{"id":22059,"date":"2022-02-16T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/?post_type=cmim-competitors&#038;p=22059"},"modified":"2022-06-20T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:03:11","slug":"simone-mcintosh","status":"publish","type":"cmim-competitors","link":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/competitors\/simone-mcintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone McIntosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Voice 2022 \u2013 Aria Division<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #fc4237;\"><strong>Laureate &#8211; First Prize <br \/><\/strong><strong>Opera Aria Award<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #fc4237;\"><strong>Andr\u00e9 Bourbeau Award for the Best Canadian Artist Prize<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #fc4237;\"><strong>Montreal students\u2019 coup de coeur Prize<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-69 maxbutton maxbutton-voice-2022\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/about\/archives\/voice-2022\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Voice 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mezzo-soprano<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2022: Canadian mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh takes full advantage of her place in the opera world. She is at home in pants roles like Cherubino in <em>The Marriage of Figaro<\/em> and Hansel in <em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>, in addition to roles such as Dorabella in <em>Cos\u00ec fan tutte<\/em> and the title role of <em>La Cenerentola<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Vancouver native is an alumna of both the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship Program. Last summer she appeared at the Festival Napa Valley, singing under eminent conductors James Conlon and Kent Nagano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">McIntosh won second prize in the OSM Competition in 2021, and first prize in the Ottawa Choral Society New Discoveries Competition in 2018, the Wirth Vocal Prize of the Schulich School of Music in 2016-2017 and the COC Ensemble Studio Competition in 2016. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Training<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2015-2017: McGill University, Master&#8217;s Degree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2010-2014: University of British Columbia, Bachelor&#8217;s Degree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Principal Teachers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Heather Thompson-Price: 2010-2014<\/li>\n<li>Dominique Labelle: 2015-2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Prizes and Awards<\/span><\/b><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2021: Second Prize, OSM Competition<\/li>\n<li>2018: First Prize, Ottawa Choral Society, New Discoveries Competition<\/li>\n<li>2016: Winner, Wirth Vocal Prize, Schulich School of Music, McGill University<\/li>\n<li>2016: First Prize, Canadian Opera Company Studio Ensemble Competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Programme<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>FIRST ROUND (with piano)<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART<\/strong> Ah corri! Vola! \u2026 Quest\u2019improvviso tremito<br \/><em>(Lucio Silla)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ALBAN BERG<\/strong> Die Nachtigall<br \/><em>(Sieben fr\u00fche Lieder)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>GIOACHINO ROSSINI<\/strong> Naqui\u2019all affanno \u2026 Non piu mesta<br \/><em>(Cinderella)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>SEMIFINAL<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART<\/strong> Ah scostati! \u2026 Smanie implacabili<br \/><em>(Cos\u00ec fan tutte)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>RICHARD STRAUSS<\/strong> Morgen, Op. 27<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>HECTOR BERLIOZ<\/strong> Dieu! Que viens-je d\u2019entendre?<br \/><em>(B\u00e9atrice et B\u00e9n\u00e9dict)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>FINAL<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>RICHARD STRAUSS<\/strong> Sein wir wieder gut<br \/><em>(Ariadne on Naxos)<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL<\/strong> Vani solo i lamenti \u2026 Svegliatevi nel core<br \/><em>(Julius Caesar)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>GIOACHINO ROSSINI<\/strong> Naqui\u2019all affanno \u2026 Non pi\u00f9 mesta<br \/><em>(Cinderella)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonemcintosh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Simone McIntosh is generously sponsored by Elizabeth Wirth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/competitors\/bryan-murray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17690 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/next-button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-75 maxbutton maxbutton-support-the-concours\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/support\/donate\/\"><span class='mb-text'>SUPPORT THE CONCOURS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice 2022 \u2013 Aria Division Laureate &#8211; First Prize Opera Aria AwardAndr\u00e9 Bourbeau Award for the Best Canadian Artist PrizeMontreal students\u2019 coup de coeur Prize &nbsp; \u00a0 Mezzo-soprano &nbsp; 2022: Canadian mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh takes full advantage of her place in the opera world. She is at home in pants roles like Cherubino in The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22327,"template":"","class_list":["post-22059","cmim-competitors","type-cmim-competitors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cmim_competitors_photo_credits":"","cmim_competitors_date_of_birth":"23\/12\/1991","cmim_competitors_country":"Canada","cmim_competitors_range":"Mezzo-soprano"},"featured_media_src_url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Simone_McIntosh-voix2022-01-400.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors\/22059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cmim-competitors"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors\/22059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25488,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cmim-competitors\/22059\/revisions\/25488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}