Orchestra Rehearsal

Orchestra rehearsal for a concert at The Queen Elizabeth Theatre. RK is the opening act and also featured playing solo flute for the NY singer Michael Castaldo. The date chosen was an interesting one 9, 10,11. It was fun to play with some Classical musicians that RK went to University of Toronto, Faculty of Music.

Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Society

The following day Anne and Ron performed at the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Society. The duo perfomed a very eclectic program contrasting major classical works with jazz, blues and world influenced pieces.  One such piece was Winter in Gros Cap written by Anne for bass flute and piano inspired by the beauty of the nature of Northern Ontario.
Other pieces included were:
Prokofiev Flute Sonata in D Major
Franz Liszt: Etude de Concert "un sospiro"
Wladislaw Szpilman: Suite "The Life of the Machines"
Winter at Gros Cap, composed by Anne Louise-Turgeon

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two Etudes-Tableaux op.39 nos. 1
Rachmaninoff-Kreisler: Liebeslied
A Muse, Dark Eyes, Casco Viejo, La Sirena, Mozart's Wedding, Pasqualiti House, Canata by Ron Korb

Classical music at Q

Here Anne and RK are playing a concert at the Q Music Summertime Music Series in Toronto. They were the only artists to perform Classical music in the series and without any amplification. The beautiful Bechstein grand piano certainly made it a pleasure. The audience was mainly comprised of many local musicians and composers. Afterwards it became kind of an reaquaintence party for many.

Rehearsals with pianist Anne Louise Turgeon

Ron attended U of T with Anne Louise and her husband Ed Turgeon before the couple went to graduate school to get their masters and PhDs in music at Yale University.  Both Anne and her husband are professors of music Florida Atlantic University.  Here Ron and Anne are practicing the Prokofieff Sonata in D and some original pieces.

Hiroshima Lantern Festival

Every year the Toronto's Hiroshima Day Coalition  presents an event on August 6th. This year it was the Commemoration of the 66th anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. The event had a particular resonance this year because of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster.


RK performed at the beginning of the event at the Holy Trinity Church. At the end of the night he played the Japanese ryuteki and walked the crowd Pied Piper style over to the reflecting pool at Nathan Phillips. There the participants set adrift their paper lanterns as a symbol of peace.