Karen Shepherd and Michelle Lafferty Double Bill at Now Hear This 2023

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Double bill - chamber music and songs by Karen Shepherd; Michelle Lafferty, Mezzo-soprano.

Muttart Hall

To purchase a festival pass, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/621208610677" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.The festival opens June 9 with an extraordinary double bill: a recital by mezzo-soprano Michelle Lafferty and a program of new chamber music and songs by Karen Shepherd. The ProgramThe Karen Shepherd / AccumulyriaLemon Creamery (fl, vln, vla, hpschd, 4’30”)Acimisis Nocture (vln, vcl, pno, harp, 3′)Rumble (fl, alto sax, vcl, pno, 4′)kinamêhitin – I find traces of you (2023, mezzo-soprano, fl, vln, vcl, pno, hpschd, harp, 8′, world premiere*)IntermissionSongs of Kanada – Michelle Lafferty, mezzo-soprano with Maryam Soufisiavash, piano*commissioned by New Music EdmontonThe ArtistsKaren Shepherd is a vocalist, musician, and composer and enrolled in the Bachelor of Music program at MacEwan University as a Composition Major. Her original music has appeared on short films and documentaries, including Nathaniel Hehir’s “The Stonekiller”(2020), Chehala Leonard’s documentary, “Living a Legacy”(2021), and she also made an arrangement for Laura Vinson’s song, “Meegwitch”. (The Awakeners, AMI, 2022). She was awarded the Dr. Trimbee Country Music Award at MacEwan University in 2022. She was chosen as one of six emerging composers to write choir work for ProCoroCanada under the Canadian League of Composer’s Pivot Program ( May 2022), in Edmonton. Her original composition entitled, “The Kraken” was featured during Andrea Menard’s and Robert Walsh’s debut Cabaret, “Rubaboo”. Karen also performed this piece on her 5-string violin during March (The Grand Theatre, London, ON), and April (The Arts Club, Vancouver, BC) of 2023.Mezzo-soprano Michelle Lafferty, is a First Nations Indigenous woman from the Northwest Territories and graduated in 2019 from The University of Western Ontario with her Master’s in Literature and Performance. She continues to work with the Classical Indigenous Musicians Gathering curated by The Banff Centre for the Performing Arts and ongoing work with Calgary opera in the new opera lab creation Namwayut with dramaturge Marion Newman. She has worked in the improvised project Understory lead by team Parmela Attariwala, Germaine Liua and Nicole Ramperaud. She received a Dora award for her work in Sound Streams Pimooteewin/Gallabartnit as best choral ensemble. Latest performances were Tomson Highway’s Kisaageetin at the National Art Centre in Ottawa and the opera Missing by Brian Current and Marie Clements with Anchorage Opera Alaska. She is currently part of the newly formed Indigidivas which is an all Indigenous classical singers including Melody Courage, Rebecca Cuddy and guest diva’s Marion Newman and Jeremy Dutcher.For more information, visit our <a href="https://newmusicedmonton.ca/event/now-hear-this-2023/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">festival webpage</a>.

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