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Music at Noon concert series
Featuring Tina Alexander-Luna, mezzo-soprano & Brad Parker, piano
March 4 | 12:15 p.m. | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

This lecture recital will feature music and discussion on the Canadian composer Violet Archer and her song repertoire.

Mezzo-soprano, Dr. Tina Alexander-Luna is a performer, teaching-artist, and Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Regina. Known for her versatility across genres as a singer and pedagogue, Tina was a music student at the University of Lethbridge from 2007-2010 and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the art songs of Canadian composer, Violet Archer, and the important role Archer played as a female composer in Canada during the twentieth century. Equally at home in Opera, Concert, and Choral settings, Dr. Alexander-Luna has performed with the Canadian Chamber Choir, Theatre of Early Music, and the Canadian Opera Company among others. As a musician with a passion for community, Dr. Alexander-Luna most recently taught as a tenured faculty member at Northwestern Polytechnic and was co-founder and artistic director of the Peace Region Music Series, a concert series aimed at making professional live classical music more accessible in Northern Alberta. Dr. Alexander-Luna is also the Vocal Director at the Adirondack Performing Arts Festival (APAF) in Upstate New York and will be featured as a presenter at the 2025 International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT) in Toronto in summer 2025.

Brad Parker has performed in Canada, the US, France, Italy and Haiti. Recent performances include solo recitals in Alberta, South Carolina and California, collaborative performances with FOURtitude Piano Ensemble, Pedro Diaz, Gabriel Goni, and Nancy Stagnitta as well as concertos with the Lethbridge and Charleston Symphonies.

Dr. Parker is on the music faculty at the University of Lethbridge, and previously taught at Charleston Southern University and Erskine College in South Carolina. His passion for musical instruction led him to volunteer for several summers at the North Haiti Music Camp, on the campus of the Christian University of North Haiti.

Brad completed a Masters and DMA in Piano Performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with further graduate studies at the Paris Conservatory.  He studied at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario where he earned a Bachelor of Music with Distinction.  His principal teachers include Rebecca Penneys, Dr. Heather Dawn Taves, and Jean Koerner.