Monday, June 9th

Classical Voice - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B

Adjudicator: Monette Gould

Classical Voice - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B

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.

Location

St. James-Rosemount United Church
171 Sherwood Ave.
Kitchener, ON N2B 1K2

Classical Voice - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B - Morning

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:10:00 AMName:Madeleine CharbonneauTitles:
Lachen und Weinen, D 777 by Franz Schubert
Five Eyes, op. 9, no. 3 by C. Armstrong Gibbs
Home Festival:North York Virtual
Time:10:10 AMName:Ruby TwiggTitles:
Night Lights by Martha Hill Duncan
A Blackbird Singing by Michael Head
Home Festival:Kingston
Time:10:20 AMName:Summer FallisTitles:
If You Become the Moon by Kevin Helppie, Forrest Kinney, and Jaclyn Weber
The Owls by Peter Jenkyns
Home Festival:Barrie
Time:10:30 AMName:Alexis D'CostaTitles:
Plaisir d'amour by Jean Paul Martini
Danny Boy, Traditional Irish Air by Jeff Smallman
Home Festival:Unionville
Time:10:40 AMName:Lucy KnappTitles:
The Water is Wide by Sally Albrecht
I Sing Because I'm Happy by Charles H Gabriel
Home Festival:Oakville
Time:10:50 AMName:Eleni BastounasTitles:
Flocks Are Sporting by Henry Carey
Bluebird by Rudolph Schirmer
Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo
Time:11:00 AMName:Sofia AckovikTitles:
Will the Sun Forget to Streak, Solomon, HWV 67 by George Frideric Handel
Nuage, op. 162, no. 2 by Francis Poulenc
Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis
Time:11:10 AMName:Marissa D'SouzaTitles:
Longing by S. Barber
Non giova il sospirar by N. Vaccai
Home Festival:London
Time:11:20 AMName:Camila DjangirovTitles:
Dove sei, amato bene? (Art Thou Troubled) by George Frideric Handel
April Weather by Violet Archer
Home Festival:Toronto

11:45 AM - Lunch Break

Classical Voice - Junior Level - Ages 13-14 - Group B - Afternoon

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:1:00 PMName:Kolbe ReitzelTitles:
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman by Ellen Mandel
Rolling Down To Rio by Edward German
Home Festival:Newmarket
Time:1:10 PMName:Emma ZachariahTitles:
Lazy Summer, "Three Happy Seasons" by W. Herbert Belyea
Verratene Liebe, op. 40, no. 5 by Robert Schumann, Adelbert von Chamisso
Home Festival:Guelph
Time:1:20 PMName:Christina PoplarTitles:
No quiero casarme, Spanish Folk Song by F. Campbell-Watson
I Love all Graceful Things by E. Thiman
Home Festival:Hamilton
Time:1:30 PMName:Aubrey KailanTitles:
Come and Trip It by George Frideric Handel
Jeunes fillettes by transc. Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin
Home Festival:Stratford
Time:1:40 PMName:Claire FalleTitles:
Into the Night by Clara Edwards
A Little China Figure by Franco Leoni
Home Festival:Niagara
Time:1:50 PMName:Olivia WuTitles:
An den Frühling, op. 172, no. 5 by Franz Schubert
Presto, Presto io m’iannamoro by Giovanni Battista Mazzaferata
Home Festival:Pickering GTA

2:15 PM - Workshop and Announcement of Winners - MANDATORY

Workshop will be held from approximately 2:15 pm to 3:30 pm.

Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.

4:00 PM - PLAYOFFS - Classical Voice - Junior Level - Ages 13-14

The top two competitors from this class will proceed to the playoffs.
The playoffs will be held at St. James-Rosemount Church
171 Sherwood Ave., Kitchener, ON N2B 1K2