Section Leads
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Daniel Godin
Baritone
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is equally at home on the concert stage as he is in the theatre. Recent musical theatre appearances include the roles
of Lancelot in Camelot, Billy Bigelow in Carousel, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance and Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.
Recent concert engagements have included guest soloist with the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Kingston Symphony
Orchestra, North Bay Symphony, Toronto's Opera in Concert and as artist-in-residence for the Quinte Summer Music Festival.
He has performed for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, The Canadian Opera Company, the Canadian Artists Concert Series and with the Elmer Iseler Singers.
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Jamie Henigman
Mezzo-Soprano |
is currently studying with Catherine Robbin as a visiting student at York University. Last April she received her Bachelors of Music from the University of Victoria, studying under Benjamin Butterfield.
Jamie has sung with numerous choirs throughout her life, starting at age 10 with Victoria's Viva choirs, under Connie More. Jamie also took an interest in small ensemble work at a young age, joining as the lead in a barbershop quartet as part of a youth division of The City of Garden's Women's Barbershop Chorus, a competition based chorus.
At age 16 she toured around south-east Asia with Prima choirs, under the direction of Bruce More; later she joined Bruce More's university choir, The UVic Chamber Singers, known for touring and performing all over the world.
Jamie's main passion however is solo performing. She has given numerous solo recitals in Victoria and has performed as a guest soloist with the University Chamber Singers and Prima Choirs.
She has performed in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury as the Usher at the University of Victoria and has premiered two operas: The Lorax and Oholibah and her Lovers, written by a yet unpublished composer Isaiah Bell.
This past spring Jamie had the opportunity to study opera performance with well known opera singers, such as Joanne Kolomyjec, and Judith Forst at the University of Alberta's, Opera NUOVA Summer Intensive. Jamie hopes to go on to fulfill a Masters in Opera performance within Canada.
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Michael McBride
Tenor
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was described as a "mellifluous tenor" in Mozart's The Magic Flute, conducted by Sir Colin Davis (Colin Anderson, Classical Source).
Mr. McBride holds a Master's of Music degree and Opera Diploma from London's Royal Academy of Music, where he performed Tamino, in Mozart's The Magic Flute, with Sir Colin Davis conducting, and Romeo, in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with the British Youth Opera, to encouraging reviews. During Michael's undergraduate training, he sang a solo in Beethoven's Fidelio, in concert with Helmuth Rilling's Festival Ensemble Orchestra and Choir, Stuttgart, and Rinuccio, from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, in four performances in Urbania, Italy.
From 2006-2008 Michael was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera, where he performed Ein Soldat, in Ullman's Der Kaiser von Atlantis, and Giocondo, in Die Liebesprobe, a German adaptation of Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone. He also sang for BMW, and hundreds of international media, at the grand openine of the BMW Museum and Flagship center, in Munich. Michael performed several small tenor roles on the mainstage of the Bayerische Staatsoper, such as Un Contadino in Verdi's Luisa Miller, Parpignol in Puccini's La Boheme, and Diener Amelia's in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera.
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