After three days of thilling competition, the First Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition in Voice has now conclude the semifinal round. 51 candidate performed over 9 sessions to an enthusiastic audience. After a one hour deliberation tabulating the results, the jury of six legendary singers (Teresa Berganza, Grace Bumbry, Marilyn Horne, Joseph Rouleau, Cesare Siepi and Jon Vickers) and one musicologist have chosen the following ten finalists:
Burk Bilgili, Turkey Melanie Boisvert, Canada Measha Brueggergosman, Canada Mikhail Davydov, Russia Sin-Nyung Hwang, South Korea Joseph Kaiser, Canada Se-Jin Lee, South Korea John Matz, USA Daesan No, South Korea Jennifer O'Loughlin, USA
Visit http://www.scena.org/columns/reviews/020601-WKC-voicejmresults.html to see a photo of the finalists.
After a draw, the order of the Finals will be:
June 4
Mikhail Davydov Daesan No Se-Jin Lee Joseph Kaiser Burak Bilgili
June 5
Sin-Nyung Hwang Melanie Boisvert Jennifer O'Loughlin Measha Brueggergosman John Matz
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Note that the finals will be available in video webcast from Radio-Canada. Follow the competition at our special page http://voicejm.scena.org. The quality of the candidates were extremely high, much better than at last year's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition heard over the internet last year. I myself counted 19 singers who could have passed onto the finals. Review of the first day of semi-finals is already posted on our website. We will publish a report of the last two days of the semifinals in the next 24 to 48 hours.
The competition is organizing a full day of masterclasses tomorrow (June 2) at Pollack Hall at McGill University in Montreal: - Grace Bumbry (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.), - Marilyn Horne (2 p.m. - 5 p.m.), - Teresa Berganza (7 p.m. - 10 a.m.) LSM will be there to report on the masterclasses. For those in the Montreal, there is also contest to win one of three pairs of tickets to the closing Gala on june 7. Deadline to enter: June 5.
Good night.
wkc
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