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Wednesday November 26 - 7:00 pm
At Alliance Française Auditorium

Mezzo-Soprano Kristin Hoff and pianist Antoine Joubert come together to offer a delightful concert of French, Spanish and cabaret music. Kristin has performed extensively in opera, concert, and new music; these concerts include debuts at Carnegie Hall and with Vancouver Opera, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. Dr. Antoine Joubert has been a finalist at the international competition level and is a prize-winner with the Prix d’Europe, the Festival du Royaume, the CCC Music Festival of Toronto, among others. Next year he will release his first solo piano CD.

Married since 2009, the couple has performed recitals together in Niagara-on-the-Lake, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Nanaimo, Vancouver, West Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.

Join us on Wednesday November 26^th for a very special concert by two blossoming musicians!

“…sung with an appealing clarity and emotional heft …Kristin Hoff, a Mezzo-Soprano whose voice had body as well as beauty.” -New York Times

“ The stunning black machine was [...] tackled by technically brillant Antoine Joubert [...] who is in his prime.” -Artistic directors of the Open Piano Competition,  LONDON (UK)

Programme :

Brettl Lieder (Chansons de Cabaret)                  Arnold Schoenberg

1. Galathea

2. Gigerlette

3. Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arkadien

Chansons de Bilitis                                                   Claude Debussy

1. La flûte de Pan

2. La chevelure

3. Le tombeau des Naïades

On my own, Les misérables                                 Claude Michel Schonberg

Latte Boy                                                                        Goldrich/Heisler  

Amor, Cabaret Songs                                               William Bolcom

Can’t Stop Talking About Him, Let’s Dance   Frank Loesser

Chansons folkloriques françaises                     Benjamin Britten

1. Voici le printemps

2. Fileuse

3. La belle est au jardin d’amour

Chanson bohème, Carmen                                  Georges Bizet

Cinco Canciones Negras                                       Xavier Montsalvatge

1. Cuba dentro de un piano

2. Punto de Habañera

3. Chévere

4. Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito       

5. Canto negro