Warlock - Capriol Suite
Britten - Serenade for Tenor and Horn - John Tessier - tenor and Allene Hackleman - horn
Elgar - Serenade
Mozart Serenata Notturna
Soloists
The Juno Award-winning Tenor, John Tessier, garners praise and attention for the beauty and honesty of his voice. Appearances of the recent past and near future include performances at the Teatro alla Scala Milano, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colon, Oper Frankfurt, Grand Théâtre de Genève, English National Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, New Zealand Opera, the New York Philharmonic, Taiwan Philharmonic, Wiener Musikverein, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Seattle Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, L.A. Philharmonic and the Toronto Symphony. Equally comfortable in opera, oratorio and recital genres, Mr. Tessier is a full professor at the University of Alberta. His discography includes recordings on the Decca, Naxos, Telarc, BIS, Challenge Records, Cappella Records and Dorian labels.
Allene Hackleman has been principal horn of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra since 2004. A native of Vancouver, B.C., Allene studied horn with Martin Hackleman, and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cincinnati. Ms Hackleman has played with the Montréal and National (Washington, D.C.) Symphonies, as well as the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony and the Colorado Music Festival. She has performed concerti with the Edmonton Symphony, Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Red Deer Symphony and the Victoria Symphony. Allene is a member of the Canadian National Brass Project and the Summit Brass, and is on the most recent CD recordings with both groups. Allene enjoys chamber music and has been a guest artist at the Festival of the Sound, Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music, Lanaudière Festival, the Edmonton Recital Society, and the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival. Allene has been a featured artist at the International Women's Brass conference in 2010, the Southeast Horn Workshop in 2023 as well as the International Horn Symposium in 2023. Allene has taught at the Musikacademy in Belgrade, Serbia as well as the Domaine Forget Academy in Quebec, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Allene teaches at the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute in Denver, Colorado, and at University of Alberta.