Refuge
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Soprano, Lara Ciekiewicz
Hailed for her “tour-de-force performance” (Winnipeg Free Press) in the title role of Manitoba Opera’s Susannah, Lara has established herself as a dynamic, intelligent, and moving singing-actress. Her facility for fully transforming into a character, regardless of genre, has earned her the reputation of being an artistic chameleon. Select credits include: Elle, La voix humaine (Manitoba Opera); Countess, Le nozze di Figaro (Edmonton Opera); Tatyana, Eugene Onegin (Calgary Opera); Nellie Forbush, South Pacific (Pacific Opera Victoria); Bea, Three Decembers (Little Opera Company); Maria, The Sound of Music (Opera on the Avalon). Lara is increasingly in demand as an adjudicator, and teacher. She serves as a Voice Instructor at the University of Manitoba’s Desautels Faculty of Music.
For over thirty-five years Michael Oike has maintained a busy piano teaching studio, held piano workshops and master classes, adjudicated music festivals at the local, provincial and national levels, and heard in performances of chamber music, instrumental and vocal recitals. Michael’s pedagogues have included Alice Nakauchi and Sydney McInnis in Winnipeg, Boris Lysenko at the Royal Conservatory of Music and University of Toronto where he was awarded the Forsythe Scholarship as the outstanding graduating pianist. He has also studied solo piano and chamber music with the renowned Jeaneane Dowis of New York City at her private studio and twice as a Fellowship student at the Waterloo Festival at Princeton University.
Pianist, Michael Oike
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The Little Opera Company presents Refuge January 22, 2023 | 3PM St. Andrew’s River Heights United Church 255 Oak Street, Winnipeg We are so excited to start off the new year with the announcement of a new show! The LOC invites you to take Refuge in well-known, well-loved classics, performed by well-known, well-loved local performers. Presented by The LOC, this single show performance, Refuge, features a selection of art songs—bringing forth the simplicity of a solo voice and pinao.
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Refuge
Artists
Soprano, Lara Ciekiewicz
Hailed for her “tour-de-force performance” (Winnipeg Free Press) in the title role of Manitoba Opera’s Susannah, Lara has established herself as a dynamic, intelligent, and moving singing-actress. Her facility for fully transforming into a character, regardless of genre, has earned her the reputation of being an artistic chameleon. Select credits include: Elle, La voix humaine (Manitoba Opera); Countess, Le nozze di Figaro (Edmonton Opera); Tatyana, Eugene Onegin (Calgary Opera); Nellie Forbush, South Pacific (Pacific Opera Victoria); Bea, Three Decembers (Little Opera Company); Maria, The Sound of Music (Opera on the Avalon). Lara is increasingly in demand as an adjudicator, and teacher. She serves as a Voice Instructor at the University of Manitoba’s Desautels Faculty of Music.
For over thirty-five years Michael Oike has maintained a busy piano teaching studio, held piano workshops and master classes, adjudicated music festivals at the local, provincial and national levels, and heard in performances of chamber music, instrumental and vocal recitals. Michael’s pedagogues have included Alice Nakauchi and Sydney McInnis in Winnipeg, Boris Lysenko at the Royal Conservatory of Music and University of Toronto where he was awarded the Forsythe Scholarship as the outstanding graduating pianist. He has also studied solo piano and chamber music with the renowned Jeaneane Dowis of New York City at her private studio and twice as a Fellowship student at the Waterloo Festival at Princeton University.
Pianist, Michael Oike
The Little Opera Company presents Refuge January 22, 2023 | 3PM St. Andrew’s River Heights United Church 255 Oak Street, Winnipeg We are so excited to start off the new year with the announcement of a new show! The LOC invites you to take Refuge in well-known, well-loved classics, performed by well-known, well- loved local performers. Presented by The LOC, this single show performance, Refuge, features a selection of art songs—bringing forth the simplicity of a solo voice and pinao.
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