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.
St. Mathew's Lutheran Church - Sanctuary
54 Benton St.
Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:30 AM | Name:Maya McNair | Titles: More to the Story, Shrek by Jeanine Tesori Little Miss Perfect by Joriah Kwame | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Sarina Wu | Titles: 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 AM | Name:Mirella Havercroft | Titles: Fairytale Life, Disenchanted by Alan Menken I See the Light, Tangled by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Liam Blevins | Titles: 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 AM | Name:Ella Fuller | Titles: 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 AM | Name:Emma Barbisan | Titles: Watch What Happens, Newsies by Alan Menken I Have Confidence, The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Leah Hyatt | Titles: 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 AM | Name:Aspen Aasman | Titles: 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 AM | Name:Sydney Forster | Titles: Secondhand White Baby Grand, Smash by Marc Shaiman When I Sing In My Car by Joey Contreras and Liz Suggs | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:1:00 PM | Name:Ela Weinreich | Titles: 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 PM | Name:Jack Young Spice | Titles: Santa Fe, Newsies by Alan Menken Unmeltable Me, Frozen 2 by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Ava Alcaidinho | Titles: 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 PM | Name:Christopher Clarke | Titles: 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 |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:15 pm to 3:30 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 St. Matthew's Lutheran Church/Centre - Sanctuary
54 Benton St., Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2