Voice at Western
The Don Wright Faculty of Music offers voice students diverse courses and performance opportunities including solo and studio recitals, up to six yearly choral events held among three choir ensembles, and weekly faculty-led masterclasses. Opera at Western typically performs two full productions with orchestra, as well as an opera gala event each year. Competitions and awards including the Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition and the London Music Scholarship Fundation Endowment Award are also available.
Western Music also offers learning opportunities and masterclasses with international artists of renown.
Led by the Don Wright Faculty of Music's Voice Division, Voice Fridays is a weekly symposium by singers, for singers, including masterclasses, lectures, performances and seminars.
The Music Building and Talbot College house over 100 practice rooms, studios, and large and small rehearsal spaces, plus three modern performance venues with state-of-the-art recording capabilities.
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In the Spotlight
April 2024
Campus Conversations: President Alan Shepard sat down with a group of voice students to learn more about their student experience at Western and what the future holds for opera
April 2023
BMus student Sophia Daunt, soprano, earns First Place at London Kiwanis Music Festival Rose Bowl
November 2022
Master's student Seokho Park earns Young Artist of the Year at 15th annual Korea Opera Awards
Alumni of Note
Alumna Simona Genga, mezzo-soprano, was recognized as Grand Prize winner and Audience Choice Prize winner of the Toronto City Opera’s first annual Giuseppe Macina Operatic Voices Competition, which took place in May 2024.
Colin Ainsworth, BMus'99 - Listen to Colin's episode of This Is My Music with Tom Allen, aired December 9, 2023
Rebecca Cuddy, BMus'15
Named among CBC Music's "Top 30 Under 30", August 2021
Lucia Cervoni, BMus’02
Darryl Edwards, BMus’83, BEd’84, MMus’93
Laura Nielsen, BMus'15, Artist Diploma'16
Featured as OperaCanada's Artist of the Week for March 20, 2024.
Adrianne Pieczonka, OC, BMus'85
Performs on leading opera and concert stages throughout Europe, North America and Asia under the direction of such conductors as James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Sir Neville Marriner, Claudio Abbado, Richard Bradshaw, and Lorin Maazel. Inducted into the Don Wright Faculty of Music Wall of Fame in 2008.
Michael Schade, BMus'88
Mozart tenor of choice on international stages in Europe and North America, he is equally at home in New York, Vienna, Paris, Los Angeles, Toronto, Salzburg, Dresden, Tokyo and London. Inducted into the Don Wright Faculty of Music Wall of Fame in 2008.
John Tessier, MMus'96
