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• Mary Rezza Memorial Recital

  • When
    27 Apr 2024
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    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Heliconian Hall

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  About Mary Rezza (1927-2000)

  Mary Elizabeth Rezza was a long-standing member of the Toronto Heliconian Club, an esteemed pianist, teacher, and a noted vocal coach and accompanist. She became a member of the Club in 1956, sponsored by Dorothy Allen Park and Evelyn Dunlop.

  Rezza graduated with a combined teacher's and solo performer's ARCT in 1949. She specialized in vocal accompaniment and spent her career playing for thousands of students as official accompanist for the Kiwanis Festival of Music. In addition, Mary became both a vocal coach and singing teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music where she coached many students who went on to international careers, including Robert Goulet, Ermanno Mauro, Catherine Robbin, Gwenlynn Little and Jon Vickers.

  Mary was an active member of the Toronto Heliconian Club and served as Chair of the Music Section from 1993 to 1995. She continued to teach at home until she died in February of 2000, after a lengthy battle with cancer.

  The first Mary Rezza Student Recital was established in April 1991. It was Mary’s idea to have an annual recital that would feature students of the teaching members of the Club’s Music Section. Mary organized each recital and provided piano accompaniment for all of the performers. Since her death in 2000, the Toronto Heliconian Club continues to sponsor an annual student recital as a memorial to her musical contributions.

  This year, this tradition will continue with an in person student concert to be presented on Saturday April 27th at 2:30-doors open at 2:00.

  This event is free. To support this and other Club initiatives, please consider donating to the Heliconian Club by clicking here: https://torontoheliconianclub.wildapricot.org/DONATE-NOW/

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• Musical Chairs! And All That Jazz

  • When
    28 Apr 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Heliconian Hall
  • Spaces left
    21

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  Musical Chairs! And All That Jazz

  Kye Marshall/DonThompson Jazz Duo

  April 28th 

  2:00PM-5:00PM

  (Doors open at 1:30PM)

  Heliconian Club (35 Hazelton Ave.)

  This concert will feature Kye Marshall, cellist and composer with Canada's foremost jazz pianist Don Thompson performing Great American Songbook standards along with compositions written by Kye from one of her four CDs.  Proceeds from this concert will go towards the purchase of new chairs for the Heliconian Club.

  Marshall’s numerous eclectic compositions have been performed widely in Canada and Europe including her opera Pomegranate performed by the Canadian Opera Company June/23  to sold out crowds and rave reviews.

  Thompson is a Canadian jazz legend. He has won multiple awards, is a Member of the Order of Canada, and is a multi-instrumentalist who has performed worldwide with jazz greats like Paul Desmond and George Shearing. 
  

  The concert will be followed by a Meet and Greet reception. 

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