2010-2011 artists

Isaiah Bell

British Columbia

1st season with l’Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : University of Victoria, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Calgary Opera Emerging Artist Program

Recently : Albert (Albert Herring – Opera on the Avalon); Madwoman (Curlew River, Britten – City Opera Vancouver) ; Prince Charming (Cinderella – Calgary Opera Emerging Artist Program) ; Soloist (Requiem, Mozart – Festival Chorus of Calgary) ; Laurie (cover) (Little Women, Adamo – Calgary Opera) ; Soloist (Messiah – Victoria Symphony) ; Bénédict (Béatrice et Bénédict – Calgary Opera Emerging Artist Program) ; Soloist (Christmas Oratorio / Cantata 78, Bach – Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival, Cleveland) ; Soloist (Crucifixion, Stainer – Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria) ;  Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Burnaby Lyric Opera) ; Soloist (Let God Arise, Handel – Pacific Baroque Orchestra) ; Soloist / Evangelista (St. Matthew Passion – SummerChor, Vancouver) ; Tamino (Die Zauberflöte – Opera NUOVA) ; Evangelista (St. John Passion – VancouverVoices)

Upcoming : Soloist (Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, Liszt, Along the Field, Vaughan Williams, Říkadla, Janáček – Ricordanza Chamber Music Festival, Victoria) ; Soloist (Messiah – Symphony Nova Scotia) ; Usher (Rigoletto – Opéra de Montréal) ; 2nd Jew (Salome – Opéra de Montréal) ; Parpignol (La Bohème – Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes : 1st prize – Voice – National Music Festival, 2009

Karine Boucher

Québec

1st  season with l’Atelier lyrique de L’Opéra de Montréal

Studies :  Quebec Conservatory of Music

Recently : Soloist (Orchestre symphonique de Lévis) ; Soloist (Grand orchestre des jeunes de Québec), Fidalma (Il matrimonio segreto – Opera Studio –Conservatoire de musique de Québec Opera Division) ; Amour (Le Couronnement de Poppée – Conservatoire de musique de Québec Opera Division)

Upcoming : Kätchen (Werther – Opéra de Montréal) ; The foreign woman (The Consul  – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) 
Prizes and Scholarships: Orchetre symphonique de Trois-Rivières Winner of Prix Archambault Artiste Prometteur 2008, Bourses Wilfrid-Pelletier 2009 Scholarship, Dante Alighieri 2010 Scholarship

Aaron Ferguson

Saskatchewan

2nd season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : Victoria Conservatory, University of Saskatchewan, Pacific Opera Victoria’s Young Artist Program
Recently :  Soloist (Les amoureux célèbres – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Le Doyen de la Faculté (Cendrillon – Opéra de Montréal) ;  Charles Gill (Nelligan – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Spoletta (Tosca – Opéra de Montréal) ; Soloist (Requiem, Mozart – Orchestre symphonique de Laval) ; Soloist (Noël à l’opéra – Orchestre Métropolitain) ; Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte – Opéra de Montréal) ; Villager  (Pagliacci – Opéra de Montréal) ; Soloist (Ode to St. Cecilia’s Day, Handel – Victoria Symphony) ; Soloist (Mass in c minor, Mozart – Victoria Choral Society) ; Recital (Dichterliebe – Fairfield United Victoria) ; Soloist (Vesprae di Domenica, Mozart – Victoria Conservatory) ; Apollo (Semele – Pacific Opera Victoria) ; Cenobite (Thaïs – Pacific Opera Victoria)
Upcoming : Borsa (Rigoletto – Opéra de Montréal) ; The Magician (The Consul – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal)  

Prizes and Scholarships : Royal Bank Young Artist Grant 2008

Aidan Ferguson

Alberta

2nd season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : McGill University

Recently : Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia – Opera on the Avalon) ; Soloist (Les amoureux célèbres – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Soloist (Shades of Love – St. Lawrence Choir) ; Soloist (Requiem, Mozart – The Musicians of the World Symphony Orchestra) ; Amelia’s Maid (Simon Boccanegra – Opéra de Montréal) ; Soloist (Requiem, Mozart – Orchestre symphonique de Laval) ; La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi – Opéra de Montréal) ; Soloist (Mass in c minor, Mozart – Ottawa Choral Society) ; Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia – Opera McGill)

