Voice Studies at the University of Toronto
80 Queen's Park M5S 2C5 Toronto, ON, Canada

TODAY: Join us at 12:10pm as we welcome Steven Blier, John R. Stratton Visitor in Music, for a lecture and q&a discussing his life in song. Check your emails for the zoom link! The Faculty of Music is thrilled to welcome Steven Blier, Artistic Director of the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), which he co-founded in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the Festival’s inception he has programmed, performed, translated and annotated more than 150 vocal recitals with repertoire span...ning five centuries of art song and popular song. Blier enjoys an eminent career as an accompanist and vocal coach. His recital partners have included Renee Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Samuel Ramey, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Jessye Norman, and Jose van Dam, in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to La Scala. He has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School since 1992 and has been active in encouraging young recitalists at summer programs, including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Santa Fe Opera, and the San Francisco Opera Center. Blier has recorded on numerous labels and won a Grammy Award in 1990. A native New Yorker, he received a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in English Literature at Yale University, where he studied piano with Alexander Farkas. He completed his musical studies in New York with Martin Isepp and Paul Jacobs. -John Stratton Visitor in Music- Named for a great collector of vocal music and historical recorded sound whose collection and trust is stewarded today by an even greater connoisseur Stephen Clarke, the Stratton Visitor brings distinguished specialists in the field of voice and collaborative piano, recent among them Dawn Upshaw, Warren Jones, Stephanie Blythe, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Barbara Hannigan, Stephen Wadsworth, Judith Forst, Eric Owens and the late Jessye Norman. University of Toronto Faculty of Music

Attention #VoiceStudies! Make sure to submit your selections for our annual Celebrating our Diversity concert by tonight at 5pm, using the form sent to your U of T email. We are so excited to hear the beautiful music that everyone has chosen!

University of Toronto #VoiceStudies Faculty, Nathalie Paulin is teaching at the International Orford Music Academy from July 25th to 31st 2021. This year’s academy will mostly take place in hybrid form, adapted to the global situation, and each participant and faculty’s ability to attend. Even in virtual, every student will have access to an accompanying pianist, complimentary conferences and social activities, as well as showcase performances for public. Make haste! The dead...line to apply with scholarship is around the corner: February 4th, 2021 ! AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: Video recording of three contrasting pieces from the repertoire of the French mélodie and the German Lied. One opera or oratorio aria will be accepted. Due to the pandemic situation, Orford will be understanding of the quality of the audition video material and repertoire. Video without accompaniment will be accepted. For more information: https://www.orford.mu/.../frequent.../2021-academy-details/ Application form: https://www.orford.mu/en/academy/application/ University of Toronto Faculty of Music

TOMORROW: Please join us tomorrow at 12:10 pm as we welcome the amazing Lucy Fitz Gibbon who will be giving our #VoiceStudies students a master class on 21st-century repertoire. We hope to see you there! Check your emails for the zoom link The Tuesday Noon Hour series is made possible in part by a generous gift from Dianne W. Henderson. Noted for her dazzling, virtuoso singing (Boston Globe), Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic musician whose repertoire spans the Renaissance to... the present. She believes that creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past makes room for the multiplicity and diversity of voices integral to classical music’s future. As such, Ms. Fitz Gibbon has given U.S. premieres of rediscovered works by Baroque composers Francesco Sacrati, Barbara Strozzi, and Agostino Agazzari, as well by 20th century composers including Tadeusz Kassern, Roman Palester, and Jean Barraqué. She has also worked closely with numerous others, premiering works by John Harbison, Kate Soper, Sheila Silver, David Hertzberg, Reena Esmail, Roberto Sierra, Anna Lindemann, and Pauline Oliveros. In helping to realize the complexities of music beyond written notes, the experience of working with these composers translates to all music: the commitment to faithfully communicate not only the score, but also the underlying intentions of its creator. See more

TOMORROW: Please join us tomorrow at 12:10 pm for OraSTORYo! Come enjoy this wonderful concert featuring performers from the 4th year undergraduate and graduate oratorio classes presented by Dr. Darryl Edwards. This concert will stream live on the University of Toronto Faculty of Music YouTube page at 12pm. Check your emails for the link! We hope to see you there :)