Suzanne's Musical World


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Suzanne's Musical World

 

Autumn 2025 is hotting up!

 

I will be in the Toronto City Opera production of that wonderful creation by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci. Look for me amongst the singing villagers.

 

I'm also taking part in the Hart House Singers Fall Term Concert, SACRED WINTER - A collection of wondrous songs. The songs wil be a perfect, though temporary, relief for our currently ailing and imperfect world.

 

Mustn't forget the evening of Carmina, Carols & An Ode To Joy with MandlePhil at MAC, and then the following week at Koerner Hall.


Before all that, I will be singing Martin Palmeri's magnificent MisaTango. I do love this piece. I'll sing it as often as possible, please. You may remember that I sang this wonderful work in June, in NYC, with the composer himself!

 

Last but not least, just a few days before Christmas, I will be singing, in full voice, the magnetic and majestic masterpiece by that gregarious composer George Frideric Handel. Yes, it's called The Messiah. He loved sopranos, did Mr Handel, and we sopranos still love him.

 

 

Suzanne Tevlin –Soprano 1

I grew up singing Irish songs with my father, a tenor. We sang a cappella. Because of my singing my parents acquired a piano and I started piano lessons at the age of 6. I did my rudiments, harmony, and counterpoint exams, and was preparing for my ARCT in piano when I moved to Europe to study fine art. 

I speak French, did some graduate work in Italy, and sing in German, mainly because I love Mahler. My Latin is fine, having studied it in school. I sang folk and jazz around Ottawa as a teen. I continue to take dance classes. 

 In 2000 I returned to Canada and joined various auditioned choirs, including the 1st mixed gender Chamber Choir at St James Cathedral. 

During the early 2000's I danced, and/or sang, as a "special skills" performer in several American movies produced in Toronto at that time.    

During the 1st summer of the pandemic, I was accepted as a student in the Baroque Soloist Summer Programme, at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, run virtually by Dan Taylor. This turned out to be an important time for me because it was then that I realized I wanted to sing more seriously.

 

Between 2018 and 2021 I studied voice with Susan Suchard.

During the pandemic I had a few lessons with Joel Katz.

Recently I have had a few lessons with Stephanie Bogle.

I'm currently working with Stuart Graham.


 

At The Moment:

Hart House Singers, summer 2024

Hart House Singers. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Sea Symphony, fall. 2024

Lead Soprano sub., various venues, Toronto

Beethoven 9th Concert (MandlePhil) at Koerner Hall, November 29, 2024

Mozart’s Requiem in Vienna, December 5, 2024

Mahler 2 Concert (MandlePhil) – currently in prep for 2025

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Hart House Great Hall, March, 2025

Faure’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall NYC in June, 2025

Palmeri's Misa a Buenos Aires (MisaTango), at Carnegie Hall NYC in June, 2025

Montréal Summer Choral Academy Concert, McGill's Redpath Hall, June, 2025 

Soloist, Songs My Mother Taught Me, HHSS, directed by David Arnot Johnston, July 2025

Pagliacci, Toronto City Opera, Bathurst Centre for Culture & Arts - Nov 19, 22, 23, 2025

HHS, SACRED WINTER - A collection of wondrous songs, Nov. 23, 2025

MandlePhil, Carmina, Carols, & an Ode to Joy, MAC - November 27, 2025 

MandlePhil, Carmina, Carols, & an Ode to Joy, Koerner Hall, December 4, 2025
 

 

Soloist:

September 20, 2014 - Faure Requiem, Pie Jesu & In Paradisum at my mother’s funeral

September 20, 2014 - Schubert's Ave Maria, also at my mother's funeral

November 20, 2022- soloist for Schubert Mass in Ab, CAMMAC, Matthew Otto

March 22, 2023 - Soloist for Beethoven’s Mass in C, CAMMAC, Robert Cooper

April 26, 2023 - Soloist “Singing The Bard” CAMMAC, directed by Maria Case

March 24, 2024, Soloist, Beethoven’s 9th, 4th movement- CAMMAC, David Arnot Johnston

June 7, 2024, Soloist, Trois oiseaux du paradis-Ravel, HHS concert, David Arnot Johnston

September 22, 2024, Soloist, Handel’s Semele, CAMMAC, directed by David Fallis

July 13, 2025, Soloist, Songs My Mother Taught Me, directed by David Arnot Johnston

April 19, 2026, Soloist, Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, CAMMAC

 

Other Vocal Events:

Opera for All - concert Koerner Hall, March 28, 2018

Toronto Summer Festival Academy Choir, 2018 & 2022

“Oklahoma” pandemic zoom production. I sang “Surry with A Fringe”.

