I am thrilled that the inaugural Crossing Borders: A Celebration of New Music from New Mexico to Nova Scotia was a success! We can’t wait to bring it to Philadelphia and Toronto in March! You can buy tickets to the Toronto concert HERE. This is a very special concert for me and Cheryl as we have met…
Hello fellow Freddie Beachers! I am very excited to present this recital with Anne Marie Murphy on piano in Fredericton on Sunday, Dec. 21. The programme will include works by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann, and will also feature a few holiday favourites! There will be familiar tunes to all ears–classical buffs or not. I look…
It’s been a while since my last blog post or schedule update. I’m always grateful to be busy! It’s been a whirlwind of a year so far!! I will post schedule updates very soon. For now, to find out where I’ll be performing in Ontario in June, please visit www.essentialopera.com. We have two remounts coming…
I’m always shocked when it’s show day with Essential Opera. Months and months of planning…then POOF time to perform! Actually, it’s more like a BAM than a POOF. But every time I wake up on a show day, I feel really excited and grateful. My colleague and friend, Erin Bardua, and I first started talking…
After a wonderfully full month of singing contemporary music and working with living composers, I’m gearing up for one last gig before some vacation. This recital, The Sky’s a Triplet, is part of the Classics by the Bay festival in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. There are concerts all weekend long, but my concert is on Sunday…
Tonight marks the end of a week of Contemporary Performance Studies at the Vancouver International Song Institute. I have had the extreme pleasure of working directly with composers Joseph Glaser, Jake Heggie, and Jeffrey Ryan. I have workshopped works by all three of those composers, as well as works by John Greer and Monica Pearce. After a week of…
I arrived in Vancouver on June 1 for a week of Contemporary Performance Studies at the Vancouver International Song Institute. Sunday was a quick orientation and rehearsal day. Monday, Tuesday, and today were filled with inspiring workshops, coachings and sessions (I hesitate to call them lectures because they’ve really been interactive discussions). So far I have…
May is a prep month for a busy June (thankful to HAVE a prep month!). Today I am making my practice charts and schedule for three upcoming events: Vancouver (June 10), Toronto (June 13), and Parrsboro, NS (June 30). Schedule details and links will be updated soon. As I was starting my research for the…
(Brace yourself for cliché): I can never believe how the time flies! Seriously. It’s already SHOW WEEK for Essential Opera’s FIFTH show, Two Weddings and a Funeral We’re closing our season with a double bill of two Italian one act operas: Donizetti’s Il campanello and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. To get a flavour for the show,…
This week I have the pleasure of participating in a workshop called Tapestry New Opera 101. A handful of singers and pianists come together to workshop Canadian opera works taken from the Tapestry Songbook, which spans over 33 years. I am going to this workshop with pianist Cheryl Duvall. We’ve never worked together, but my…
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