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.
Mount Zion Lutheran Church
29 Westmount Rd. S.
Waterloo, ON N2L 2K4
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:10:00 AM | Name:Helen Murphy | Titles: Reflection, Mulan by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel God Help the Outcasts , Hunchback of Notre Dame by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz | Home Festival:Grey County |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Ariadne Deziel | Titles: Out of the Old, High School Musical by Josh Cumbee and Jordan Powers The Anonymous Ones, Dear Evan Hansen (Movie) by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Amandla Stenberg | Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Kendra Brouwer | Titles: Let You Go, High School Musical by Joshua Kissiah Cumbee and Jordan Powers Colors of the Wind, Pocahontas by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Brielle Kish-Myhre | Titles: I Think That He Likes Me, Out of Our Heads: The Music of Kooman & Dimond by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond The Boy Next Door, Meet Me in St. Louis by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Ciara Raposo | Titles: Show Yourself , Frozen 2 by Robert Lopez Journey to the Past , Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens | Home Festival:Lakehead |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Olivia Wang | Titles: Waiting on a Wish, Snow White by Pasek and Paul Darryl is a Boy, A Little New Music by Michael Mitnick | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:11:30 AM | Name:Lucy Knapp | Titles: Someone in the Crowd, La La Land by Justin Hurwitz Little Miss Perfect by Joriah Kwame | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:11:45 AM | Name:Erica Jin | Titles: Journey to The Past, Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty Reflections, Mulan by Matthew Wilder | Home Festival:Hamilton |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:1:00 PM | Name:Eva-Odile Beausoleil | Titles: Journey to the Past, Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty Happy Little Working Song, Enchanted by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Lyrik Alkema | Titles: Android Ashley, Android Ashley by Brandon Michael Lowden Speechless, Aladdin by Alan Menken, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Anabel Kuzminykh | Titles: How Far I'll Go, Moana by Lin-Manuel Miranda Walking in the Air, The Snowman by Howard Blake | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Jocelyn Chau | Titles: The Rose Song, High School Musical by Olivia Rodrigo Mother Knows Best, Tangled by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Georgia Kennington | Titles: Journey to the Past, Anastasia by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty God Help the Outcasts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Alan Menken | Home Festival:St. Thomas |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Kaylee Wang | Titles: Journey To The Past , Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty That's How You Know, Enchanted by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:45 pm to 4:00 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 Mount Zion Church
29 Westmount Rd. S., Waterloo, ON N2L 2K4