2023
Annual Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition
First prize and Audience Choice Award winner
The Ensemble Studio Competition serves as a final opportunity for COC artistic leadership to hear artists in the multi-stage audition process for the COC’s Ensemble Studio, with final members for the 2024/2025 season to be announced at a later date. Those invited to the Ensemble Studio will join an innovative program that, since its inception in 1980, has launched the careers of nearly 240 Canadian singers, opera coaches, stage directors, and conductors, including Gordon Bintner, Ambur Braid, Emily D’Angelo, Claire de Sévigné, Wallis Giunta, Miriam Khalil, David Pomeroy, and Krisztina Szabó.
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Piano — Louise Pelletier
Jury
COC General Director
Perryn Leech
COC Director, Artistic Planning
Roberto Mauro
Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka
Canadian conductor and music educator
Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser
Canadian actor and director Thom Allison.
Jury
COC General Director
Perryn Leech
COC Director, Artistic Planning
Roberto Mauro
Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka
Canadian conductor and music educator
Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser
Canadian actor and director Thom Allison.