Message from Atis Bankas, Artistic Director (for the 2022 Summer Season)

Dear Friends,

It is our pleasure to welcome you to Music Niagara’s 24th season as we thankfully look forward to coming together for live concert performances once again.

History has taught us that human desire for love, joy and beauty is always present even throughout our most tragic periods.  Music and art have constantly helped people find their spiritual equilibrium, and I hope this year’s concerts will help our audiences to do just that.

Come to enjoy and to feel romantic and spiritual, contemplative and energized, jazzy and poetic – all of this in our summer season, performed for you in beautiful surroundings and intimate venues in Niagara on the Lake by great Canadian, American and European musicians.

Best Regards, 

Atis Bankas – Artistic Director, Music Niagara Festival

Quartetto Gelato – “Brahms Polka Medley”
Colin Maier – oboe
Kirk Starley – cello
Tino Popovic – violin
Matti Pulkki – accordion

Mozart – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major K. 211 no. 2. Allegro Moderato
Gloria Verhovsky – violin
Atis Bankas – violin
Adam Diderrich – violin
Dobrochna Zubek – cello

Victor Paukstelis – Moving Pictures
Victor Paukstelis – piano

Violin Partita no. 2 in D minor for solo violin
Sora Sato-Mound

Claude Debussy – “La Chevelure”
Manuel De Falla – “Polo” from Seven Spanish Songs
Julie Nesrallah – soprano
Guy Few – piano

Claude Bolling – Jazz Suite
Les Allt – alto Flute
Michael Berkhovsky – piano
Bob Mills – bass
Lorne Grossman – drums