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ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA Gianni Schicchi, Maria Stuarda, Nixon in China, Cinderella, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, War and Peace and the complete Ring Cycle, among others. Mr. Bate frequently conducts with Toronto Operetta Theatre, and was musical director for Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Show Boat. JENIFER KOWAL Stage Manager

This is Jenifer Kowal’s 22nd season with the COC. Her numerous COC stage managing credits include Salome, La clemenza di Tito, Die Fledermaus, Semele, Tosca, Rigoletto, Aida, Carmen, The Flying Dutchman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fidelio, War and Peace, Eugene Onegin, Don Carlos, La Traviata, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the Ring Cycle and, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables. She was the production stage manager for Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s Miss Saigon, which also toured to Toronto and Schenectady. Ms Kowal studied theatre at Indiana University.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE

We are pleased to offer, for the convenience of all of our patrons, a pre-order system for intermission purchases. Our pre-order system is designed to decrease your wait time at the bar during intermission and we invite you to make use of it at every COC performance. Bars are located throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room’s many levels. Food and beverages are not permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall.

VIOLIN I Marie Bérard, Concertmaster The Concertmaster’s chair has been endowed in perpetuity by Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Benjamin Bowman, Associate Concertmaster Diane Tait, Assistant Concertmaster Anne Armstrong James Aylesworth Sandra Baron Bethany Bergman Pamela Hinman* Nancy Kershaw Dominique Laplante Yakov Lerner Jayne Maddison Neria Mayer Ashley Vandiver*

BASS Alan Molitz, Principal Robert Speer, Assistant Principal Nick Davis* Tom Hazlitt, on leave of absence Paul Langley Eric Lee* Robert Wolanski*

OBOE Mark Rogers, Principal Lesley Young

BANDA

VIOLIN II Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal Corey Gemmell* Elizabeth Johnston Hiroko Kagawa* Jamie Kruspe* Renée London* Aya Miyagawa Louise Tardif Marianne Urke Sonia Vizante* Joanna Zabrowarna

ENGLISH HORN Lesley Young

VIOLIN Benjamin Bowman

CLARINET James T. Shields, Principal Colleen Cook

BASS Robert Wolanski*

VIOLA Keith Hamm, Principal Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant Principal Carolyn Blackwell* Ivan Ivanovich* Shannon Knights* Rory McLeod* Nicholaos Papadakis* Rhyll Peel Angela Rudden* Beverley Spotton Yosef Tamir, on leave of absence

CONTRABASSOON William Cannaway*

CELLO Bryan Epperson, Principal Alastair Eng, Associate Principal Paul Widner, Assistant Principal Peter Cosbey* Olga Laktionova Marianne Pack* Elaine Thompson

FLUTE Douglas Stewart, Principal Shelley Brown

TUBA Scott Irvine, Principal, on leave of absence Mark Bonang*, Acting Principal TIMPANI Michael Perry, Principal PERCUSSION Trevor Tureski, Principal Ryan Scott* HARP Sarah Davidson, Principal

PICCOLO Shelley Brown Douglas Stewart

CELESTE Jenna Douglas*

E-FLAT CLARINET Colleen Cook BASSOON Eric Hall, Principal Elizabeth Gowen

CLARINET James T. Shields Colleen Cook TUBA Mark Bonang*

HORN Joan Watson, Principal, on leave of absence Scott Wevers, Acting Principal* Janet Anderson Bardhyl Gjevori Gary Pattison TRUMPET Robert Grim, Principal Brendan Cassin* Robert Weymouth TROMBONE Charles Benaroya, Principal Ian Cowie

ORGAN Wayne Vogan* PERCUSSION Trevor Tureski LIBRARIAN Wayne Vogan ASSISTANT MUSIC LIBRARIAN Ondrej Golias STAGE LIBRARIAN Paul Langley PERSONNEL MANAGER Ian Cowie * extra musician

BASS TROMBONE Herbert Poole

CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY CHORUS SOPRANOS Mary Bella Stacie Carmona Andrea Cerswell Margaret Evans Ilona Karan Alexandra LennoxPomeroy Ingrid Martin Eve Rachel McLeod Jennifer Robinson Taylor Strande Catherine Tait Teresa van der Hoeven 12

Canadian Opera Company 2013/2014 Season

MEZZO-SOPRANOS Marianne Bindig Sandra Boyes Wendy Hatala Foley Erica Iris Huang Lilian Kilianski Kathryn Knapp Jessica Lloyd Karen Olinyk Lisa Spain Vilma Indra Vitols Paula Wickberg Cindy Won

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TENORS Vanya Abrahams Craig Ashton Stephen Bell Taras Chmil Sean Clark Stephen Erickson Jason Lamont James Leatch Stephen McClare Derrick Paul Miller Eric Olsen Conrad Siebert

BARITONES & BASSES Kenneth Baker Peter Barnes Sung Chung Michael Downie Jason Nedecky Bruce Schaef Michael Sproule Jan Vaculik Peter Wiens Marcus Wilson Gene Wu Michael York 13


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