The soprano Myriam Leblanc is the recipient of several prizes: first prize and Audience Choice Award at the Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestra Competition, winner of an Audience Choice Award in the Center Stage competition of the Canadian Opera Company, winner of the excellence grant awarded annually by the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal and the first prize at the Mathieu Duguay Early Music Competition at the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival in 2017. Myriam Leblanc is a versatile artist who works as much in the classical world as in the bel canto, as in the baroque. She is recognized for her timbre of great purity, for her supple and warm voice and her great mastery in both technical and musical expressiveness.
“It’s like a brandy distillate, absolutely transparent … Her name is Myriam Leblanc and in my opinion she has been one of the most beautiful voices, perhaps the most beautiful, to come out of the Quebec breeding ground in the past 10 years …”
Christophe Huss, Samedi et rien d’autre, December 2020
She specializes in oratorios and concerts: Requiem by Dompierre (OPCM), La Messe des morts by Gossec (Arion), the Requiem by Mozart (les Violons du Roy), the Messiah by Handel (Tafelmusik), the Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Les Violons du Roy), Bach’s St. John Passion (Tafelmusik), Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus (I Musici), Bach’s Magnificat (Les Violons du Roy), Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” by Mendelssohn (Metropolitan Orchestra), several Bach cantatas including Ich habe genug and several other works. At the opera, she shone among others in productions of the Opéra de Montréal (Rigoletto, Svadba, Aida), the OSTR, the OPCM and the Opéra de Québec (Carmen), the Orchester Métropolitain (Parsifal) and L’Ensemble Caprice (Dido et Aeneas).
Formerly a member of the Atelier lyrique of Montreal Opera, Myriam Leblanc has been a guest soloist of prestigious: Montreal Symphonic Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Tafelmusik, Trois-Rivières Symphonic Orchestra, Québec Symphonic Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphonic Orchestra and Metropolitain Orchestra. She has sung under the baton of renowned conductors such as Bernard Labadie, Hervé Niquet, Rafael Payare, Jacques Lacombe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jonathan Cohen, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Kent Nagano, Ivars Taurins, to name a few.
She also has several recordings to her credit including Amour fou (Ensemble Mirabilia, ATMA 2024), Israel in Egypt (Concert Spirituel, Alpha Classics, 2023), Écho et Narcisse (Concert Spirituel, Château de Versailles, 2022), Le Grazie delle Donne (Ensemble La Cigale, Analekta 2021) as well as Luce e ombra/Vivaldi (Ensemble Mirabilia, Analekta, 2021).
