Suzie Leblanc, Soprano

Suzie Leblanc, Soprano
	Acadian-born soprano Suzie LeBlanc has spent much of her career specializing in Baroque repertoire. She has worked with many of the world’s leading early-music ensembles in concert and opera performances as well as on disc and is now adding French melodies, lieder and the music of her native Acadia to her repertoire. Her 2007-2008 season was highlighted by recitals of French melodies with pianist Robert Kortgaard, performances with the Detroit and Toronto symphonies (Messiah), Fauré’s Requiem with l’Orchestre Métropolitain, Mozart and Bach arias with the Victoria Symphony, concerts for Festival Vancouver and the Toronto Summer Music Festival as well as a program with jazz violinist Helmut Lipsky and his ensemble, Au parfum de Tango. Her passion for Acadian traditional music recently led her to complete A Song Quest, a documentary directed by Donald Winkler, and two recordings of Acadian music (La Mer Jolie and Tout passe) on the ATMA label. The 2008–2009 season will see the release of her Messaien recording, Chants de terre et de ciel, with pianist Robert Kortgaard (ATMA), a recital tour with Robert Kortgaard on the West Coast of Canada, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, with the Calgary Symphony, a return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, in Jonathan Miller’s staging, as well as performances of the St. Matthew Passion in Madrid. Other performances include Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Edmonton and several concerts with Daniel Taylor’s Theatre of Early Music. Ms. LeBlanc’s discography includes Mozart lieder, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), with La Petite Bande and Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, with Les Voix Baroques, awarded the Best Early Music CD for 2008 by the Opus awards in Montreal. Suzie LeBlanc can be also be seen on film in More Than a Thousand Kisses and the documentary, Suzie LeBlanc and a Man Named Quantz, both directed by Robert Chesterman (Vancouver), and recently took on the lead character in a film by Rodrigue Jean, Lost Son”, to be released in the fall of 2008. Suzie LeBlanc is the co-founder and artistic director of L’Académie Baroque de Montréal, an organization committed to the performance and education of early opera, and she teaches baroque singing at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal.

Acadian-born soprano Suzie LeBlanc has spent much of her career specializing in Baroque repertoire. She has worked with many of the world’s leading early-music ensembles in concert and opera performances as well as on disc and is now adding French melodies, lieder and the music of her native Acadia to her repertoire.

Her 2007-2008 season was highlighted by recitals of French melodies with pianist Robert Kortgaard, performances with the Detroit and Toronto symphonies (Messiah), Fauré’s Requiem with l’Orchestre Métropolitain, Mozart and Bach arias with the Victoria Symphony, concerts for Festival Vancouver and the Toronto Summer Music Festival as well as a program with jazz violinist Helmut Lipsky and his ensemble, Au parfum de Tango. Her passion for Acadian traditional music recently led her to complete A Song Quest, a documentary directed by Donald Winkler, and two recordings of Acadian music (La Mer Jolie and Tout passe) on the ATMA label.

The 2008–2009 season will see the release of her Messaien recording, Chants de terre et de ciel, with pianist Robert Kortgaard (ATMA), a recital tour with Robert Kortgaard on the West Coast of Canada, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, with the Calgary Symphony, a return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, in Jonathan Miller’s staging, as well as performances of the St. Matthew Passion in Madrid. Other performances include Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Edmonton and several concerts with Daniel Taylor’s Theatre of Early Music.

Ms. LeBlanc’s discography includes Mozart lieder, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), with La Petite Bande and Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, with Les Voix Baroques, awarded the Best Early Music CD for 2008 by the Opus awards in Montreal. Suzie LeBlanc can be also be seen on film in More Than a Thousand Kisses and the documentary, Suzie LeBlanc and a Man Named Quantz, both directed by Robert Chesterman (Vancouver), and recently took on the lead character in a film by Rodrigue Jean, Lost Son”, to be released in the fall of 2008.

Suzie LeBlanc is the co-founder and artistic director of L’Académie Baroque de Montréal, an organization committed to the performance and education of early opera, and she teaches baroque singing at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal.