The Tevlin Atelier

Monday, October 28, 2024

Suzanne's Musical World

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Well, at long last, I've decided to create a page dedicated to my musical life. I only wish Dad, and Minnie, were still around to see this new, if somewhat amusing, attempt. "Better late than never." they would both have said in happy unison.

What has brought this on?

I'm one of the lucky ones singing in 2 MandlePhil projects; the Beethoven9 Project, which is moving towards its concert on the 29th of November, at Koerner Hall, just one day before I fly to Vienna for a Mozart concert on the 5th of December, and the Mahler2 Project, which is currently in preparation. Both are large, and exciting musical adventures created by Mandle Cheung, our trusty and admirable director.

This will do for now. Here's my Music CV.

Warning: It changes almost weekly.

Suzanne Tevlin – Soprano 1

I grew up singing Irish songs with my father, a tenor. We always 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 manage in German. My Latin is fine, having studied it in school.

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

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 2024

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

Faure’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall NYC in May 2025

Soloist:

Faure Requiem 2014 - Pie Jesu & In Paradisum 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

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

Fauré Requiem, NYC, May 2025, Director Jean Sébastien Vallée

During the 1st summer of the pandemic, I was accepted as an amateur student in the Baroque Soloist Summer Programme, at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, run virtually by Dan Taylor. There were about 25 professional students and perhaps 5 amateurs. 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.

Current Rep. (August 2024)

Ma rendi pur contento - Bellini

Ah! Non credea mirarti - Bellini

Oh! Quante volte – 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

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

Blow, blow thou winter wind – Arne

Ave Dulcissima Maria - Gesualdo

Oft denk’ich (Kindertotenlieder IV) - Mahler

Ich bin der welt - Mahler

Nur wer die sehn-suchkennt – Schubert

Ave Maria - Schubert

An Sylvia - Schubert

Locus iste - Bruckner

Um Mitternacht - Zelter

Dei Trauernde – Brahms

Oh! Quand je dors - Liszt

A Chloris - 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

Songs My Mother Taught Me - Dvorak

Must the winter come so soon? - Barber

Sure on this shining night - Barber

Heart, we will forget him – Copland

Alone - Copland

By The River - Copland

Le Secret – Fauré

Après un rêve - Fauré

Down by The Salley Garden – Britten

‘Tis the last rose of summer -Trad

Have you seen but a white lily grow -Trad

Gartan Mother’s Lullaby – Trad

Lullabye (Good Night My Angel) - Billie Joel

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

Various traditional & contemporary anthems & carols in French, Latin, English, Italian & German

In Preparation:

Et Incarnatus Est - Mozart

Les Berceaux – Fauré

Au bord de l’eau – Fauré

Hymne à l’amour – Piaf

My love is in a light attire – James Joyce

King David – Howells

The Widow Bird - Howells

Pastorale - Copland

Prayer – Morten Lauridsen

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Ned Rorem/Frost

Camille Claudel: Into The Fire – Jake Heggie

-La Valse

-Shakuntala

-La Petite Châtelaine

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

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Suzanne’s New Normal NewsLetter

Suzanne Tevlin is a well known artist and lecturer in Toronto. Author of “The Conspiracy of Silence; Gericault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’ and the Abolitionist Movement” and “The Invisible Woman: Searching for The Black Female in Western Art,” she was, recently, the only Canadian artist to be invited to take part in the exhibition “GOLD” at the Musée Belvedere in Vienna.

As an international lecturer and artist she spent 12 years in Europe where she lectured at Le Musée Ephrussi de Rothschild and La Villa Kerylos in France. While in France she founded “The Tevlin Perspective: Art History from the Artist’s Point of View”. Suzanne has lectured in major museums in Europe and North America, as well as the University of Toronto, University of St Michael’s College, OCAD, TPL, Parsons-Paris, Ghost Ranch, WAAC, Campbell House, Arts & Letters, and HotDocs/Curious Minds.

Suzanne Tevlin has been associated with a Paris gallery for over 30 years, and has had numerous exhibitions in Paris, Monaco, along the Cote d’Azur and in London, as well as in Canada. She is represented in collections throughout Europe and North America.

Fall Term, 2024

August 3, 2024

Dear Art Friends,

Yes, there will be a Fall Lecture Series. The outline and course dates are posted on my 2023/24 Lecture Schedule page.

The series will be the French artistic shenanigans of the same period as this semester's series on British art.

May 9, 2024
Dear Art Friends,

Recently, I joined a new art platform. New to me, anyway. It's Canadian. It's called "Partial". I've been on it for a few weeks. Have a look at my page. Here's the link.Suzanne's Partial Page

I'm still "building" my page, but tell me what you think. It has a cool image placement "click". You can see how the proportions of the paintings work in a living room, an office, etc.

