Suzanne's Musical World

  

 

           

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 Suzanne's Musical World

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

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