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The Canadian coloratura soprano, Myriam Leblanc, studied at McGill University (Class of 2011); and at Université de Sherbrooke (2012-2015). She is the recipient of several prizes: 1st Prize and Audience Choice Award at the Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestra Competition; Young Lyric Ambassador 2014 (Québec Bavaria prize); winner of an Audience Choice Award in the Center Stage competition of the Canadian Opera Company; 3rd Prize in the Auditions Nouvelles Découvertes competition of the Ottawa Choral Society; winner of the excellence grant awarded annually by the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal; and the 1st Prize at the Mathieu Duguay Early Music Competition at the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival in 2017.
Myriam Leblanc is a versatile artist who works as much in the classical world as in the bel canto, as in the Baroque. She is recognized for her timbre of great purity, for her supple and warm voice and her great mastery in both technical and musical expressiveness. She has shone in the roles of Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto (Opéra de Montréal), Micaëla in Georges Bizet's Carmen (Opéra de Québec), Donna Anna in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (Opera in Saskatoon), Milica in Sokolovic's Svadba (Opéra de Montréal) , Fille-Fleur in Wagner's Parsifal (Orchester Métropolitain), the High Priestess in Puccini's Aïda (Opera de Montréal) and Juliette in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (Jeunesses Musicales du Canada). She also specializes in oratorios, concerts: J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) (Ensemble Caprice), Antonio Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus (I Musici), J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) (Les Violons du Roy), Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” (Orchestre Métropolitain), several cantatas by J.S. Bach including Ich habe genug (BWV 82) and several other works.
Formerly a member of the Atelier lyrique of Montreal Opera, Myriam Leblanc has been a guest soloist of prestigious: Montreal Symphonic Orchestra, Trois-Rivières Symphonic Orchestra, Québec Symphonic Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphonic Orchestra and Metropolitain Orchestra.
Her future projects include W.A. Mozart's Requiem with Les Violons du Roy, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with Le Festival Classica (tour), a recital of Medtner’s music with Charles-Richard Hamelin and several concerts with groups such as Early Music Vancouver, La Nef, the Mirabilia Ensemble and the Symphonia Nova Scotia. She currently lives in Longueuil, Quebec. |
