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The American soprano, Paige Gadbois, started singing before she could talk. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Grand Valley State University (2020), where she studied with Dr. Rachael Gates and Dr. Alexander Hahn. Under the mentorship of her voice teacher Rachael Gates, she excelled in NATS competitions placing 1st in Michigan (2021), 2nd in the Great Lakes Region (2021), and as a Quarterfinalist Nationally (2021). She won several local scholarship competitions, including the Betty Van Andel Scholarship in collaboration with Opera Grand Rapids in 2021. She went on to pursue her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance at the University of Michigan to study with mezzo-soprano Freda Herseth. (since 2021; expectd graduation: April 2023).
Paige Gadbois found her home on the operatic stage at Grand Valley where she sang the roles of Le feu in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges as a junior. She performed her first leading role as Mary in Highway 1, U.S.A. by William Grant Still in her second semester at the University of Michigan (2022). She found freedom and bloom as her lyric voice soared through Mary's high tessitura and rhythmic intensity. She sang there also Mrs. Gleaton in Susannah Carlisle Floyd's Susannah (2021), Patron 1 in Aran O'Grady's Contemporary Opera Eintänzer (2022); and has also been studying and preparing roles such as Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Laetitia in Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief. In the summer of 2022, she was Sandrina (in its entirety) in W.A. Mozart's La finta giardiniera with Opera Seme (based in Arezzo, Italy). Her tear-jerking and laughter-inducing performance was met with emphatic praise from an all-Italian audience.
Paige Gadbois is dazzling audiences with her fiery agility, sparkling high notes, and authenticity of expression. Passionate about story-telling, Paige brings the notes off the page and life. She reminds the listener that there are some depths of emotion that can only be expressed through the human voice. Praised for her, "touching, preternatural sense of phrasing," she adores exploring poetry through Art Song, especially symbolism in mélodie. Paige is a also a soulful interpreter of jazz standards. She joined a funk band while in Ann Arbor, singing a variety of styles in the funk, jazz, soul, RnB, and gospel idiom. She collaborated with saxophonist and jazz arranger, Tommy Pancy and his 13-piece jazz band to perform a show-stopping jazz set. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
