Monette Gould is a soprano with many years of professional experience as a performer and teacher. Born in New Brunswick, she moved to Toronto, Ontario, to pursue her stud-ies in music. Monette holds two performance diplomas, an A.R.C.T. and a Performance Licentiate, from The Royal Conservatory of Music, and an Opera Performance Diploma from the University of Toronto.
Monette returned to New Brunswick to teach voice at Mount Allison University and l'Uni-versité de Moncton. She also teaches privately and works with high school students who want to prepare to enter university music programs. She has also taught courses such as Diction for Singers, Sight-singing, Dictation and Aural Skills, and has given workshops on Stage Presence, How to Practice, Options in Music, and How to Set Up a Private Studio. She is highly regarded and is in very high demand as an adjudicator and clinician across the country. Many of her students have excelled, continuing to some of the best interna-tional graduate programs, winning prestigious awards, competitions and scholarships, and some are making their living singing in opera houses in Canada and the USA.
Monette has appeared in several opera productions, and her roles include Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, just to name a few. In 1998, she appeared as Mimi in Opera New Brunswick's production of Puccini's La Bohème. For the Canadian 150th Anniversary, she performed with the NBYO, which commissioned a piece by Canadian composer Howard Shore. She has recently toured with Ventus Machina Quintet and will be touring with them again in 2025. Monette continues an active career as a soloist, performing in recitals and concerts throughout the Maritimes.
She lives with her husband Jonathan, and her two chihuahuas, Merle and Olive, who also love to sing.
Knox Presbyterian Church - Sanctuary
50 Erb St. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 1T1
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Lilia Kheir | Titles: More Than Just a Spare, Frozen by R Lopez and K Anderson Lopez Untitled by Adam Gwon | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Olivia Socol | Titles: Poisonous Love, Rio 2 by Brown and Powell The Next Right Thing, Frozen 2 by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Betty Qiu | Titles: Perfect, Edges by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Flash of Time by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:9:50 AM | Name:Gage Hopper-Dale | Titles: You're Welcome, Moana by Lin-Manuel Miranda Unsaid Emily, Julie and The Phantoms by Charlie Gillespie | Home Festival:Stratford |
Time:10:05 AM | Name:Alicia Mwizerwa | Titles: God Help The Outcasts, Hunchback of Notredame by Alan Menken Go The Distance, Hercules by Michael Bolton | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:10:20 AM | Name:Sophie Gingerich | Titles: Stand Tall, Julie and the Phantoms by Jakub Vanyo How Far I'll Go, Moana by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Home Festival:Stratford |
Time:10:35 AM | Name:Avery Kasper | Titles: Santa Fe, Newsies by Alan Menken I'm Just Ken, Barbie by Mark Ronson | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:10:55 AM | Name:Lauren Brown | Titles: Journey to the Past, Anastasia by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty I Remember, Evening Primrose by Stephen Sondheim | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:11:10 AM | Name:Alessia Di Caro | Titles: Watch me Soar, What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up by Scott Alan I Think That He Likes Me by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time:11:30 AM | Name:Laura Fleming | Titles: The Next Right Thing, Frozen 2 by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez Mother Knows Best, Tangled by Allen Menken & Glen Slater | Home Festival:Guelph |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:1:00 PM | Name:Sofia Giuliano | Titles: Oh Henry! by Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond You’ll Hear A Bell, Meet Me in St Louis by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Julia Trelford | Titles: When She Loved Me, Toy Story 2 by Randy Newman Julia, You're Fired by Nicky Phillips & Sarah Ziegler | Home Festival:Grey County |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:2:00 PM | Name:Tina Foote | Titles: Never Enough, The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Fifteen Pounds (Away from My Love), The Marcy and Zina Show by Zina Goldrich & Marcy Heisler | Home Festival:Grey County |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:2:15 PM | Name:Shreya Malhotra | Titles: Journey to the Past , Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty A Million Dreams, The Greatest Showmen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul The Way we Were, The Way We Were by Marvin Hamlisch | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:2:35 PM | Name:Sierra Davis | Titles: Only Love, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Frank Wildhorn Shy, Once Upon A Mattress by Mary Rodgers | Home Festival:North York Live |
Time:2:50 PM | Name:Sofia Covelli | Titles: Little Miss Perfect , Little Miss Perfect by Joriah Kwame Tightrope, The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Maybe This Time , Cabaret by John Kander & Fred Ebb | Home Festival:Oshawa |
Workshop will be held from approximately 3:20 pm to 4:35 pm.
Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.