Karina Gauvin

Karina Gauvin is a Canadian soprano who rapidly developed a significant concert and recital profession in THE UNITED STATES and Europe through the second fifty percent from the 1990s. She was raised in Montréal, Québec, where her dad was a long-time person in the Choeur Saint-Laurent (Saint Lawrence Choir), among the city’s most exclusive choirs and a significant element of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra Choir. She analyzed in the Montréal Conservatory of Music with Marie Daveluy, accompanied by use Pamela Bowden from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Theatre in Glasgow, permitted by grants from your Canada Council for the Arts, the Quebec Arts Council, as well as the Royal Scottish Academy. She came into the worldwide competition circuit to begin with her profession. In 1992, she received the Maggie Teyte Memorial Reward in London as well as the Guelph Planting season Celebration Country wide Vocal Competition as First Award winner. She got into the 1994 ‘s-Hertogenbosch International Vocal competition in Holland, earning the Lieder Award as well as the Public’s Award. 1995 was a calendar year of effective Canadian tournaments; Gauvin gained the Virginia Parker Award as well as the CBC Radio Country wide Teen Interpreters’ Competition Initial Award. By this time around she was attaining a strong popularity. It was person to person that attained her first documenting engagement. Harpsichordist Luc Beauséjour, who acquired noticed her sing, asked her to become listed on her within a task he was finding your way through Analekta Information (a Quebec-based label), a creation from the “Anna Maria Bach Notebook.” This documenting became the best-selling discharge in the business’s history, resulting in further produces: She became a member of the Orchestre Métropolitain in the Beethoven’s incidental music to Egmont, an application of Vivaldi quartets that was nominated for the Juno Award (Canada’s edition from the “Grammies”) and an award earning task with the initial tools group Tafelmusic of Handel arias. In the meantime, she had continuing her earning ways in contests using the honor of reputation as the 1996 Soloist of the entire year for the International French Open public Radio Community. She’s sung in recital in main UNITED STATES and Western opera houses, like the Royal Opera Home (Covent Backyard), Bishopsgate Hall, Wigmore Hall, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Her recital companions possess included pianists Roger Vignoles and Michael McMahon, and Marc-André Hamelin. She’s sung in opera productions at Oxford, the Aldeburgh Event, as well as the Glimmerglass Opera Event in NY. She frequently shows up using the Montréal Chamber Music Event as well as the Pusan International Chamber Music Event in the Republic of Korea. In Canada, she’s appeared using the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Country wide Arts Middle Orchestra in Ottawa, the CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Les Violons du Roy of Québec Town. With the second option she toured to many U.S. towns in the 1999-2000 time of year. She debuted in Boston throughout that season, using the Handel and Haydn Culture, and in NY using the 92nd Road Y. She’s a broad repertory in the Baroque towards the twentieth hundred years, and it is noted on her behalf Mozart operatic repertory, and among the works she’s most been requested to sing in concert is normally Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations. Various other functions in her repertory consist of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel, Handel’s Messiah, Semele, and Israel In Egypt, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Bach’s St. Matthew Interest, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, and Einhorn’s Voices of Light.