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Incredible performance by The Element Choir inspired by Yoko Ono’s Voice Piece for Soprano [ From Twitter]
Incredible performance by #TheElementChoir led by @theChristineD inspired by @yokoono’s Voice Piece for Soprano to cap off our sold out #VoicePieces concert with @musicgalleryTO in celebration of #THERIVERBED pic.twitter.com/iGznB7kRLs
— Gardiner Museum (@gardinermuseum) February 24, 2018
Photo by Blake Hannahson
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I was privileged to be part of the Toronto contingent of this international production, featuring Salim Sulaiman and Abida Parveen. |
Our final tour of the season was Thursday August 20. Thanks to all of the hardworking artists and volunteers involved, as well as our partner organizations, sponsors and audience members who continue to surprise us with their curiosity, trust and energy...read more HERE.
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Apocalypsis :: R. Murray. Schafer
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Stand Up Dance
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The Theatre Centre
1115 Queen St West April 8 & 9, 8 pm, April 10, 1 pm & 8 pm April 11, 2 & 8 pm, April 12, 2 pm We Don't Need Another Hero Choreographers/Performers: Meagan O'Shea and company (Christine Birch, Nicole Rose Bond, Andrea Spaziani, Linnea Swan, with composer Christine Duncan and The Element Choir Inspired by the Occupy Movement and the battle between action and inertia, this interdisciplinary performance experience encompasses O'Shea's signature solo work, an auditory mob and a dance ensemble articulating the precarious tipping point between conflict and collaboration. "Energetic, uplifting, and totally out of the ordinary." More information and tickets HERE. |
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With members of the Element Choir.
NOW Magazine Concert of the Year |
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MyAudia, Return of the Pied People Music by Peter Hatch Libretto by John Sobol Directed by Anne-Marie Donovan At the Kitchener Farmers Market May 2010 |
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New Directions in Choral Music
Jan 17, 2014 
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impact 13
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A night at the opera with soprano Erin Bardua, mezzo Margaret Bardos, and writer Jim Bartley at the launch of Lydia Perović’s Incidental Music TINARS and Inanna Publications hosted a celebration on Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 at The Gladstone Hotel. It was a startling evening of words and song. |
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On Sunday Nov 11, I was privileged to take part in a celebration with the Bahá’í Community of Richmond Hill. You can contact the Bahá’í Community of Richmond Hill through their webpage, HERE. |
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On October 10, 2012, I was honoured to appear at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new home of Toronto's Theatre Centre on Queen West. Performed a Kulning (a Swedish cattle call) and Kubleti Nadiri (a Georgian work song) with Juliet Palmer (urbanvessel.com), Andrea Kuzmich and Aki Takahashi.
Signature - a live video and electroacoustic performance for improvisational choir and Euphonopen - Sunday Sept 30th
This collaborative piece with composer Nick Storring, visual/ media artist Isabella Stefanescu, interface programmer Klaus Engel, and Christine Duncan’s Element Choir held an audience feedback workshop performance Sunday September 30th at Globe Studios / The Studio Space in Kitchener.
The full work will premier in March 2013 and will also be featured in Stratford during the Stratford Summer Music Festival.
More details about this collaboration can be found HERE.
The full work will premier in March 2013 and will also be featured in Stratford during the Stratford Summer Music Festival.
More details about this collaboration can be found HERE.
Peace Train: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey to Canada
The Hamilton Baha’is hosted and celebrated with an event on Sunday, September 9th, called “Peace Train”. Specially conceived and produced by Mary Darling and Clark Donnelly, the executive producers of Little Mosque on the Prairie, the program highlighted local children and youth. It featured the Chamber Choir from the Hamilton Children’s Choir, local mezzo soprano Margaret Bardos, singer/songwriter Adam Crossley, spoken word artists Nabil and Karim as well as musician Asher Lenz. The program’s emphasis was on the relevance of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s message to today and on the importance of youth as often over-looked champions of social change.
Peace Train was held on Sunday Sept 9th, 2012, to an audience of over 800 people - a standing-room-only house at Liuna Station in Hamilton.
For more information on the Peace Train commemorations of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s life and message, visit their page on Facebook, HERE.
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With Ruth Watson-Henderson after soloing in the world premiere of her piece "Rise Up My Fair One" with the Amadeus Choir and the Kingsway Choral Sociey, fall 2011. |
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Honoured to be singing for the opening gala at the Hungarian Culture Foundation for an exhibition co-sponsored by the Embassy of Canada and the UNESCO World Heritage Commission. |
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Opera Erotique :: Out of the Box Productions"The compelling little show was fresh, surprising and poignant. What a happy addition Dobie and Mackwood are to the arts of this city. Their productions have their own, very singular ethos and aesthetic." Paula Citron: Opera in Review
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Chérubin Essential Opera Fall 2011
“Mezzo-soprano Margaret Bárdos as the trousered young soldier displayed a wonderful gift for comedy, both in her ironic expressions, her delivery and her delightful impersonation of a young man”
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