Melissa-Marie Shriner: Arias and Songs

2016-02-06 Concert, Dinner

Date/Time

Saturday, February 6, 2016 / 18:00 - 21:00

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Program

18:00 — Dinner

19:00 — Recital

Recital Program

Caro Mio Ben – Giordani
I know that my Redeemer Liveth (Messiah) – Handel
Ave Maria – Schubert
Après in Rêve – Fauré
O quand je dors – Liszt
O Lieb – Liszt
Cavalleria Rusticana (Parasztbecsület) – Intermezzo – Mascagni (piano)
Deh vieni non tardar (Le nozze di Figaro) – Mozart
Je Dis que Rien ne m’epouvante (Carmen Act 3) – Bizet
O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi) – Puccini
Song to the Moon (Rusalka) – Dvorak
É strano/Sempre Libera (La traviata) – Verdi
Manon Lescaut – Intermezzo Puccini (piano)
A királyleány dala (János vitéz) – Kacsóh
Vilja dal (Víg özvegy) – Lehár

About the Artists

Melissa-Marie Shriner

Melissa-Marie Shriner is well known as a versatile performer in recitals, concerts, and self-produced shows, throughout southern Ontario and upstate New York. With her feet solidly planted in both the classical and jazz worlds, Melissa-Marie Shriner regularly performs as soloist with the Avanti Chamber Singers, as a guest soloist with Choralis Camerata and Nickel City Opera (Buffalo), with The Melissa-Marie Shriner Jazz Trio, as the featured artist in the “In the Village” concert series in Niagara, along with various other musical incarnations.

Ms Shriner holds a solid reputation as a vocal pedagogue mainly through Melissa Shriner Vocal Studio in Jordan Station, also having served as vocal coach at Big Voice Studios in Toronto and as vocal/choral workshop clinician at various high schools in the Niagara Region.

Ms Shriner is the creative force behind the successful “In the Village” concert series, now in its 5th season, presented by Bella Music Productions in Niagara, for which she serves as Artistic Director, Producer, and Performer.

www.melissashriner.com

Recordings accompanied by the flute player Márk Fülep and Erik Gerő:

Le Rossignol – L. Delibes	Deh Vieni Non Tardar – Mozart

Gábor Finta

Gábor Finta was born and educated in Hungary. His post-secondary musical studies between 1963-1970 led to a degree in piano, choral conducting and music education from the Franz Liszt University of Music, Budapest, Hungary. He also studied in Germany at the International Musikseminar in Weimar. After graduation he taught at the Liszt Academy’s Teacher Training Institute and became the director of the Béla Bartók Music Conservatory in Miskolc. After immigrating to Canada in 1982 he taught piano (his students won many prizes; among them the 1991 Ontario Young Artist competition) and appeared as soloist in Ottawa, Brandon, Calgary, London, Brockville. He collaborated with many artists as piano accompanist, instructed at Carleton and Ottawa Universities and has an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. His compositions include pieces written for piano, chorus, solo voice, orchestra and other instruments and have been performed at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Festival Music and Beyond, in Hungary and several other countries.

On the Dinner’s Menu

Vegetable Soup	Breaded Chicken Legs with Parsley Seasoned Potatoes and Sour Beets	Profiterole
Coffee and Tea	Soft drinks, beer, wine and liquors available at the bar.