Virtual Messiah 2020 - One World Baroque

Baroque Soloist Summer Programme – 2020 - Victoria Conservatory of Music

Mozart Requiem, Vienna, December 5, 2024 – Director Jeremy Jackman

Carmina Burana, Hart House Great Hall, March 22, 23, 2025 -Director David Arnot-Johnston

Fauré Requiem, NYC, June 8, 2025, Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée                                  MisaTango NYC, June 8, 2025, Directed by the composer, Martin Palmeri                        Montréal Summer Choral Academy at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University -June, 2025, under the leadership of Jean-Sébastien Vallée

Montréal Summer Choral Academy Concert at Redpath Hall, June 21-Director JS Vallée

Songs My Mother Taught Me, HHSS concert, July 2025, directed by David Arnot Johnston

Pagliacci, Toronto City Opera, Bathurst Centre for Culture & Arts - Nov 19, 21, 22, 2025

HHS Concert, SACRED WINTER, Nov. 23, 2025, directed by David Arnot Johnston

MandlePhil, Carmina & Carols, MAC - November 27, 2025 

MandlePhil, Carmina & Carols, Koerner Hall, December 4, 2025 

 


Current Rep. (September 2025)

Ah! Non credea mirarti - Bellini

Oh! Quante volte – Bellini

Ma rendi pur contento - Bellini

Malinconia - Bellini

Signore ascolta - Puccini

Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini

Mi chiamano Mimi – Puccini

Senza Mama - Puccini

Suefzer, Thranen, Kummer, Noth - Bach

Zerfliessse mein Herze – Bach

Erbarme dich, mein Gott – Bach

Caro Nome-Verdi

Bist du bei mir – Stolze/Bach

Ruhe Sanft (Zaide) – Mozart

Pamina’s Aria - Mozart

Laudate Dominum - Mozart

Et Incarnatus Est – Mozart

Dans Un Bois - Mozart

Venere Bella – Handel

Se Pieta-Handel

V’adoro pupille-Handel

Piangero-Handel

Ombra mai fu-Handel

Lascia-Handel

Credete al mio dolore-Handel

Care Selve-Handel

Let my thanks be paid-Handel

Il mio bel foco – Marcello/Conti

Madre diletta – Porta

Anklange - Brahms

Ave Dulcissima Maria - Gesualdo

La Maja Dolorosa I, II, III - Granados

Oft denk’ich (Kindertotenlieder IV) - Mahler

Ich bin der welt-Mahler

Nur wer die sehn-suchkennt – Schubert

Ave Maria - Schubert

An Sylvia - Schubert

Um Mitternacht - Zelter

Dei Trauernde – Brahms

Oh! Quand je dors - Liszt

A Chloris - Hahn

Néère - Hahn

Si mes vers avaient des ailes - Hahn 

Nuit d’étoiles – Debussy

La vie en rose – Piaf/Louiguy

Trois oiseaux du paradis – Ravel

Dirait on - Morten Lauridsen

In Paradisum –Fauré

Pie Jesu – Fauré

Le Secret – Fauré

Au bord de l'eau - Fauré

Après un rêve - Fauré

"C" - Poulenc

Songs My Mother Taught Me (Czech & English)- Dvorak

Must the winter come so soon? - Barber

Sure on this shining night - Barber

Heart, we will forget him – Copland

Alone – Copland

Down by The Salley Garden – Britten

Gartan Mother’s Lullaby – Trad - Hughes ?

There was a child named Bernadette – Jennifer Warnes/Leonard Cohen

 

In Preparation:

Depuis le jour - Charpentier

Dove Sono - Mozart

Pale et Blonde - Thomas

Les Berceaux – Fauré

La mort d'Ophélie - Berlioz 

Le spectre de la rose - Berlioz

La Captive - Berlioz

Au Cemetière - Berlioz

Le ciel est par-dessus le toit - D de Séverac

Hier - Poulenc

C'est ainsi que tu es - Poulenc

Les Heures Claires (various) - Nadia Boulanger

Hymne à l’amour – Piaf

My love is in a light attire – James Joyce

Che faro senza Euridice? - Gluck

King David – Howells

The Widow Bird – Howells

That Younge Child, Balulalow - Benjamin Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28

Pastorale - Copland

Camille Claudel: Into The Fire - La Petite Châtelaine – Jake Heggie

Nocturne, op 13 – Samuel Barber

On this Island: Nocturne - Benjamin Britten

Standing as I do before God (The Edith Cavell Song) – Cecilia McDowell

Marietta's Song - Korngold

Op. 2, Schenk mir deinen golden Kamm - Jesus Bettelt - Schoenberg

Morgen - Strauss

Romance de Mignon - Duparc

Silent Love - Amy Beach

Je demande à l'oiseau - Amy Beach                                                                                      Les Hiboux (Baudelaire) - Déodat de Séverac