Exciting Afternoons for You
Intimate events with wine & outstanding creative minds
Windrush ‘Sundays at the Chateau’ have been called “magical” and “life-changing”! Limited to only 50 guests each, reserve your spot below or call Marilyn at 905-729-0011. Students under 19 are free!
SAT. SEPT 27th – 3pm
LAUNCH OF WINDRUSH 2024 PINOT GRIGIO
With Timotej Kosovinc, Slovenian guitarist & composer
You are invited to the Official Launch of our new 2024 Windrush VQA Pinot Grigio!
Sporting a distinguishable white cap, it has won the VQA appellation for excellence. Legendary Vintner Jim Warren has commented: “The 2024 Windrush Pinot Grigio is a lovely wine. The colour is the slightest pink, delicate and ‘pretty’. The immediate bouquet is of peaches, very inviting… The taste is slightly off dry and soft but the acidity hangs in through to the citrus (grapefruit) finish. The flavour is nicely persistent!”
What better pairing for our wines than music! Enjoy Slovenian Timotej Kosovinc as Europe’s celebrated guitar soloist! He is in Canada to perform, the following day, at the protocol event for the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar, visiting Canada for the first time in history.
A memorable afternoon of fine wines and music!
Your $45 reservation includes the concert and a reception with Windrush’s international award-winning VQA wines, treats and the artists. Guests under 19 or over 90 are free. Proceeds help empower underserved kids at youthLEADarts.com
Vienna-based Slovenian composer and guitarist Timotej Kosovinc is a laureate of numerous international competitions (Guitar Art Festival Belgrade Competition, Gorizia Guitar Competition, Forum Guitar Vienna Competition etc.) and a regular guest in prominent concert halls such as Musikverein (Vienna, Austria), MuTh – Theater of the Viennese Boys Choir (Austria), Belgrade Philharmonic Hall (Serbia), Cemal Reşit Rey Hall (Istanbul), Real Alcazar in Sevilla (Spain), Slovenian Philharmonic Hall or Cankarjev Dom (Slovenia) and in various festivals and concert series such as Wien Modern, Iserlohn Guitar Festival, Guitar Art Festival Belgrade, Forum Gitarre Wien, Liechtensteiner Gitarrentage or Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla. His music is being performed regularly by him and others in various tours throughout the world. He also collaborates with many other musicians and artists in different groups and in international projects, especially in the duo with the cellist Cristina Basili. In 2022, his debut CD “The Good Moment” (Contrastes Records, distributed by Naxos Music and Universal), where he is performing his own guitar music, was released. The CD has received a lot of international attention leading to concerts in many important music festivals and concert venues throughout the world. In 2022 he was chosen as a representative composer of Slovenia as a part of the #Synergy Project (a collaboration of festivals in the west Balkan countries) and composed “Unheard Story” for flute, guitar, cello and piano during his residency in Prishtina. In 2023 this composition was performed in all of the participating festivals: KotorArt International Festival (Montenegro), Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Croatia), Cultural Centre Trebinje (Bosna und Herzegovina), Vox Baroque/Tirana Guitar Festival (Albania), ChopinPianoFEST Prishtina (Kosovo), Belgrade Festivals Center, BEMUS (Serbia) and Ljubljana Festival (Slovenia). He studied at the University of Music Vienna, where he studied guitar with professor Alvaro Pierri as well as composition and music theory with professor Detlev Müller-Siemens. For his exceptional academic achievements he was awarded the honor award of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research of the Republic of Austria in 2019 and in 2020, he received the honor award of the University of Music Vienna for his guitar studies.
Links:
– TV show (RTV Slovenia): Kosovinc playing Barrios Mangoré: El ultimo tremolo, Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez & Kosovinc: Balcan Rage – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qGnRZgb1M
– Kosovinc: Rock´n´Roll Sonata, III – The Last Dance (RTV Slovenia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbM-AMO-Czo
– CD The Good Moment (works by Kosovinc only): https://open.spotify.com/album/5AIx7HiBpHsGd6v4kexzTe
– Further videos can be found on Kosovinc’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/timotejkosovincmusic/videos
SUN. OCTOBER 5th – 3pm
FUNDRAISER for PURE HEART GLOBAL MISSION – One voice. Thousands of hearts.
By Dmytro Garbovskyi, Ukrainian Baritone
Dmytro Garbovskyi, former opera star at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, returns to Chateau Windrush! He is organizing this special concert as a charity event in support of orphaned children.
Beyond a solo performance, this is something even more ambitious and exciting: a concert version of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s opera Francesca da Rimini. He and several of his friends, all of whom are incredibly gifted vocalists, will perform for free in support of this cause.
It promises to be something truly extraordinary — because the music of this opera is unimaginably beautiful, powerful, and moving. It’s rarely performed and bringing it to life in a concert setting will be an unforgettable experience for the audience. The most important thing is that, together, we can help improve the lives for kids without parents in Ukraine and the world over.
“I know what it’s like to be a child that no one wanted. People laughed at my dream of singing. I was humiliated for daring to dream big. But even a broken heart can become a voice of love. Pure Heart Global Mission by Dmytro Garbovskyi is my way of reaching the children who are waiting for warmth, care, and a simple human “I’m here” – Dmytro Garbovskyi, Founder & President
Francesca da Rimini is not just an opera. It’s an experience that stays with you forever… and a perfect way for you to help change lives of kids forever. Francesca da Rimini is the music of passion, suspended between heaven and the abyss. Where every word feels like a final breath. Where music strikes like a sentence. Where love, duty, and fate are woven into an unbreakable knot. There are no easy answers here. Only the voice of a heart — too loud to be silenced… and too dangerous to be heard.
Cast:
• Lanciotto – Dmytro Garbovskyi
• Francesca – Anastasia Khomenko
• Paolo, Dante – Joseph Adams
• The Shadow of Virgil – Yurii Yevchuk
Choose your admission donation such as $45, $100 or $250 – includes the donated concert and reception meeting the artists. Youth under 19 are free. If you require a tax receipt, call Marilyn at 905-729-0011 to discuss.
Watch For The Date!
Allain Brisson CD Launch
More details on this exciting event will be available soon!
Your $45 reservation includes the concert and a reception with Windrush’s international award-winning VQA wines, treats and meeting the artists. Guests under 19 or over 90 are free. Part of proceeds help empower underserved kids using the arts at youthLEADarts.com
SIMONE PERTUISET BOOKS
‘Manet and the Lion Hunter’ & ‘Three Tales From The Tip Of An Era’
You can still buy a book from Windrush with proceeds going to the empower vulnerable kids. Call Marilyn at 905-729-0060 ext. 228
The Concert Hall at Windrush Estate
