This concert will take place on February 24, 2024 at 3:00pm.
Emili Losier, soprano
Jenna Richards, piano
The Sisu Ensemble presents their program: “From Broadway with Love.” Click here to download our printable poster for this program.
About the Artists
Meeting during the pandemic, soprano Emili Losier and pianist Jenna Richards founded the voice-piano duo, Sisu Ensemble, out of a love for collaboration and music-making. Sisu Ensemble brings their joy of music to audiences of all kinds, carefully curating programs that are entertaining while evocative. The pair theatrically produces and performs for the elderly, children, individuals with exceptionalities and their families, as well as traditional audiences and the general population. Through the embodiment of characters, Emili transports her audiences to new worlds, weaving her musical narrative together with Jenna at the piano. Ultimately, Sisu loves to engage their audiences with socially pertinent content in an intimate fashion that produces meaningful and uplifting experiences.
Emili and Jenna have performed together extensively given their short history, including for Ottawa Chamberfest, Concerts in Care, Kemptville Historical Society, and healthcare workers. The two are extremely active as portfolio career musicians, including performance, community and multi-disciplinary programming, administration, and research in their ongoing practices. Upcoming projects for the Sisu Ensemble include performances in Toronto and Ottawa, and the world premiere of a new work by Franco-Ontarian composer Marie-Claire Saindon.
Sisu is a Finnish word for inner strength – integral to the Finnish culture Emili inherited through birth. As the ensemble formed during the pandemic, it seemed natural to name the group after a word that means extraordinary perseverance. The word is more than a mere name: it describes the heart of the ensemble.
Program
| The Sound of Music Medley ”Sound of Music” ”My Favourite Things” ”Climb Every Mountain” ”Edelweiss” | Rogers and Hammerstein II |
| Sweeney Todd ”Green Finch and Linnet Bird” | Stephen Sondheim |
| West Side Story Medley ”I Feel Pretty” ”Somewhere” | Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim |
| Candide ”Glitter and Be Gay” | Leonard Bernstein |
| La La Land Medley | Jason Hurwitz |
| Singing in the Northland 1. Quiet 2. Rainfall 3. Severance 4. The Star | Martha Hill Duncan* |
| My Fair Lady Medley ”Show Me” ”I Could Have Danced All Night” | Loewe and Lerner |
All of our concerts are held at Kanata United Church, 33 Leacock Drive Kanata ON. Our venue offers limited parking, with street parking available in the surrounding neighborhood. The venue is accessible, which includes automatic doors, a dedicated accessible washroom and no stairs required for entry.
Beaverbrook Community Concert Series 
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