Ombra Felice…Io to Lascio, K. 255 Laudamus Te, from Mass in C Minor, K

Ombra felice…Io to lascio, K. 255 Laudamus te, from Mass in c minor, K. 427 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sarah Richmond, mezzo soprano Matthew Owens, piano

Requiem, K. 626 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart David Bowser, conductor Megan Miceli, soprano Jennifer Routhier, mezzo sorpano River Guard, tenor Michael Robert-Broder, baritone Stephen Boda, organ Toronto Mozart Choir Requiem Kyrie Dies irae Tuba mirum Rex tremendae Recordare Confutatis Lacrimosa (fragment) Domine Jesu Hostias David Bowser 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.

Sarah Richmond mezzo soprano Mezzo Soprano Sarah Richmond is known for her vocal warmth and versatility, with Opera Magazine remarking “Her voice was bright and clear, her acting wholly convincing” and Online Musik Magazin praising her “kraftiges Timbre und grosse Strahlkraft”. Her roles encompass Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia to Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte,

Photo by Glenn Norwood Photo span epochs from Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas to Gwendolen in Gerald Barry’s Toronto Mozart Choir | mozartproject.ca The Importance of Being Earnest throughout genres from Willie in Mascagni’s Guglielmo Ratcliff to Peep Bo in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. Amongst others, recital appearances incorporate Oxford Lieder Festival, UK Strauss Society, Chester Music Festival, and Dublin Song Series with Finghin Collins and the RTE Contempo Quartet. Prominent conductors of solo engagements include Vasily Petrenko with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gergely Madaras and Sir Mark Elder. She has performed all of the core concert repertoire throughout the UK and Ireland; international credits include Monte Carlo and Soriano nel Cimino. She has performed regularly on Radio Ulster and has broadcast on RTE, BBC Radio 3 and worldwide as a soloist for the Irish Rugby Football Union. A keen advocate of contemporary music, she has premiered works by Andrew Synnott (Lucrece in What Happened to Lucrece at Wexford Festival Opera), Éna Brennan, Donald Judge and Sarah Murphy. Notable successes include Janet Baker bestowing her The Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss and winning the Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition.

Matthew Owens piano Matthew Owens became Director of Music at Belfast Cathedral in September 2019 and founded the Ulster Consort later in the same year. Prior to this his career appointments included being Tutor in Organ Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s School of Music, as well as working for BBC Religious Broadcasting (1994-99); Sub Organist of Manchester Cathedral (1996-99); Organist and Master of the Music at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh (1999-2004); and Organist and Master of the Choristers at Wells Cathedral (2005- 2019). Under his leadership, Wells Cathedral Choir was named by an international jury for Gramophone as the best choir in the world with children, and the sixth greatest overall. Matthew served as President of the Cathedral Organists’ Association (2010-13); he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians in November 2012; and in October 2017 he was made a Prebendary (Canon) of Wells Cathedral – “for outstanding service” to the Diocese and the Cathedral. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in October 2020. Matthew was educated at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester; The Queen’s College, Oxford; the Royal Northern College of Music; and the Amsterdam Conservatorium. Whilst a student, he won all the major prizes in the diplomas of the Royal College of Organists © 2021 Mozart Project. All rights reserved. and the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He has guest conducted, among others, the London Mozart Players, English Symphony Orchestra, Southern Sinfonia, Scottish Ensemble, Nash Ensemble, Brook Street Band, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. He has directed choral workshops and summer schools throughout the UK and abroad – including Australia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, New Zealand, and the USA. As a conductor he has made over 30 CDs with major labels, including Hyperion and Resonus Classics. As an organist, Matthew has given recitals in Australia, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the USA, and throughout the UK.

Matthew has contributed academic papers and publications on choristers and on contemporary sacred music (OUP; Journal of Voice; Open Book Publishers). He has championed new music, particularly of British composers, conducting over 200 world premieres, including works by leading composers ranging from Jools Holland to Sir James MacMillan, and John Rutter to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. He is Director of the Cranmer Anthem Book (launched in October 2017); a project that will set all 88 Collects from the Book of Common Prayer to music, by some of the world’s finest composers. As a composer himself, Matthew is published by Oxford University Press, Novello, and the Royal School of Church Music.

