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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 1st 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
Mi chiamano Mimi
Senza Mama
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
Laudate Dominum
Dans Un Bois -Mozart
Venere Bella – Handel
Se Pieta
V’adoro pupille
Piangero
Ombra mai fu
Lascia
Credete al mio dolore
Care Selve
Let my thanks be paid
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
Nur wer die sehn-suchkennt – Schubert
Ave Maria
An Sylvia
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 – Faure
Pie Jesu - Faure
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 - Hughes ?
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
