Diane Kolin

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  • Organ Festival in St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Organ Festival in St. Gallen, Switzerland

    After the September 2023 inauguration and April 2024 book launch festivities, this new edition will feature local and international organists and artists.

    The new surround organ from Orgelbau Goll is celebrated with two annual festivals: a two-week autumn festival and a weekend festival in spring. The 2024 automn edition will take place from September 1st to 15th, with a rich and top-class musical program. You can reserve tickets for the concerts by Bernhard Ruchti, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin (Saint-Sulpice, Paris) and Jonathan Scott (London), and get information all the other events. The concerts are free.

    In addition to a voice and organ concert on September 6, I will be the international musicologist in house, interviewing artists during the festival.

    Program (in German): https://www.laurenzen.ch/festivals

    Read the article published in St. Gallen 24 (in German): https://stgallen24.ch/articles/255672-orgel-festival-in-der-laurenzen

  • THE GREAT PAUSE at the Isabel Bader Theatre with CMST

    THE GREAT PAUSE at the Isabel Bader Theatre with CMST

    I will be among the teachers and students performing together for this show.
    THE GREAT PAUSE is a musical archive of how the pandemic impacted the CMST communities in Regent Park and Jane Finch, and the ways that they made meaning of this unusual time. Featuring both solo and ensemble performances by Community Music Schools of Toronto students and faculty, this 13-song snapshot of our school community is based directly on interviews with parents, students, teachers and members of the immediate neighborhoods.
    Join on us Saturday, January 20th at the Isabel Bader Theatre as we explore both the challenges and the beauty of what our communities made of THE GREAT PAUSE of our lifetime.
    Visit www.communitymusic.org/events for more details.
    This event is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
  • Cavalcade of Lights at Nathan Phillips Square – Concert with Toronto Chinese Orchestra chamber ensemble

    Cavalcade of Lights at Nathan Phillips Square – Concert with Toronto Chinese Orchestra chamber ensemble

    The annual Cavalcade of Lights presented by Desjardins Financial Group, will illuminate Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday, November 25. A chamber ensemble of Toronto Chinese Orchestra (erhu, guzheng, pipa, dizi, cello and voice) will perform from 3:30-4:00pm. Free,

    Full program: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/cavalcade-of-lights/

  • Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation”

    Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation”

    Presented by the Toronto Oratorio Society & the Blessed Trinity Choir, with orchestra.

    Grace Quinsey, soprano – Gabriel / Eve
    Ryan Downey, tenor – Uriel
    John Holland, bass – Raphael / Adam
    Karen Frank, Conductor

    I was one of the alto section leads.

  • Salon Concert – Artist Residency at the Milkhouse in Prince Edward County

    Salon Concert – Artist Residency at the Milkhouse in Prince Edward County

    Salon concert at the Milkhouse in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Solo a cappella jazz concert.

    “Diane Kolin is a French musicologist specialized in Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt. In France, she is the editor in chief of the Beethoven journal of the French Beethoven Society and frequently travels all over Europe for research and conferences. She is also a jazz and classical singer and a voice teacher in Toronto. She is currently a PhD candidate in Musicology at York University, Toronto, and enjoying a short residency in Prince Edward County. Her musical offering will consist of jazz repertoire by Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, from “Summertime” to “My Baby Just Cares For Me” and some French jazz.”

  • Adaptive Voice and Instruments workshops at CMST: final performance 2023

    Adaptive Voice and Instruments workshops at CMST: final performance 2023

    The CMST end of the year recital will feature a presentation of the adaptive voice and instruments workshops.

    The song “The Greatest” by Sia will be performed in American Sign Language by voice students, and another group of students will present their work on one of the adaptive instruments they discovered.

    One of my voice students will also sing “Sweet Dream” by Alessia Cara.

    The recital will be hosted by York University, Accolade East Building, Room 235. It will begin at 6 pm.

    Entrance is free.

  • Soar – Toronto Chinese Orchestra 30th anniversary concert

    Soar – Toronto Chinese Orchestra 30th anniversary concert

    I will be one of the guests of this special performance.

    Come celebrate with us as we present our 30th Anniversary concert, SOAR, showcasing traditional and contemporary works for Chinese orchestra. All our repertoire are Canadian premieres, with one of the earliest works for the traditional Chinese orchestra, Variations on Xinshuiling (1925) by LIU Tianhua, the imaginative Re-So-La-Re (2012) by HUANG Xincai, and an excerpt from WANG Danhong’s Ode to the Sun (2015). We will also present Singaporean composer WANG Chenwei’s We Soar (2013), the inspiration for our concert theme, and his medley Remembering Teresa Teng (2017). Finally, the powerful New Dragon Dance (2012) by XU Changjun will feature our percussion leader, Bobby Ho and his team, with special guests from the Community Music Schools of Toronto. Join us as we explore the wonderful world of Chinese orchestral music led by conductor Jonathan Wong and associate conductor Mike Liu.

    http://www.torontochineseorchestra.com/wp/concerts/soar-tco-30th-anniversary-concert/

  • MT180 – National final – Finale nationale – Montréal

    MT180 – National final – Finale nationale – Montréal

    On March 21, I won the Toronto “Ma Thèse en 180 secondes” (French Three Minutes Thesis) competition. I will therefore participate in the national competition on May 10 in Montreal.

