Canadian Art Song Project
The Canadian Art Song Project (CASP) is a group that performs, records, promotes, and commissions the composition of Canadian vocal music in the tradition of art song and song cycle, song cycles. The contemporary classical music group is based in Toronto and was founded by Lawrence Wiliford and Steven Philcox in 2011. History In 2007, after the sudden death of the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company, Canadian Opera Company (COC), Richard Bradshaw (conductor), Richard Bradshaw, Wiliford and Liz Upchurch, Music Director of the COC Ensemble Studio, organized a commission in Bradshaw's honour from British-Canadian composer Derek Holman. The resulting work was a song cycle, ''Four Seasons'', which premiered at the new Four Seasons Centre in the spring of 2009. Philcox was in the audience, and described the experience as having had "a profound impact" on him. Wiliford subsequently approached Philcox with a proposal for an organization to promote Canadian art song, leading ...
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Lawrence Wiliford
Lawrence Wiliford is a Canadian tenor. Born in Michigan, United States, Wiliford studied at St. Olaf College and the University of Toronto, and was a member of the Canadian Opera Company's Studio Ensemble. He is particularly noted for his performances of the works of J.S. Bach. He has performed with the Canadian Opera Company, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Boston Baroque. His operatic roles have included Ferrando in ''Cosi fan tutte'', Don Ottavio in ''Don Giovanni'', and Francis Flute in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera), A Midsummer Night's Dream''. References

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