“A sensitive musician” (Le Devoir)

Nicole is a Montréal based soprano and a graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and l’Université de Montréal. She has been the recipient of several prizes and scholarships, including the Bourse Ferguson and and the Charles-Emile Gadbois Prize at the Université de Montréal, McGill University’s Oxford Music Scholarship, and the Evelyn Adamson Johnstone Memorial Prize for Promising Soprano. She has been recognized for her performances at the Classical Singer Competition where she placed 3rd, and 2nd in Voice at the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals National Music Festival.

Nicole’s opera credits include Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (Atelier d’Opéra - Université de Montréal), Orphée in Orphée aux Enfers (Atelier d’Opéra - Université de Montréal), Musetta in La Bohème (Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance), Flora and Miles in The Turn of the Screw (Opera McGill and Atelier lyrique d’Opéra de Montréal), Grace Davis in Street Scene (Opera McGill) and Suzanne in La Croisade des Dames (Opera McGill, Horizons Project).

Nicole has performed as a soloist with The National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Atelier Lyrique of Opéra de Montréal, Les Violons du Roy at Académie Domaine Forget, Pacific Opera Victoria, Tapestry Opera, Opera McGill, the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble and others.

She also has a keen interest in New Music, and performed chamber operas The Blind Woman by James Rolfe and Miss Quickly by Iman Habibi with Tapestry Opera in their New Opera 101 program. In 2021-2022 she commissioned, produced and perfomed in the world premiere of a new vocal score Sappho: Tell Everyone from composer, Danika Lorèn. In the 2023-2024 season, Nicole was a Civic Engagement Artist in Residence with Pacific Opera Victoria, where she developed a staged recital entitled Frauenliebe which explored a new take on Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben.

In the 2025-2026 season, Nicole performed the role of Miles in Turn of the Screw with Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique, the role of Orphée in Orphée aux enfers with the Atelier d’opéra of the Université de Montréal, and Dritte Kind in an excerpted concert performance of Berg’s Wozzeck with l’ensemble de musique contemporaine at the Université de Montréal. She also participated in ICAV - the institut Canadien d’art vocal, where she performed the role of La Muse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach.