Atеlίεя S

Stuart Graham - Founder/Artistic Director

The operative terms from this summer are collaboration and partnerships, expanding the resources available to our artist membership.  After several discussions with conductor Taras Kowalczuk, I am very pleased to announce our partnership with the Counterpoint Community Orchestra.  This is a brilliant opportunity for the singers of the performance program of Atelier S, offering them several opportunities over the next few years to rehearse and perform major works of the vocal/orchestral repertoire.  Our first outing with Counterpoint will be this March 1, 2008 singing arias and ensembles from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Verdi’s Rigoletto,  Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Wagner’s Die Walküre.  This event will feature the vocal talents of sopranos Hélène Ducharme, Dolores Tjart, mezzo-soprano Martha Spence, tenor Patrick Huang and baritone Stuart Graham.  A short 11 days later on March 12, Counterpoint joins Atelier S in accompanying our solemn Easter concert of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.  Other major upcoming events with Counterpoint include, a concert presentation of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors for December 2008 and Rossini’s Stabat Mater in the spring of 2009. 

We are currently hearing auditions to cast these productions.