Digital premiere anticipated Fall 2023
More info coming soon.
Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
October 23rd at 7pM/doors 6:30
Emerging ARTIST thEatRe’s Fall #newWorKseRies
Tada tHeatre 15 W. 28th Street, 2nd Fl., New York, NY
Fundraising link: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/brooklyntelemann
Couperin’s “Trois Leçons de Ténèbres” (Three Lessons of Darkness) is a dramatic musical drama originally composed in 1714 retelling of the text of Saint Jeremiah about the siege of Jerusalem. Our interpretation will be 25 minutes of nonstop music. Two sopranos and instrumentalists begin with sparse melismatic sound and build to encompass the space, as the text changes from the original Latin to Arabic poetry by Palestinian poets. Proceeds from this event will be going directly to the Palestinian Children’s relief fund which donates to children’s hospitals in Gaza to provide free medical care for children suffering from injury alongside cancer and amputee expenses.
Featured Artists:
Hannah shanefield (soprano)
Boston-based soprano Hannah Shanefield is earning much acclaim on the operatic, concert, and recital stages. A diverse repertory enthusiast, Hannah champions new music and the works of underrepresented composers. She has sung with Brooklynn Telemann Chamber Society, Opera Connecticut, NEMPAC Opera Project, Hartford Opera Theater, Due Donne Productions, Analog by Choice, and Opera on Tap New Hampshire. Hannah received her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2020, studying with Karen Holvik. In 2018, she graduated from The Hartt School with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a minor in Music History.
Liz Kiger (soprano & Director)
Liz Kiger is a Turkish-American non-binary soprano vocalist, violinist, and opera director specializing in Baroque performance practice. They are the founder and director of the Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society and are currently adjunct faculty at Columbia University where they direct Collegium Musicum. They hold their MM in Classical Vocal Performance and a post graduate degree in Vocal Pedagogy from NYU. They have most recently performed as Persephone in a 1774 Vienna transcription of Gluck’s Orfeo, the title role in Monteverdi’s Poppea, Papagena (Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte), Ottavia (Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea) at Scorca Hall (National Opera Center), & Susanna (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Liz is a proud advocate for singers with incurable vocal pathologies like themself and has extensive training in working with singers with various pathologies.
Nicola Canzano (haRpsichord)
Nicola Canzano is a composer, harpsichordist and organist who is recognized as an expert in the composition and improvisation of baroque music. A returning guest lecturer at Juilliard on fugal improvisation, he has also presented at Cornell and the University of Michigan, and served on the panel for the International Conference on Historical Improvisation in 2022. He is sought after as a continuist, having played with Juilliard415 and Detroit Symphony among many others. His ensemble Nuova Pratica specializes in the composition of new early music, and was recently featured in Early Music America. A graduate of Juilliard and the University of Michigan, he is currently Asst. Prof. of Harpsichord at Michigan State University, and resides in New York City.