Five Formosa Songs 五首美麗島之歌
Five Formosa Songs - 五首美麗島之歌
Maureen Batt | Tara Scott | 吳佳音 | 林沈默
WORLD PREMIERE ONLINE
December 22 @ 7:30p.m. AST
December 23 @ 7:30a.m. TST
Maureen Batt, soprano
Tara Scott, piano
Chia Yin Wu, composer
Chen Mo Lin, poet
Stream on demand for free for one month
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Jeremy VanSlyke, producer, post-production
Ally Cribb, assistant recording engineer
Luke Fraser, director
林沁儀, poster artwork
Chia Yin Wu, English poetic translations
Phín-tsì Kí, lyric diction coach, copy editing, translation
線上世界首演
大西洋時區： 12 月 22 日 晚上 7:30
台灣時區： 12 月 23 日 上午 7:30
女高音｜Maureen Batt
鋼琴｜Tara Scott
作曲｜吳佳音
詩作｜林沈默
網路串流免費觀賞一個月
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製作人、後製｜Jeremy VanSlyke
錄音助理工程師｜Ally Cribb
導演｜Luke Fraser
海報視覺設計｜林沁儀
詩作英譯｜吳佳音
咬字指導、文字修編、翻譯｜紀品志
節目單
BIOGRAPHIES 演出者及人員簡介
Maureen Batt, soprano
Maureen Batt, soprano, is a recording artist, artistic director, and educator. Maureen’s career focuses on celebrating music by living composers through her opera company Essential Opera co-founded in 2010, her concert series Crossing Borders founded in 2015, and her award-winning discography which includes two-time ECMA-winning Lighthouse;(with Grej); JUNO-nominated; Breathing in the Shadows;Durme, Durme: Four Ladino Folk Songs; Aunt Helen; Mirror, Mirror; and Lady of the Lake. Her latest releases with Essential Opera are Etiquette and December. She has performed throughout Canada, and in the United States, Italy, and Colombia. She has a Master of Music from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Music from Dalhousie University, and a Bachelor of Arts in languages from St. Thomas University. She serves on the national board for the Canadian Music Centre. As an educator, Maureen specializes in embodied voice and gender affirming voice work. In her various leadership positions, she is an advocate of accessibility and inclusion.
Maureen Batt｜女高音
女高音 Maureen Batt 是一位錄音歌手、藝術總監與教育工作者。她致力於推廣當代作曲家的音樂，透過她於 2010 年共同創立的歌劇劇團 Essential Opera、2015 年創辦的 Crossing Borders 系列音樂會，以及屢獲殊榮的錄音專輯，持續發表許多當代聲樂作品。她的錄音專輯包括兩度榮獲加拿大東岸音樂獎 (ECMA) 的《Lighthouse》（與 Grej 合作）、入圍加拿大朱諾獎的《Breathing in the Shadows》，以及《Durme, Durme：四首拉迪諾語民謠》、《Aunt Helen》、《Mirror, Mirror》與《Lady of the Lake》等。近期與 Essential Opera 合作發行的作品有《Etiquette》與《December》。Maureen Batt 曾於加拿大各地、美國、義大利與哥倫比亞登臺演出。具有多倫多大學音樂碩士、達爾豪斯大學音樂學士，以及聖湯瑪斯大學語言學士學位。現擔任加拿大音樂中心 (Canadian Music Centre) 全國理事。教學方面，她專精於「身體化聲音」(embodied voice) 與性別肯認的聲音訓練。她在擔任各項領導職務時，皆積極推動無障礙與多元包容的理念 。
Tara Scott, piano
Tara Scott is one of Atlantic Canada’s most renowned collaborative pianists. Her love of teaching and performing has led her to pursue collaborative pianist positions at Dalhousie, Western, Acadia, and Mount Allison. Tara is co-artistic director of OperAtlantic, co-founder of Halifax Summer Opera Festival and primary music director/pianist of Maritime Concert Opera. She has performed with Essential Opera, Eastern Front/Neptune, DalOpera and Opera Nova Scotia. “Tara Scott is a consummate artist and her dependably flawless piano accompaniments of full-length operas is inspiring” (Opera Canada). She received a Merritt Award for music direction of KAMP. Tara is featured on the 2022 JUNO-nominated album Breathing in the Shadows, and Durme, Durme: Four Ladino Folk Songs with soprano Maureen Batt. Her discography also includes Essential Opera’s recordings of Etiquette and December. She is on faculty at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and has adjudicated music festivals throughout the Maritimes.
