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Jardena Gertler-Jaffe, soprano
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
Saskatoon’s own Jardena Gertler-Jaffe is passionate about finding ways that the vocal arts can challenge, transform, and innovate in the twenty-first century. Her personal projects merge classical music with issues of social justice and representation within the arts.
Jardena has hand-picked a stunning program that showcases not only her vocal talents but her incredible work as an interpreter of Yiddish art song and Jewish liturgical works. This concert will include Kaija Saariaho’s Changing Light, Alexander Krein’s Esquisses hébraïques (“Jewish Sketches”), alongside works from Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, and Alex Weiser’s and all the days were purple.
Meditative and devotional in scope, and all the days were purple sets Yiddish and English poems to music in a song cycle that seeks out the divine while reflecting on the longing, beauty and tumult of life.
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The Program
and all the days were purple
Jardena Gertler-Jaffe, soprano
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
String Quartet No. 3
VI. Mishima/Closing
Philip Glass
Changing Light
Kaija Saariaho
and all the days were purple
I. Mayn Glik (My Joy) | מײַן גליק
II. *
III. I was never able to pray
IV. Benkshaft (Longing) | בענקשאַפֿט
V. Poezye (Poetry) | פּאָעזיע
VI. Lines for Winter
VII. **
VIII. Mir zaynen gegangen durkh teg (We Went Through the Days) | מיר זײַנען געגאַנגען דורך טעג
Alex Weiser
~Intermission~
Jewish Sketches, Suite no. 2, op. 13
I. Andante
II. Allegro
Alexander Krein
How Slow the Wind
Osvaldo Golijov
Tenebrae
Osvaldo Golijov
Jardena Gertler-Jaffe
https://jardenasings.com/
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Hailed for her “delicate yet strong vocalism” (Millbrook Independent), Jardena Gertler-Jaffe is a soprano from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Jardena is passionate about finding ways that the vocal arts can challenge, transform, and innovate in the twenty-first century. Her personal projects merge classical music with issues of social justice and representation within the arts.
Jardena has appeared as a soloist with Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble, Concerts in the Village (NY), Victoria Baroque, and the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. In 2020, Jardena was named an inaugural fellow in the Association for Opera in Canada Emerging Artist Fellowship. She is a recent graduate of the selective Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory where she studied with Lorraine Nubar, Stephanie Blythe, Kayo Iwama, and Erika Switzer. Jardena holds a B.Mus. from the University of Toronto, and is an alumna of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Sarasota Opera’s Young Artist program, SongFest, and Opera NUOVA. While performing is her main focus, Jardena also earned her M.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Toronto. Jardena seeks to incorporate her research interests, concerning the construction of musical and cultural identities in the face of oppression, into her artistic practice.
For the 2021/2022 season, Jardena performed Mozart’s “Bella mia fiamma” with the Broad Street Orchestra in the Hudson Valley. She also spent the winter season with Sarasota Opera as an Apprentice Artist, where, among numerous other performances, she stepped into their Voices of Sarasota Opera Concert with only four hours’ notice. In May, Jardena will sing the live world premiere of Dan Shore’s Five Songs of Anna Berkowitz at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research. She will return to Saskatoon to make her professional mainstage debut with Saskatoon Opera, appearing as Frasquita in their production of Carmen in June 2022.
During the unconventional 2020/2021 season, Jardena embarked on a number of projects that showcased her talent for thinking creatively and innovatively. Together with Maximillian Jansen, Louis Tiemann, and Diana Borshcheva, Jardena produced and performed Wherever the Road May Lead, an experimental “walking recital” highlighting the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley, which was released online in November 2020. Her ongoing project Our Singing Bodies, which treats the singer’s body as the site for the negotiation of power and identity, was launched in January 2021. Later that season, Jardena appeared as a featured soloist in György Kurtág’s enigmatic work Kafka Fragments, performed the role of Mrs. Gobineau in Menotti’s The Medium, and sang the world premiere of Yiddish songs by Dan Shore at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research. For the summer of 2021, Jardena was awarded an apprenticeship at Bard’s Summerscape Festival, singing in their production of Le roi Arthus by Chausson.
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Program Notes
Tenebrae
“I wrote Tenebrae as a consequence of witnessing two contrasting realities in a short period of time in September 2000. I was in Israel at the start of the new…
How Slow the Wind
Osvaldo Goligov’s How Slow the Wind for soprano and string quartet has text adapted from two Emily Dickinson poems. The original, and short, texts read: How slow the Wind —…
and all the days were purple poetry and translations
Alex Weiser’s and all the days were purple features a collection of such gems in Yiddish and English from poets Anna Margolin, Edward Hirsch, Rachel Korn, Abraham Sutzkever, and Mark…
Note from the Artist
A note from the artist. This recital of music and poetry of Jewish artists focuses on the intersection of spirituality and the quotidian. Much of Jewish culture and practice is…