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Summer Schemes

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  • 3 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, flexible and strong voice manages to find the right tone and timbre for each text, while he uses his growing operatic experience to tease out the drama from the verse."
Toronto Star

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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). Engagements for 2019-20 include stints with Calgary Opera (La Bohème), Edmonton Opera (Marriage of Figaro), Tapestry Opera (Rocking Horse Winner) and Saskatoon Opera (La Traviata).

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