Biography

Since she was awarded five top prizes in May 2007 from the Montreal International Music Competition, including the First Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award, Marianne Fiset has been hailed by critics and audience alike. In 2008, she received the “New Artist of the Year” Opus Prize and was named Young Soloist 2008 by the Public Francophone Radios (Radio France - Radio Suisse-Romande - RTBF Belgique - Radio Canada). She was also awarded the title “Révélation Radio-Canada Musique 2008-2009”.

In the last few years, Marianne Fiset has been heard in numerous productions of the Opéra de Montréal. She gave recitals in London, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Vancouver, Montreal and Québec City. She has been a guest of the Québec Opera, Saskatoon Opera, and Vancouver Opera, the Violons du Roy, Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Orchestre Symphonique de Tours, Vancouver Symphonic Orchestra and Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra. She also sang at the Festival Vancouver, Festival International de Lanaudière, Festival International du Domaine Forget and at the Bel Canto Festival of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.

Fiset’s upcoming schedule includes her Toronto Symphony debut as soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 conducted by Peter Oundjian, Verdi’s Requiem for Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Orquestra Sinfonica RTVE in Madrid and Ravel’s Shéhérazade with Jacques Lacombe and Orchestre symphonique de Trois Rivieres. On the opera stage she looks forward to work with Opéra de Marseille, Pacific Opera Victoria, Montreal Opera and Calgary Opera. Recitals will take her to Paris, Québec’s Palais Montcalm and on tour for Debut Atlantic.