BIOGRAPHIES
KINZA TYRRELL | MUSIC DIRECTOR/PIANIST Kinza is the Principal Répétiteur and Music Director of Vancouver Opera In Schools at Vancouver Opera. She has also been on the music faculty at the Canadian Opera Company, has worked as Conductor, Assistant Conductor and Senior Répétiteur at Opera Nuova in Edmonton and the Opera As Theatre Program at the Banff Centre, and has held conducting and teaching positions at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Summer Opera Studio, Center for Opera Studies (COSI) in Sulmona Italy, Opera Kelowna, the Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) and the Charlie Creek Vocal Workshop in Wabash, Indiana. A much sought after vocal coach, accompanist and répétiteur, Kinza has shared recital stages with many renowned singers, including Richard Margison, Erin Wall, Benjamin Butterfield, Daniel Taylor, and Measha Brueggergosman. Kinza received her Doctorate in piano and vocal coaching from McGill University under the tutelage of Michael McMahon, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, the International Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, the Tanglewood Music Festival and the Merola Opera Program.
RACHEL PEAKE | DIRECTOR Originally from Saskatchewan, Rachel is a freelance director and dramaturge of theatre and opera. From 2017 to 2020 she led the Citadel's New Play Development initiatives as Associate Artistic Director of the Citadel Theatre. In June 2017 she won the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Direction for her work on Green Lake, produced by Solo Collective Theatre, which also received a Jessie nomination for Outstanding Production. Rachel recently directed The Garneau Block for the Citadel Theatre and The Marriage of Figaro for Edmonton Opera. Rachel directed and dramaturged Hyperlink for The Elbow, which was nominated for Critic's Choice in Innovation at the 2018 Jessie Awards. Recent directorial credits also include La Cenerentola and The Marriage of Figaro for Vancouver Opera, A Christmas Carol for Gateway Theatre, and Angels in America: Part One for Studio 58. achel interned at the Komische Oper in Berlin, at Stratford's R Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction, at the Shaw Festival's Neil Munro Directing Internship. Rachel is a graduate of the University of Alberta and Studio 58.
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