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Ottawa Chamberfest | Meghan Lindsay & Carson Becke
July 21, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
$35
It is with pleasure that Chamberfest presents local favourites Meghan Lindsay and Carson Becke. This art song duo formed in the Gatineau Hills during the pandemic, where they discovered common ground “…in a style of music making that is creative and truly collaborative.“
Praised internationally for her outstanding delivery of operatic repertoire, Canadian soprano Meghan Lindsay continues a diverse practice as a performer, creator, and researcher, while Carson Becke’s interest in bringing to light music from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries that has “escaped twenty-first century attention” is reflected in their programme, highlighting composers Fernando Obrador, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Rebecca Clarke. Lindsay and Becke will also be performing Becke’s 2023 piano transcription of Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. Written in 1948 – only months before Strauss’s death – the sublime music and text explores the relationship between humankind’s mortality and the eternal cycles of nature. With a voice described by OPERA NEWS as a “bright, limpid instrument [with] luscious timbre and superb technique,” this duo is sure to shine.
Look out for Becke’s sustainably-minded Pontiac Enchanté concert series in Luskville, Quebec, and the newly minted Hills Winter Music Festival (formed in partnership with Lindsay and clarinetist Juan Gabriel Olivares), bringing world-class chamber music to venues in the Outaouais region.
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