The Canadian Music Centre presents Canadian Irish Artwork Music, a live performance that includes soprano Maeve Palmer and pianist Jialiang Zhu. The 2 artists will discover the intersections between Irish traditions and Western lyric musical idioms — the hidden historical past of Irish artwork tune.
The occasion takes place October 23 on the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto.
The Music
Sean-nós singing is an unaccompanied style of conventional Irish vocal music. It’s sometimes carried out within the Irish language. Musically, it entails lengthy melodic phrases, intricate ornamentation, and melismatic melodic traces, i.e. the place a single syllable is sung over a number of pitches. As a style, it was one in every of a number of conventional types, and was practised throughout Eire, with many regional variations, and nonetheless exists the place Irish remains to be spoken, together with areas of County Galway, elements of Kerry, Cork and Waterford, and elsewhere.
The vocal type turns into a part of fashionable Irish artwork tune, and has influenced composers of the Isle for hundreds of years.
This system contains music from 18th-century conventional melodies to preparations of Benjamin Britten, and the work of up to date composer Donnacha Dennehy.
Born in Dublin, Dennehy studied music at Trinity School, adopted by the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with help from a Fulbright Scholarship, the place he earned his Grasp’s and Doctoral levels. Dennehy was a visiting scholar at Princeton College from 2012, and joined the school of music division in 2014. Latest work contains the BBC fee Arduous Touchdown, a bit concerning the Miracle on the Hudson, which premiered with the BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales on February 6, 2025, and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on March 29, 2025.
The Artists
Maeve Palmer, soprano
Soprano Maeve Palmer is a Dora Award-winner who has carried out with Tapestry Opera, New Music Live shows, Continuum Modern Music, Opera Atelier, Off-Centre Music, Refrain Niagara, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Orpheus Choir of Toronto, and on tour with the Eckhardt-Gramatté Nationwide Music Competitors, amongst others. This yr, she’s carried out in a live performance manufacturing of Die Fledermaus with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra, because the soprano soloist in Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Refrain Niagara, and as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Story (Ruders/arr. Schlossberg) on the Banff Centre.
Maeve gained the 2021 Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize in Music from the College of Toronto, and was the second prize winner of the 2017 Eckhardt-Gramatté Nationwide Music Competitors. She earned a Physician of Musical Arts in Voice Pedagogy and Efficiency from the College of Toronto, and can be an alumna of the Rebanks Household Fellowship and Worldwide Efficiency Residency Program on the Glenn Gould Faculty, and the Sidgwick Scholar Program with the Orpheus Choir of Toronto (2015–18).
Jialiang Zhu, piano
Pianist Jialiang Zhu is on the school of The Taylor Academy and Oscar Peterson Faculty of Music on the Royal Conservatory. The Chinese language pianist moved to Toronto in 2007, the place she earned a Physician of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano, a Grasp’s in Piano Efficiency and Pedagogy, and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Efficiency (Honours), all from the College of Toronto.
She has taught beforehand on the College of Toronto School of Music, and past instructing piano, she is a passionate vocal coach. Jialiang focuses on Chinese language vocal repertoire, and has coached vocalists from quite a lot of backgrounds in Chinese language songs, in addition to performing with them on the Canadian Opera Firm, College of Toronto, College of Ottawa, College of Manitoba, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and Beijing Central Conservatory of Music.
As a pianist, she is the co-founder of the Bedford Trio, a Toronto-based ensemble recognized for performing each classical and up to date chamber music. With The Bedford Trio, she has toured throughout North America and German, and served as Artists-in-Residence on the College of Toronto’s Composition Division.
The Live performance
CMC Presents: Canadian Irish Artwork Music on October 23 on the CMC corridor.
- Discover live performance particulars and tickets [HERE].
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