Mehan 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), Despina (Così fan tutte), 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, and L’Oasis Musicale, among others. Megan was recently honoured to win first prize in the Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition. She has also competed as a semi-finalist in the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Manulife Competition and has received a distinguished mention in The Ottawa Choral Society’s Toronto Mozart Choir | mozartproject.ca 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 holds a Graduate Diploma in Performance and a Masters in Music in Voice and Opera from McGill University. Postponed performances for the 2019-2020 season due to COVID-19 include appearances with Saskatoon Opera and Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Pax Christi Chorale, the Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and Opera in the 21st Century. Megan is excited to be an Artist Fellow with the Association for Opera in Canada’s RBC Future Launch LINK Emerging Artist Program and a resident with the Banff Centre for Performing Arts’ Opera in the 21st Century digital program for the 2020-2021 season. Upcoming virtual performances include Fanny Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, excerpts from Barbara Croall’s Miziwe, Beethoven’s Mess C-dur, and Mozart’s Requiem.

Jennifer Routhier mezzo soprano Praised for her ““warm, clear mezzo” (Opera Canada, 2014), mezzo soprano Jennifer Routhier is a rising star on the Canadian stage. She is passionate about engaging audiences through new music and re-identifying with the current relevance and emotional core of traditional works. She was the second place winner of the 2020 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Competition and also the City of Brandon prize winner for the best performance of the commissioned work, Han Kan: Lost in Translation, by Canadian composer Gordon Fitzell. Jennifer has performed with the Kingston Symphony, Toronto Mozart Players, VOICEBOX Opera In Concert, early music ensemble Cor Unum, and Tapestry Opera; performing such works as Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Imant Raminsh’s Magnificat,C. M. Wilson’s Kamouraska, Canadian opera shorts, and J.S. Bach’s alto cantatas 170 and 169. She sang with the inaugural Toronto Sounds of Silence initiative, premiering the song cycle Precarious by Kolby Zinger-Harris and Aparna Halpe. Abroad, Jennifer has performed at Carnegie Hall as the soloist in Scott Macmillan’s Celtic Mass for the Sea with the Canadian Celtic Choir. She was the first Vocal Scholar at the Glenn Gould School (2019/2020), and holds a Masters in Voice Performance from the University of Toronto, studying under American mezzo-soprano, Laura Tucker. © 2021 Mozart Project. All rights reserved. River Guard tenor Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, River Guard graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo studying with Mezzo-Soprano, Kimberly Barber. Throughout his musical career, River has transitioned from singing in a rock band, to musical theatre, and now works towards a full-fledged career in opera performance. High school roles include Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, and Enjolras in Les Misérables. University roles include Arithmetic and Tree Frog in L’enfant et les sortileges, Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Nathanaël, Spalanzani, and Franz in Les contes d’Hoffmann. In the summer of 2016 he partook in Opera NUOVA’s 6-week program, and sang the role of Rinuccio in Halifax Summer Opera Festival’s production of Gianni Schicchi. In the summer of 2017, River returned to Opera NUOVA to sing the role of Lensky in Eugene Onegin under Maestro Gordon Gerrard. River has completed his Opera Diploma at Wilfrid Laurier University, and sang the role of Martin in Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land. This past summer, River travelled to the Banff Centre to take part in their Opera in the 21st Century program, attended Highlands Opera Studio run by tenor, Richard Margison, and is continuing his studies at The University of Toronto for their Masters in Opera, studying with Wendy Nielsen. River has performed the roles of Lippo Fiorentino in Kurt Weil’s Street Scene and Il Podesta in La Finta Giardiniera with UofT Opera, and is in increasing demand for opera and oratorio work throughout the Toronto area. In his spare time, River performs as a singer-songwriter, playing his own music working towards refining his craft in theatre and music.

