Music at Noon Series: Elizabeth McDonald, soprano; Cory Renbarger, baritone; Deanna Oye, piano

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Music at Noon Series: Elizabeth McDonald, soprano (University of Toronto); Cory Renbarger, baritone (Bemidji State University); Deanna Oye, piano (University of Lethbridge)
Boundaries & Borders:  The Search for Identity
12:15 pm, October 4, 2016
University Recital Hall
FREE Admission, Everyone Welcome

We are in a moment of history that the perceived threat to our borders is a daily news item. While it has become increasingly more difficult to move across our borders, we look back to a time where there was much discovery, movement, and settling in new worlds and on new soil as the cultural identity of North America was being shaped (or some would argue, reshaped).  Join soprano Elizabeth McDonald, baritone Cory Renbarger, and pianist Deanna Oye as they explore the Borders & Boundaries of a different time.

Biographies

Soprano Elizabeth McDonald has been described as having “a gorgeous, gleaming tone and powerful coloratura attack” (Urjo Kareda –The Globe and Mail). In addition to numerous guest and faculty recitals across the continent, on the concert and recital stage Elizabeth has sung with the National Ballet of Canada, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and appears regularly with the Kingston Symphony. She graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Master of Music in Performance and Literature and was additionally awarded a Performers’ Certificate.  She holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Toronto and has trained at the Banff Centre for the Arts in the Dramatic Integration Program, the Britten-Pears School in Contemporary Song Literature, the Orford Arts Centre, and at the Vancouver Early Music Festival. Currently on faculty at the University of Toronto, Elizabeth has served as the Associate Editor for the new Conservatory Voice Series published by PLANGERE Editions in 2014, is the past President for the Ontario Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and is the co-founder of the database ArtSongFinder.com.

Baritone Cory J. Renbarger currently serves as the coordinator of applied voice and director of Bemidji Opera Theater at Bemidji State University, where he joined the faculty in 2012.  He holds degrees from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, as well as the Cincinnati College-Conservatory and the University of Minnesota, where he completed his doctoral studies.  Cory has performed in opera, oratorio, and recital across the United States and abroad with companies such as Florida Grand Opera, Dayton Opera, Opera Theater Festival in Lucca, Italy, Minnesota Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Chicago Opera Theater, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Ashlawn Opera, Sorg Opera, The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Southern Tier Symphony, and others.  Some of his notable opera roles have included Mozart’s Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Britten’s Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia), Verdi’s Marullo (Rigoletto), and Puccini’s Sharpless (Madame Butterfly), Sciarrone (Tosca), and Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi).  Mr. Renbarger continues to pursue an active operatic and recital career in addition to his studio, class, and stage work with his students at Bemidji State University.  Most recently, Cory was seen in the title role in Gianni Schicchi with Fargo-Moorhead Opera in 2016.

Pianist Deanna Oye is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Lethbridge where she teaches Studio Piano, Musicianship Skills, and directs the Collaborative Piano/Guitar area, a unique course series which she designed and implemented.  Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she first pursued studies in journalism at Carleton University before turning to the full-time study of the art of music.  She holds a doctorate in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY), and maintains a busy and diverse performing schedule as both solo and collaborative artist.  She has given performances and papers at major conferences such as the International Musicological Society (Amsterdam), Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Canadian University Music Society, and the World Saxophone Congress.  Additionally, she was the official pianist for the Richard Miller Vocal Performance and Pedagogy Institute, an event that brought the internationally-renowned pedagogue to southern Alberta.  Recent performances include the University of Lethbridge's Music at Noon series; Lakehead University's LUMINA concert series; collaborative recitals in Rochester, Syracuse, and Geneseo, New York; the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine; and broadcasts on Buffalo's National Public Radio program, Opus: Classics Live. 

FREE Admission, Everyone Welcome


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