May 19-JUNE 2 2021 Recital
Elaina Moreau, Soprano
Photo credit: Brandon Hart
Elaina Moreau is an alumna of the Vancouver Opera Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program, and a 2019 semi-finalist of the VIII Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki, Finland. Moreau has been three-time District Winner and Regional Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and was a 2017 laureate of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques and finalist of the Riccardo Zandonai Competition in Italy. Recent performance highlights include; Gianetta in L’elisir d’amore and The Mother in Requiem for a Lost Girl (both with Vancouver Opera), the title role in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Trentino Music Festival, Italy), a Dora-award winning performance as Young Ava/The House in the world premier of Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera, Toronto), and the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana (West Coast Symphony), and Handel’s Messiah (Vancouver Bach Choir and Prince George Symphony Orchestra). Off stage, Elaina is a passionate voice teacher. Her students have won awards at both the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival and KPU International Music Festival and have been selected to represent the VKMF at the BC Performing Arts Provincials Competition.
Richard Epp, Piano
Richard Epp is a well-known Vancouver based pianist, accompanist, vocal coach, conductor and chamber musician. Mr. Epp is currently Music Director of the Opera Workshop at UBC for whom he has conducted Hansel and Gretel, The Merry Widow, The Magic Flute, La Finta Giardinera, Weisse Rose by Udo Zimmerman, Serse, Die Fledermaus, and The Gondoliers among many others. He is also currently the official pianist for the division auditions of the Metropolitan Opera Competition in Vancouver.
He was pianist for the Resident Artists Program of the Vancouver Opera for five years. He has also been on the faculty of the Vancouver Academy of Music and was the Conductor of the White Rock Community Orchestra for nine years. Mr. Epp has toured Canada, the United States and Europe as a piano accompanist for singers, as a conductor, and as a chamber musician. He has appeared frequently in CBC recitals. Mr. Epp has studied conducting with Tsung Yeh, Kirk Trevor, and Johannes Schlaefle, and holds a Master’s Degree in Piano Accompanying from the University of Southern California. He has also participated in master classes given by such internationally known musicians as Dalton Baldwin, Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Siegfried Jerusalem, Nico Castel, Rudolph Jansen and Elly Ameling. Mr. Epp has premiered numerous works by Canadian composers, and is also active as a piano teacher and adjudicator.
Oliver Cowley, Oboe
Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Oliver holds a Master of Music in Oboe Performance from Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA studying under oboists Jonathan Blumenfeld and Peter Smith, both members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Oliver also holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Oboe Performance from McGill University where he studied with Theodore Baskin, principal oboist of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Oliver has worked as a guest artist with various community orchestras as well as playing principal oboe, and in the section, of the Ottawa and Gatineau Symphony Orchestras, and played principal oboe on Orchestre de la Francophonie's 2018 tour in South Korea. He has also played principal oboe with l'Orchestre de la Francophonie, the National Academy Orchestra, the B.C.-based PRISMA orchestra, as well as in the Music Academy International opera festival in Trentino, Italy.
This recital is generously sponsored by Jo Pegler and Arline Oishi
Programme
Elaina Moreau, Soprano & Richard Epp, Piano
with Oliver Cowley, Oboe*
from Semele, HWV 58
“Endless Pleasure”
“Oh Sleep Why Dost Thou Leave Me”
G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
“Ich nehme mein Leiden mit Freuden auf mich”*
from Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Les Berceaux, Op. 23 No. 1
Notre Amour, Op. 23 No. 2
Claire de lune, Op. 46 No. 2
Mandoline, Op. 58 No. 1
G. Faure (1845-1924)
Selections from Sechs Lieder, Op. 48
Gruß
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
Zur Rosenzeit
Ein Traum
E. Grieg (1843-1907)
Selections from Ten Blake Songs*
Infant Joy
The Piper
The Lamb
Eternity
R. V. Williams (1872-1958)
Kun Paiva Paistaa
Pai, Pai, Paitaressu
Ma elän!
O. Merikanto (1868-1924)
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel
R. Rodgers (1902-1979) and
O. Hammerstein (1895-1960)