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 Ellen Hargis |
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Soprano Ellen Hargis is one of America’s premier early music singers, specializing in repertoire ranging from ballads to opera and oratorio. She has performed with many of the foremost period music conductors of the world including Andrew Parrott, Gustav Leonhardt, Paul Goodwin, Monica Huggett, Jane Glover, Simon Preston, Daniel Harding, Paul Hillier, Harry Bicket, Craig Smith and Jeffrey Thomas. She has performed with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Washington Choral Arts Society, Long Beach Opera, CBC Radio Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Teatro Lirico, Tragicomedia, New York Collegium, The Mozartean Players, Fretwork, Emmanuel Music and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and has become regular performer with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, the American Bach Soloists, Seattle Baroque and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. She has appeared at many of the world’s leading festivals including the Adelaide Festival (Australia), Utrecht Festival (Holland), Resonanzen Festival (Vienna), the Vancouuver Early Music Festival, Festival Vancouver. Tanglewood, the Berkeley Festival and New Music America Festival. She has been featured in successive seasons of the Boston Early Music Festival where she has sung Aeglé in Lully’s Thésée, the title role in Luigi Rossi's L'Orfeo, Queen Pasiphae in Conradi’s Ariadne and Irina in Johann Mattheson’s 1710 opera, Boris Goudenow. Lully’s Thésée and Conradi’s Ariadne were recorded for CPO and were nominated respectively for 2007 and 2006 Grammys.
Recent engagements include a performance and recording of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, which will be released later this year on the Smithsonian label. She was heard in the Boston Early Music Festival with Tragicomedia singing Steffani, and with The Newberry Consort in a concert of Elizabethan music. This seasons highlights include recitals with Paul O’Dette in Malmö for the Sweden Early Music Festival and for Peak Performances in New Jersey, a concert in New York with Parthenia, Rameau cantatas with Jacques Ogg and Lyra in the Twin Cities, and French cantatas with Debra Nagy and les Délices in Cleveland. Ellen Hargis has a longstanding musical partnership with the great lutenist Paul O’Dette with whom she records and tours regularly. They have performed together throughout the United States, Canada, Austria, France Spain, Russia and Asia. Two recordings on the Noyse Productions label: The Power Of Love and A Christmas Album, have been met with critical acclaim. She is also featured on a dozen Harmonia Mundi recordings including a critically acclaimed solo recital disc of music by Jacopo Peri, and in Arvo Pärt's Berlin Mass with Theatre of Voices. She appears on a recording of Handel solo cantatas with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra on Wild Boar, the premiere recording of the Bonporti motets for soprano on Dorian, and several recordings for BMG Classics, Vanguard Classics, Virgin Classics, Erato, Dorian Classics and Berlin Classics. Her recording of Tristan et Iseult with The Boston Camerata was winner of the Grand Prix du Disque.
Ellen Hargis teaches voice at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and is Artist-in-Residence with the Newberry Consort at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. She teaches at Early Music Vancouver’s annual Vancouver Baroque Vocal Programme “The Compleat Singer” each summer.
| Ray Nurse |
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Performing musician, instrument maker and researcher in historical music, Ray Nurse was a founding member of Early Music Vancouver, The New World Consort, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Pacific Baroque Orchestra. He has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and appeared on many broadcasts and recordings. His research has led him to museums and libraries around the world, and he is in constant demand as a teacher at workshops.
He originally studied voice and musicology at the Dept. of Music at UBC and attended UBC’s Opera Workshop, which led to work in Stage Management with Vancouver Opera Association. In 1972 he won the Vancouver Met auditions, subsequently performing as soloist and chorus member with the Vancouver Opera and appearing as a soloist with Edmonton Opera, The Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver New Music, Opera in the Schools and most of the choirs in Vancouver. During the 1970s he took a break to pursue other interests, studying lute with Dianna Poulton in London and Eugen Dombois in Basel, and lute-making with Ian Harwood in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Since then he has concentrated on early music performance and research, with special interest in early singing and opera, directing The New World Consort (1982-1989) and singing with The Vancouver Chamber Choir (between 1970 and 2000 for 15 seasons). In 2001 he founded La Cetra, an ensemble which specializes in seventeenth-century music. He has co-ordinated notable productions of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, “1610 Vespers” and "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" for Festival Vancouver 2000-2003 , and "L'Orfeo" again for Edmonton's "Festival of Ideas" in 2008.
