Voice 2018

Prizes, Grants, & Awards

$ 270,000 in prizes and awards to the CMIM Voice 2018

LAUREATES –  ARIA

– First Prize –

Value of $82,500

$30,000 – offered by the Ville de Montréal

‘50,000 – ‘Joseph Rouleau’ Career Development Grant
offered by the Azrieli Foundation

$2,500 – Residency offered by the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity

• Mario BAHG, tenor, South Korea

– ‘Pierre Péladeau and Raymonde Chopin’ Second Prize –
$15,000 offered by Québecor

• Emily D’ANGELO, mezzo-soprano, Canada – Italy

– Third Prize –
$10,000 offered by Stingray Classica

• Konstantin LEE, tenor, South Korea

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SPECIAL AWARDS – ARIA

– Opera Aria Award –
$5,000 offered by Opéra de Montréal

• Mario BAHG, tenor, South Korea

– Oratorio Award –
$5,000 offered by Aéroports de Montréal

• Andrew HAJI, tenor, Canada

– Radio-Canada People’s Choice Award –
$3,000

• Emily D’ANGELO, mezzo-soprano, Canada – Italy

– Best Canadian Artist Award –
$3,000 offered by the Bourbeau Foundation

• Emily D’ANGELO, mezzo-soprano, Canada – Italy

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Three (3) CMIM Grants for the unranked finalists ($2,000 each)

offered by Maurice Deschamps, Hélène & Peter Hunt, and Joseph Rouleau

• Andrew HAJI, tenor, Canada

• John BRANCY, baritone, United States

• Mikhail GOLOVUSHKIN, basse, Russia

LAUREATES –  ART SONG

– ‘Léopold Simoneau’ First Prize –

Value of $82,500

$30,000 – offered by the John R. Stratton Trust

$50,000 – ‘James Norcop’ Career Development Grant

$2,500 – Residency offered by the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity 

• John BRANCY, baritone, United States

– ‘Maureen Forrester’ Second Prize –

$15,000 offered by Colleen Sexsmith

• Julien VAN MELLAERTS, baritone, New Zealand-United Kingdom

– ‘Lois Marshall’ Third Prize –

$10,000 offered in memory of Dr. Clive Mortimer

• Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano, United States

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SPECIAL AWARDS – ART SONG 

– French Mélodie Award –

$5,000 offered by Diane Loeb

• John BRANCY, baritone, United States

– German Lied Award –

$5,000 offered by Arija and Clarence Stiver

• Julien VAN MELLAERTS, baritone, New Zealand-United Kingdom

– 50^e OFQJ Award –

$5,000 offered by the Office Franco-Québécois de la Jeunesse

• Magali SIMARD-GALDÈS, soprano, Canada

– Radio-Canada People’s Choice Award –

$3,000

• Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano, United States

– Best Canadian Artist Award –

$3,000 offered by the Bourbeau Foundation

• Rihab CHAIEB, mezzo-soprano, Canada – Tunisia

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– CMIM Grant for the unranked finalist

$2,000 offered by Peter Symcox

• Gemma SUMMERFIELD, soprano, United Kingdom

PRIX PIANO

– ‘John Newmark’ Best Collaborative Pianist Award –

$10,000 offered by Richard Lupien

João Araújo, pianist, Portugal

GRAEME JENKINS conducts the OSM

Photo credit: Karen Almond

The British conductor Graeme Jenkins is renowned for the breadth of his repertoire and experience in the field of Opera. Graeme Jenkins studied music at Cambridge University, conducting at the Royal College of Music with Norman Del Mar and David Willcocks. Straight from the Royal College of Music, he was appointed Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera (1986-91). He then spent 20 years as Music Director of the Dallas Opera (1994-2013) and was also Principal Guest Conductor of the Koln Oper (1997-2002).

As Music Director in Dallas, he conducted 60 productions including the transition into Lord Foster’s Winspear Opera House, which he opened with Otello in 2009. Other highlights there include Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Wozzeck, Ariodante, Godounov, Pikovaya dama, and Tristan und Isolde. Most recently he conducted Manon there in 2016. Elsewhere in North America, he has worked for Opera Theater St Louis, Glimmerglass and the Canadian Opera Company. Maestro Jenkins has conducted in all five continents with most of the leading orchestras.

Most recently, he conducted Kat’a Kabanova at the Vienna State Opera, his 187th operatic production of 116 different works. In August 2017, he was in Glasgow with the RNSO and the Chinese Soprano Liping Zhang recording a CD of Verdi aria for DECCA. In 2018, he makes his debut with the Santa Rosa Symphony in California in a Haydn, Mozart, Bartók series of concerts.

Because of his wide repertoire he has been at the helm of several singing competition finals, notably Cardiff, Toulouse, ARD (Munich), Neue Stimmen in 2015 and in 2017. Graeme Jenkins is also a Choral and Orchestral conductor, renowned for his interpretations of Mozart, Richard Strauss and Britten.

The CMIM will retain the services of four local professional collaborative pianists for Voice 2018, namely Martin Dubé, Olivier Godin, Esther Gonthier, and Marie-Ève Scarfone.

Selection process

All eligible singers may choose to apply to one or both of Voice 2018’s two divisions. The Competition consists of three rounds: first, seimifinal, and final rounds. A preliminary selection committee appointed by the CMIM will review and evaluate the video auditions. A maximum of 40 singers (24 for Aria and 16 for Art Song) will be selected to compete at Voice 2018. Note that some singers may be selected to compete in both divisions.

Please click on the links below for general information about Voice 2018 and for the pre-approved list of works for the Aria semifinals and finals.

Voice 2018 information

Aria List of work

Age limit:
Born on or after January 1, 1983