Vocalist and composer Danika Lorèn joins Soundstreams in a night of affection songs that perceive the premise, all love songs are additionally songs about loss. This system is visitor curated by Brad Cherwin, winner of the 2024/25 Soundstreams New Voices Curator Mentorship Program.
with you and with out you takes place March 22 on the Jane Mallett Theatre.
The theatrical live performance options an ensemble carried out by Gregory Oh: Tristan Durie (flute), Colin Maier (cor anglais), Anthony Thompson (clarinet), Brad Cherwin (bass clarinet/clarinet), Iris Krizmanic (horn), Lenny Ranallo (mandolin/banjo), Erika Raum (violin), Hezekiah Leung (viola), David Hetherington (cello), Joseph Philips (double bass), Kevin Ahfat (piano), and Aiyun Huang (percussion).
Inventive Director Lawrence Cherney feedback in a press release, “Compelling thematic programming has been a Soundstreams trademark from our starting in 1982. Our New Voices Curator Mentorship Program is now in its sixth season, and Brad’s curation is a shining instance of this system at its greatest: a common theme that showcases composers each acquainted and unfamiliar in a context that provides worth and new that means to every by exhilarating contrasts of interval, style and instrumentation.”
Danika Lorèn: Soprano, & Composer
Lorèn lives in Parkdale within the metropolis’s West Finish. Their work as a composer focuses on works for opera and artwork track, and settings for texts by LGBTQIA+ poets.
As a vocalist, Danika is understood for a powerful vary, aptitude for drama and virtuosic method. They work in opera, chamber music, improvisation, and thru a spread of types and genres.
Danika is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Firm’s Ensemble Studio. Efficiency credit embrace each orchestral and opera engagements throughout Canada, and repertoire from Handel and Haydn to Ana Sokolovic.
Their compositions have been carried out by artists equivalent to Georgia Burashko, Ema Nikolovska and Joseph Middleton, and in 2024, by Simona Genga on the Merola Opera recital sequence.
The Music
This system juxtaposes the luxurious feelings of Romantic-era music with modern dissonance. It contains each purely instrumental items by Oliver Knussen and Matthew Ricketts, and works for voice and ensemble, equivalent to Tansy Davies. “The rule is love” in its North American premiere, and Shawn Jaeger’s “Letters Made with Gold” in its Canadian premiere. Ricketts’ piece is a piano solo in its world premiere, a musical work impressed by the writings of poet and essayist Walt Whitman.
Lorèn will even sing alternatives from their very own track cycle “Inform Everybody” for piano and soprano, together with a love track by Ana Sokolović.
“Presence and absence — every part exists someplace between these two poles. On this assortment of items, excessive contrasts (the vocal versus the instrumental, modernism versus vernacular music, the group versus the person) are used to discover this concept from quite a few views. If these concepts sound a bit too high-minded, and maybe they’re, the live performance can also be merely a unbelievable alternative to listen to actually thrilling, highly effective, and virtuosic music — definitely a few of the better of the final 50 years — carried out by a few of Canada’s greatest. Our soloist, Danika Lorèn, can be completely electrical,” says Brad Cherwin.
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