A Little Afternoon Music

Charlotte Siegel is a soprano, singer-songwriter and co-managing director of Toronto-based nonprofit the Marigold Music Program, which aims to close the accessibility gap between underrepresented youth and music education. She recently graduated from the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio. Her roles included Musetta (La Bohème), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), and Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. This season, she performs Anna (Nabucco) with the COC, Musetta with Manitoba Opera, and concert engagements with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She looks forward to participating in the 2025 Merola Opera Program in San Francisco this summer.

Nate Ben-Horin‘s work as a collaborative pianist has taken him across Canada and the US, as far afield as Ireland and Central America. When not in his adoptive city of Toronto, he can frequently play shows for Opera Columbus, which has invited him back every season since he completed a residency there in 2021-22. Other recent highlights include a three-month tour of British Columbia with the children’s opera The Flight of the Hummingbird (Vancouver Opera/Pacific Opera Victoria) and ongoing music staff positions with the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and Wexford Festival Opera. He has also worked extensively with the noted indie company West Edge Opera in his native San Francisco Bay Area. 

Ben-Horin is the co-founder, co-producer, pianist and composer/arranger of Likht Ensemble, a duo dedicated to the field of Holocaust music. This project has received large-scale grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. It has been presented in recitals by the Harold Greene Jewish Theatre, Pacific Opera Victoria, the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, the Canadian Opera Company’s Free Concert Series and others.