NOVEMBER IN PARIS
PERFORMERS:
Darquise Bilodeau soprano
Gina Kruger, piano
PROGRAMME:
Canadian-born soprano Darquise Bilodeau combines professional performing experience with research and voice pedagogy. She is a graduate of McGill University with a B.Mus. in voice performance and school music and of the Université de Montréal with Master’s Degree in voice performance. Darquise has sung with the Opéra de Montréal and has performed as a soloist on recordings of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She is an accomplished recitalist and soloist in oratorio.
Darquise and resident pianist Gina Kruger will evoke the spirit of autumn in Paris with works by Fauré, Debussy and others.
Drinks and food will be served.
BIOGRAPHIES
Darquise Bilodeau - Soprano,
To follow.
Gina Kruger - Piano
Gina holds degrees in piano from the United States and a post-graduate diploma from the Royal College of Music, London. During her studies at the Royal College of Music, she won the Fossat Award for Chamber Music which resulted in performances for the Queen of Denmark and a residency in France. She continues to appear as a recitalist locally and internationally. Her performance in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, featuring Spanish repertoire was deemed a ‘finely turned performance’ by the Irish Times in 2010. Other international venues have included solo performances in Altdorf Switzerland and in the Vienna Conservatory. She has performed extensively in Croatia, as a soloist, and with guitarist Igor Paro.
Performance engagements in the United States have included two broadcasts of solo piano works (Messiaen, Beethoven, and Schumann) on Nebraska Public Radio, and appearances at such prestigious venues as Merkin Concert Hall and The Juilliard School.
After completing studies in musicology, the result of which was a National Endowment for the Humanties grant (through Columbia University, NY) Gina has continued to develop her interest in church music as an organist, choral director, and soprano (singing regularly with choirs for Evensong and as a soloist in church settings). Having held posts in several boarding schools, chapels, and churches in London and further afield, she is currently organist at St Mary, Tottenham.