Upcoming : Soloist (Aleacanto – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Giovanna (Rigoletto – Opéra de Montréal) ; The secretary (The Consul – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes and Scholarships : Recipient Fondation Jacqueline Desmarais 2010, Grand Prize Winner of the Ottawa Choral Society’s 2008-2009 New Discoveries Audition, McGill University’s Remembering Dixie Scholarship 2009 and Helene Hall Prize 2009

Riccardo Iannello

Ontario

1st season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : University of Toronto, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston

Recently : Mayor Upfold (Albert Herring – Opera on the Avalon, St. John’s, Newfoundland); Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia – Canadian Opera Company Xstrata Ensemble school tour) ; Don José (La tragédie de Carmen – Banff Centre) ; Francis Flute (understudy) (A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Canadian Opera Company) ; Fyodor, Footman, General Konovnitsin (understudy) (War and Peace – Canadian Opera Company) ; John Styx (Orpheus in the Underworld – New England Conservatory) ; Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi – New England Conservatory) ; Tito (La Clemenza di Tito – Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, Toronto, Ontario) ; Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte – Opera festival di Roma)

Upcoming : Soloist (Aleacanto – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Lord Cecil (Roberto Devereux – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Schmidt (Werther – Opéra de Montréal) ; First Jew (Salomé – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal)

Philip Kalmanovitch

Ontario

1st season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : Queen’s University, University of Toronto

Recently : Ben (The Telephone – CVAI); Pandolfe (Cendrillon – The Glenn Gould School) ; Abner (Athalia, Handel – The Orpheus Choir); Soloist (A Christmas Cantata, Lindberg – Chorus Niagara; The Orpheus Choir) ; Soloist (Carmina Burana, Orff – The Annex Singers) ; Marcello (La Bohème – COSI) ; Figaro (The Barber of Boomtown – Saskatoon Opera); Soloist (Bayfield Festival of Song of the Aldeburgh Connection) ; Belcore (L’elisir d’amore – University of Toronto Opera Division) ; Ramiro (L’heure Espagnole – University of Toronto Opera Division)

Upcoming : Count Ceprano (Rigoletto – Opéra de Montréal) ; Servant (Roberto Devereux – Opéra de Montréal) ; Secret Police Agent (The Consul -  Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal ) ; Brigadiere (La Bohème – Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes and Scholarships : COVC 60th Anniversary Scholarship ; Prix lyrique Giuseppe Verdi and Prix lyrique allemand of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques

Chantale Nurse

Québec

2nd season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : The Glenn Gould School, Concordia University

Recently : Soloist (Les amoureux célèbres – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte – Opéra de Montréal) ; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte – Opera NUOVA) ; Recital (Lieder and songs from Pfitzner, Poulenc, and Rachmaninoff – Mazzoleni Hall of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto) ; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte – The Glenn Gould School) ; Soloist (Symphony No. 2 « The Resurrection », Mahler – Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra)

Upcoming : Soloist (Aleacanto – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Comtesse Ceprano (Rigoletto – Opéra de Montréal) ; Anna Gomez (The Consul – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes and Scholarships : Montréal Lyric Prize 2008 and Poulenc Prize of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques

Emma Parkinson

Alberta

1st season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : McGill University, University of Lethbridge

Recently : Stephano (Roméo et Juliette – Opera NUOVA) ; Soloist (Les nuits d’été – McGill Sinfonietta) ; Soloist (B Minor Mass – The Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul) ; Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti – Opera McGill) ; Mother Goose (The Rake’s Progress – Opera McGill) ; Nerone (Agrippina – Opera McGill) ; Second Witch (Dido and Aeneas – Theatre of Early Music) ; Carmen ( La Tragédie de Carmen – Banff Centre for the Arts) ; Madame de Croissy (Dialogues des Carmélites – Opera McGill) ; Médée (Thésée – Opera McGill)

Upcoming : Vera Boronel  (The Consul – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Herodias’ page (Salome – Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes and Scholarships : Wirth Opera Scholarship, Shapiro Scholarship

Jérémie Pelletier

Québec

3rd season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : Conservatoire de musique de Montréal

