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Seattle Chamber Music Performances Live Streamed
Allyson makes her first appearance at the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival with performances on July 21 and 23. On July 23rd, she performs Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes with Hyunah Yu, Nicholas Phan, James Westman, Jeewon Park, and Max Levinson. On July 23rd, chamber music enthusiasts are in for a real treat when Allyson performs Kodály’s rarely heard Annie Miller, from Hungarian Folk Music with pianist Jeewon Park as well as Brahms’s Two Songs, Op. 91 with Michael Klotz and Jeewon Park.
Dora Nomination for Allyson!
Allyson has been nominated for a Dora Award in the category of Outstanding Performance in an Opera for her appearance as Sara in Roberto Devereux at the Canadian Opera Company in May 2014. The awards will handed out on Monday June 23, 2014 in Toronto.
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A unique vocal colour and commanding stage presence are the hallmarks of performances by mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy. Hailed by Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle as “a singer of enormous imagination and versatility”, she has appeared with the Paris Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Chicago Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Glyndebourne Festival, San Francisco Opera, Boston Symphony, Canadian Opera Company, Warsaw Philharmonic and Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse. Adam Fischer, Seiji Ozawa, Jeremy Rohrer, Kent Nagano, Emmanuelle Haim, Bernard Labadie, Ludovic Morlot, Carlos Kalmar and Jesus Lopez Cobos are among the conductors with whom she has collaborated for performances of works such as L’enfant et les sortileges, La clemenza di Tito, Das Rheingold, Dream of Gerontius and Messiah.
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Handel: Messiah
Music of the Baroque Orchestra
Recorded live in November 2021, Handel’s Messiah features the Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra and soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano, Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano, Brian Giebler, tenor, and Matthew Brook, bass-baritone under the direction of Nicholas Kraemer.