linda Lee Henriksen
Runtime: 60 min, no intermission
PROGRAMME
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for cello and piano no. 5 in D major, op. 102 no. 2
- Allegro con brio
- Adagio con molto sentiment d’affeto
- Allegro
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fünf Stücke im Volkston, op. 102
- Mit Humor
- Langsam
- Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen
- Nicht zu rasch
- Stark und markiert
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Sonata for cello and piano no. 2 in D major, op. 58 (26’)
- Allegro assai vivace
- Allegretto scherzando
- Adagio
- Molto allegro e vivace
Cameron Crozman, cello
A cellist “with a rich imagination and a keen mind” (Diapason Magazine), Canadian Cameron Crozman leads an active performing career as a soloist and chamber musician in Canada, the USA, and Europe. He has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France (Paris), Montreal, Winnipeg, Hamilton, and Vancouver Island Symphonies among others, and engagements have taken him everywhere from the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre to the Philharmonie de Paris. An avid collaborator and chamber musician, Cameron shares the stage with eminent artists such as James Ehnes, Augustin Hadelich, Louis Lortie, Gérard Caussé, and James Campbell. He has released critically acclaimed recordings for the ATMA Classique and Printemps des Arts de Monaco labels and his performances are broadcast on CBC, BBC, RTÉ Radio, Radio France, and Medici.tv.
Winner of the 2021 Canada Council for the Arts Virginia Parker Prize, the Council’s largest award for emerging classical musicians, Cameron was CBC/Radio-Canada’s 2019 Classical Revelation artist and a laureate of Gautier Capuçon’s Classe d’Excellence at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. A student at the Paris Conservatoire, he received his “Prix de violoncelle” with highest honours studying in the class of Michel Strauss. In 2018, he received a one year mentorship with violinist James Ehnes as part of the André-Bourbeau award from the Jeunesses Musicales Canada.
Cameron is the co-founder of ClassicalValley, a festival bringing together chamber music and wine in Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, and the artistic director of chamber music for the Edeta Arts International Festival in Llíria, Spain, designated a Creative City of Music by the UNESCO. He currently plays on a c. 1750 Gennaro Gagliano cello, generously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Instrument Bank.
Meagan Milatz, fortepiano
Meagan Milatz is “a remarkable pianist with a seemingly limitless palette of expression” (Le Devoir), and is quickly emerging as one of the most sought-after collaborative artists in Canada. She regularly shares the stage with top international musicians including Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Stefan Dohr, Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic; cellist Matt Haimovitz; and mandolinist Avi Avital.
Meagan has appeared as a soloist alongside orchestras such as the Edmonton, Regina, Sherbrooke, and McGill Symphonies. She was top prize winner in the Shean Piano Competition, CFMTA National Piano Competition, and Canadian Music Competition as well as a recipient of a Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award. Internationally, she has performed at the New Ross Piano Festival in Ireland in 2023 and the Edeta Arts International Chamber Music Festival in 2022, where she appeared in concert in Spain with Kai Gleusteen, concertmaster of the Orchestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona. Her duo “meagan&amy” with violinist Amy Hillis launched onto the scene with their debut album Roots in 2019 before embarking on a 50-concert, Canada-wide tour as winners of the first-ever Pan-Canadian Partnership Recital Tour offered by Jeunesses Musicales Canada, Debut Atlantic, and Prairie Debut.
Meagan began her studies in Saskatchewan and holds a Master’s degree from McGill University. She is grateful to her teachers and lifelong mentors Cherith Alexander, Ilya Poletaev, Philip Chiu, and Tom Beghin with whom she was greatly privileged to study the fortepiano. Recently, she launched a brand-new violin-and-piano duo partnership, “Duo M”, alongside Violaine Melançon, renowned violinist and founding member of the Peabody Trio. She has also recorded an album for ATMA Classique of music for fortepiano and natural horn alongside Louis-Pierre Bergeron, to be released in December 2023.
