Party: Sunday Cabaret w/ Yvette Coleman & Florian Hoefner

Party: Sunday Cabaret w/ Yvette Coleman & Florian Hoefner

A Native of Newfoundland, now residing in Toronto; soprano Yvette Coleman is lauded for her virtuosity; captivating audiences with manifold styles of voice including opera, art song, jazz, folk, and musical theatre. A pupil of soprano – Ms. Elizabeth McDonald – Yvette is now a graduate of The University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Performance voice. She has trained at the Vancouver International Song Institute, Boston University Tanglewood Institute and The St. Andrews’ Vocal Technique Program. She recently returned from The Center for Opera Studies in Sulmona, Italy performing in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea under the direction of Timothy Nelson. Yvette ranked first in the Newfoundland Provincial voice competition , gained distinction in the Classical Singer Competition in New York , and was a two time winner of Rotary festival junior and senior rosebowls for voice. Separate of the classical world, Yvette has thrived as a working artist for the past five years at The Gros Morne Summer Music Festival as well as a featured performer at The Woody Point Writers Festival. Collaborating with musicians from Asia, United States, Netherlands, and Canada, Yvette has learned from highly reputable and established musicians since a young age and was instrumental in the ensemble formed by these artists known as ‘Dark by Five’ as the solo vocalist, actress and dancer. Together with strings, percussion, piano, and woodwinds the ensemble is celebrated for stretching the boundaries of the classical tradition and achieving a perfect marriage of classical music, drama and dance with an expansive set of repertoire under the theatrical direction of Rachel Peake. Yvette has world premiered composer Jason Nett’s major works, ‘Trolley Car’, ‘Cab Fare’ and ‘Splash’ and has also premiered Welsh composer Bernard Kane’s ‘Lie still, sleep, be calmed’ in London, England at The Dylan Thomas Festival with the Kane String Players. She will join The Kane Players again this fall to sing Kane’s new work – ‘Hunchback’ in New York City. She has recently performed with worldwide-recognized jazz pianist and composer Florian Hoefner at the DiMenna Centre for Classical music in New York City, who will be joining her at Jazz Bistro.

Yvette Coleman – voice
Florian Hoefner – piano

Music Starts at 7pm
Music Charge $15.00

Invited: Laura Warren, Crystal Wells, Ben Promane, Madeleine Swinkin, Kaan Gunesberk, Hannah Tarder-Stoll, Kari Abraham, Hannah Lecours, Alyssa Di Marco, Sarah Paszat, Johanna Chisholm, Yvette Coleman, Haley Maggie, Tori Fleming, Ian Culley, Laura Crowe, Lyndsay Promane, Catherine Jardine, Alyssa Curto, Hope Evelyn, Madison Angus, Emmett O'Reilly, Devin Hoare, Ryan Downey, Paul Simoneau, Heather Eason, Parker Weiss, Danika Lorèn, Lynn Kuo, Sarah Park, Meg McCarthy, Zohaib Zia, John Jardine, Thomas Jardine, Oscar Linares Leon, Sarah Carey, Florian Höfner, Lindsay Foote, Peter Warren, Abi Ferstman, Maria Tereshchenko, Gary Smith, Emily D'Angelo show more »