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Che Anne Loewen, originally from Steinbach, Manitoba, is a collaborative pianist of breadth and authority. She has performed throughout Canada and in Europe with many singers and instrumentalists, including Jean Stilwell, Catherine Robbin, Gary Relyea, and Measha Brueggergosman. She has been heard many times over the CBC and has been praised in the press for her brilliant support (Toronto Globe and Mail), truly exquisite articulation (Fredericton Daily Gleaner) and her subtlety and nuance (Halifax Chronicle-Herald). Most recently she has been touring in concert with soprano Lorna MacDonald and trumpeter Guy Few; Ms. Loewen and Mr. Few have collaborated on a recording of French repertoire entitled Exposures.
Ms. Loewen studied piano performance with Garth and Marjorie Beckett at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she was a gold medal graduate. Her aptitude for accompanying led her to the University of Southern California for further study with Jean Barr and Brooks Smith. There she graduated with top awards. She continued her study in Austria at the Franz Schubert Institut and at the Banff Centre.
Ms. Loewen has served on the boards of Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Co. and Consort Caritatis, and currently is a director on the board of the Aldeburgh Connection and sits on the Dean’s Committee in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. She has received the Arbor Award for her outstanding service to the University where she founded the Greta Kraus Scholarship and spearheaded the Lois Marshal Chair in Voice Studies.
Ms. Loewen’s first love is the art song repertoire, and she relishes her opportunities to pass this music on to her students at the University of Toronto where, as an Adjunct Associate Professor, she coaches singers and teaches Piano-Vocal Masterclasses and Lyric Diction. She has also been a guest instructor in Canada at the Banff Centre’s School of Fine Arts, the Elora Festival, Newfoundland’s Memorial University, for the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and in Germany at the Musikakademie of the Prinzregententheater in Munich. |