“A sensitive musician” (Le Devoir)

Nicole is a Montréal based soprano and a graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. 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), Musetta in La Bohème (Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance), Flora in The Turn of the Screw (Opera McGill), Grace Davis in Street Scene (Opera McGill) and Suzanne in La Croisade des Dames (Opera McGill, Horizons Project).

Nicole has been a soloist with Pacific Opera Victoria, Tapestry Opera, Opera McGill, McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Despax Quartet, Oasis Musicale, the Festival Orchestra of the Festival L’Art de la Musique and the Sappho Project.

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 August 2025, Nicole will attend Festival international du Domaine Forget to study and perform the music of Rameau.