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2005
January 28- Moncton, NB
Capitol Theatre

January 29- Saint John, NB
Imperial Theatre

Feb 1, 2pm - Vancouver
Vancouver City Council Meeting, Vancouver City Hall Council Chambers
live and repeat broadcast on Shaw TV

Chinese New Year's Celebrations
Feb 2, 7-745pm - Vancouver
Vancouver Club
host: Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver

February 12, noon - Vancouver
with Families with Children Adopted from China
Chinese Cultural Centre Auditorium, 50 East Pender Vancouver

February 19, 7pm - Hull, QC
Salle Beethoven, in the Centre des Congr de Gatineau
host: Chinese Embassy in Ottawa


Spring 2005 Tour, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
February 21-23- Ottawa, ON
K-12 educational presentations
Presented by MASC

February 24, 8pm - Montreal, QC
Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur
100 sherbrooke st E, Montreal

February 26, 8pm - Toronto, ON
Royal Conservatory of Music World Music Concert Series
Mazzeloni Concert Hall 273 Bloor St W, Toronto

Feb 27, 8pm - Waterloo, ON
KW Chamber Music Society
57 Young st West, Kitchener - Waterloo

February 28- Toronto, ON
Royal Conservatory of Music
Ursula Franklin Academy ¡V 90 Croatia st, Toronto

March 1, 12:30pm - Hamilton, ON
MacMaster University
Convocation Hall
Noon Concert

March 3- Guelph, ON
Rm 107, Music Department, University of Guelph
Noon concert

March 4, 12-12:50pm - London, ON
Von Kuster Recital Hall, University of Western Ontario
Noon Concert

March 4, 6:30-7:15pm and 8-8:45pm - Detroit, MI
Detroit Institute of the Arts
5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit

March 5, 8pm- Chatham, ON
Kiwanis Theatre

March 6- Lisle, IL
Morton Arborutum

March 8, 5pm - Cleveland, OH
Cleveland State University
Also afternoon lecture

March 9, 7:30pm- Holland, MI
Hope College
Also afternoon lecture

March 10, 12:30-1:50pm - Chicago, IL
lecture at St Xavier University, Chicago

March 11, - Chicago, IL
10 am lecture "Perspectives on World Music"
Noon concert 50-60 minutes St Xavier University

March 13, 8pm - Banff, AB
Banff Centre for the Arts


Special Event
May 13 8pm - Vancouver
"Further East Further West", presented by ProMusica Society, phone: 604 688 6407
with Ya-wen Vivienne Wang and the Egret Woman's Choir
This is the premiere performance of the Orchid Ensemble's new project that focuses on collaborations with choirs. A new comission by Ya-wen V. Wang, as well as arrangements of Taiwanese folk songs and Chinese classical repertoire, will receive their first performance.


Summer 2005
June 6 - across Canada
Lan Tung featured interview on "Arts Now", CBC Radio 1, after the 10pm news

June 19 - Vancouver, BC
Lan Tung and Jonathan Bernard perform with Tandava at the Dragon Boat Festival

July 3 - Tofino, BC
Pacific Rim Arts Festival, a joint concert by Orchid Ensemble and Tandava

Summer 2005 Tour, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
July 6 - Paris, ON
Ground Floor Concert Series

July 7-10 - London, ON
Sunfest, Victoria Park, London

July 12 - Ottawa, ON
Hillel Lodge

July13 - Montreal, QC
Montreal Asian Heritage Month, Montreal Botanical Gardens

July 14 -15, - Collingwood, ON
Collingwood Music Festival, New Life Brethren in Christ Church

July 16 - Ottawa, ON
Ottawa Bluesfest, Workshop Stage & Blacksheep Stage

July 23 - Hamilton, ON
Brott Music Festival, Meeting Room-Hamilton Place

July 24 - Toronto, ON
Harbourfront Centre - Main Stage & Lakeside Lerrance

July 29 - Saint-Sauver, QC
Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur


Special Event
8pm, September 16, 2005 - Vancouver
Roundhouse Community Centre- Performance Centre (co-presententation)
"Multi-Media-Road to Kashgar" concert
Orchid Ensemble explores the musical influences of China and the Silk Road,
performing traditional and original works inspired by Persian, Indian, Jewish, and
Central Asian music, against a backdrop of rich visual images in an interactive immersive
video and animated still imagery environment created by Donna Szoke
supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Overseas Affairs Commission of Taiwan

Fall 2005
Oct 25-29, Wilmington & Brattleboro, VT
Residencies: Educational programs for schools

Nov 1, Cincinnati, OH
University of Cincinnati

Nov 3, Washinton DC
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Nov 4-5, Salisbury, MD
residency at Salisbury State University

Nov 6-9, Washinton DC
Freer-Sackler Gallery