École Rudolf Steiner de Montréal

Benefit concert on Sunday February 12 2012 at 4pm

Tickets available at the school.  For information call 514.481.5686

$30/adult and $15/child

This year we are fortunate to have the wonderful soprano, Désirée Till who will be accompanied on the piano by Pierre MacLean.

Born in Zurich, the Dutch soprano Désirée Till grew up in Switzerland where she also studied singing and graduated (B.MUS) at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Bern, Switzerland. This led to further studies at the Zurich Opera and to her operatic debut as Olga in Léhar’s Merry Widow conducted by Franz Welser - Möst in a staging by Helmut Lohner. Further engagements led her to different theatres in Switzerland where she performed many roles such as Valencienne (The Merry Widow), Arsena and Saffi (The Gypsy Baron), Annina (A night in Venice), Rosalinda and Adele (Fledermaus), Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte) and Eurydice (Orpheus in the Underworld).
Most recently she completed her masters in Music Interpretation at the Université de Montréal, École de musique Vincent d’Indy.  Big influences for her work on stage have been: Martin Markun (Schweizerisches Opernstudio, Switzerland), Helmut Lohner (Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna), Georges Delnon (Staatsoper Mainz,Germany) and Sarah Ventura (Opera de Chambre from Geneva, Switzerland). She interpreted contemporary songs especially written for the trio AMALTEA at the Swiss Radio station DRS2. She also sang many concerts with musicians from the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (OCL) at the museum of the International Red Cross in Geneva (Musique et Vie) and different concerts to benefit UNICEF and the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society with Marie-Cécile Bertheau (Opéra Lausanne/Switzerland).
In 2008 she sung Adele (Fledermaus) in a production from the atelier d’opéra at the Université de Montréal with Jean-François Rivest. Also in 2008, Désirée Till performed for the first time at the Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival’s Ariadne auf Naxos the role of Zerbinetta with Agnes Grossmann who also invited her to sing at galas and at the Classic Radio 96.3 FM Toronto.  This year Désirée Till will be at the Serenata Music Concerts à London (ON) in April and at the Muskoka Opera Festival for the first time with her trio.

Here is an extract of Die Fledermaus in which Désirée Till plays  Adèle:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEl1ls7_iBw