Age: 25
Jingjing Xu made her professional debut last season at the Organ Night and Aria Festival in Espoo, Finland, after winning first prize at the Mirjam Helin Competition in Helsinki, where she was the youngest participant. She has also performed recitals for the Canadian Opera Company and Montréal’s Société d’art vocal, and took on the title role in Handel’s Orlando for Opera McGill. With her duo partner, pianist Christopher Knopp, Jingjing participated in the 2023 edition of the Franz Schubert Institut.
Jingjing earned her master’s degree from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music where she was awarded the Wirth Vocal Prize.
Principal Teachers
- Annamaria Popescu
- Jie Zhou
- Michael McMahon
- Esther Gonthier
Major Competitions
- Finalist, Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition, 2024
- 1st prize, The Mirjam Helin Competition, 2024
PROGRAMME
FIRST ROUND: ARIA
GIACOMO MEYERBEER Nobles seigneurs, salut!
(Les Huguenots)
AIRAT ICHMOURATOV Air de Josianne
(L’homme qui rit)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Dopo notte
(Ariodante)
FIRST ROUND: ART SONG
HUGO WOLF Begegnung
(Mörike-Lieder)
JOHANNES BRAHMS Unbewegte laue Luft
(Acht Lieder und Gesänge, op. 57)
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG Einfältiges Lied
(Brettllieder)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Le balcon
(Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire)
ART SONG PRIZE FINAL
FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI L’alba sepàra dalla luce l’ombra
(Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta)
FRANZ LISZT Die drei Zigeuner
JOHANNES BRAHMS Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
(Fünf Lieder, op. 105)
FRANCIS POULENC Rayon 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…
(La fraîcheur et le feu)
SEMIFINAL
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Können Tränen meiner Wangen
(St. Matthew Passion)
GEORGES BIZET Près des remparts de Séville
(Carmen)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Parto, ma tu ben mio
(La clemenza di Tito)
FINAL
RICHARD STRAUSS Wie du warst!
(Der Rosenkavalier)
CHARLES GOUNOD Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle
(Roméo et Juliette)
VINCENZO BELLINI Se Romeo t’uccise un figlio
(I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
The presence of Jingjing Xu in Montreal is generously sponsored by Elizabeth Wirth.
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