Arts on 817 features “women of note”

By Janet Kanters Times Editor

Mark Feb. 2 on your calendar for Arts on 817’s next concert, Women of Note.
Featured in this concert will be Winnipeg-based mezzo soprano Elizabeth Hoyt-Surdhar, and Alberta-born pianist Janet Scott-Hoyt.
Passionate about orchestral songs, Elizabeth Hoyt-Surdhar has performed with Concordia Symphony Orchestra (Berlioz, Les nuits d’été), Symphony of the Kootenays (Canadian Folk Sketches) and the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra (A Celtic Christmas). She has also appeared in several previous opera roles. Hoyt-Surdhar performed the mezzo-soprano roles for the Canadian-composers Greeriad production with Flipside Opera. She is currently role-studying the title role of Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Angelina).
Active as a chamber musician, soloist and recording artist, Janet Scott-Hoyt has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Sydney Harth, Oskar Shumsky, Raphael Wallfisch and Barry Tuckwell, and has given performances across Canada, United States and Europe. She was a professor at the University of Alberta from 1998-2014 where she supervised a graduate program in pedagogy and was the associate chair of undergraduate studies.
She is now a professor emerita and is the artistic director of the Edmonton Recital Society. Scott-Hoyt has released five recordings which can be heard on radio across Canada.
The Women of Note concert is the fourth in this season’s Arts on 817 six-concert line up. There is still opportunity to purchase the Arts on 817’s “winter buy three for $85” ticket deal. The final two concerts in the series include Arrogant Worms on March 22, and The Dearhearts on May 10.
The Women of Note concert goes Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Strathmore United Church. For tickets, call Linda at 403-901-2797, or smoreuc.com.