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Summer Schemes

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  • 5 years ago
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Peter McGillivray, baritone
Liz Upchurch, piano


A recital of classical art song geared to summer festival programming featuring the music of composers such as Brahms, Debussy, Vaughan Williams, Gurney, Ives & More. Recorded and released to critical acclaim in 2010, this recital features two of Canada’s most distinguished performers of art song and lieder. Peter McGillivray is an award-winning operatic baritone and Liz Upchurch is a sought-after performer and clinician in addition to being the director of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio program.


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"McGillivray’s rich and blooming baritone is, of course, the star attraction. His voice is always keenly focused, rock steady, with nary a wobble, and his enunciation is impeccable at every turn."
-Opera Canada

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Saskatchewan-born, baritone Peter McGillivray is a seasoned performing artist who first burst on to the scene as winner of the CBC Young Performers Competition in 2003. A former member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and alumnus of the University of Toronto, he has also spent a season on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera (La Bohème & Capriccio). Recent credits include a Dora-Award nomination for Best Actor for the Canadian Stage’s The Overcoat, and work with Calgary Opera (Pagliacci, Moby Dick & Silent Night), Manitoba Opera (La Bohème), Edmonton Opera (Die Fledermaus, La Cenerentola, Hansel & Gretel), Vancouver Opera (Albert Herring, The Overcoat, La Cenerentola), Pacific Opera Victoria (Barber of Seville, Fidelio), Dallas Opera (Moby Dick), Opéra de Québec (Madama Butterfly, Le barbier de Séville), Opera Lyra Ottawa (La Bohème, Barber of Seville) & the Canadian Opera Company (Gianni Schicchi). His pre-pandemic 2019-20 season included stints with Calgary Opera (La Bohème) and Edmonton Opera (Marriage of Figaro). During the pandemic he has kept busy, recording Gareth Williams’ Rocking Horse Winner with Tapestry Opera, filming Elizabeth Raum’s The Garden of Alice for Pacific Opera Victoria as well as teaching voice at Laurentian University and hosting the weekly music program Vocal Point with Peter McGillivray on CKLU 96.7FM in Sudbury.

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