Musical Theatre Intensive with Talent Trust recipient Katie Cochrane!

Musical Theatre Intensive

  August 23-27
 

Do you want to enhance your musical theatre vocal technique? Join former Talent Trust recipient Katie Cochrane and Patrick Maubert as they guide you through incorporating healthy vocal technique into your belt, mix, crossover vocal production.

This week-long course will offer an opportunity to expand your repertoire, enhance your audition skills and broaden your network of friends and industry professionals. 

Group I: ages 14-17 | Group II: ages 18+

Led by Faculty members: Katie Cochrane & Patrick Maubert

You can learn more on Instagram and Facebook.

Katie was the winner of the 2015 Theatre Nova Scotia Award.

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Talent Trust alumna Barbara Hannigan Wins the Leonie Sonning Music Prize 2020

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Recipient Barbara Hannigan continues on her winning streak as a soprano and conductor. 

In 2018, she took home a Juno as well as a Grammy for her album Crazy, Girl Crazy. In 2019, she won a second Juno Award for Vienna: Fin de siècle Classical Album of the Year.

Recently she has been awarded Denmark’s highest honour in classical music, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2020. 

Previous winners include Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, and Miles Davis. 

The award will be presented at a concert on April 23, 2020 at Copenhagen’s DR Concert House as the highlight of a mini-festival featuring the artistry of Barbara Hannigan.

For more information about upcoming concerts please check out her website at: BarbaraHannigan.com

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Karen Myatt Helps Celebrate 200 Years of Province House on March 20, 2019

The Province House celebrates its 200th Anniversary with a House Concert Series open to the public.

Recipient Karen Myatt adds her voice to mark this milestone with Jazzing up the Red Room:

March 20, 2019
7:30 p.m., Red Chamber, Province House

Myatt joins Daniel Matto and pianist Holly Arsenault to pay homage to their favourite jazz singers in the oldest legislative building in Canada.

Join the trio for a 2-set soiree of new and old smooth and sultry, classic and contemporary standards.

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are limited to 60 and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration will open on March 6, 2019.

Lydia Zimmer Performs Feb 23 & 24 at Kinetic Dance's Open Studio

Image from The Coast. Picture by Tim Agler.

Lydia Zimmer performs new original choreography, in Kinetic Studio's Open Studio Series.

Feb. 23 & 24, 8 pm
DANSpace
1531 Grafton Street
Downtown Halifax
https://www.kineticstudio.ca/


Talent Trust recipient Lydia Zimmer has pursued professional training at the Boston Conservatory, Canada's National Ballet School and Springboard Danse Montreal to emerge as an original and daring dancer and choreographer.

Her solo piece SONDERLING explores mental illness, eccentricity and unusual movement.

Read about Lydia Zimmer in The Coast & meet a younger version of the artist on Dance Channel TV 2015.