    The My thesis in 180 seconds competition allows doctoral students to present their research topic in simple terms to a lay and diverse audience. Each student must make, in three minutes, a clear, concise and proven presentation on his research project. The national final takes place within the framework of the Acfas Congress.

    More about the Montreal final (in French): https://www.acfas.ca/prix-concours/ma-these-en-180-secondes

    Link to the Live: https://www.acfas.ca/prix-concours/ma-these-en-180-secondes/a-propos

    List of participants on May 10: https://www.acfas.ca/prix-concours/ma-these-en-180-secondes/laureats

    Le 21 mars, j’ai remporté le concours torontois de “Ma Thèse en 180 secondes” (MT180). Je participerai donc au concours national le 10 mai prochain à Montréal.

    Le concours Ma thèse en 180 secondes permet à des doctorant•e•s de présenter leur sujet de recherche en termes simples à un auditoire profane et diversifié. Chaque étudiant•e• doit faire, en trois minutes, un exposé clair, concis et néanmoins convaincant sur son projet de recherche. La finale nationale a lieu dans le cadre du Congrès de l’Acfas.

    Plus de détails sur la finale de Montréal : https://www.acfas.ca/prix-concours/ma-these-en-180-secondes

    Lien vers le Live : https://www.acfas.ca/prix-concours/ma-these-en-180-secondes/a-propos

    List des participants le 10 mai : https://www.acfas.ca/prix-concours/ma-these-en-180-secondes/laureats

     

     

  • Pre-concert chat: Celebrating the music of Canadian Jewish Composers

    Pre-concert chat: Celebrating the music of Canadian Jewish Composers

    Another concert from Jewish Music @ York returns! Featuring a diverse program presented by acclaimed faculty Mark Chambers, Katherine Dowling, Amy Hillis, Patricia Wait from the Department of Music and several special guests!

    The recital will be preceded by a pre-concert talk by scholar-performer Diane Kolin who will be sharing insights about the repertoire performed and the composers who wrote these works.

    Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
    6:45 pm, pre-concert talk
    7:30 pm, concert

    Reserve your free ticket now!

    https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/celebrating-the-music-of-canadian-jewish-composers-tickets-579911078647

  • Good Friday 2023 Festival Choir: G.F. Handel’s “Brockes Passion”

    Good Friday 2023 Festival Choir: G.F. Handel’s “Brockes Passion”

    Available online on-demand until June 7, 2023. Including a pre-concert talk with Jonathan Oldengarm, and organ prelude (Bach’s Sei gegrüßet, BWV 768).

    The Metropolitan Festival Choir and Baroque Orchestra (Jonathan Oldengarm, direction and continuo) present Handel’s rarely-heard Brockes Passion on Good Friday, April 7, 2023. Soloists include Michael Colvin, Evangelist; Geoffrey Sirett, Jesus; Jacqueline Woodley, Tochter Zion; Robert Kinar, Petrus; and soliloquents Jane Fingler, Gisele Kulak, Veronika Anissimova, Michelle Simmons (Judas), Charles Davidson, Nicholas Higgs, and John Pepper. The Met Festival Choir will be joined this year by a period instrument ensemble (Cristina Zacharias, Concertmaster, and members of Tafelmusik). In good historical-performance style, Wayne C. Vance Organ Scholar Joshua Duncan Lee will play continuo on the church organ; Jonathan Oldengarm conducts and plays recit and aria continuo.

    Composed sometime between 1715 and 1719 while Handel was living in London, this work is a setting of vivid Passion libretto penned by Handel’s law school classmate Barthold Heinrich Brockes. It is distinct from e.g. the Bach Passions in that it is a purely poetic telling of the story, rather than a faithful recitation of the scriptural text. As such, it was banned from liturgical use at the time, and could only be presented in concert. Georg Philipp Telemann (who, along with Reinhold Keiser and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, also set the text), performed all four settings in four-night marathons for several years, beginning in 1719 in Hamburg.

    A vivid, passionate account of the most dramatic week in the Christian liturgical year that is often cited, yet rarely sung. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience another Handel masterwork, written in a style that forms a marked contrast with Messiah.

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