Hélène Brunet
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Hélène Brunet (soprano) is hailed by the critics as “a singer of tremendous quality” with “a voice of perfect beauty” and “sincere expression”. Recognized for her interpretations of the works of Bach, Handel, and Mozart, her repertoire extends from Baroque to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In the concert repertoire, Hélène is invited to perform with reputed orchestras and ensembles across North America and Europe, notably at the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, with American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, with American Classical Orchestra at the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, the Eugene Symphony, the Pacific Baroque Festival, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Newfoundland Orchestra, the Nova Scotia Orchestra, Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, ensemble Caprice, Arion Baroque Orchestra, and I Musici de Montréal.
In opera, Hélène was recently featured in the world premiere of the opera Sleeping Rough by Roddy Ellias and Sandra Nicholls, at the Music and Beyond festival in Ottawa, Canada.
Hélène’s debut solo album Solfeggio (ATMA Classique) has received rave reviews and been selected by the CBC as one of the top 20 classical albums of 2020. Solfeggio, recorded in collaboration with ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons, has been described as a “red carpet that displays Hélène’s superb and enveloping tone” and “remarkable musical intelligence and drama… a first-rate vocal achievement”. Other recordings with L’Harmonie des saisons include a Bach cantata album as well as the Juno award winning album Las Ciudades de Oro. Hélène has also collaborated with New York ensemble ACRONYM on their newest release, Cantica Obsoleta, on Olde Focus label.
Hélène was a prize winner at the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition at Carnegie Hall in New York. She is the recipient of generous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Musicaction Foundation. Hélène is currently studying with voice teacher Neil Semer in New York City.
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Français:
Reconnue pour son “chant d’une parfaite beauté et sa présence scénique des plus rayonnantes”, la soprano Hélène Brunet chante Bach, Handel, Mozart, et le répertoire du 20e et 21e siècle avec égal plaisir.
En concert, Hélène se produit auprès de nombreux ensembles et orchestres réputés à travers l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe, notamment au festival Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, avec l’orchestre American Bach Soloists à San Francisco, au prestigieux Lincoln Center de New York avec la American Classical Orchestra, avec l’Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal sous la direction de Yannick Nézet-Séguin, avec les orchestres symphoniques de Calgary, Eugene, Floride, Halifax, St. John’s, le Seattle Baroque Orchestra, le Pacific Baroque Festival, Tafelmusik, ensemble Caprice, Arion Orchestre Baroque, et I Musici de Montréal.
À l’opéra, Hélène a récemment créé le rôle d’Anna dans la première mondiale de l’opéra Sleeping Rough de Roddy Ellias et Sandra Nicholls au festival Music and Beyond à Ottawa.
Le tout nouvel album solo d’Hélène intitulé Solfeggio, paru sous l’étiquette ATMA Classique, reçoit l’éloge de la critique à l’international et la CBC le place parmi son Top 20 des albums classiques de 2020. L’album, enregistré avec l’ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons, est décrit comme un “tapis rouge pour le déploiement de ce timbre superbe et enveloppant”, cette “remarquable intelligence musicale et dramatique… une réalisation vocale de premier ordre”. La discographie d’Hélène avec L’Harmonie des saisons comprend d’autres titres, dont un album de cantates de Bach, puis l’album Las Ciudades de Oro gagnant d’un prix Juno. Hélène a également collaboré avec l’ensemble new-yorkais ACRONYM pour leur enregistrement Cantica Obsoleta, sous l’étiquette Olde Focus.
Hélène est récipiendaire d’un prix à la Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition à Carnegie Hall. Elle étudie avec Neil Semer à New York. Hélène bénéficie du soutien du Conseil des Arts du Canada et de Musicaction.
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NEWS
November 6, 2020: Hélène Brunet releases debut album, Solfeggio
For her first solo album with ATMA Classique, the celebrated Canadian soprano Hélène Brunet has chosen baroque and classical arias that have always been part of her life and for which she feels a deep affinity.
Source:https://atmaclassique.com/en/product/solfeggio/March 1st, 2022: Solfeggio nominated for a JUNO Award
Canadian Soprano Hélène Brunet’s debut album, Solfeggio, has been nominated for a JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year (Large ensemble) category.
