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The Canadian mezzo-soprano, Ariana Rose Jen-Jen Maubach, began singing at age 8 with the Toronto Children’s Chorus and then later at the RCM’s Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy in the studio of Dr. Robert Loewen. She has performed solo and joint voice recitals at Mazzoleni Hall and The Bishop Strachan School (from where she is an alumna). In 2013, she performed Johannes Brahms' 2 Gesänge Op. 91 accompanied by Barry Shiffman and Jeanie Chung in Koerner Hall. In 2014, she won the Ontario Gold Medal for the highest mark in the province for RCM Grade 9 Voice as well numerous scholarship and prizes at the National Teacher’s Association for Singers (NATS); the Best Senior and Intermediate Voice prizes at the North Music Festival (2013 and 2014), and first prize in 2013 at the Ontario Music Association provincial finals.
In the summers of 2013 and 2015, Ariana Maubach attended Songfest at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with world-renowned mezzo-soprano, Susanne Mentzer, Dame Ann Murray, Audrey Luna and Gwen Detwiler. In both 2014 and 2015, she studied with Wendy Nielsen in St. Andrews, New Brunswick where she sang in classes for Tom Diamond and Liz Upchurch, both associated with the Canadian Opera Company.
Ariana Maubach obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Music (Voice), with Distinction, from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York (2015-2018), under the tutelage of Kathryn Cowdrick. She was the recipient of the prestigious Howard Hanson Merit Scholarship. She attended Artist Diploma Program at the The Royal Conservatory Glenn Gould School (GGS) in Toronto, Canada (2020-2021) and received its 2021 Dorothy Isabelle Webb Trust Award. Since 2022, she is studying for her Master of Music degree at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) under the tutelage of Gwendolyn Coleman. At CCM, she is the recipient of the Graduate Incentive Award. She the recipient of the full-tuition Murray Frum & Nancy Lockhart Scholarship.
At Eastman, she played the Queen of Fairies in Iolanthe, Dorothée in Cendrillon, and understudied Marcellina in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (2016), and was soloist in Eastman School of Music: Bach Cantata Series (BWV 61 & BWV 62, November 2017). Other roles she has performed so far: The Abbess in Puccini's Suor Angelica (GGS, March 2020); the title role in Bolcom's Lucrezia (GGS, November 2020); Bianca in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (GGS, April 2021); Madame scenes in Bulrusher with Cincinnati Opera Fusion (Cincinnati, Ohio, December 2021); The mainstage role of Dorothée in Joseph Bologne's L'Amant Anonyme by (CCM, February 2022); Chorus in La bohème with Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, South Carolina, May 2022); Filippyevna cover in Eugene Onegin at Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara, California, June 2022); at the Glenn Gould School (Toronto, Canada); Mother Marie of the Incarnation in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites (CCM, November 2022). |
