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This will do for now. Here's my Music CV.
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 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.
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 June 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
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, June 2025, Director Jean Sébastien Vallée
Current Rep. (January 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
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
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
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
Après un rêve - 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
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
Et Incarnatus Est –
Mozart
Les Berceaux – Fauré
Au bord de l’eau – Fauré
Les Heures Claires (various) - Nadia Boulanger
Hymne à l’amour – Piaf
My love is in a light attire – James Joyce
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
Op. 2, Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm
- Jesus Bettelt - Schoenberg
