What´s New
February 07, 2010
Update on engagements:
January 30 (8 p.m.), February 3 (7:30 p.m.) and 5 (8 p.m.), 2010: Cecilia March in the professional Canadian Premiere of Little Women by Mark Adamo; Calgary Opera; Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB
February 1, 2010, 8 p.m.: Recital with pianist Gordon Gerrard; Love before 1850/ Love after 1950--Women's Lives and Loves; songs by Clara and Robert Schumann, Libby Larsen and William Bolcom, Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; details follow: www.music.ualberta.ca/news.cfm?story=96879
February 8, 2010, 12:30 p.m.: Recital with pianist Laura Loewen; Love before 1850/ Love after 1950--Women's Lives and Loves; songs by Clara and Robert Schumann, Libby Larsen and William Bolcom; Eva Clare Concert Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba; 65 Dafoe Rd., Winnipeg, MB, Canada
January 25, 2010
Recital in Edmonton February 1, 2010
Love before 1850/ Love after 1950--Women's Lives and Loves; recital with pianist Gordon Gerrard at Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, 8 p.m. For details follow this link:www.music.ualberta.ca/news.cfm?story=96879
January 25, 2010
Latest links for L’accordéoniste
L’accordéoniste is now featured on several sites, including Radio Indy www.radioindy.com ; A Web of Fine Music www.finemusic.ca (where we are listed as one of "Mike's picks") and cdbaby www.cdbaby.com
January 25, 2010
L’accordéoniste WEBSITE now LIVE!
Visit L’accordéoniste on the web at our new website, www.accordeoniste.ca featuring sound samples, photos and other information about the group
January 24, 2010
Most recently
November 19, 2009, 12 noon: A Tribute to Maureen Forrester and Lois Marshall, with soprano Lorna MacDonald and pianist Stuart Hamilton; Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
November 15, 2009, 6:30 p.m.: Dinner Cabaret with Pianist Elaine Dunbar; Chez Norman, Edmonton, AB
November 12, 2009, 7 p.m.: Featured soloist and Host, Maureen Forrester Collection Gala; Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
November 10, 2009, 12 noon: A Tribute to Maureen Forrester and Lois Marshall, with soprano Lorna MacDonald and pianist Stuart Hamilton; Music at Noon, Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
November 6, 2009, 7 p.m.: Featured soloist, Vancouver Opera 50th Anniversary Gala; Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Conductor Jonathan Darlington; The Orpheum, Vancouver, BC
October 31, 2009, 2:30 p.m.:L’accordéoniste, Canwest Cabaret Festival, Toronto, ON
October 24, 2009, 2 p.m.: L’accordéoniste; Ontario Contact Showcase, Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, Richmond Hill, ON
September 27, 2009, 2:30 p.m.: L’accordéoniste, Colours of Music Festival, Barrie, ON Colours of Music Festival
September 24, 2009, 8 p.m., Opening Night of NUMUS, Phenomenological Love Songs: Collage Cabaret (with Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon, Guy Few, trumpet, Glenn Buhr, piano, Penderecki String Quartet), Theatre Auditorium, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
September 18, 2009, 8 p.m.: Featured guest artist, Fete de Frederica (Frederica von Stade Farewell Concert); Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Edwin Outwater; Centre-In-The-Square, Kitchener, ON
September 11, 2009, 8 p.m.: L’Accordéoniste, One Night Only, Live at The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener, ON The Registry Theatre
September 26, 2009
Check out L'Accordéoniste on youtube!
Follow the link to watch L'accordéoniste live in performance and in interview: L'Accordéoniste on youtube
September 25, 2009
Purchase L’Accordéoniste CD
Purchase your L’Accordéoniste CD's by following this link:
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August 17, 2009
Latest rave review for L’Accordéoniste!!
Follow the link for the latest review in the Toronto Star of our new CD, L’Accordéoniste: www.thestar.com/article/672596 , or see the full review by clicking on press acclaim: concerts on this site
August 16, 2009
Our first review for L’Accordéoniste!
John Terauds gives us a rave in the Toronto Star for our CD Launch on July 16, 2009 in Toronto, see Sound Mind--Toronto Star music blog for full review, or click on press acclaim: concerts for excerpt
August 13, 2009
Student Activities:
Dane Wendell (BMus 2010) Nardo in la Finta Giardiniera with Glenn Gould Professional School Summer Opera Workshop, Toronto, ON July 2009; Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Opera Studio Weimar, Germany, August-Sept. 2009
Angela Burns (OpDip 2008) Opera Nuova, Edmonton, AB, May-June 2009; Sister Genovieva, Suor Angelica, Puccini
Brittany King (BMus 2009) Opera Nuova, Edmonton, AB; 3rd place, Lois Marshall Voice Competition, London, ON, May 2009
Lindsay Reinholt (BMus 2009) SOLT, Toronto, ON, Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff
Stephanie Yelovich (BMus 2010) Winner, Concerto Competition, WLU, January 2009
NATS Ontario Chapter Auditions November 2008, Waterloo, ON: Maradyn Wood, 1st place, 1st year College Women; Stephanie Yelovich, 1st place 3rd year College Women and Winner, Most Promising Senior College Woman; Brittany King, 2nd place 4th year College Women, Lindsay Reinholt, 3rd place 4th year College Women; Adam Dyjach, 3rd place 1st year College Men; Dane Wendell, 1st place 3rd year College Men; Andrew Rethazi 1st place 4th year College Men.
Erica Huang (BMus 2007, OpDip 2008)--Composer in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos with Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival, MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto, Toronto, August 2008
Angela Burns (BMus 2007, OpDip 2008)--participant in University of Manitoba Opera Summer Workshop, July 2008; participant in St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea Summer Opera Workshop, St. Andrew's, NB, July 2008
NATS Ontario Chapter Auditions, November 24, 2007, York University: Erica Huang, 2nd Place Winner, Post-graduate college women; Stephanie Yelovich, 3rd place Winner, junior college women; Opera Diploma 2007 student Iasmina Pataca, Winner, Master's level or young professional women.
Erin Lawson (BMus 2003, Op Dip 2004) selected as member of Calgary Opera Emerging Artists Program 2007-8
August 12, 2009
New on the website:
Check new links for upcoming engagements
See Links and Press Acclaim for reviews of L’Accordéoniste
See updates on upcoming engagements 2009-10
Check out new info in Student Activities July 2009
Links for press info for Blitzstein's Regina under Links
New photos for Blitzstein's Regina and Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea
July 16, 2009
Kimberly Barber tagged...
On Marshall's Blog for Opera Atelier, follow the link...www.operaatelier.com/blog/?tag=kimberly-barber
November 25, 2007
Press Acclaim:
See Interview by Mary Lou Vetere in Opera Today, www.operatoday.com