Teacher of elite pianists played last concert for Music in the Afternoon in 1982.
Marina Geringas, much-loved teacher and performer died at her home in Toronto on June 20 at the age of 77. Russian-born, she lived through the Second World War in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Canada in 1975. In addition to performing, she became a leading teacher at both the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto. In 1982 she retired from performing and played her last concert on Dec. 9 in Christ Church Deer Park presented by the WMCT.
Mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn studied violin until 2000, and then she pursued an intensive vocal course at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious ECHO Rising Stars Award, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and the Nederlands Muziekprijs, and was selected as BBC New Generation Artist in 2007.
Christianne Stotijn performs regularly in the world’s leading concert venues, including Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. She has worked with significant conductors including Claudio Abbado, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Charles Dutoit, and Andris Nelsons, but it is Bernard Haitink she credits with the most profound influence on her career. After successful performances of Mahler’s Ruckert Lieder with the Orchestre National de France and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink invited her to perform at the BBC Proms, the Lucerne Festival, and with the Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras.
Christianne Stotijn’s discography includes music by Schubert, Berg, Wolf, Mahler, and Tchaikovsky. Her recording of Tchaikovsky songs, with pianist Julius Drake, received the BBC Music Magazine Award for voice.
JUNO Award Julius Drake’s disc of Schubert’s Winterreise with baritone Gerald Finley won the 2015 JUNO award for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral performance .
Programme:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sred’ shumnogo bala, op. 38.3 (18 / At the ball ( A.Tolstoj) Moy geniy, moy angel, moy drug/ My Guardian, My Angel, My Friend Kaby znala ja, op.47 nr.1 / If I had only known ( A. Tolstoj) Kolybel’naja pesnja op. 16.1 / Lullaby (A.Maykov) The lights were being dimmed op. 63. 5 ( Romanov) The sun has set op. 73.4 ( Rathaus)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva (Suite for Voice and Piano), Op. 143
My poems Such tenderness Hamlet’s dialogue with his conscience The Poet and the Tsar No, the drum beat To Anna Akhmatova
Erich Korngold – Four Shakespeare Songs
Desdemona’s Song Under the green wood tree Blow blow the winter wind When birds do sing
Richard Strauss
Ständchen ( Schack) op. 17. 2 Traum durch die Dämmerung op. 29.1 ( O.J. Bierbaum) Freundliche Vision op.48.1 (O. J. Bierbaum) Cäcilie op.27.2 (H.Hart) Schlechtes Wetter (Heine) op. 69.5 Nachtgang (Bierbaum) op. 29.3 Zueignung (von Gilm) op.10.1