Michael Robert-Broder 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. Toronto Mozart Choir | mozartproject.ca 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. Current public health measures have necessitated the cancelation or postponement of that aforementioned season. Upcoming engagements include Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Toronto Mozart Project and a recording of Handel’s Messiah with the Windsor Symphony.

Stephen Boda organ Stephen Boda holds a Master of Music degree from Yale University and a diploma from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied organ performance with Thomas Murray. Stephen graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toronto where he studied organ with John Tuttle and holds an Artist Diploma from McGill University where he studied with Hans Ola Ericsson. Winner of the 2015 Royal Canadian College of Organists’ National Organ Competition, Stephen continues to perform in concert in Canada and the United States. He has collaborated as an accompanist with numerous choirs in the Greater Toronto Area and as a performer with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Stephen is the Principal Organist at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church and has held organist positions in Toronto at Grace Church on-the- Hill and St. Paul’s Bloor Street, St. John the Evangelist in Hamilton, Ontario, and Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien, Connecticut.

© 2021 Mozart Project. All rights reserved. Soprano Megan Miceli* Inga Pechersky Irene Courage Lada Shvartsman Pixie Irving Sara Simon-Vermot Beatrice Lau Nicole Zwier Cathleen Leone Diane Murray-Charrett Alto Jennifer Routhier* Inessa Sukhomlina Svetlana Chnaider Anna Tharyan Adrienne Eastwood Kiley Venables Diane Kolin Talia Motsenyat Tenor River Guard* Scott Bergen

Bass Michael Robert-Broder* Roland Kessler Stephen Cockle Norman Martin Steven DeWitt

Toronto Mozart Choir | mozartproject.ca Ombra felice…Io ti lascio Recitativo: Recitative Ombra felice! tornerò a rivederti. Happy shadows! I will return to see you again. Apri i bei lumi, e consola, Open your beautiful lights and console, deh, almeno in questo istante ah, at least in this moment, con un pietoso sguardo the faithful lover il fido amante. with a compassionate glance. Porgimi la tua destra, Give me your hand, un pegno estremo del tuo give me a last pledge affetto mi dona. of your affection. Ah, che la mia costanza Ah, how my resolution or m’abbandona. now abandons me. Io ti lascio... I leave you...

Aria: Aria Io ti lascio, e questo addio I leave you, and I know not se sia l’ultimo non so. if this goodbye will be the last. Ah, chi sa, bell’idol mio, Ah, who knows, my beautiful idol, se mai più ti rivedrò. if I will ever see you again. Vengo, oh ciel! I am coming, oh heaven! vengo, deh lascia, oh ciel! I am coming, ah be gone, oh heaven! deh lascia, oh pene! ah be gone, oh pain! per te sol, mio ben, pavento. for you alone, my love, do I fear. Il più barbaro tormento, The cruelest torment, giusti dei, chi mai provò, just gods, anyone will ever feel, Vengo, oh ciel! deh lascia, I am coming, oh heaven! ah be oh pene, il più barbaro gone, tormento, oh pain, the cruelest torment, giusti dei, chi mai provò. just gods, anyone will ever feel.

Laudamus te Laudamus te We praise you, Benedicimus te We bless you, Adoramus te We adore you, Glorificamus te We glorify you.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat and may perpetual light shine eis. on them. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Thou, O God, art praised in Sion, Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in and unto Thee shall the vow be Jerusalem. performed in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam, Hear my prayer, unto Thee shall ad te omnis caro veniet. all flesh come.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat and may perpetual light shine eis. on them.

Kyrie

Kyrie eleison. Lord have mercy upon us. Christe eleison. Christ have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison. Lord have mercy upon us.

Dies irae

Dies irae, dies illa Day of wrath, that day Solvet saeclum in favilla, Will dissolve the earth in ashes Teste David cum Sibylla. As David and the Sibyl bear witness.

Quantus tremor est futurus What dread there will be Quando judex est venturus When the Judge shall come Cuncta stricte discussurus! To judge all things strictly!

