Lisa Drouillard

<!--StartFragment--> <div style="mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap: around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" align="left"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" style="padding-top:0cm;padding-right:9.0pt;padding-bottom: 0cm;padding-left:9.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-element:frame; mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt; mso-height-rule:exactly"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica">Aradia Ensemble<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph; mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule: exactly"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica">According to Robert Graves’ book Greek Myths, Aradia was Apollo’s twin sister and the daughter of Leto and Zeus. She was sent by the gods to teach humankind to order the music of the natural world into song. The Aradia Ensemble presents an innovative series that incorporates old-world artistry and modern-day relevance, performing an eclectic blend of orchestral, operatic and chamber music on Baroque instruments. Featuring some of Canada’s leading early music specialists, Aradia has collaborated with Toronto’s Opera in Concert and with Isadora Duncan and Baroque Dancers, Irish musicians and Javanese Gamelan and many other art forms. The Juno nominated ensemble, winning two British Gramophone Editor’s Choice Awards, has produced more than 50 CDs on the Naxos Label which can be heard regularly on the CBC and 96.3 Classical FM. Most recently Aradia has been featured on the soundtrack of Jim Carey’s movie Yes Man. Aradia has also toured Canada, Italy, New Zealand and USA. The ensemble has just completed its Second year as Orchestra in Residence for COSI (The Centre for Opera Studies in Italy) in Sulmona, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph; mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule: exactly"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt; mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Conductor, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Kevin Mallon</b> was brought up in Belfast. Northern Ireland. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and at Dartington College of Arts, studying composition with Peter Maxwell Davies and conducting with John Eliot Gardiner, and specializing in baroque violin. He became concert-master with Le Concert Spirituel and Les Arts Florissants in Paris and led and directed The Irish Baroque Orchestra before moving to Canada to take up posts with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and the University of Toronto, (positions he left to pursue his conducting career).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">In 1999 he founded the Aradia Ensemble, with whom he has toured widely, and become conductor of the Toronto Chamber Orchestra and has made over 50 recordings for Naxos. With Toronto’s Opera in Concert he has conducted ten baroque operas. From 2005-2009, he was Artistic Director of the Irish company- Opera 2005; his seventh production with them being Verdi’s Ballo in Maschera in September 2008 for which he achieved his third Irish Times Theatre Award nomination. He has recently returned from conducting Carmen and Don Giovanni in Odessa, Holland, Belgium and Spain.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Kevin's most recent appointments are as Music Director of the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra in Ottawa and as Conductor of New York’s Newly formed West Side Chamber Orchestra. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <!--EndFragment-->

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