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.
Forest Hill United Church - Sanctuary
121 Westmount Rd. E.
Kitchener, ON N2M 4Y6
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Kayla Gao | Titles: Colors of the Wind, Pocahontas by Alan Menken Part of Your World, The Little Mermaid by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman | Home Festival:North York Live |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Danelle Mann | Titles: How far I'll Go, Moana by Lin-Manuel Miranda Soon by Barry Manilow | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Kristen Lai | Titles: In my Own Little Corner, Cinderella by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Poor Unfortunate Souls, The Little Mermaid by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Amy Yang | Titles: When She Loved Me, Toy Story 2 by Randy Newman Happy Working Song, Enchanted by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Abby Serfaty | Titles: Get Lost, Moana 2 by Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear Into The Unknown, Frozen 2 by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Brooklyn deBoer | Titles: All I Want, High School Musical by Olivia Rodrigo Wake Up, Julie and the Phantoms by Anne Preven | Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Abigail Kane | Titles: In My Own Little Corner, Cinderella by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein I Have Confidence, The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Isabella Zhao | Titles: Opportunity, Annie (2014) by G. Kurstin, S. Furler, W. Gluck This Wish, Wish by J. Michaels, B. Rice, J.P. Saxe | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Sophia Zareey | Titles: Colors of the Wind, Pocahontas by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz A Million Dreams, The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | Home Festival:Stratford |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Henry Shelley | Titles: Friend Like Me, Aladdin by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken Pure Imagination, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:11:30 AM | Name:Emma Stead | Titles: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz by Harold Arlen Part of Your World, The Little Mermaid by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Hamilton |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:1:00 PM | Name:Swaraa Raman | Titles: Reflection, Mulan by Matthew Wilder Never Enough , The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | Home Festival:Oshawa |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Ethan Wang | Titles: In the Big Blue World, Finding Nemo: The Musical by Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez When She Loved Me, Tory Story 2 by Randy Newman | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Myrah De Clerk | Titles: In My Own Little Corner, Cinderella by Oscar Hammerstein II When You're Alone, Hook by John Williams | Home Festival:Chatham |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Keenan McGeachy | Titles: Look For Me In The Moonlight, The Highwayman Micromusical by Christopher Norton Where is Love?, Oliver! by Lionel Bart | Home Festival:Quinte |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Ava Goldrick | Titles: Journey To The Past, Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty God Help The Outcasts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Alan Menken | Home Festival:London |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Téa Hines | Titles: When Will My Life Begin?, Tangled by Alan Menken & David Slater Journey to the Past, Anastasia by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty | Home Festival:Grey County |
Time:2:30 PM | Name:Makbel Sheeley | Titles: Les Poissons, Little Mermaid by Alan Menken Friends on the Other Side, Princess and the Frog by Keith David | Home Festival:Niagara |
Workshop will be held from approximately 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm.
Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.
The top two competitors from this class will proceed to the playoffs.
The playoffs will be held at Forest Hill United Church - Sanctuary
121 Westmount Rd. E., Kitchener, ON N2M 4Y6