Festival of the Sound is an annual classical music festival that occurs from July to August in Parry Sound,

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, Canada. Established in by

Anton Kuerti Anton Emil Kuerti, OC (born July 21, 1938) is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. He has developed international recognition as a solo pianist.Parry Sound High School until the opening of the town's Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts in 2003. The festival presents a daily program of classical music performances by both Canadian and international musicians over a period of approximately three weeks. Noted performers at the festival have included vocalists Russell Braun, Mary Lou Fallis, Richard Margison, and

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; instrumentalists

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, Michel Strauss, Joel Quarrington and

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; and pianists

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, Martin Roscoe,

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, Janina Fialkowska, André Laplante, and Jan Lisiecki. The program has also occasionally included pop and jazz performers, including Catherine McKinnon,

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, and Dizzy Gillespie. Notable ensembles that have appeared at the Festival include the New Zealand String Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the

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, the Brodsky Quartet, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. Choral Music has also been featured at the festival with performances by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Elmer Iseler Singers, and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.

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is the second and current artistic director of the festival and has held that position since 1984. The 2014 festival ran from July 18 to August 10, and closed with a performance of the

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Symphony No. 9 under the direction of French horn virtuoso and conductor James Sommerville with the Elmer Iseler Singers and featuring soloists Russell Braun, Leslie Fagan, Marion Newman and Michael Colvin. The 2015 festival ran from July 17 to August 9, and closed with a performance of Papageno Revisited by Alexander Brott; the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 "Emperor Concerto" by

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; and the Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World," Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák. The performance was conducted by Boris Brott and featured pianist Stewart Goodyear with the

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