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August 19, 2020 Season Launch Featuring the Toronto Mozart Choir August 19, 2020 Season Launch Featuring the Toronto Mozart Choir David Bowser conductor Megan Miceli soprano Georgia Burashko mezzo soprano David Walsh tenor Michael Robert-Broder bass-baritone Gregory Millar piano Daniel Norman organ 2020/2021 Season August 19, 2020 Season Launch A Greeting from David Bowser, artisitic director and conductor Verleih uns Frieden (Grant Us Peace) Felix Mendelssohn Season Launch: Beethoven Mass in C and Music of Love & Nature An Introduction from Barbara Croall, composer Nda-bgami giikiikgosh miiniwaa (I am getting sleepy again) from Miziwe (Everywhere…) Barbara Croall Season Launch: 2021 Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition and Mozart’s Requiem Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Heil sey euch Geweihten (final chorus from Die Zauberfloete) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Toronto Mozart Players - Season Launch, August 19 2020 2 2020/2021 Season David Bowser, artistic director and conductor David Bowser is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Mozart Project and conducts the Toronto Mozart Players. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of Pax Christi Chorale and the Oakville Choral Society. He is an active guest conductor, composer, university instructor and vocal coach. David has conducted music for ballet, opera, film, television and the concert stage, and has performed in Canada, the United States, Japan, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. He has been music director of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Brantford Symphony Orchestra, the North York Concert Orchestra and the Hart House Chorus. He has also served as resident conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec and assistant conductor of the Nova Scotia Opera. David has conducted the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Waterloo Chamber Players, the Hart House Orchestra, the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra, and has performed at the Nassau City Opera in the Bahamas, and the Flanders Music Festival in Belgium. David earned his Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Toronto specializing in eighteenth-century string and vocal performance practices. He holds a Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Toronto and a Diplôme d’Etudes supérieures II (Master’s Degree) in conducting from the Conservatoire de Musique in Montreal. His vocal training with esteemed pedagogue Marie Daveluy inspired a life-long passion for the voice. He studied orchestral and operatic conducting with Leopold Hager at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna and with Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Toronto Mozart Players - Season Launch, August 19 2020 3 2020/2021 Season Megan Miceli, soprano Canadian Soprano Megan Miceli has been praised for her “bright, pure, well focused high lyric soprano, with admirably steady and evenly produced tone” (Musical Toronto). Some role highlights include Mother/ Gravedigger/Guilt Spectre in the world premiere of Ghost Opera, music by Veronika Krausas, commissioned by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop in partnership with the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and Calgary Opera, The Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Papagena (The Magic Flute), Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), the title character in Dawn Sonntag’s new opera Evangeline, Morgana (Alcina), Aurore (Le portrait de Manon), Despina (Così fan tutte), Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore), and Rose (At the Statue of Venus). Recent concert performances include appearances with Tapestry Opera, the Toronto Mozart Players, Pax Christi Chorale, BrottOpera and the National Academy Orchestra, Opera 5, Opera in Concert, The Cantabile Chorale, The McGill Concert Choir, The McGill Baroque Orchestra, and L’Oasis Musicale, among others. Repertoire highlights include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Durante’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Regina Coeli, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Fauré’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Mess C-dur, and Berio’s Laborintus II . Megan was recently honoured to win first prize in the 2018 Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition. She has also competed as a semifinalist in the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Manulife Competition and has received a distinguished mention in The Ottawa Choral Society’s New Discoveries Auditions. Megan was a member of Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist Development Program for their 2018-2019 season. She is an alumna of various other esteemed training programs including Songbook VII: New Opera 101, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Halifax Summer Opera Festival, Vocalypse: Opera from Scratch, and St. Andrews Vocal Techniques Workshop. She has also had the opportunity to perform in Opera Conference Toronto Mozart Players - Season Launch, August 19 2020 4 2020/2021 Season 2016 held in Montreal, QC showcasing McGill’s Virtual Acoustic Technology (VAT). She holds a Graduate Diploma in Performance and a Masters