Ms. Baron began her stage career performing with the Canadian Opera Company following her training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the University of Toronto's Opera Department. After transitioning to Music Theatre, she went on to star in both musicals and plays in theatres across Canada, the United States, London's West End and on Broadway.
Ms. Baron has played leading roles in both musicals and plays. Her dramatic roles include Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Grand Theatre, London), Celia in As You Like It (Stratford Festival), and Janet in the original production of Waiting For the Parade (Alberta Theatre Projects).
Some of her favourite musical roles include Sarah in Guys and Dolls (Stratford Festival), Amalia in She Loves Me (Grand Theatre, London), Lady Audley in Lady Audley's Secret (Shaw Festival) and Jenny in Company (CanStage, Toronto).
The successful meeting of Ms. Baron and Gilbert and Sullivan began at the Stratford Festival with leading roles in The Mikado, The Gondoliers and Iolanthe. These productions were filmed and televised on C.B.C. and HBO.
She reprised her role as Yum-Yum in The Mikado on tour in Canada, the United States, the Old Vic in London, England and on Broadway.
As an educator, Ms. Baron was the Head of the Vocal Discipline for the Music Theatre Performance Program at Sheridan College for 15 years.
Currently, she adjudicates Music Theatre in Festivals across Canada, conducts Music Theatre Performance Workshops and Master Classes and works with theatre artists in her Toronto studio.
Rudin Lengo's piano playing has been described as "profound, imaginative and exceptionally communicative". As a soloist, he has performed Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 with the Georgian Bay Symphony conducted by François Koh and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.3 with the Kindred Spirits Orchestra and maestro Kristian Alexander. Other engagements include performances with the University of Toronto Symphony and Choir, Hart House Orchestra, West Coast Symphony, Deep River Symphony, Toruń Symphony, Greater Toronto Philharmonic, Royal Conservatory Orchestra and Orchestra London.
Mr. Lengo has traveled and performed across Canada and the United States, and has also appeared in concert halls in Poland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Albania, North
Macedonia and the Netherlands.
He has been the recipient of over 50 awards and scholarships for his musical and academic accomplishments. After completing a Bachelor's Degree in Piano Performance at Western University on a National Scholarship, Mr. Lengo received his Master's Degree from the Manhattan School of Music on a President's Award and completed an Artist Diploma at the Glenn Gould School on a prestigious Ihnatowycz Emerging Artist Scholarship.
Winner of the DMA Competition at the University of Toronto, the Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition, the 5th Knigge Music Competition and the TD Elora Competition, he was also the 2nd prize winner at the 40th William C. Byrd International Competition and winner of the Mary Winston Smail Memorial Award for Best Pianist at the WAMSO Minnesota Competition.
A recipient of a Performance Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Simmonds
Graduate Fellowship, and the John and Barbara Vivash Scholarship in Piano Performance, Mr. Lengo studied with Enrico Elisi and Jamie Parker at the University of Toronto.
He maintains a piano teaching studio in Toronto and is also a senior examiner with the Royal Conservatory. Rudin Lengo is an active adjudicator in provincial as well as national and international festivals and competitions.