Soprano Nicole Ross has been praised for her “Simple, unaffected acting, and gorgeous vocal tone”

Nicole is a Montréal based soprano and a recent graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. She has been the recipient of several prizes and scholarships, most notably McGill University’s Oxford Music Scholarship, and the Evelyn Adamson Johnstone Memorial Prize for Promising Soprano in 2018 and 2019. She has been recognized for her performances at the Classical Singer Competition where she placed 3rd, and 2nd in the Voice category of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals National Music Festival. Nicole has received support from the Nova Scotia Talent Trust in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 and in 2022 received their Portia White Award.

Nicole’s opera credits include 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.

Nicole 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 addition to her performance activities, Nicole is an Artistic Associate of Musique 3 Femmes. In September 2024, Nicole looks forward to starting her Masters of Music Performance at l’Université de Montréal.