Ai Horton

Currently based in The Netherlands, Canadian-Japanese soprano Ai Horton is praised for her vulnerability and versatility as a performer. With a particular interest in historical-performance practice, her varied concert repertoire spans several centuries and includes Medieval plainchant, music of the French Baroque, the works of J.S. Bach, and German Lieder of the Romantic era. Ai also regularly performers contemporary works such as Luciano Berio's sound documentary: A-Ronne for eight amplified voices, and appeared was a vocalist for the 2022 Young Composer’s Meeting with the Orkest de Ereprijs (NL). Professional highlights include Handel’s Messiah with Bach on the Rock (CAN), Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri with Dutch Baroque, Rameau’s Quam Dilecta Tabernacula broadcast on Radio West (NL), and a concert of Telemann solo cantatas with violinist Marc Destrubé (CAN). An avid supporter of civic engagement initiatives, Ai aims to create community and belonging through shared musical experience as both a performer and an educator. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Ai was a featured artist in Pacific Opera Victoria’s Opera Etc. programs, performing in numerous “Pop-up Operas” (short performances in outdoor public spaces) and recording virtual concerts that were distributed to senior care facilities. Ai also worked with the company to produce "Tenebris": a video presentation using Pergolesi's Stabat Mater to tell a personal story of struggle with mental health. Her current project—"Laments for a Modern World"—comprises a set of four unique pieces that she herself composed with influence from 17th-century Laments, featuring newly-commissioned texts that amplify modern-day stories of race relations, miscarriage, struggles with mental health, and displacement from one’s homeland. Ai completed a Master in Early Music Vocal Studies as a Holland/Excellence Scholar at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, where she developed an interactive musical murder-mystery, "Who killed Lydia Peabody?", for her final presentation, using a framework of early music compositions in which each instrumentalists served as a suspect in the investigation. She also holds a Bachelor of Music in Secondary Music Education and Voice from the University of Victoria. Ai was a 2023 Next Generation Artist with Early Music Vancouver for their festival “Women in Sight”. She can regularly be seen singing as a chorister with top Dutch vocal ensembles including Cappella Amsterdam, the Groot Omroepkoor, and Consensus Vocalis.

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Concerts

09/20/2024 | 20:30

Dag van de Vrede

Consensus Vocalis and het Nederlands Blazers Ensemble

09/21/2024 | 20:00

Dag van de Vrede

Consensus Vocalis and het Nederlands Blazers Ensemble

11/01/2024 | 19:00

Miserere mei, Deus: Allegri, Kuhnau, Haydn, Mozart, Bach

Dutch Baroque

11/02/2024 | 19:00

Miserere mei, Deus: Allegri, Kuhnau, Haydn, Mozart, Bach

Dutch Baroque

12/13/2024 | 19:00

Te Deum: Charpentier, Manfredini, Buxtehude, Händel, Bach

Dutch Baroque

12/14/2024 | 19:00

Te Deum: Charpentier, Manfredini, Buxtehude, Händel, Bach

Dutch Baroque

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from Idomeneo, by W.A. Mozart

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