Tuesday, June 10th

Songs from the Screen and More - Intermediate Level - Ages 15-16 - Group A

Adjudicator: Monette Gould

Songs from the Screen and More - Intermediate Level - Ages 15-16 - Group A

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. Mathew's Lutheran Church - Sanctuary
54 Benton St.
Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2

Songs from the Screen and More - Intermediate Level - Ages 15-16 - Group A - Morning

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:9:30 AMName:Maya McNairTitles:
More to the Story, Shrek by Jeanine Tesori
Little Miss Perfect by Joriah Kwame
Home Festival:Barrie
Time:9:45 AMName:Sarina WuTitles:
How To Return Home, Our First Mistake by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk
When I Sing in My Car by Joey Contreras
Home Festival:Oakville
Time:10:00 AMName:Mirella HavercroftTitles:
Fairytale Life, Disenchanted by Alan Menken
I See the Light, Tangled by Alan Menken
Home Festival:Newmarket
Time:10:15 AMName:Liam BlevinsTitles:
Out There, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
Be Our Guest, Beauty and the Beast by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman
Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo
Time:10:30 AMName:Ella FullerTitles:
The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird, From the Hunger Games; The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes by Dave Cobb and Suzanne Collins
Dig a Little Deeper, From Walt Disney’s; The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo
Time:10:45 AMName:Emma BarbisanTitles:
Watch What Happens, Newsies by Alan Menken
I Have Confidence, The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers
Home Festival:Toronto
Time:11:00 AMName:Leah HyattTitles:
Never Enough, The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Let Me Be Your Star, Smash by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Home Festival:Niagara
Time:11:15 AMName:Aspen AasmanTitles:
Blah, Blah, Blah, Delicious by George & Ira Gershwin
If Only, Descendants by Adam Anders, Peer Astrom & Nicole Hassman
Home Festival:Grey County
Time:11:30 AMName:Sydney ForsterTitles:
Secondhand White Baby Grand, Smash by Marc Shaiman
When I Sing In My Car by Joey Contreras and Liz Suggs
Home Festival:Newmarket

11:45 AM - Lunch Break

Songs from the Screen and More - Intermediate Level - Ages 15-16 - Group A - Afternoon

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:1:00 PMName:Ela WeinreichTitles:
Journey to the Past , Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty
God Help the Outcasts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken
Home Festival:Unionville
Time:1:15 PMName:Jack Young SpiceTitles:
Santa Fe, Newsies by Alan Menken
Unmeltable Me, Frozen 2 by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Home Festival:Peel
Time:1:30 PMName:Ava AlcaidinhoTitles:
Maybe This Time, Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Speechless, Aladdin by Alan Menken, Ben Pasek and Justin Paul
Home Festival:London
Time:1:45 PMName:Christopher ClarkeTitles:
Jack's Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas by Danny Elfman
Friends On The Other Side, The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Home Festival:Norfolk

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.

3:45 PM - PLAYOFFS - Songs from the Screen and More - Intermediate Level - Ages 15-16

The top two competitors from this class will proceed to the playoffs.
The playoffs will be held at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church/Centre - Sanctuary
54 Benton St., Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2