Spring into the Music with a brand new line of performances in our Spring Noon Hour Concert Series.
Admission to the building is free, and a sandwich lunch is available for purchase prior to each recital between 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., with the concerts beginning at 12:15 p.m.
About Daniel Lichti
Celebrating 48 years of professional life since his operatic debut at the 1974 Stratford Festival, Daniel Lichti is recognized as one of Canada’s finest bass-baritones, performing internationally and with many of North America’s leading Orchestras and Choral organizations (both modern and baroque). No stranger to the operatic stage, he is a seasoned Bach interpreter, a frequent performer at summer music festivals, and has gained international acclaim in recitals and as a recording artist.
After 19 years of teaching and Coordinating Voice for the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University, Associate Professor Emeritus Lichti has become a familiar teacher and performer at the Académie Internationale d'eté de Musique de Lyon, and joined Académie International de Musique in Paris and Musiktage am Rhein in Germany this past summer.
Recent (pre-Covid) performance highlights include the Bass arias in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Grand Philharmonic Choir and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra under Mark Vuorinen, the world premiere of Ruth Fazal’s Jerusalem with the North Bay Symphony Orchestra, the role of Bartolo in semi-staged concert performances of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the National Arts Center Orchestra under Alexander Shelley, and a performance of Fauré’s Requiem in the Notre Dame Basilica of Lyon under Bernard Tétu. A collaboration with the Penderecki String Quartet led to performances of Richard Krug’s arrangement of Schubert’s Winterreise in Toronto, Waterloo, and at the Elora Festival.
In March 2022, he returned to perform Part 2 of Handel’s Messiah and the Duruflé Requiem with the Bach Choir and Orchestra of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His concerts in 2023 include recitals in Paris, and Engers am Rhein in Germany, and a world premiere of Five Songs, composed by Daniel Warren, with the Rose Orchestra in Brampton.
About Cecilia Nguyen Tran
Cecilia NguyenTran is an artist based in Toronto currently completing her Opera Diploma in piano at Wilfrid Laurier University. She completed her Bachelor of Music in piano at WLU in 2019. She is passionate about collaborating with singers for both art songs and opera. She is looking forward to completing her diploma program in April 2023.
Spring into the Music
Concert Series Lineup
MAY 24
SHORELINE CHORUS
DIRECTOR: ANN-MARIE MACDAIRMID
MAY 31
LUKE WELCH piano
JUNE 7
COLIN COUSINS - organ / silent movie
JUNE 14
PHOENIX TRIO
WENDY WAGLER flute
CATHY ANDERSON cello
BETH ANN DE SOUSA piano
JUNE 21
KOICHI INOUE piano