Episode 6: Indigenous Song and Story

Episode 6: Indigenous Song and Story

Marion Newman, mezzo-soprano and Ian Cusson, composer Mezzo-soprano Marion Newman and composer Ian Cusson join host Lawrence Wiliford in a discussion about representing Indigenous song and story in Canadian art music and song. This is a conversation that is both...
Opera Ramblings reviews SEA VARIATIONS

Opera Ramblings reviews SEA VARIATIONS

Published May 23, 2019 on operaramblings.blog – Link to article This year’s Canadian Art Song Project commission is a setting of poems by EJ Pratt by Dean Burry entitled Sea Variations.  It was given its first performance yesterday in the Richard Bradshaw...
Episode 5: Dean Burry’s Sea Variations

Episode 5: Dean Burry’s Sea Variations

As we anticipate the premiere of our latest commission, Steven Philcox sat down with composer Dean Burry and tenor Michael Colvin for a discussion about the new work and its inception. Dean Burry is one of Canada’s most active composers, having...