Singin' in the Rain

Joan Hélène Forsyth & Migratory V Present

Singin’ in the Rain
8PM at Pyatt Hall

@VSO School of Music
843 Seymour St.

February 15
Night Songs
The Hayley Laufer Duo
Dorothea Hayley has won praised for her “very personal creative power” (Badener Zeitung) and her “amazing coloratura skills” (Opera Canada)

Night Songs
Dorothy Chang’s Three Small Songs of Night, Milton Babbitt’s landmark Phonemena
and works by John Cage, Ka-Shu Tam, Franz Schubert, Tam Chang, Claude Vivier, Henry Purcell,

March 8
Life, Love, Death
soprano Sharon Harms
praised as “superb”, “luscious-toned”, “extraordinarily precise and expressive”, and “dramatically committed and not averse to risk” — the New York Times,
with pianist Joan Forsyth
“a big lush soundand technique to burn” — Il Corriere della Sera, Arezzo, Italy
& guitarist William Anderson
“the alert guitarist” — NY Times

Life, Love, Death
George Crumb’s Apparition (Walt Whitman), and works by Frank Brickle, J. Benjamin Jones, Jocelyn Morlock, Stephen Chatman, Yehudi Wyner, Rodney Sharman

April 5
Bowers Fader Duo
“….simply delicious; the deep oak of Jessica Bowers’s lower range and the lush honey of her higher range mix well with the steady and sensitive guitar playing of Oren Fader.”—- Opera News

New works written for Bowers Fader by Vancouver composers Rodney Sharman, Frank Brickle, and Stephen Chatman……..and other works by Erin Rogers, Paul Salerni, Judith St. Croix, Martin Rokeach, David Claman, & William Anderson