Tara Scott｜鋼琴
Tara Scott 是加拿大大西洋地區最著名的合作鋼琴家之一。因為對教學與演出的熱情，她先後於達爾豪榭大學、西安大略大學、阿卡迪亞大學與蒙特埃利森大學，擔任合作鋼琴家職務。Tara Scott 為 OperAtlantic 劇團共同藝術總監、哈利法克斯夏季歌劇節共同創辦人，以及 Maritime Concert Opera 歌劇團主要音樂總監兼鋼琴家。她曾與 Essential Opera、Eastern Front/Neptune、DalOpera 及 Opera Nova Scotia 等團體合作演出。加拿大歌劇季刊《Opera Canada》評論：「Tara Scott 是一位臻於完美的藝術家，演出全本歌劇時的鋼琴伴奏穩健精準，令人讚嘆。」她曾以《KAMP》獲頒 Merritt Award 音樂指導獎。她曾參與多張錄音專輯，包括 2022 獲加拿大朱諾獎提名的專輯《Breathing in the Shadows》，以及與女高音 Maureen Batt 合作的《Durme, Durme：四首拉迪諾語民謠》。其它錄音專輯有 Essential Opera 發行的《Etiquette》與《December》。Tara Scott 目前任教於海洋表演藝術學院 (Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts)，並多次擔任加拿大海洋省份各地音樂節之評審。
Chia Yin Wu, composer
Chia Yin Wu is a Taiwanese-Canadian composer whose musical journey began in the sanctuary of a rural Presbyterian church in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she was immersed in the Protestant tradition of congregational and choral singing and attempted her earliest musical compositions. She studied piano and voice at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts under Jin Man Lin and Mewas Lin, composition at McGill University where her mentors were Brian Cherney, Jean Lesage and Christoph Neidhöfer, and theology at Knox College, University of Toronto. Her music is performed in Canada, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
吳佳音｜作曲
吳佳音，加拿大臺灣作曲家。她的音樂之路始於臺灣高雄鄉間的教會，在長老教會的會眾與合唱傳統下受薰陶，並開始嘗試音樂創作。畢業於臺灣國立藝專，師事林金滿與林惠珍，修習鋼琴與聲樂。後赴加拿大麥基爾大學攻讀作曲，師事 Brian Cherney、Jean Lesage 與 Christoph Neidhöffer，並於多倫多大學諾克斯學院研讀神學。音樂作品曾於加拿大、臺灣與馬來西亞演出。
Chen Mo Lin 林沈默, poet
Acclaimed by critics as “the new summit of Taiwanese literature” and a forerunner of Taiwan’s New Social Realism school, poet and novelist Chen Mo Lin is founder of BaZhang River Periodical and author of poetry collections. Chen Mo’s long career in editing and journalism has seen him in roles such as former chief editor of Han Guang Periodical and China Times Weekly. He is a passionate advocate of local Taiwanese literature and has dedicated himself to its advancement since the 80s by creating folk rhymes, children’s stories and poems in Taiwanese (tâi-gí). His distinctions include the Taiwan Literature Award, Chinese Literature Narrative Poetry Award, and Wu Zhuoliu Literature Award.
林沈默｜詩人
詩人、小說家林沈默，被評論者譽為「臺灣文學的新高山」以及臺灣新社會寫實主義的先驅。創辦《八掌溪》詩刊，並著有多本詩集。林沈默長年從事編輯與新聞工作，曾任《漢廣》詩刊及《中國時報》主編。他積極推廣臺灣本土文學，自 1980 年代起，投入本土文學的推展，以臺語創作地方唸謠、兒童故事及詩。曾榮獲臺灣文藝獎、中華文學敘述詩獎、吳濁流文學獎。