PEC Chamber Music Festival
Picton
The Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival. With artistic director Paul Marleyn. September 12-21, 2025 at St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, Picton.
Sunday AUGUST 24, 2:00 pm BRASS IN THE PARK: Free outdoor concert with True North Brass, five nationally renowned brass players at the Macaulay Heritage Park. Rain location: St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church in Picton
Friday September 12, 7:30 pm THE KITCHEN REVUE, WITH JOEL QUARRINGTON, JAMES CAMPBELL, AND FRIENDS Martinů’s witty curtain-raiser The Kitchen Revue, CBC’s Tom Allen narrator. Also works by Mozart, Bottesini, Saint-Säens and Composer-in-Residence Dinuk Wijeratne. Featuring The Swiss Piano Trio, Guy Few, Mathieu Lussier, James Campbell and Joel Quarrington
Saturday September 13, 3:00 pm THE DINUK WIJERATNE WORLD MUSIC FUSION TRIO Dinuk Wijeratne (piano) leading his own trio in original pieces, with Nick Halley (percussionist) and Tom Easley (bassist). Blending classical, world music and jazz
Sunday September 14, 3:00 pm POPULAR TUNES FROM VIENNA TO THE NEW WORLD James Campbell (clarinet) with The Swiss Piano Trio: Martin Lucas Staub (piano) Angela Golubeva (violin) and Franz Ortner (cello) with Young Artists Justin Saulnier and Gaspard Tanguay-Labrosse
Friday September 19, 7:30 pm ARION BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Vincent Lauzer (recorder) Mathieu Lussier (bassoon) Amanda Keesmaat (cello) Hank Knox (harpsichord) and Sylvain Bergeron (guitar) present 18th Century music by Telemann, Vivaldi, Boismortier, Platti and Chédeville
Saturday September 20, 7:30 pm FOUR PLAY CELLO! Paul Marleyn is joined by Leana Rutt, Principal Cellist of the COC, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cellist in the Norwegian progressive rock band Leprous, and talented emerging cellist Jacob MacDonald. Four cellists, colleagues and friends, present music from Vivaldi to The Beatles to Metallica
Sunday September 21, 3:00 pm INSPIRED BY LOVE Paul Marleyn (cello), the Penderecki String Quartet, David Marks (viola). Tom Allen (narrator). Beethoven’s Kreutzer Violin Sonata and Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonata String Quartet, a short work by Wijeratne, and Brahms’ G major Sextet
We acknowledge that Prince Edward County rests within the ancestral lands and waters stewarded by the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg (Mississauga), Huron Wendat, and Haudenosaunee. This is a place shaped by their presence, languages, and care since time immemorial. To acknowledge this land is to recognize our responsibility to live as good relatives with each other, with the earth, and with the generations yet to come.