Pauline Vaillancourt has led a busy international career as a performer of lyrical and contemporary opera, as a creator of original work and as a director.
The featured performer of many European and Canadian composers such as Aperghis, Vivier, Tremblay, Nigg, Garant, Prévost, Finissy, Piché Bussoti, Evanglista, Provost, Settel, Thibault, Mather, Squillante, to name only them, she has participated in the creation of many of their new works while at the same time maintaining a full opera career.
She has performed in many festivals such as: Montpellier, Avignon, Angers, Aix-en-Provence, Strasbourg, London, Valencia, Buffalo, Poland, Hungary and Lyon, and has sung the work of Giancinto Scelsi at Carnegie Hall in New York. Her recordings can be found on Amberola, Sonart, SNE, Salabert/Actuels, Umus, Port-Royal, Ariane, Empreintes digitales and Doberman-Yppan.
She has been a founding member of Chants Libres since 1990, and as the Artistic Director of the company she has created, directed and performed in many of its productions of new forms of opera recognized throughout the world.
She was the artist in residence at the Musée d’art contemporaine de Montréal, at the Studio du Québec in Paris and in New York. In her career she has won the Prix d’excellence Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Prix d’interprète de musique contemporaine Flandres-Québec.
She has been a member-researcher at Hexagram in Montreal since 2006.
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