Source:https://junoawards.ca/2022-juno-award-nominees/May 16th, 2022: Canadian soprano Hélène Brunet wins Classical Album of the Year Juno Award!
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (LARGE ENSEMBLE): Solfeggio L’Harmonie des saisons, conducted by Eric Milnes ft. Hélène Brunet ATMA*Naxos.
Source:https://junoawards.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-JUNO-Awards-Winners-List.pdfACCLAIM
Canada’s top 20 classical albums of 2020
Hélène Brunet’s gleaming soprano cuts through the gloom of 2020 like a ray of hope on this nicely curated survey of baroque and classical arias. She sounds right at home with her usual early music posse, Harmonie des Saisons, whether she’s digging into the coloratura of Handel’s Scipione or spinning silky vocal lines in Vivaldi’s lilting motet “Nulla in mundo pax sincera.” The album takes its name from the final track, a wordless vocalise (or solfeggio) that must have been the model for the aria “Christe eleison” from Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, and which Brunet lovingly caresses without a trace of tension — simply beautiful!
– , CBC Music – Related Link
Hélène Brunet : plus que du solfège
Hélène Brunet’s talent is undeniable. Her soprano voice is equal across all registers, supple and displays great ease in the coloratura passages. The high C at the end of the Exsultate jubilate is performed without the shadow of a difficulty. Throughout, the singer also displays remarkable musical intelligence (especially in the subtle ornamentation of the da capo arias) and drama, inhabiting every word, every phrase. We have here a first-rate vocal achievement showcasing a Quebec talent’.
– Emmanuel Bernier, La Presse – Related Link
Solfeggio, Hélène Brunet
Hélène Brunet has a very warm soprano voice. The Solfeggio program is a red carpet that displays this superb and enveloping tone. The well-mastered technical challenges nestle in the vocalizations of the aria Armatae face et anguibus from Vivaldi’ Juditha triumphans. The best of the recording is to be found in the arias in which Hélène Brunet’s voice unfolds calmly. As such, she takes pleasure in the section devoted to Bach and poses as a consoler of the soul.
– Christophe Huss, Le Devoir – Related Link
Solfeggio
What I hear here is a very beautiful, velvety voice, as mellow in the luminous highs as those of a certain Karina Gauvin. That’s no small thing to say!
– Frédéric Cardin, PAN M 360 – Related Link
Hélène Brunet and Luc Beauséjour offer elegant evening of fine Baroque fare
“Ms Brunet… stand[s] at the beginning of a bright and exciting career. If she sings so well now, I cannot wait to hear her again in many more recitals in the years to come.”
– Stephan Bonfield, Calgary Herald – Related Link
Levin-ized Mozart Mass proves the highlight of American Classical Orchestra program
“Her melodious dialogue with the woodwinds in Et Incarnatus Est was a treasure.”
– David Wright, New York Classical Review – Related Link
American Classical Orchestra and Chorus: Cherubini, Beethoven and Mozart
“[M]arvelous. Hélène Brunet combines souple lyricism with technical elegance. In her… aria, Hélène was able to make ornements feel like a spontaneous, unplanned and experimental development of ideas.”
– Jean Ballard Telepka, TheaterScene.net – Related Link
Quebec soprano Helene Brunet shines in CPO’s Bach-at-Knox Festival
“This was one of the best performances of the entire festival – Brunet splendid in her clear, compact tone, effortless technique, and beguiling grace in overall presentation. This is music she understands well, and she has the flexibility of voice, breath control, and flair to make Bach’s sometimes difficult writing sound perfectly natural. It was an impressive debut.”
– Kenneth Delong, Calgary Herald – Related Link
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Handel: Scipione – Scoglio d’immota fronte
Vivaldi: La fede tradita e vendicata – Sin nel placido soggiorno
Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans – Armatae face et anguibus
Bach: Cantata BWV 208 – Schafe können, sicher weiden
Bach: Cantata BWV 82 – Ich habe genug
Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto – Lungi da te, mio bene
Mozart: Exsultate jubilate – Alleluia
Mozart: K. 393 – Solfeggio no.2 in F major
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Hélène Brunet (soprano) is hailed as “a singer of tremendous quality” with “a voice of perfect beauty and sincere expression.” Recognized for her interpretations of Bach, Handel, and Mozart, her repertoire extends from Baroque to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Hélène sings at the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, with American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, the American Classical Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New York City, and the Orchestre Métropolitain under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who says, “Hélène Brunet is the embodiment of class, refinement, and purity.” Her debut solo album Solfeggio (ATMA Classique) has been described as a “red carpet that displays Hélène’s superb and enveloping tone” and “a first-rate vocal achievement”.
