Training:
Quebec Conservatoire, Montreal – bachelor’s degree,
master’s degree in voice,
voice prize, earlier study in trombone
Teachers: Mark Oswald (Manhattan School of Music), Marie
Daveluy (CMQM);
master classes with Edith Wiens and Tom Krause
Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia
Festival, Chicago
Franz Schubert Institute, Austria – courses with Helmut
Deutsch, Elly Ameling
and Wolfgang Holzbair
Professional experience:
Numerous performances at the Orford Arts Centre, the
Chapelle historique du
Bon-Pasteur and the Vermont International Opera Festival
Bravo channel broadcast of Shakespeare in Words and
Music
Prizes and awards:
Scholarships – Jeunesses Musicales of Canada Foundation
(2006), Conseil des
arts et des letters du Québec (2004, 2005)
2006 and 2004 – semi-finalist in the Montreal Symphony/Standard
Life
Competition
2003 – Étoile-Galaxie Prize from Radio-Canada
Canada
Born February 23, 1978
SEMI-FINALS
FRANCIS POULENC Rayons des yeux
Le matin les branches attisent
Tout disparut
Dans les ténèbres du jardin
Unis la fraîcheur et le feu
Homme au sourire tendre
La grande rivière qui va
FRANZ SCHUBERT An die Leier
Auf der Brück
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART « Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo » ~
Cosi fan tutte
GIUSEPPE VERDI « E sogno, o realta » ~ Falstaff
JULIEN BILODEAU Portraits; prologue
FINALS
HECTOR BERLIOZ Le Spectre de la rose
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART « Vedro mentr'io sospiro » ~ Le
nozze di Figaro
PIOTR ILITCH TCHAIKOVSKY « Ja vas, ljublju » ~ Pikovaia
Dama
GIUSEPPE VERDI « Per me giunto… Io morro » ~ Don Carlo
