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The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists (http://ircpa.net) presents Singing Stars: The Next Generation, Monday, November 6, 7:30 p.m. at Zoomer Hall, home of Classical FM, 70 Jefferson Avenue (King and Dufferin area in Toronto’s Liberty Village).
Tickets, $30, $20 for under-30s, seniors and arts workers; and more information may be obtained via www.ircpa.net or by calling 416-362-1422. Free parking is available.
The performance will feature 10 gifted opera singers who have participated in an intensive full-day Encounter with celebrated Canadian baritone Brett Polegato (www.brettpolegato.com) on October 20. Polegato will have provided valuable advice, encouraging the singers to advance their skills, offering career guidance, and preparing them for the November 6 concert. Rachel Andrist is the collaborative pianist for both the Encounter and the concert.
CAREER BLUEPRINT AWARD
At the conclusion of the November 6 concert, one of the 10 singers will be chosen to receive a coveted Career Blueprint. The recipient will spend three days at the National Opera America Center in New York, where new photographs, video and audio recordings, website consultation, mentoring with professionals, and more is provided.
In 2016, the inaugural year of the IRCPA’s Career Blueprint award, two singers were named by soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, after the operatic superstar had worked with 10 singers in a daylong Encounter. Soprano Natalya Gennadi (http://natalya-gennadi.squarespace.com) and mezzo-soprano Marjorie Maltais (www.maltaismezzo.com) recently returned from the National Opera Center in New York, where both found the experience an invaluable, eye-opening opportunity. As Marjorie Maltais wrote, “I am leaving New York today full of ideas and dreams. I received valuable tools that can help me bring my young career to the next stage.” As for Natalya Gennadi, “My head is still spinning with the excitement and all of the information.”
Thanks in large part to her award, Natalya Gennadi was selected for the title role of Tapestry Opera’s new creation, Oksana G. in spring 2017, and was widely praised for her performance. Marjorie Maltais debuts with l’Orchestre Métropolitain this season, sings the Christmas Oratorio with Elmer Iseler Singers, Messiah with the Milwaukee and Kitchener Symphonies and Elijah with Peterborough Symphony.
IRCPA PRESENTS WORKSHOPS THIS FALL & NEXT SPRING
The IRCPA will present workshops in Toronto November 25, and December 2 and 3; and in May 2018 for all musicians, other performing artists and workers in the industry.
Locations and other details are available on http://ircpa.net/news-events.
The IRCPA acknowledges with thanks the support of the Ontario Arts Council, the Jack Weinbaum Charitable Foundation, private donors, the Canadian Opera Company, THE 519, Canadian Music Centre, and corporate partners La Scena Musicale, Lula Lounge, The Wholenote and The New Classical FM.
The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists (http://ircpa.net) was founded in 1983 by award-winning, innovative artist manager/producer Ann Summers Dossena. Its goal is to assist Canada's musicians to achieve sustainable, fulfilling careers that meet or exceed their goals. To this end, it offers Encounters with Employers or experts, including artists and staff from the Metropolitan Opera and Teatro alla Scala; and Workshops and monthly Round-Table Discussions for a wide range of musicians and others in the industry, offering straightforward and current information, and entrepreneurial exchanges.
The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists presents
Singing Stars: The Next Generation – 10 singers performing arias
Following an earlier Encounter with Brett Polegato
With Rachel Andrist, piano
Monday, November 6, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
At Zoomer Hall, 70 Jefferson Avenue
Tickets & Info via http://ircpa.net or 416-362-1422
Photo: Brett Polegato.
2017-10-12
Toronto: IRCPA presents "Singing Stars: The Next Generation" with Brett Polegato on November 6