MONICA HUISMAN, soprano
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Dutch-Canadian Soprano Monica Huisman has been hailed as possessing a voice that
“embodies both flawless technique and dramatic impact” (Opera Canada). Ms. Huisman
has delighted audiences from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw to Guatemala City, with the
reputation of her “silken voice consistently crafting each note into a work of art”
(Winnipeg Free Press).
She has delighted Canadian opera houses from coast to coast in productions including
Cunning Little Vixen, H.M.S Pinafore, Carmen, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Cosi Fan
Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Falstaff, Hansel and Gretel, Lakme, and
Transit of Venus, alongside Canadian talents Jean Stilwell, Tracy Dahl, James
Westman, Russell Braun, John Tessier, David Pomeroy, Judith Forst, and Richard
Margison. Many of these performances have been broadcast by CBC Radio 2’s
Saturday Afternoon at the Opera.
Equally at home in concert repertoire, Ms. Huisman has thrilled audiences with the
NACO, TSO, Guatemala Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic, VSO, WSO,
RSO, SSO, Concertgebouw Orkest, Radio-Symphony Orkest, and Orchestra London in
such works as Strauss' Four Last Songs, Brahms’ Requiem, Haydn's Creation,
Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s 9th, Bruckner’s Requiem, Mahler’s 2nd and 4th,
Mozart’s Requiem, Rutter’s Magnificat, Poulenc’s Gloria and Vaughn Williams’ Sea
Symphony. She has collaborated several times with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet,
enjoying huge successes with Mark Goddens’ premiere of the Magic Flute, Handel’s
Messiah, and Strauss’ ‘Four Last Songs’.
Ms. Huisman is a voice instructor at the Desautels Faculty of Music, at the University of
Manitoba. She is in demand as a voice teacher, clinician, and adjudicator, having
recently taught at Opera Nuova, Opera Kelowna and is faculty for MB Opera’s DEAP
young artists program. Her students have celebrated successes, including a debut with
San Fransisco Opera, winning Nationals, winning the prestigious Doris McClellan
competition, finalist in the COC Studio competition, as well as finalists in the
Metropolitan Opera Council auditions.