This doesn't mean I will be leaving "Saatchi". Here's the link Suzanne's Saatchi Page. I've been with Saatchi for decades. Good Grief, Charlie Saatchi signed my invitation letter. So, I'm a loyal "Saatchi artist". The difference is "Saatchi" is international, it's enormous. "Partial" is smaller and Canadian.
Please, have a look.

August 20, 2024

"Atalanta, and The Calydonian Boar"

Apparently we are not finished.

Maybe the end of the week?

April 4, 2024

"Semele, Zeus, & The Sneering Woman"

Won't be long now!

September 14, 2023

"Leda and The Swan - The Second"

oil on canvas

48" X 40" X 2"

August 26, 2023

Dear Art Friends,

Very close to being done.

Well, here is the 1^st glimpse of my 3^rd “Loves of The Gods” painting. I’m half thinking of calling it “Known gang of irritable Canada Geese heroically save Leda from an aggressive swan who claimed to be the god of thunder.”

August 2, 2023

Dear Art Friends,

Well, I started the 2nd work in "The Loves of the Gods" series

yesterday, and it is moving very fast. This will be called

"Ganymedes in The Eagle's Nest -

Throwing a Tantrum, and Screaming Blue Murder".

Oh, it's larger than Europa, it's 48" X 48" X 2", or 4 ft square.
I'll put the finishing touches on Europa over the next week or so,

and then post it on my website, and Saatchi.
Starting a new series is always a risk, but I feel this one will go like wildfire.

I'm very pleased so far.

Enjoy this wonderful weather.

Remember, this is Canada, it will be snowing soon enough.

This is moments away from being done and dusted.

August 2, 2023

The Rape of Europa (almost - so close)

36" X 48" X 2"

June 10, 2023

I'm very pleased to be up to my neck in a new series.

I will post the 1st of the series next week.

If you're in Toronto, and you'd like to see it in its unfinished state,

just send me an email, and make an appointment.

The subject of the series is The Loves of The Gods.

REVISED FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Now that the pandemic has finally abated, I will again be offering custom designed art history lectures for your private art group, at your own Toronto venue. Be sure to view my lengthy list of courses available, on The Tevlin Atelier website.

Also, as many of you already know, paintings, and art works, on canvas or birch cradle, posted on other websites that include shipping in the price, are approximately 50percent of the stated price if you purchase, and pick it up from my Toronto studio. Works on paper are considerably lower as well.

1st edition
October 15, 2022

Dear Art Friends,

Well, how was your pandemic? I hope you have all weathered it in good health. I also hope that you haven’t lost anyone due to Covid.

I have been very lucky. My pandemic was artistically productive. I created a series of oversized canvases entitled “Messengers During A Time of Pestilence”. There are three of these oil on canvas works, and they are all 6ft X 5ft. You can see them on my website, TheTevlinAtelier.blogspot.com

In March I had breast cancer surgery, followed by radiation therapy. That is now all done and dusted. The result of this brush with mortality was a series of 8 paintings called “The Topic of Cancer”. Cancer is truly a never-ending topic as I’m sure you know.

Why did I feel the need to paint the story of my encounter with the Big C? I suppose because, though I consider myself intelligent, educated, and well informed, I was constantly surprised at what was going to happen to me next “as a cancer patient”. In a way, I imagine, it also helped me feel more in control. Each step along the journey includes a text describing the medical intervention, and my thoughts about it. Luck was with me all the way; great surgeon, great doctors, great nurses, and tech types, and through it all I was busy painting. I can’t tell you how lucky I was to be able to paint, rather than close down. I would block the image of myself in quickly and get all the ideas down on one canvas before going on to the next. You can view these works on my website or at my upcoming open house.

Suzannetevlin1@gmail.com

STUDIO VISITS

It is always possible to visit the studio. Just email me with a request.

Everyone is welcome. Prices from $20 for very small works to $1500 for small paintings and drawings make ideal gifts. Please email to let me know when you are coming. It is possible to visit the studio during the week, or on most weekends, by appointment. In this group, the top painting "Sun Bolts: Chalk Cliffs", is $3800 - from a series of 7. The other 2 works, "Old Crows" - from a series of 8, and "Boy with A Broken Arm" are $1200.

suzannetevlin1@gmail.com

Most of my medium to large sized work falls between $5,000.00, and $15,000.00. Larger works may be viewed if you advise me in advance. Some large works are easy to access, but in a studio crowded with visitors I do need advance notice. You can see all of my larger work on my website.