Recently : Rehearsal pianist (Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, Montreal); Rehearsal pianist (International Vocal Arts Institute, Israel) ; Pianist/accompanist (International Vocal Arts Institute, Virginia) ; Pianist/accompanist (Camp musical des Laurentides) ; Pianist (Les amoureux célèbres, The Telephone – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Pianist (Nelligan – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Pianist (La chèvre de monsieur Seguin – Opéra/théâtre Vox populi) ; Accompanist (Macbeth – Opéra de Montréal) ; Pianist (Recitals – Maison de la culture Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie) ; Chorus Accompanist and / or Rehearsal Pianist (Pagliacci, Die Zauberflöte, Tosca, Cendrillon – Opéra de Montréal) ; Piano Teacher (Camp musical des Laurentides) ; Pianist (Les grandes voix de la Méditerranée au XXe siècle – Institut d’études méditerranéennes de Montréal) ; Accompanist (Voix Internationales 09 – Professional workshop for singers – Chants libres) ; Pianist (Le Quatrième Enfant-Lune – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Rehearsal Pianist and continuo (Così fan tutte – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Rehearsal Pianist (Opéra! Mozart! – McGill Chamber Orchestra) ; Pianist (Cabaret classique – Chantal Lambert) ; Pianist (Aleacanto – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Rehearsal Pianist (Nuit blanche – Orchestre symphonique de Montréal)

Upcoming : Pianist (Aleacanto – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Chorus Accompanist and / or Rehearsal Pianist (Rigoletto, Roberto Devereux, La Bohème – Opéra de Montréal), Pianist and Rehearsal Pianist (The Consul – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes and Scholarships : Étoile Galaxie 2010 Scholarship

Pierre Rancourt

Québec

2nd season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : Université Laval

Recently : Soloist (Dialogues amoureux – recital tour) ; Soloist (Les amoureux célèbres – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Father Seers (Nelligan – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Soloist (Requiem, Mozart – Orchestre symphonique de Laval) ; Soloist (Noël à l’opéra – Orchestre Métropolitain) ; 1st Priest and 2nd Guard (Die Zauberflöte – Opéra de Montréal) ; Pinellino (Gianni Schicchi – Opéra de Montréal) ; Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola – Opera NUOVA) ; Giove (La Calisto – Atelier d’opéra de l’Université Laval) ; Soloist (Nelson Mass, Haydn – Ensemble Polyphonia de Québec) ; Recital (Die schöne Müllerin, Schubert – La Relève musicale) ; Soloist (Déjeuner-concert 2009 – Canadian Music Competition)

Upcoming : Soloist (Aleacanto – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Le Premier Ministre (Cendrillon – Opéra de Montréal) ; Marullo (Rigoletto – Opéra de Montréal) ; Bruhlman (Werther – Opéra de Montréal) ; Mr Kofner (The Consul – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Schaunard (La Bohème – Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes and Scholarships : Board of Honor of the Laval University Faculty of Superior Studies

Suzanne Rigden

Nova Scotia

2nd season with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal

Studies : University of British Columbia, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Recently : Marie (La fille du régiment – IVAI and CVAI summer programs in Tel Aviv and Montreal) ; Soloist (Les amoureux célèbres – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Gertrude (Nelligan – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal); Pastore (Tosca – Opéra de Montréal); Soloist (Noël à l’opéra – Orchestre Métropolitain) ; First Boy (Die Zauberflöte – Opéra de Montréal) ; Frasquita (Carmen – European Academy of Music, Czech Republic) ; Soloist (Open Air Opera Concert – Teplice Symphony, Czech Republic) ; Piper (Understudy) (Jack Pine – Vancouver Opera in the Schools) ; Gretel (Hansel and Gretel – University of British Columbia Opera)

Upcoming : Soloist (Aleacanto – Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal) ; Page (Rigoletto – Opéra de Montréal) ; Sophie (Werther – Opéra de Montréal)

Prizes and Scholarships : Opera de Montreal’s Board of Directors Award 2010, Finalist in the Georges London Foundation Competition 2010, Recipient 2010 of the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation, Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques 2009 Laureate, Joseph and Melitta Kandler Scholarship to Mozarteum 2009, Metropolitan Opera Competition’s Audience Choice Award at Regional Level 2009, Metropolitan Opera First Encouragement Award 2009, Semi-Finalist in the Ningbo International Vocal Competition 2008 in China, Ben Heppner, Mildred Johnson, Erika Nalos Kurth, Burt Harris Memorial Scholarships 2008