CHINATOWN: an Opera Performance

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Monday, May 30th, 2022, 7:00 - 8:00 PM

Toronto Reference Library - Bram & Bluma Appel Salon

789 Yonge Street, Toronto ON, M4W 2G8

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Featuring: 

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Asian Heritage Month CFACI

City Opera Vancouver 

Madeleine Thien, librettist and novelist

Alice Ping Yee Ho, composer and pianist

Paul Yee, historian and Hoisan translator  

Arlene Chan, historian and curator 

Vania Chan, soprano

Erica Iris Huang, mezzo-soprano

Derek Kwan, tenor

Bobby Ho, percussion

Amely Zhou, erhu

 

Asian Heritage Month 2022 Concert - "Resilience in our Time"

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Thursday May 26th, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM

Innis Town Hall Theatre 

Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto ON. 

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Featuring: 

 

Vania Chan and Derek Kwan (Singers and Masters of Ceremony) 

Musicus Bortnianskii with conductor Myron Mahksaimee

Haneum (Korean Music Ensemble)

Shireshendu Mukherjee, Ravi Naimpally, Vibhas Vatve 

Spire (Chinese Music Ensemble) 

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Ka Nin Chan and Alice Ho (organizers and performers) 

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Hope and Healing

Chorus Hamilton & Fanshawe Chorus London

Featuring Gabriel Fauré's Requiem in D Minor

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Sunday, April 24, 2022, 3:00 PM

St. Paul's United Church

29 Park St W., Dundas

 

Featured Performers: 

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David Holler, conductor

Erika Reiman, accompanist 

Brent Fifield, organist

Vania Chan, Soprano

Peter Bass, Baritone

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A Love Song to Toronto - Soundstreams 

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April 28, 2022, 8:00 PM

St. Andrew's Church

73 Simcoe Street, Toronto, ON M5J 1W9

 

Featured Performers: 

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Dancers:  

Jillian Peever,  Louis Laberge-Côté, Claudia Moore,

Choreography by Michael Greyeyes 

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Musicians: 

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Carla Huhtanen, Lindsay McIntyre, Vania Chan, Robin Dann, Bud Roach, Keith Lam, and Alex Samaras (Vocal Ensemble)

 

David Fallis (music director)
 

Ryan Scott (percussion)
 

Serouj Kradjian (piano)

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Repertoire

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Compositions by Claude Vivier: 

"Love Songs" - for seven singers

"Shiraz" 

"Cinq Chansons pour percussion"

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"Oceano Nox" by Christopher Mayo

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