Noon Hour Online Concert: Returning to our roots | Music

"We will be presenting a recital of English songs and duets by British, Canadian, and American composers, including Vaughan Williams, Barber, Finzi, Larsen, Raminsh, and Weill. Since the partnership between poetry and music is so essential to art song, we wanted to return to our linguistic roots by presenting songs written in our mother tongue. As we chose sets for this recital, the theme of women arose, as our songs are written about women, or set the words of women."听

Elizabeth Lepock, soprano

Michael Lepock, baritone

Anna Ronai, piano

Programme

Selections from Of Mothers and Children: Five Irish Lyrics for Soprano and Piano听听听听听听听听听听听听
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I. The Woman with Child听听
V. A Little Boy in the Morning听听

Elizabeth Lepock, soprano, and Anna Ronai, piano

Amabel听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
The Self Unseeing听听
The Clock of the Years听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Michael Lepock, baritone, and Anna Ronai, piano听

Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

I. Katherine of Aragon听
II. Anne Boleyn
III. Jane Seymour
IV. Anne of Cleves听
V. Katherine Howard听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Elizabeth Lepock, soprano and Anna Ronai, piano

Four Last Songs听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1952)
Procris听听
Tired
Hands, Eyes, and Heart听
Menelaus

Michael Lepock, baritone, and Anna Ronai, piano (with Elizabeth Lepock, soprano)

Will You Remember Me from Knickerbocker Holiday听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听Kurt Weill听 (1900-1950)

Elizabeth Lepock, soprano, Michael Lepock, baritone, and Anna Ronai, piano听听听听听听听听听听听

Biographies

Elizabeth Lepock,听soprano, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance from the University of Western Ontario. Over the course of her doctoral studies, in addition to honing her performance and pedagogy skills Elizabeth also pursued ground-breaking interdisciplinary research into muscle tension voice disorders. Elizabeth passionately loves the challenge of mentoring aspiring musicians, the joy of performing, and all the background work that comes with both (especially delving into history, poetry, and foreign language study).

Michael Lepock, baritone, holds a Bachelor of music in composition from Wilfrid Laurier University. Nowadays he sings in a number of community and professional choirs including Spiritus Ensemble and the DaCapo Chamber Choir, which has rehearsed and recorded a number of pieces in the Uptown 蓝莓视频 car park. He is thrilled to be presenting this program of Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch with his wife, Elizabeth.听

Pianist听Anna Ronai听has performed at major venues in Europe, North America and China, including the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, Gl盲serner Saal, Musikverein, and Schubert Saal, Konzerthaus in Vienna. Anna has collaborated with such distinguished singers as Michelle Breedt, Bernarda Fink, Robert Holl, and instrumentalists like Ulrike Anton and Brooks de Wetter-Smith.
Anna graduated from the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, [Universit盲t f眉r Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Wien] with two Masters degrees, one in Piano Performance and the other in Collaborative Piano. She maintained vocal and instrumental coaching positions at the Vienna and Innsbruck Conservatories, and a faculty position for piano chamber music at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna. She has played for master-classes with esteemed artists including Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Hampson and Linda Watson.听听Anna has appeared and placed in several major Lied Duo competitions such as the Robert Schumann Duo Competition in Zwickau, Germany, the East & West Artists International Auditions in New York, and Schubert und die Moderne in Graz, Austria.听听In 2009 Anna moved to Canada, and is now the instrumental听accompanist and piano instructor at Conrad Grebel University College.听 She also teaches at Wilfred Laurier University.听

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