Mimisu Lee Featured in Symphony Nova Scotia's Summer Symphony.

Past recipient and horn player Mimisu Lee, joins our 75th Anniversary partner, Symphony Nova Scotia as a featured special guest in their Summer Symphony series. 

Tuesday, July 30, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, July 31, 

12:30 & 5:30 p.m.

Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library

Free and open to the public.

Mimisu Lee was the winner of the 2018 Raymond Simpson Award presented by the Talent Trust, and 2017/18 Chebucto Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, came 3rd place at the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals in 2017 and was two-time winner of the Federation of Nova Scotia Music Festivals, the Kim and Heather Conrad Brass Rose Bowl Competition, Atlantic Federation of Musicians’ Brass Award, and the “Most Outstanding Brass Performance Award” at the Kiwanis Music Festival. She has also won many first places at the Kiwanis Music Festival from 2007 to 2017. 

Mimisu has performed, with Symphony Nova Scotia Library Players, the Royal Conservatory of Music Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestral Institute at Whistler Orchestra, Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra, Scotia Festival Orchestra, Dalhousie University Chamber Orchestra, Symphony and Wind Ensemble, Nova Scotia Youth Wind Ensemble, and San Diego International Youth Orchestra. 

Biographical info from Cecilia Concerts Website.

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Partner Focus: Symphony Nova Scotia

During our milestone year celebrating 75 years of believing in Nova Scotian talent, we take the opportunity to appreciate the organizations that work with us to provide opportunities to many of our scholarship recipients: 

Over several decades, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Talent Trust have exemplified a symbiotic advocacy for culture, that continues to inspire intergenerational commitment and positive responses to change. Both organizations have shared in the responsibilities of nurturing meaningful artistic and community engagement.

Talent Trust recipients Jane Archibald, Barbara Hannigan, Denise Djokic, Heemin Choi, Suzanne Rigden, Breagh MacKinnon, Lukas Pearse, Karen Myatt and Suzi LeBlanc were full of potential and in search of guidance, training and recognition. It was at this crucial point that the Talent Trust Scholarship Program provided support and encouragement, like it did for over 1,000 aspiring artists of all disciplines, for the past 75 years.

Once matured into their artistry, Symphony Nova Scotia has welcomed many of these deserving artists to collaborate on stage in special concerts or as its members. Musicians like First Violinist and Assistant Concertmaster Jennifer Jones; Principal Hornist David Parker; Cellist Hilary Brown; and percussionist, teacher, and Education and Community Outreach Coordinator D’Arcy Gray all had their early beginnings with some Talent Trust help.

We’re thrilled to mark our 75th anniversary by celebrating with sister organizations like Symphony Nova Scotia, and the remarkable people who form this community.

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Soprano Jane Archibald Sings with Symphony Nova Scotia on May 4 & 5, 2019.

Jane Archibald joins the Symphony Nova Scotia and its 80-voice chorus for an exquisite, emotional aria in Mozart’s dazzling, divinely beautiful Great Mass in C Minor.

May 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm

& May 5, 2019 at 2:00 pm 

Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 

6101 University Ave, Halifax

Jane Archibald’s career trajectory has taken her from Canada to San Francisco to the Vienna State Opera and major opera houses on both continents.

After beginning her professional opera career in her native Canada, Jane was an Adler Fellow and Merola participant with the San Francisco Opera. She then moved to the Vienna State Opera as a member of the ensemble, debuting many coloratura roles.

The 2017/18 saw Jane performing frequently with the Canadian Opera Company as their first-ever Artist-in Residence, singing the roles of Zdenka in Arabella, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the title role in The Nightingale and other Short Fables. She also performed Carmina Burana with the Orquesta Nacional d’Espana in Madrid and Armida in Rinaldo, on tour with the English Concert.

The 2018/19 season will find Jane performing le Feu/ la Princesse/ le Rossignol in L'enfant et les sortilèges at the BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, her role debut as Mathilde in Theater an der Wien’s production of William Tell, as Cunégonde in Candide with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and as the title role in Oper Frankfurt’s Daphne. She will also give numerous concert performances including in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Orchestre National de Lyon; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with Symphony Nova Scotia, and Britten’s Les Illuminations and Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the Oregon Symphony.

Her many concert highlights include Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with Lorin Mazel and the Orchestra of La Scala, Brahms’ Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson-Thomas, Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi with Christian Thielemann and the Berlin Philharmonic and Mozart arias with the Camerata Salzburg and Louis Langrée.

Jane has featured on multiple recordings and DVDs. Her first solo CD, a programme of Haydn coloratura arias, was released on the ATMA Classique label and won a JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year. A newly released recording of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (June 2016) with conductor Jéremie Rhorer, is receiving rave reviews, as is her recording of Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi with Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony.

Full biography can be found on https://imgartists.com/roster/jane-archibald/

Hannah Mae Cruddas Dances in Coppélia with Ballet Jörgen & Symphony Nova Scotia April 12-14, 2019.

Hannah Mae Cruddas performs one of the world’s oldest and best-loved ballets live in Halifax with Symphony Nova Scotia and Canada’s Ballet Jörgen! Coppélia tells the funny, fantastical tale of an eccentric toymaker and his greatest creation – a beautiful dancing doll so lifelike that it causes an uproar in its small village. 

Friday, April 12, 2019, 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 13, 2019, 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 14, 2019, 2 pm

Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 

6101 University Avenue, Halifax

Hannah Mae began her dance training with the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts School of Dance and the Leica Hardy School of Dance. In 2009, she joined Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto. Hannah Mae was honoured to be the youngest recipient of the Society of Russian Ballet’s Nesta Toumine Memorial Award and at 14, was a semi-finalist in the Genée International Ballet Competition. She was also privileged to be the recipient of the Jan Wicha Memorial Cup and Nova Scotia Talent Trust’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

At home, Hannah Mae danced the title role in Alice (Dearborn), the Ragdoll Queen in The Nutcracker (Hardy), and worked with Kennet Oberly and Otar Beridze. Her Toronto repertoire credits include Peggy Baker’s 5 Views of a Temple Garden, Petipa’s La Bayadere and Paquita, and Nacho Duato’s Jardi Tancat. Hannah Mae was recently awarded the Janice Merritt Flemming Award administrated by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Hannah Mae was a guest dancer for the Nova Scotia Symphony’s Nutcracker 2016.

Hannah Mae’s repertoire with Canada's Ballet Jörgen includes Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, Tall Stepsister and Lead Fairy in Cinderella, Lady Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, Spanish Dancer in Swan Lake, along with various roles in The Nutcracker: A Canadian Tradition, and will star in the upcoming Anne of Green Gables – The Ballet™.

Canada's Ballet Jörgen is one of Canada's top ballet companies and performs across the country for over 60,000 people each year. Watch their short Coppelia trailer:  

Post information edited from Canada's Ballet Jörgen.