COVC Richard Bradshaw Memorial Award
Young Macedonian baritone Vasil Garvanliev began performing professionally at the age of seven as a child pop star in his native country. Vasil has quite an exciting season coming up. A few of his engagements include Falke in Die Fledermaus with Highlands Opera Studio, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with Ensemble Masques, Harasta in The Cunning Little Vixen with Banff Opera Centre, soloist with OffCentre Music Salon, and his first Die Schöne Müllerin with Peter Tiefenbach at the Arts and Letters Club.
Some of his recent performances include Ramiro in L’Heure Espagnole, White Cat in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Geronimo in Il Matrimonio Segreto with U of T Opera Division, Papageno for the MacMillan Singers Opera Concert, Tobia Mill in Cambiale di Matrimonio and title role in Signor Deluso with Highlands Opera Studio, Grand Priest in Opera Atelier’s Idomeneo, as well as title role in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Glenn Gould School. Vasil is also this year’s winner of the U of T’s Concerto Competition and will get to perform Mahler’s Rückert Lieder in the 09/10 Orchestra Season.
Mr. Garvanliev was also a finalist in the Macedonian Eurosong Festival with his own original composition in February 2007. In previous years, Mr. Garvanliev has performed with much success, appearing frequently as an ensemble member and soloist for Opera in Concert and in recital at the Glenn Gould School, Stratford Summer Music, OffCentre Music Salon, and The Arts and Letters Club. Vasil was also a part of the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme in England as Masetto in Don Giovanni and as a soloist in the Strauss-Mahler Lieder Course.
Four years ago Vasil moved to Toronto and recently finished his undergraduate studies at the Glenn Gould School under Roxolana Roslak. He is now continuing his studies at the U of T Opera Division under Mary Morrison.
Vasil would like to thank the COVC for their generous support as the past year’s recipient of the COVC Sharon & David Aello Scholarship, COVC Bruce Philpott Memorial Scholarship, and COVC Clifford L. & Ingeborg Jenkins Scholarship.
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