He currently coaches Early Music Ensembles and teaches lute at U.B.C., directs the Baroque Vocal Programme in the Vancouver Early Music Programme, is professionally active as a lutenist, accompanist, continuo player and singer, and continues to build instruments for selected customers.
| Steven Adby |
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Steven Adby was co-director of Festival Vancouver production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in the summer of 2000. He started his early dance and movement career at the age of 17. In 1979 he co-founded The Renaissance Dance Company of London, renowned for its lively and entertaining renaissance spectacles, Stuart masques and baroque ballets. He is much in demand as a performer and teacher and his distinct style and humour ensures that all are made to feel welcome. He has guest-lectured for the Boston and Utrecht Early Music Festivals, acts as a consultant for numerous heritage sites within the UK, and has established himself as a director of baroque opera, becoming recognised for his ability to realise and interpret period gesture and movement into an understandable medium. Other recent works include several productions of Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen, Acteon, Orpheus ed Euridice and the first UK performances of Adonis by Rameau and Orfeo from Campra’s Carnaval de Venise. In April 2006 he directed Rameau’s Anacreon and in 2008, Gluck's Orpheus ed Euridice. He also co-directs a very successful theatre in education company, Partake, which specialises in taking historical and drama-based workshops into schools, colleges and numerous historical houses.
| Christopher Bagan |
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Christopher Bagan is a versatile young artist, equally at home on the modern piano, historical fortepiano and harpsichord. For most of the 2011-12 season he has been the collaborative pianist and harpsichordist in residence at the Banff Centre, performing nearly 60 concerts including repertoire from six different centuries. He has recently completed his Doctorate in Piano Performance at the University of British Columbia on full scholarship with Jane Coop. Increasingly in demand as an early keyboard specialist, he has performed in as soloist, collaborator and continuo player both in Canada and abroad. He is on faculty for the Early Music Vancouver summer programs and the collaborative harpsichordist at the American Bach Soloist summer program. As a continuo player, he has been heard on CBC Radio 2's Choral Concert and recorded with Calgary ensemble Voicescapes. He has been invited on three occasions to perform with the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra in Aldeburgh, UK in performances of Handel’s Saul with Richard Egarr, Bach’s St. John Passion with Mark Padmore and works for string orchestra with Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Along with early music, Christopher has a passionate interest in 20th century and contemporary music, particularly the Second Viennese school. In 2011 he performed Schoenberg’s complete piano music for Vancouver’s Music on Main series. Believing strongly that the performers’ voice is vital to music scholarship, he is active in presenting papers and lecture-recitals in the areas of historical performance practice and theoretical analysis. Christopher is the recipient of numerous study grants including major awards from the Johann Strauss Foundation of Edmonton, the Winspear Fund of Edmonton, the University Graduate Fellowship (UBC) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (UofT) as well as summer study awards from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Salzburg Mozarteum and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute.
| Michael Jarvis |
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Michael Jarvis has been acclaimed as one of Canada’s finest harpsichordists and fortepianists. He has performed across Canada, the USA, England, Italy and Bermuda. He has worked with many of Canada’s finest ensembles, orchestras and singers and is in demand as a coach and collaborative artist. Michael has recorded for the Hungaroton, ATMA, Naxos, and Marquis Classics labels, and has many times broadcast nationally and regionally for the CBC, as well as across the U.S. on NPR. His performing editions of 17th and 18th century choral and organ music are published by GIA, Chicago. He is on faculty as harpsichordist and vocal coach at the Early Music Vancouver Summer Baroque Vocal Programme. He was also co-host and star of the 13-part television series “Come into the Parlour”. Featuring co-host and star Carolyn Sinclair, soprano, and their original 1857 Chickering piano, the series featured some of Canada’s finest musicians from the opera and concert stages in the musical highlights of the nineteenth century. (www.michaeljarvis.ca) His new recording of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Op. 5 (with violinist/violist Paul Luchkow, and performed on an original Viennese fortepiano, c.1800) is available in Canada, the US, and Europe on the Marquis Classics label in March 2012. (www.marquisclassics.com)
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