Alex Samaras Lara Dodds-Eden Concerts in Care Online ON

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This concert is presented by Concerts in Care Ontario and features the heartfelt and ever-versatile partnership between Alex Samaras and Lara Dodds-Eden. Alex teaches singing at The University of Toronto Jazz Department and Humber College.

Programme:
00:00 Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II – “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning’” from Oklahoma!
04:54 Charles Strouse & Lee Adams – “A Lot of Livin' to Do” from Bye Bye Birdie
09:21 Joni Mitchell – Both Sides, Now (arr. Andrew Downing)
14:36 Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Harbour
17:36 Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Prince Caspian’s Dream
23:00 Stephen Sondheim – “Everybody Says Don't” from Anyone Can Whistle
27:04 Stephen Sondheim – “Children Will Listen” from Into the Woods
31:08 Stephen Sondheim – “With So Little to Be Sure Of” from Anyone Can Whistle
34:27 Harry M. Woods – Side by Side
37:19 Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg – “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz

Featured Performers:

Alex Samaras, vocals

Alex Samaras is recognized as one of North America's leading singers in the jazz, experimental and new music idioms. He has performed with Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble, Beverley Glenn Copeland, Jackie Richardson, Marvin Hamlisch among others.

Alex leads his own vocal group GREX, exploring the extremes of the human voice in the context of ancient music and his own original compositions. He has performed across the country in well known groups A Sondheim Jazz Project and The Queer Songbook Orchestra. Both groups have released records to critical acclaim.

Alex released his first solo album under the name TRYAL in 2017 and has since been touring and playing festivals around Canada.

He has premiered new operas, created roles in new musicals, and can be heard on multiple records.

His work in the dance community has allowed him to collaborate with choreographers Susie Burpee, Ame Henderson, Meredith Thompson and others. He has an ongoing movement practice exploring the mechanics of the human body with Christine Wright, Susan St. Claire and Jennifer Swan.

Alex teaches singing at The University of Toronto Jazz Department, Humber College, Jazz Works Music Camp and National Music Camp where he runs a chorus of 200 hundred high school students. He is also the founder of the PAL Chorale for Seniors at the Performing Artists Lodge in Toronto.

Lara Dodds-Eden, piano

With a career spanning three continents and hundreds of collaborations, Australian pianist Lara Dodds-Eden moved to Toronto following a twenty-week residency as the Banff Centre's Collaborative Pianist and Associate Artist in 2013-2014. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Collaborative Piano with Lydia Wong at the University of Toronto, where her research is focused on the contemporary implications of performing lieder in English translation. She has performed with artists as diverse as Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and cellists Gavriel Lipkind and Raphael Wallfisch; toured Spain, Newfoundland, New Zealand and Australia with the Toronto Children's Chorus and features on Centredisc's release 'Dawn of Night', a collection of Stephen Chatman's choral music with Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt and Macmillan Singers. She has an ongoing art-song collaboration with Toronto-based singer Alex Samaras and was winner of the 2015 Gwendolyn Koldovsky Accompaniment Prize.

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