Jana Miller
3rd Prize Winner
2011 Brian Law Opera Competition
Biography prepared by Renate Chartrand from information submitted by the artist with her application for the 10th Brian Law Opera Competition on 19 November 2011.
Soprano Jana Miller, 25, was born in Ottawa. In 2011 she received her Master of Music degree in Solo Performance, Voice, from the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, where she had taken on roles in several Opera McGill productions. In 2008 and 2009 Jana received further training at the Banff Centre’s Opera as Theatre program, and in 2010 she performed Nanetta in Falstaff with Opera Nuova. With Theatre of Early Music, Jana has sung Belinda in Dido and Aeneas. Last summer she was a participant at the Franz-Schubert-Institut and next year she will be playing Micaela in Carmen with Jeunesses Musicales of Canada.