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Music at Noon Series 
Garry Gable, bass-baritone; Kathleen Lohrenz Gable, piano
(University of Saskatchewan)
Some Favourite Songs to Sing
September 24, 2019 
12:15 pm, University Recital Hall 
Free admission, everyone welcome! 

Garry Gable, bass-baritone, has enjoyed a performing career that has taken him across Canada and into the USA, Italy, and China in all types of classical music, musical theater, drama, television, radio, in-concert and stage presentations. He has also been heard in recital with his spouse/pianist Kathleen Lohrenz Gable. Both he and Kathleen have taught and performed together several times in China, where Garry is adjunct faculty in Music Conservatories in Wuhan and Tianjin. They return there in December this year.

Garry resides in Saskatoon where he teaches vocal studies, literature, and pedagogy, and directs the Music Theatre Ensemble at the University of Saskatchewan. He is recipient of the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Saskatchewan. Among his many students over the years are multiple winners of CMFTA Nationals, Gordon Wallace Opera Competition, SMFA Provincial Competitions, the Saskatchewan and Manitoba Young Artists Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Regional), and the Netherlands National Opera Auditions. Garry is widely sought as an adjudicator and clinician and teacher. He has been a vocal instructor for the Vancouver Summer Opera Studio program. In the summer of 2018 Garry joined the faculty of the Bel Canto in Tuscany opera training program near Florence, Italy.

Kathleen Lohrenz Gable is the Music Director for the University of Ssaskatchewan’s  Music Theatre Ensemble, and a highly respected collaborative pianist, piano instructor and clinician. She trained at Wilfrid Laurier University (BMus ’80), and the University of Michigan (MMus ’85). She also has a certificate from the Franz Schubert Institute (Austria), and advanced degrees in piano from Trinity College of Music (London, England), and the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto).

Kathleen has been a part of Edmonton’s OPERA NUOVA faculty since 2004, where she has conducted Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Copland’s The Tender Land, Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, and Mechem’s Tartuffe, among other shows. Kathleen’s career includes experiences as a recitalist, voice coach, piano instructor, accompanist, and as a musical director and rehearsal pianist for opera productions in Canada and the USA. Kathleen taught piano and piano pedagogy at the University of Michigan and was a piano instructor at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan. She has also taught at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Windsor, and currently teaches at the University of Saskatchewan.