Yannick-Muriel Noah

1^st Prize Winner
2007 Brian Law Opera Scholarship Competition

Biography submitted by the artist shortly before her guest recital at the 9^th Brian Law Opera Scholarship Competition on 21 November 2009.

Fresh from her resounding success as Madama Butterfly with the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, graduate soprano Yannick-Muriel Noah will sing her first Aida in Klagenfurt in 2010, where she made a stellar Austrian début as La Wally. With the COC, selected credits include the title role in Tosca, Mona in Swoon and the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute school tour. She premiered the title role of the new opera Sante in the UK at the Aldeburgh Summer Music Festival.

In 2007, Ms. Noah competed in the prestigious Hans Gabor Belvedere International Singing Competition, where she won various prizes including the 2^nd Prize Opera, the 3^rd Prize Operetta, the Audience Prize and the Teatro alla Scala Prize. At the Marmande International Singing Competition, she won the Opéra Grand Prix, the 2^nd Prize Operetta, and the Audience Prize. She was awarded the Theodor Uppman Award by the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation and won the First Prize at the 8^th Brian Law Opera Scholarship Competition.

This year, Ms. Noah is the recipient of the top Canadian award from the George London Foundation Awards Competition, the Lys Symonette Award from the Lotte Lenya Competition, the 1^st Prize Advanced Division from the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition as well as their first-ever Audience Favourite Award. At the 2009 Concours Musical International de Montréal, she won the 2^nd Prize as well as the COVC Jean A. Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Artist. A native of Madagascar, Ms. Noah holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies with a Minor in Italian from Carleton University.

Biography submitted by the artist shortly after winning the 8^th Brian Law Opera Scholarship Competition on 24 November 2007.

Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio soprano Yannick-Muriel Noah made her main stage debut in 2006 as Clotilde in Norma. Shortly after, she débuted the title role of the new opera Sante, premiered in the UK at the Aldeburgh Summer Music Festival and, at the COC, the role of Mona in Swoon. With the COC, she understudied the title role in Luisa Miller, Élisabeth in Don Carlos, Marguerite in Faust, Gutrune and the Third Norn in Götterdämmerung, Gerhilde and Grimgerde in Die Walküre, Micaëla in Carmen, and performed the Queen of the Night in their School Tours and the Female Convict in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. In 2008, at the COC, Ms. Noah will be performing Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and will understudy Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the title role in Tosca.

In 2007, Ms. Noah competed in the prestigious Hans Gabor Belvedere International Singing Competition, where she won various prizes including the 2^nd Prize Opera, the 3^rd Prize Operetta, the Audience Prize and the Teatro alla Scala Prize. At the Marmande International Singing Competition, she won the Opéra Grand Prix, the 2^nd Prize Operetta and the Audience Prize. She was awarded the Theodor Uppman Award by the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation and won the First Prize at the 8^th Brian Law Opera Scholarship Competition. Ms. Noah is a 2006 Regional Finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Twice a Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques Laureate, in 2006 she won the Prix de la chambre professionnelle des directeurs d’opéra and the Prix du Public.

In Canada, she performed in Opera Under the Stars under the bâton of Richard Bradshaw as part of the Canada Day Celebrations, she was a soloist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and for Maclean’s Magazine 100^th Anniversary Celebration. This December, she will make her European recital debut in Avignon, France. A native of Madagascar, Ms. Noah holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies with a Minor in Italian from Carleton University. She studied singing in Ottawa, most recently with Ms. Yoriko Tanno-Kimmons, before moving to Toronto, where she is now a student of Prof. Darryl Edwards.