Guest Artist | Jeanine De Bique, soprano

Event time: 
Sunday, October 28, 2018 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (SDQ ), Marquand Chapel See map
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Admission: 
Free; no tickets or registration
Open to: 
General Public
Event description: 

Works of Mozart, Strauss, Wolf, Previn and folk songs from Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica


Recently described as a “divine singer” (Trouw, Netherlands), Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique is recognized as an artist of “dramatic presence and versatility” (Washington Post, USA) and possessing “genuine star quality” (New York Amsterdam News).

Ms. De Bique holds a Master degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Her awards include First prize at the Young Concert Artists, Inc Music Competition, the Arleen Auger Prize at the Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition, Third Prize in the Viotti International Music Competition and a prize winner at the Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition (New York). She was a finalist and a study grant award recipient of the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and received a study grant from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation during her studies.

Highlights of the upcoming season 2018/19 will be the title role of Handel’s Rodelinda at Opéra de Lille, Théâtre de Caen and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées conducted by Emmanuelle Häim, her role debut as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at Arizona Opera and Donna Anna with Opéra national du Rhin and Messiah with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra among others.