Tuba mirum

Tuba mirum spargens sonum A trumpet, spreading a Per sepulcra regionum wondrous sound Coget omnes ante thronum. Through the graves of all lands, Will drive humankind before the throne.

Mors stupebit et natura Death and Nature shall be Cum resurget creatura astonished Judicanti responsura. When all creation rises again To answer to the Judge.

Liber scriptus proferetur A book, written in, will be In quo totum continetur, brought forth Unde mundus judicetur. In which is contained everything that is, Out of which the world shall be judged.

Toronto Mozart Choir | mozartproject.ca Judex ergo cum sedebit When therefore the Judge takes Quidquid latet apparebit, His seat, whatever is hidden will Nil inultum remanebit. reveal itself. Nothing will remain unavenged.

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus, What then shall I say, wretch Quem patronum rogaturus, that I am, Cum vix justus sit securus? What advocate entreats to speak for me, When even the righteous may hardly be secure?

Rex tremendae

Rex tremendae majestatis, King of awful majesty, Qui salvandos salvas gratis, Who freely savest the Salve me, fons pietatis. redeemed, Save me, O fount of goodness.

Recordare

Recordare, Jesu pie, Remember, blessed Jesu, Quod sum causa tuae viae, That I am the cause of Thy Ne me perdas ilia die. pilgrimage, Quaerens me sedisti lassus, Do not forsake me on that day. Redemisti crucem passus, Seeking me Thou didst sit down Tantus labor non sit cassus. weary, Juste judex ultionis Thou didst redeem me, Donum fac remissionis suffering death on the cross. Ante diem rationis. Let not such toil be in vain. Just and avenging Judge, Grant remission Before the day of reckoning. lngemisco tanquam reus, I groan like a guilty one. Culpa rubet vultus meus, Guilt reddens my face. Supplicanti parce, Deus. Spare a suppliant, O God. Qui Mariam absolvisti Thou who didst absolve Mary Et latronem exaudisti, Magdalene Mihi quoque spem dedisti. and didst hearken to the thief, Preces meae non sum dignae, To me also hast Thou given Sed tu bonus fac benigne, hope. Ne perenni cremer igne. My prayers are not worthy, Inter oves locurn praesta, But Thou in Thy merciful Et ab hoedis me sequestra, goodness grant Statuens in parle dextra. That I burn not in everlasting fire. Place me among Thy sheep And separate me from the goats, Setting me on Thy right hand.

Confutatis maledictis When the accursed have been Flammis acribus addictis, confounded Voca me cum benedictis. and given over to the bitter Oro supplex et acclinis, flames, Cor contritum quasi cinis, call me with the blessed. Gere curam mei finis. I pray in supplication on my knees. My heart contrite as the dust, Safeguard my fate. Lacrimosa

Lacrimosa dies illa Mournful that day Qua resurget ex favilla When from the dust shall rise Judicandus homo reus. Guilty man to be judged.

Domine, Jesu

Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, gloriae, libera animas omniurn deliver the souls of all the fidelium defunctorum de poenis faithful departed from the pains inferni, et de profundo lacu: of hell and from the bottomless libera eas de ore leonis, pit. ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne Deliver them from the lion’s cadant in obscurum, mouth. sed signifer sanctus Michael Neither let them fall into repraesentet eas in lucem darkness nor the black abyss sanctam, quam olim Abrahae swallow them up. promisisti et semini eius. And let Saint Michael, Thy standard-bearer, lead them into the holy light which once Thou didst promise to Abraham and his seed. Hostias

Hostias et preces, tibi, Domine, We offer unto Thee this sacrifice laudis offerimus: of prayer and praise. tu suscipe pro animabus illis, Receive it for those souls whom quarum hodie memoriam today we commemorate. facimus: fac eas, Domine, de Allow them, O Lord, to cross morte transire ad vitam, quam from death into the life which olim Abrahae promisisti et once Thou didst promise to semini eius. Abraham and his seed.

Sanctus. Sanctus, Sanctus, Holy, holy, holy, Dominus Deus Sabaoth! Lord God of Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria Heaven and earth are full of Thy tua. glory. Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest.

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