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2014

By December 20, 2017

– March 2014, Now Hear This, Festival of New Music performance by Strathcona String Quartet of Looking Back: String quartet No. 2
– April 30, 2014, New Hamburg Independent article by Scott Miller Cressman Buddy Holly heads Nith Valley Singers concert. Christian Bellsmith, stepson of long-time Nith Valley Singers director Alfred Kunz, returns to Baden.
– May 1, 2014, The Record article by Valerie Hill Buddy Holly’s encore a labour of love for tribute artist. It was impossible not to be inspired by music growing up with a stepdad like Alfred Kunz, founder and artistic director of several Waterloo Region choirs, including Nith Valley Singers and Music Alive. “I met Alf when I was around five and both my mother and father sang in his choirs,” said Christian Bellsmith who returns to Waterloo Region to perform Thank You For The Music in his signature role as Buddy Holly on Saturday in Kitchener and Wednesday in Baden with Kunz’s choirs.
– May 2014, conducted and directed a series of concerts with Music Alive and the Nith Valley Singers entitled Thank You For the Music in Kitchener and New Hamburg with guest soloist Christian Bellsmith as Buddy Holly. Classics from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
– Donationed his antique Toronto Heintzman antique grand piano to Worldwide Ministeries of Waterloo ON.
– November 2014, New Hamburg Independent article by Scott Miller Cressman Final Christmas concert for Wilmot choirmaster. After 60 years of leading local singers, Alfred Kunz is set for his holiday swan song with the Nith Valley Singers.
– November 26, 2014, The Record article by Valerie Hill ‘Dream With Me’ Christmas concert promises plenty of holiday spirit and a little nostalgia. After wielding his baton for six decades, composer/conductor Alf Kunz is about to retire, but he doesn’t plan on going quietly into the night.
“Every concert is special to me, but this one is my last Christmas concert,” said Kunz, who will direct Music Alive and the Nith Valley Singers in “Dream With Me” on Nov. 29 in Kitchener and Dec. 3 and 4 in Baden. Every Christmas, the 90-member combined choir, which he founded in the mid 1980s, puts on a spectacular, fun holiday performance and carol singalong, and this one, he promises, will be extra special. 

– November/December 2014, conducted and directed a series of concerts with Music Alive and the Nith Valley Singers entitled Dream With Me. Farewell Christmas concert for Alfred Kunz with guests Concordia Choirs and the Kaleidoscope Bell Ringers. Presentation of Alfred Kunz’s Christmas Kaleidoscope with handbell choir and PowerPoint presentation.
– Odyssey No. II (Our Enduring Facination With the Cosmos), for orchestra.
-The River Flows Eternally, for 2 voices and piano
– There Comes A Time – Vocal Solo 

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