UTNMF | Tuesday Voice Series | Canadian Art Song Showcase

The Tuesday Noon Series is made possible in part by a generous gift from Dianne W. Henderson.

Voice Studies at the University of Toronto, the Student National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Canadian Art Song Project, and the University of Toronto New Music Festival present:

Canadian Art Song Showcase 
Today’s concert is partially funded by a NATS Discretionary Fund Grant.

Featuring singers and instrumentalists from the Faculty of Music.

PROGRAM

Rosé Leaves

Elienna Wang*

Elizabeth Gilerovitch, soprano; Victoria Gilerovitch, violin; Elienna Wang, piano

Luo Hua

Jingren Sun*

Jereney Shen, soprano; Jingren Sun, piano

Ecstasy

Jean Coulthard

Emma Lavigne, soprano; Fiona Shu, piano

The Last Moonlight

Hsui-Ping Patrick Wu*

Victoria Chan, soprano; Yi-Nung Su, cello; Claudia Wong, piano

L’étoile du soir

Auguste Descarries

Trinity Turino, mezzo-soprano; Fiona Shu, piano

Rain (Four Persian Folk Songs)

Reza Vali

Jay-Daniel Baghbanan, baritone; Hayden Thomas, piano

On a Rainy Night

John Beckwith

Varuni Papade, soprano; Thérèse Benoza, piano

Nine Persian Folk Songs, Set 2: Nos. 1, 2, 4

Reza Vali

Chloé Dionne, soprano; Narek Abrahamian, piano

Now Blue October

Larry Strachan

Nathaniel Kulin, baritone; Hayden Thomas, piano

For Broken and Tired I Am

Matthew Emery

Lane Webster, soprano; Rebeca Lluveras-Matos, piano

The Lark in the Clear Air

Robert Fleming

May Sadan, soprano; Victoria Chan, soprano; Adrian Tsui, piano

Tis Moonlight 

Elienna Wang*

Eve Channell, soprano; Hayden Thomas, piano

Clair de lune intellectuel

Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martins*

Chloé Dionne, soprano; Narek Abrahamian, piano

Unattainable Love

Afarin Mansouri

Rasa Ghaedi, soprano; Kelly Du, piano

The Inevitable Next Step

Bennett Luo*

Maren Richardson, soprano; Bennett Luo, piano

I Hear You Through My Heart

Anthony Gunadi*

Arushi Das, mezzo-soprano; Angela Ng, piano

* Student composers from the Faculty of Music

REZA VALI, Featured Composer

Reza Vali was born in Ghazvin, Iran, in 1952. He began his music studies at the Conservatory of Music in Tehran. In 1972 he went to Austria and studied music education and composition at the Academy of Music in Vienna. After graduating from the Academy of Music, he moved to the United States and continued his studies at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his Ph.D. in music theory and composition in 1985. 

Mr. Vali has been a faculty member of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University since 1988. He has received numerous honors and commissions, including the honor prize of the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Sciences, two Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships, commissions from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, as well as grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education. 

He was selected by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as the Outstanding Emerging Artist for which he received the Creative Achievement Award. Vali's orchestral compositions have been performed in the United States by the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Baltimore Symphony, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra 2001. 

His chamber works have received performances by Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Players, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. His music has been performed in Europe, China, Chile, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Australia and is recorded on the Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, New Albion, MMC, Ambassador, Albany, and ABC Classics labels.

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