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Sunday, March 8, 2009 - 2 PM
Roy Thomson Hall
Single Tickets: $65 - $25
Call 416-872-4255, or buy Online
www.roythomson.com
or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office at 60 Simcoe Street, Toronto
Toronto, ON – American soprano Nicole Cabell, winner of
the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2005, makes her
Roy Thomson Hall debut on Sunday, March 8 at
2 pm. She is joined by pianist Spencer Myer for a
captivating program of art songs by Liszt, Obradors, Guastavino
and Gordon, plus Leonard Bernstein’s delightful song-cycle I
Hate Music, and a selection of spirituals. The concert, part
of Roy Thomson Hall’s International Vocal Recitals, will
be recorded live by CBC Radio for future broadcast. Ms. Cabell will
be exclusively outfitted for the occasion by Canadian designer Rosemarie
Umetsu.
Since her prestigious win in the world’s most important competition
for young singers, Ms. Cabell has made triumphant debuts
at the world’s major opera houses including London’s Royal Opera
House Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chicago’s Lyric Opera
and most recently, the Metropolitan Opera in December ’08, where
she "brought a warm, elegant sound and a sparkling presence"
(The New York Times) as Pamina in The Magic Flute. And
following her Roy Thomson Hall recital, she returns to the Met to
star as Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore. Also this
season, she portrays the Countess in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro
with Cincinnati Opera, Micaeli in Bizet’s Carmen with Deutsche
Oper Berlin, and Leila in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In concert she appears in Copenhagen,
Prague, Munich, Frankfurt, and at Carnegie Hall for Marilyn Horne’s
75th birthday gala.
Ms. Cabell’s solo debut Decca recording Nicole Cabell: Soprano,
released in 2007, has been honoured with several major international
awards, including the Echo Klassik, the Georg Solti Orphee d’Or
and Gramophone’s Record of the Month. She is also
featured on Decca’s Porgy and Bess as Clara, and as Musetta
on Deutsche Grammophon‘s La Bohème.
Ms. Cabell, a native of California, is of mixed African-American,
Korean and Caucasian ancestry. She studied at Rochester’s Eastman
School of Music and briefly at the Juilliard School of Music before
joining the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at the Lyric
Opera of Chicago. Her two main mentors have been the renowned American
mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor Laureate
of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
American pianist Spencer Myer also makes his Roy Thomson
Hall debut with this appearance. A Gold Medalist at the 2008 New
Orleans International Piano Competition, Mr. Myer is rapidly establishing
himself as one of the outstanding pianists of his generation.
This performance is sponsored by Lexus.
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