Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Join us at this first concert to introduce Daniel as LPCC’s new Director of Music. The concert explores negotiating a sea of 21st-century binaries through saxophone, organ, and voice. The music will touch the sacred, profane, jazz, classical, contemporary, ancient, Canadian, and international. This concert is free and will be available online on Zoom or in person in the sanctuary. 

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Meeting ID - 852 8363 5671

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Biographies

Daniel Rubinoff

Daniel Rubinoff has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in France, Canada and the
United States. His discography includes The Old Castle, Daniel Rubinoff Plays the Music of Srul
Glick, The Canada Song, The Dance of the Blessed Spirits, and Daniel Rubinoff Plays Denis
Bédard. His recordings are broadcast on CBC and have received favourable reviews on CBC
Radio and in the American Record Guide. He has appeared on the cover of the International
Saxophone Journal with a feature article on his career. He won the ARCT Gold Medal from the
Royal Conservatory of Music for the highest score in the orchestral instrument category.
Rubinoff is a former Adjunct Professor of Saxophone at York University in Toronto.

He has performed numerous saxophone recitals with some of Canada’s finest musicians: Sax ' n
Ivory, with concert pianist Gloria Saarinen; The Dance of the Blessed Spirits, with organist
Chris Dawes; Classical Meets Jazz, with pianist David Braid; SaxAccord, with accordionist Joe
Macerollo; and Music Old And New, with harpsichordist Paul Jenkins of the Toronto Consort.
Rubinoff has performed recitals for the World Saxophone Congress (Quebec), Octagon Recital
Series (Nova Scotia), BC Touring Council (British Columbia), Port Ludlow Community
Concerts (Washington), and Colours of Music (Ontario).

Rubinoff’s original compositions have been performed by many of Canada’s leading musicians
and ensembles, including the Elmer Iseler Singers, members of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir,
Hilario Duran and Joe Macerollo. Rubinoff currently serves as Music Director at Lawrence Park
Community Church, where he is developing innovative approaches to choral composition and
performance. Additionally, he has led performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria for the Canadian
Amateur Musicians of Canada (CAMMAC) and other community groups. Rubinoff is a frequent
music festival festival adjudicator with expertise in choral, band, orchestra and chamber music.

Rubinoff is an Artist-Representative for the Selmer Saxophone Company of America, and has
adjudicated wind examinations for the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. He is also the
recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship in support
of his work in saxophone composition and research. He holds a PhD in Musicology from York
University where he studied Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
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“Daniel Rubinoff’s saxophone performance is a credit to the instrument...His sound is full, rich,
yet delicate. His use of vibrato is perfectly apropos to the given musical situation. His phrasing
follows the arabesque of the pieces and makes the musical thoughts dance across the ear...It is a
definitive sound and performance.”
-International Saxophone Journal, Boston, U.S.A.
“Saxophonist Daniel Rubinoff interprets with insight, depth...and assurance.”
-Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, London, England

Chris Dawes

Christopher Dawes is a Toronto-based performer, conductor and media professional active in many facets of the musical scene, and working with many of the region’s top musical institutions.  He serves as Organist and Director of Music to Rosedale Presbyterian Church, Accompanist to the Orpheus Choir of Toronto, Music Director of the 18-voice a capella Marion Singers of Greater Toronto, and Artistic Director to the 80-voice Georgetown Choral Society.  For two decades he has served as Collaborative Pianist to graduate and undergraduate instrumental and choral conducting programs of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and as a Director of Canada’s Summer Institute of Church Music.  Chris’s graduate work in the area of musical genre has led to occasional blogging and podcasting under the banner “Ideas About Music,” speaking at conferences, and eventually founding the Celtic-crossover band Chroí in 2013.  He lives with his wife Marcia and their children in Georgetown, Ontario.