TRAINING
• McGill University, Bachelor of Music in voice
• The Royal Conservatory of Music,Grade 9 voice examination
• Teachers: Sylvan Sanford, Laurence Ewashko
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Bartolo in Rossini’s Barber of Seville with the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème and Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress at McGill University, a Scythian Man in Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris, Hermann in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann and Amantio di Nicolao in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Also Bach’s St. John Passion with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kent Nagano.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
• Winner of the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
• Winner of the 2011 ‘Young Soloist Prize of the Radio Francophones Publiques
• Peter-Symcox Award, 2011
First Prize
Career Development Grant
$20,000Grand Cash prize
$30,000
Special prizes
Radio-Canada’s People’s Choice Award
$5,000Award for the Best Performance of the Compulsory Canadian Work
$5,000Joseph Rouleau Award for the Best Artist from Quebec
$5,000Jean A. Chalmers Award for the Best Canadian Artist
$10,000Offered by ARIAS
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