Monday 11 April 2011

Introducing: Hélène Brunet, Soprano



Soprano Hélène Brunet has just completed a masters degree in early music at the University of Montreal, under the supervision of Suzie Leblanc, Alexander Weimann and Catherine Sévigny. She is currently studying with Daniel Taylor at the Music Conservatory of Montreal.

Over the past few years, Hélène has had the opportunity to study with highly regarded musicians in the early music scene, most notably Luc Beauséjour, Charles Daniels, Emma Kirkby and Margaret Little. In July 2010, she performed the role of Maddalena in Handel’s La Resurrezione, conducted by American Bach Soloists’ Jeffrey Thomas in San Francisco. Last fall, she joined Montreal’s early music ensembles SMAM (Christopher Jackson) in Biber’s Vespers and Les Voix Baroques (Alexander Weimann) in Oratorios by Carissimi.

Hélène sang in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Montreal Music Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Raffi Armenian, as well as in Bach’s Easter Oratorio, conducted by Louis Lavigueur in March. She will be heard in the role of Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and will also have the pleasure of performing Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate with Orchestre de la Francophonie at Palais Montcalm in Quebec City next July.

Below, you can watch a video of  Hélène performing Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento Della Ninfa.

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