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Karina Gauvin
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Karina Gauvin came to international attention upon winning, in 1994, the lieder
prize as well as the public’s prize in the 40th edition of the ’s-Hertogenbosch
International Vocal Competition in Holland. In 1995, she captured first prize in the
28th CBC Radio National Competition for Young Performers. After graduating with a first
prize at the Montréal Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Marie Daveluy,
Karina Gauvin continued her studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music (Glasgow)
with Pamela Bowden. Karina Gauvin has given recitals at the Royal Opera House (Covent
Garden), the Bishopsgate Hall in London, and has sung The Fairy Queen by
Purcell in Oxford and at the Aldeburgh Festival. Winner of the Maggie Teyte Memorial
Prize (London 1992) Karina Gauvin was recently chosen as Soloist of the Year by the
International French Radio Community. In Canada, she has sung with the Montréal
Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy. Karina
Gauvin is recipient of the Virginia P. Moore prize attributed by the Canada Council for
the Arts.
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