DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT WELCOMES SIMON RIVARD (CONDUCTOR)

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME CONDUCTOR SIMON RIVARD TO THE DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT ROSTER!

Conductor Simon Rivard is becoming one of the most sought-after conductors on the Canadian music scene. Recent highlights include his debut at the Edmonton Opera with Puccini's La Bohème, and subsequent re-engagement for Puccini’s Tosca, as well as Handel’s Messiah with both the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Classique de Montréal. Since 2018, Simon has been the resident conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, while, from 2018 to 2022, held the title of RBC Resident Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

This season, Simon made his debut with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, and looks forward to upcoming engagements with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke, as well as serving as assistant conductor to Barbara Hannigan for engagements in France, Turkey, Sweden, and Iceland. 

As a guest conductor, he has joined orchestras across North America and Europe. He recently made his début with Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke, and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He also recently collaborated with celebrated Toronto-based opera company Against The Grain for Holst’s Savitri.

Passionate for all genres of vocal repertoire, Rivard also excels as a choral conductor. In 2020, he became involved with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, one of Canada’s oldest and largest symphonic choirs. He served as their Associate Conductor (2020-2022), and as Artistic Collaborator (2022-present), during which time he led the TMChoir in Against the Grain’s Juno Award nominated Messiah/Complex. In recent seasons, he also served as the Musical Director of the TBSO Symphony Chorus and as Assistant Conductor of the Choir of St. Andrew and St. Paul and the Ottawa Choral Society.

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DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT WELCOMES GEORGIA BURASHKO (MEZZO SOPRANO)

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME MEZZO SOPRANO GEORGIA BURASHKO TO THE DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT ROSTER!

Canadian mezzo-soprano Georgia Burashko has been hailed as a “model of expressiveness” and “emotionally evocative” (Opera Going Toronto). Based in Den Haag, Netherlands, Georgia is a Young Bach Fellow with De Nederlandse Bachvereniging for the 2022-23 season, and will join Les Arts Florissants and Le Jardin des Voix for an international tour of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in 2023-24.

Highlights of her 2021/2022 season included selections of Bach with the De Nederlandse Bachvereniging on the radio station NPO4, and singing Nerone in Handel’s Agrippina at Royaumont. In early 2022, Georgia premiered J.S. Bach - The Apocalypse, a joint opera production with De Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Opera2Day which toured the Netherlands, and sang the second soprano in C.P.E Bach’s Die Israeliten in der Wüste under the baton of Paul Agnew.

In June 2022, Georgia released her debut album with Italian harpist Michela Amici entitled Dal suono dolcissimo. Featuring a track list of 17th century Italian music, and new works for voice and baroque harp, Burashko and Amici toured their program in recital across both Italy and the Netherlands. They look forward to upcoming workshops of new commissions written for their duo in 2023.

Dean Artists represents Georgia in North America.

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