ARTIST SERIES:
Marion Samuel-Stevens (soprano)
& William Shookhoff (piano)
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 8 pm
Guelph Youth Music Centre, Recital Hall
75 Cardigan Street, Guelph, ON
PROGRAMME
HAYDN: English Songs
MENDELSSOHN: Songs
CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne
BERG: Sieben Fruhe Lieder
HEGGIE: Paper Wings
Fun stuff!
Marion Samuel Stevens soprano
Soprano Marion Samuel-Stevens is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Voice Performance and is building a reputation as a performer of Oratorio and Opera. Marion is an avid supporter of new music and was a finalist in the 2008 Eckhardt-Grammatté competition and has performed Grigori Frid’s Diary of Anne Frank as Anne, Peter Skoggard’s new opera Stratas in the title role, Ruth in Ronald Beckett’s opera Ruth, Mark Adamo’s Little Women as Beth, as well as David Del-Tredici’s Alice with the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra. Operatic roles include Elle in La Voix Humaine by Poulenc, Hélène in Hindemith’s Hin und Zurück and Estelle in The Stronger by Hugo Weisgall, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute by Mozart and Titania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oratorio highlights include Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Vespers, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Lord Nelson Mass, and Creation. Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and the Christmas Oratorio by J. S Bach.
William Shookhoff piano
William Shookhoff is a noted conductor, pianist and vocal coach throughout Canada and abroad. He has conducted Canadian orchestras from coast to coast, as well as in the Netherlands and China. He has served on the music faculties of the Universities of Toronto, Alberta, Wilfrid Laurier, as well as the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Johannesen Summer Institute of Music. He has been on the Music Staff of the Canadian, Netherlands, Edmonton, and Portland (Oregon) Opera Companies.
Equally at home in Music Theatre, Mr Shookhoff was the Associate Conductor of the inaugural Canadian production of Les Miserables, and of the Canadian Tour and Toronto productions of Phantom of the Opera. He has been a guest Music Director with Neptune Theatre (Halifax), Persephone Theatre (Saskatoon), and Citadel Theatre (Edmonton).
Recent guest appearances as opera coach and orchestra conductor have taken him to Chichester, England, Burgundy, France, Sieggraben, Austria; and Wuhan, China.He has also devoted his efforts to the development and presentation of the Massed Piano or Monster Concert, and has conducted such events at Carnegie Hall, New York; Massey Hall and Nathan Philips Square, Toronto; the White House, Washington, DC; and the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome. Mr. Shookhoff is Artistic Director Emeritus at Tryptych Productions.
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Opera by Request
may 14 – valerie tryon | may 15 - marion samuel-stevens & william shookhoff
may 21 – festival trio | may 22 - cecilia string quartet