Heather Pawsey - 2007 Engagements

2007

Date	Engagement
January 27 - February 8	Chorus for Mozart's The Magic Flute for Vancouver Opera, conducted by Derrick Inouye
January 28	Soloist for Gung Haggis Fat Choy (Robbie Burns Day / Chinese New Year celebration); Floata, Vancouver, B.C.
February 2	Night Bird Singing (chamber music concert with Kaori Otake, harp; Yang Zhong Cai, erhu and Qiu Xia He, pipa; music of Mark Armanini); Birch Theatre, Capilano College, North Vancouver, B.C.
February 10	World premiere of Leslie Uyeda's Anniversary Toast (poetry by Brenda Brooks), with Kathryn Cernauskas, flute and Sue Round, cello at Song Room 6; Vancouver, B.C.
February 12	Soloist for The Same Song (subsequent broadcast on CCTV - Chinese Central Television); Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, B.C.
March 16	World premiere of Leila Lustig's Altered Words (with clarinetist AK Coope); world premiere of Heymin Suk's Abba Father, My Lord (with Rachel Iwaasa, piano); Sonic Boom Festival, Western Front; Vancouver, B.C.
March 24	CommOcean! (contemporary, Canadian, site-specific chamber music concert with Kathryn Cernauskas , flute; Rachel Iwaasa, piano; Peggy Lee, cello; and Jesse Zubot, violin; awarded the Government of Canada's Canada Music Fund Grant for "New Music in New Places"); Aquaquest - the Marilyn Blusson Learning Centre, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
April 21 - May 1	Chorus for Puccini's Tosca for Vancouver Opera, conducted by Robert Tweten
May 18 - 19	Mother Earth in Anders Nordentoft's opera On This Planet (North American premiere) for Aventa, conducted by Bill Linwood; McPherson Playhouse, Victoria, B.C.
June 17	World premiere of Leslie Uyeda's The First Woman (poetry by Lorna Crozier), with Rena Sharon, piano for Songs of Our Place - A Celebration of Canadian Art Song (Opening Gala Concert for Vancouver International Song Institute); School of Music Recital Hall, University of British Columbia
July 20 - 22	EVEolution ...... Another Look at Eden (with Rachel Iwaasa, piano); Sunset Theatre, Wells, B.C.
October 7	How(e) Sound (contemporary, Canadian, site-specific chamber music concert with Kathryn Cernauskas, flute; AK Coope, clarinet; and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano; awarded the Government of Canada's Canada Music Fund grant for "New Music in New Places"); British Columbia Museum of Mining, Britannia Beach, B.C.
October 14	Canadian national anthem singer for Seattle Seahawks vs. New Orleans Saints; QWest Stadium, Seattle, Washington
November 10 - 17	Chorus for Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci for Vancouver Opera, conducted by Jonathan Darlington; Queen Elizabeth Theatre
December 1 - 2	Soprano soloist for Handel's Messiah, conducted by Lars Kaario; Birch Theatre, Capilano College, North Vancouver, B.C.
December 6	Soloist for An Italian Serenade; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evan Mitchell; Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, B.C.
December 10-14	Workshop of Hiro Kanagawa and David MacIntyre's Tom Pinkerton (Rumble Productions)
December 15	Featured soloist for Sinfonia Family Christmas, conducted by Clyde Mitchell; Sinfonia Orchestra, Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver, B.C.