Hannaford Street Silver Band
2004-2005 Profile
Executive Director: Raymond Tizzard
Company Manager: David Archer
Public Relations: Anne Kear
42 Frater Avenue, Toronto, M4C 2H6
416-425-2874 hssb@interlog.com www.hssb.ca
Box office: 416-366-7723 (St. Lawrence Centre)
or 1-800-708-6754 www.stlc.com
Since 1983 The Hannaford Street Silver Band, formed by
professional musicians who love brass band repertoire and ensemble-playing, has
been stirring up critical and popular acclaim. The HSSB’s name is associated
with high-quality musicianship and has a reputation for commissioning works for
brass band by prominent Canadian composers. While the self-produced annual
series at the Jane Mallett Theatre forms the nucleus of its activities, the HSSB
is equally at home in a variety of community venues in Ontario, and is invited
back for return engagements at numerous festivals across Canada, with
distinguished guest conductors. In 2003, the HSSB was awarded its second
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Arts in recognition of its accomplishments.
It has made nine recordings, of which the most recent CD Voices on High with the Amadeus Choir features works by Bramwell Tovey, J. Scott Irvine, Harry Somers, Stephen Chatman and Henry Kucharzyk.
The HSSB’s 2004/05 season opens October 24 with a celebration of two legendary Canadian artists: guest conductor Howard Cable and, making his HSSB debut, “Charlie Farquarson”, aka Don Harron.
