Upcoming
Performances
Recital
(with Kinza Tyrell, piano) – A romantic evening to bring in the
New Year January 2nd,
2008 at 7:30 PM
Norman Rothstein Theatre, 950 W. 41st Avenue, Vancouver
Soprano
role in Kopernicus by Claude Vivier
April 14th, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Salle Claude Champagne, 220 Avenue Vincent d’Indy, Montreal
Recent Past
Performances
September
26, 2007, Chapelle Historique Bon-Pasteur
Post-Brahmsian Muck: A Concert of New Music (with Kristin Hoff,
Mezzo-soprano)
July
14, 2007, Concert Hall at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Despina in Cosi fan tutte – Matthias Kuntzsch, musical
director; David Ostwald, stage director
March
1-4, 2007, Salle Claude-Champagne
Title role in L’Incoronazione
di Poppea
with l’Atelier d’Opéra de l’Université de Montreal Musical
directors Alexander Weimann, Susie LeBlanc, and Robin Wheeler
December 3-7, 2006, Maison des Arts de Laval
Le Nozze di Figaro – Excerpts
(Susanna)
With the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval under Alain Trudel
December 5, 2006, 8 PM, Salle Claude-Champagne
Contemporary Music Ensemble; director, Lorraine Vaillancourt
D’un Désastre Obscure by Gilbert Amy and The Sleeper by George Crumb
December 10, 2006, 7 PM, Salle Claude-Champagne
Chamber Music Ensemble; director, Jean-Eude Vaillancourt
Selections from Monodias Españoles by José Évangelista
December 21, 2006, 7 PM, Salle Claude-Champagne
Oratorio Concert; director, Mark Pedrotti
Exultate Jubilate by W.A. Mozart
and Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit by J. Brahms
April 7-9, 2006, Amsterdam Concertgebouw
(Grote Zaal)
Johannes Passion with the Nederlands Kamerkoor
With the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Sir Roger Norrington
January 31st, 2006, 12:30 PM, Beulingstraat 11, Amsterdam
Ignatius Huis
Lunchtime Concert Series
Solo recital with Mareli Stolp, pianist
Projects
I am
currently working on my doctoral thesis on the subject of Françis
Poulenc’s third and final opera, La Voix Humaine. The
title of my thesis is ‘How Françis Poulenc expressed the Female
Voice in La Voix Humaine.’
In
February, I will perform mélodies by Daniel-Lesur at a conference
in Paris. In March, I will perform these same mélodies as
well as a set of duets for baritone and soprano with Philippe Bolduc
at another conference, this time in New York.
Esteban
Larotta, lutist, and I are working together on Baroque English
songs, and are in the process of forming a duo.
Teaching
I received my Bachelor of Music with a Major in Vocal Performance
and a Concentration in Music In Education.
New England
Conservatory’s
progressive MIE programme, directed by Larry Scripp, includes
history, philosophy, and psychology classes, and requires hands-on
internships with experienced teachers. Through MIE, I helped
organize audience-involving outreach performances and assisted in
teaching keyboard lessons at elementary schools in the Boston area;
I mentored high-school students who were leading From the Top, a
classical music radio programme run by kids; I also spent a semester
visiting an assisted living centre weekly, playing music and
enjoying the company of the residents.
From 2002
to 2004, I was a Department Assistant to Paul Burdick, who is a
professor of all undergraduate levels of Solfege at New England
Conservatory. Solfege is a form of site-reading and musical analysis
education, and as a D.A. I tutored many students in these skills. I
also had the responsibility of marking their assignments.
In 2005,
I taught singing lessons at Tom Lee Music Academy in Richmond, BC.
While living in Amsterdam in 2005 and 2006, I ran my own voice
studio. My teaching experience also includes tutoring Vancouver
high-school students in preparation for their English and Literature
SATs and provincial exams.
Writing
My CD reviews can be found in the archives of the Jewish Western
Bulletin website, www.jewishbulletin.ca.
The November 19th article is called Expect the Unexpected, and the
December 3rd article is called The Future of Jewish Music.
I have
experience writing enticing artists' blurbs for a performing arts
festival's sponsorship package; I have also edited festival
programmes.
A few
years ago, a group of friends of mine maintained an online magazine
entitled Sneezing Fish in which I published a regular column
that concerned music and day-to-day life. I called my column
"Keeping Time."
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