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English:
Hélène Brunet (soprano) is hailed by the critics as “a singer of tremendous quality” with “a voice of perfect beauty” and “sincere expression”. Recognized for her interpretations of the works of Bach, Handel, and Mozart, her repertoire extends from Baroque to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In the concert repertoire, Hélène is invited to perform with reputed orchestras and ensembles across North America and Europe, notably at the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, with American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, with American Classical Orchestra at the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, the Eugene Symphony, the Pacific Baroque Festival, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Newfoundland Orchestra, the Nova Scotia Orchestra, Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, ensemble Caprice, Arion Baroque Orchestra, and I Musici de Montréal.
In opera, Hélène was recently featured in the world premiere of the opera Sleeping Rough by Roddy Ellias and Sandra Nicholls, at the Music and Beyond festival in Ottawa, Canada.
Hélène’s debut solo album Solfeggio (ATMA Classique) has received rave reviews and been selected by the CBC as one of the top 20 classical albums of 2020. Solfeggio, recorded in collaboration with ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons, has been described as a “red carpet that displays Hélène’s superb and enveloping tone” and “remarkable musical intelligence and drama… a first-rate vocal achievement”. Other recordings with L’Harmonie des saisons include a Bach cantata album as well as the Juno award winning album Las Ciudades de Oro. Hélène has also collaborated with New York ensemble ACRONYM on their newest release, Cantica Obsoleta, on Olde Focus label.
Hélène was a prize winner at the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition at Carnegie Hall in New York. She is the recipient of generous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Musicaction Foundation. Hélène is currently studying with voice teacher Neil Semer in New York City.
12/2021 – PLEASE DESTROY ALL PREVIOUSLY DATED MATERIALS.
MODIFIED VERSIONS MUST BE APPROVED BY DISPEKER ARTISTS.
Français:
Reconnue pour son “chant d’une parfaite beauté et sa présence scénique des plus rayonnantes”, la soprano Hélène Brunet chante Bach, Handel, Mozart, et le répertoire du 20e et 21e siècle avec égal plaisir.
En concert, Hélène se produit auprès de nombreux ensembles et orchestres réputés à travers l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe, notamment au festival Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, avec l’orchestre American Bach Soloists à San Francisco, au prestigieux Lincoln Center de New York avec la American Classical Orchestra, avec l’Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal sous la direction de Yannick Nézet-Séguin, avec les orchestres symphoniques de Calgary, Eugene, Floride, Halifax, St. John’s, le Seattle Baroque Orchestra, le Pacific Baroque Festival, Tafelmusik, ensemble Caprice, Arion Orchestre Baroque, et I Musici de Montréal.
À l’opéra, Hélène a récemment créé le rôle d’Anna dans la première mondiale de l’opéra Sleeping Rough de Roddy Ellias et Sandra Nicholls au festival Music and Beyond à Ottawa.
Le tout nouvel album solo d’Hélène intitulé Solfeggio, paru sous l’étiquette ATMA Classique, reçoit l’éloge de la critique à l’international et la CBC le place parmi son Top 20 des albums classiques de 2020. L’album, enregistré avec l’ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons, est décrit comme un “tapis rouge pour le déploiement de ce timbre superbe et enveloppant”, cette “remarquable intelligence musicale et dramatique… une réalisation vocale de premier ordre”. La discographie d’Hélène avec L’Harmonie des saisons comprend d’autres titres, dont un album de cantates de Bach, puis l’album Las Ciudades de Oro gagnant d’un prix Juno. Hélène a également collaboré avec l’ensemble new-yorkais ACRONYM pour leur enregistrement Cantica Obsoleta, sous l’étiquette Olde Focus.
Hélène est récipiendaire d’un prix à la Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition à Carnegie Hall. Elle étudie avec Neil Semer à New York. Hélène bénéficie du soutien du Conseil des Arts du Canada et de Musicaction.
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