NOVEMBER 14TH 2018
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF VANCOUVER
949 49TH AVE, VANCOUVER
11 AM
ART SONG TEAM - MARIA AND LYNDON
MARIA HWA YEONG JUNG
Is an active vocal collaborative pianist from Coquitlam, BC. She is a faculty member at Vancouver Academy of Music, working as a vocal coach for college department voice students and holds a piano studio at Place des Arts in Coquitlam. She also made her Vancouver Debut with Music Friends concert series last March in collaboration with vocal trio Heliotrope and has collaborated with many other artists in Vancouver area ever since.
Before her recent move to the Greater Vancouver area, Maria has worked at University of Toronto Faculty of Music as a vocal coach and staff accompanist, and accompanied the renowned Oriana Women’s Chorus and Acquired Taste Choir with conductor Mitchell Pady. She also worked as a music director and repetiteur for the Summer Opera Lyric Theater for the productions of Handel’s Cesare, and Marschner’s Der Vampyr.
She is looking forward to her 2018-2019 season filled with concerts with Music Friends, 100th year WW1 Commemorative concert at Place des Arts, her debut recital for Vancouver Women’s Musical Society with tenor, Lyndon Ladeur and making her Opera debut of Cosi fan Tutte with Opera Mariposa.
LYNDON LADEUR
In life, sometimes practicality interrupts your path to destiny. Tenor Lyndon Ladeur’s dream ofbecoming a performer took a detour through the University of Waterloo’s mathematics program before Opera took its place within his heart.
A native of Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, Lyndon grew up an athlete, playing hockey at a high level for over ten years. During this time, Lyndon was fascinated by the idea of “competition”. Most athletes desired to be the best, whereas Lyndon strived for his best,encouraging those around him to do the same. He strongly believes that the music world has space for everyone, as long as you are willing to search.
Lyndon has also been very busy on the competition scene. He was recently named the winner of both the Senior Classical Voice and Vocal Variety competitions at the BC Performing Arts Provincial Festival, where he was representing the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festivals. He was also the second runner-up of the inaugural VWMS Art Song Competition for 2018. Lyndon was then a finalist in the Vancouver Academy of Music’s Kay Meek Competition, and then went on to be a winner of the BC Provincial Concerto Competition, which awards him a performance with the Vancouver Academy of Music’s Symphony Orchestra on October 7th, 2018.
PROGRAM
Hermit Songs, Op 29 Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
1. "At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory" (translated by Seán Ó Faoláin)
2. "Church Bell at Night" (translated by Howard Mumford Jones)
3. “St. Ita’s Vision" (translated by Chester Kallman)
4. "The Heavenly Banquet" (translated by Seán Ó Faoláin)
5. "The Crucifixion" (translated by Howard Mumford Jones)
6. “Sea-Snatch" (translated by Kenneth H. Jackson)
7. "Promiscuity" (translated by Kenneth H. Jackson)
8. "The Monk and His Cat" (translated by W.H. Auden)
9. "The Praises of God" (translated by W.H. Auden)
10. "The Desire for Hermitage" (translated by Seán Ó Faoláin)
“Eternal Calm” Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
1. Phidylé (text by Leconte de Lisle)
2. La vie antérieure (text by Charles Baudelaire)
3. L’Invitation au voyage (text by Charles Baudelaire)
Pause
Drei Hymnen von Friedrich Hölderlin, Op 71 Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
1. Hymne an die Liebe
2. Rückkehr in die Heimat
3. Die Liebe