Early Music Vancouver Welcomes Suzie LeBlanc
David Gordon Duke
To call 2020 a challenging year would be a monumental understatement. For all cultural organizations, the issues of how to exist and, hopefully, work during pandemic times has created an environment like no other in recent memory.
Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc to be the first female artistic and executive director of Early Music Vancouver
Stuart Derdeyn
Grammy Award-winning early music specialist, Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc will helm the 50 year-old Early Music Vancouver
Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc is the new artistic and executive director of Early Music Vancouver.
Suzie LeBlanc Appointed EMV Artistic and Executive Director
Lauded Canadian Soprano and Early Music Specialist Suzie LeBlanc Appointed EMV Artistic and Executive Director
LeBlanc becomes first female Artistic and Executive Director in EMV’s 50-year History
Entretien l'Opéra #19
Gabrielle Prud’homme, Daniel Turp
Avec l’enthousiasme qui la définit et d’une voix d’une infinie douceur, elle a gentiment et généreusement répondu aux questions de L’Opéra - Revue québécoise d'art lyrique.
In Conversation – with Suzie LeBlanc, Part III
Wanda Waterman
I am not sure that I was more connected to Bishop after the trip, but I was certainly more connected to myself and to my surroundings. I had time to read her prose and her letters, not just her poems, which meant that my knowledge of her was broadened. I like to think of it as being able to see a larger map of the area I was working in. Her spirit and her sense of humour were palpable throughout the whole trip.
In Conversation – Suzie LeBlanc, Part II
Wanda Waterman
Bishop was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. What attracted me to her writing was the way she saw and described things. She saw beyond the accepted view of things, even beyond knowledge (of which she had plenty). She was fond of anything that could alter her perspective.
In Conversation – Suzie LeBlanc, Part I
Wanda Waterman
I was very fortunate to have grown up in the Maritimes where there have always been many wonderful choirs. I began singing with “Les Jeunes Chanteurs d’Acadie” when I was seven or eight, and it was then that I discovered my love of music, words, pronunciation, discipline, and ensemble music-making.
Suzie LeBlanc and the Music of the Text
Lydia Perovic - Definitely the Opera
“I always begin from the text.” Those who know her primarily through the coloraturas and trills of her early music pieces may be surprised by these words by Suzie LeBlanc, but a closer look at her multi-faceted career will confirm a great love of text and language as essential to music.
J'ai besoin de musique
Frédéric Cardin - Espace-musique
Au jeu des circonstances, le hasard est souvent roi. C’est le sort qui a mené la soprano Suzie LeBlanc sur le chemin de son nouvel album, "I am in need of music" (J’ai besoin de musique), basé sur la poésie d’une certaine Elizabeth Bishop, que l’on découvre avec plaisir.
Soprano Suzie LeBlanc embarks on incredible voyage with poet Elizabeth Bishop
John Rerauds - Ludwig van Toronto
Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc is on a mission to reunite the real words with the possible music of Bishop’s universe. It’s a mission that has proven to be, like so many adventures, full of unexpected twists.
Singer uses crowd-funding to bankroll CD based on Elizabeth Bishop’s poems
John Allemang - The Globe and Mail
"After a 28-year career, I’m learning how to do new things,” says the 51-year-old soprano who has sung 17th-century arias and Acadian folk songs with equal affinity. “Artists now have pretty well everything at their fingertips to create their own projects."
