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Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a versatile performer whose repertoire spans the early baroque to the
present. Noted for her “clear voice” (Mittelbayerische Zeitung) and endearing stage presence (The New
York Times), Lucy is establishing herself as a dynamic musician capable of interpreting both
technically and dramatically demanding music.
In addition to participating in The Royal Conservatory’s celebration of Nuit Blanche, singing on the
stage of Koerner Hall, Ms. Fitz Gibbon’s 2012-2013 season includes Unsuk Chin’s AkrostichonWortspiel with The Glenn Gould School’s New Music Ensemble and the modern stage premier of
Joseph Vézina’s opera Le Lauréat (Pauline). She will also perform Handel’s Silete Venti and a work by
composer Mark Kuss as guest soloist with the Quodlibet Ensemble in concerts in Connecticut. In
March she will first travel to Yale Universty under the auspices of the Franke Program in Science
and the Humanities to perform Anna Lindemann’s Theory of Flight and later join the Toronto-based
Cantabile Chamber Singers as a soloist in Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate.
Other upcoming performances include recitals with pianists Ryan MacEvoy McCullough at the
Toronto Arts and Letters Club and Peter Tiefenbach at The Royal Conservatory of Music.
Most recently Lucy appeared in the title role of Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto at Koerner Hall and in
Monteverdi’s Il ballo delle ingrate at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City with Musica Nuova. In April
she joined The GGS New Music Ensemble in works by Saariaho and So Jeong Ahn at the Canadian
Opera Company’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheater and The Royal Conservatory’s Mazzoleni Hall.
A graduate of Yale College, she is the 2010 recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the
Arts, the Wrexham Prize in Music, and the Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize. While at Yale,
Lucy appeared in principal roles with the Yale Baroque Opera Project, Yale Opera, and Opera
Theater of Yale College, including Isifile in Cavalli’s Il Giasone and the eponymous Deidamia in the
modern premier of Sacrati’s La Finta Pazza. She also appeared as a soloist with the Yale Recital
Chorus, the Saybrook Orchestra, and the Jonathan Edwards Orchestra, performing the works of
composers from Bach to Barber. She premiered several large-scale works by composers including
Anna Lindemann and Ryan Harper and performed such repertoire standards as Schoenberg's Pierrot
Lunaire and Elliott Carter's A Mirror on Which to Dwell. She was invited to the Miami Bach Society’s
International Tropical Baroque Festival and Tage Alter Musik festival in Regensburg, Germany, with
early music ensemble Ex Umbris, and was a member of the Yale Schola Cantorum under the
direction of Simon Carrington and Masaaki Suzuki. The CD she released with the Etherea Vocal
Ensemble under the Delos label in November of 2011, “Ceremony of Carols,” has been received to
much critical acclaim, praised by Opera News for its “elegant nuance.”
She currently studies with Monica Whicher in the Artist Diploma Program at The Royal
Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School, where she is the 2011-2012 recipient of the Rex Le Lacheur
Scholarship and the 2012-2013 recipient of The Lilly Kertes Rolin International Prize in Vocal
Studies.
—November 2012—