in Music in Voice and Opera from McGill University. Upcoming performances for the 2019-2020 season include appearances with Saskatoon Opera and Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Pax Christi Chorale, the Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and Opera in the 21st Century. Amahl’s widowed mother, played by soprano Megan Miceli, was another bright star of this production. Like Pfeifer, Miceli’s portrayal was “ honest and nuanced, her round, vibrant tone filling the performance space with ease. Notably, Miceli supports Pfeifer in duet passages well; her rich sound always found a sweet blend with the young treble voice opposite her. The chemistry Miceli has with her young co-star is also convincing, adding a sincerity and grace to her performance. Oliver Munar, Schmopera Amahl and the Night Visitors, Calgary Opera ” Toronto Mozart Players - Season Launch, August 19 2020 5 2020/2021 Season Georgia Burashko, mezzo soprano Georgia Burashko is a mezzo-soprano based in Toronto, Canada. She received her MMus from the University of Toronto Opera School and her BMus of vocal performance at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. Burashko spent the 2018/19 year as a Rebanks Family Fellow at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She previously studied with celebrated Canadian soprano Mary Morrison and has participated in summer festivals such as The International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI), The Canadian Vocal Arts Institute (ICAV), St. Andrews by the Sea Opera Workshop, Tafelmusik Baroque Institute, Opera in the 21st Century at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and the Neil Semer Voice Institute (NSVI). Recent operatic roles Georgia has performed include Juno (Orphée aux Enfers), Tirinto (Imeneo), Zosha (Farewell Auschwitz), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), and, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) in which she was praised for her ‘heartfelt delivery, her luminous voice matching her radiant beauty’ (Opera Canada). A founding member of Halcyon Ayres, Georgia is working with co-founder harpsichordist, David Henkleman to bring the works of Rosenmüller to a wider audience. She is also a yoga teacher who loves bringing her extensive knowledge of the human body into her work as an opera singer. Burashko’s coloratura was a model of expressiveness, emotionally evocative, confidant “ and direct. Opera Going Toronto Toronto Mozart Players - Season Launch, August 19 2020 ” 6 2020/2021 Season David Walsh, tenor David Walsh, a native of Toronto, is currently is going into his first year of his Masters in Opera at the University of Toronto after finishing a Bachelor of Music in Performance there earlier this year. He started classical vocal training in his last year of high school, began his studies in Music Education at the University of Toronto, and then auditioned successfully for voice performance two years later to follow his true passion. From there David has participated in a wide range of vocal performances. A highlight at the beginning of this year was very recently when he placed as a prize winner in the Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition. He will be singing as the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Mozart Players and the Pax Chrisit Chorale as an outcome of prize winning. At U of T Opera this past season, he made his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro as Don Curzio. He was asked to perform as part of the chorus for Opera Atelier’s production of Idomeneo in 2019. He was asked back to the Opera Atelier Chorus for this season for their production of Don Giovanni. In the spring of 2018 he was invited to perform with the Against the Grain Theatre as a chorus soloist for the opera Orphée et Eurydice. In May 2017, he was an opera chorus member in the critically acclaimed Oksana G, a new Canadian opera premiered by Tapestry Opera, where he had the honour of working with many esteemed artists. He is part of the Cor Unum Ensemble, an ensemble run by young adults from across Toronto. Music has always been a part of David’s life. He started playing piano at 7, later on took up the violin and continued both for many years. In his teens, he also discovered the joy of singing. As well as an avid singer, David is an avid biker. This form of transportation is the way he practices a lot of his repertoire. So, if you ever see a blur of red hair and hear some Fauré on the downtown streets of Toronto, you have most likely encountered David Walsh. Toronto Mozart Players - Season Launch, August 19 2020 7 2020/2021 Season Michael Robert-Broder, bass-baritone Based in Toronto, Canadian baritone Michael Robert-Broder has been praised as a singer equally at home with art song, oratorio, and opera. On the stage, he has recently portrayed the roles of Scarpia in Tosca, Il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, Duke Bluebeard, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, and Don Pizarro in Fidelio. Engagements scheduled for the 2020/21 concert season included Bizet’s Carmen, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, Strauss’ Elektra, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Bach Cantatas, Handel’s Messiah, and Barber’s The Lovers.
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