Internationally renowned, soprano Suzie LeBlanc has established an extraordinary career specializing in music of the Baroque and Classical periods. Her busy schedule is an enviable mix of concert and opera performances, festival appearances and recording projects both on video and for the CD market.

Ms. LeBlanc’s 2007-2008 season is highlighted by her performances as soprano soloist in MESSIAH with the Detroit and Toronto symphonies, both conducted by Nicholas Kreamer. She will be heard with the Victoria Symphony in a Bach programme conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, with the Grand Philharmonic Choir of Kitchener in Bach’s JOHANNES PASSION and she also appears with Orchestre Metropolitan du Grand Montreal.
She continues her activities with Academie Baroque de Montreal, and will be featured by Vancouver Early Music in specially selected programmes.

Ms. LeBlanc’s 2006-2007 season included an extensive tour of the Far East with Arion; Telemann and Bach with Music of the Baroque in Chicago; and Bach performances with the Richard Eaton Singers of Edmonton, the Elora Festival Singers and the Grand Philharmonic Choir. In addition were concerts, recording and video projects in Montreal, Berlin, New Brunswick, northern Québec and Vancouver.

Further notable successes include festival performances in Stuttgart, Berkeley, London (Spittalfields) and in Vancouver, Monteverdi's ORFEO for Festival Vancouver, a recital of Mozart concert arias at the Concertgebouw under the direction of Jaap ter Linden, L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA for l’Opéra de Montréal and a film of Bach's COFFEE CANTATA. Her disc of Bach Cantatas with Tafelmusik (Analekta) has been released and joins an extensive discography which includes Vivaldi Motets and 'Amor Roma' for Vanguard Classics, 'Love and Death in Venice' (with Derek Lee Ragin and Teatro Lirico) for Virgin Veritas, Vivaldi solo cantatas with Teatro Lirico (ATMA), ‘l'Etoile d'Orient’ with Les Voix Humaines (ATMA) and 'Airs avec tablature de luth' – Premier livre (1624) by Etienne Moulinié with Stephen Stubbs and Les Voix Humaines. This last recording received unanimous praise from the critics including David Hansell of Early Music News, London, who wrote: "It will take something pretty spectacular to prevent this from being my disc of the year".

Opera performances have taken her to the Dresden Musikfestspiele, Boston Early Music Festival and the Netherlands Opera. In concert, Ms. LeBlanc regularly performs with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra and Teatro Lirico, while she has been presented in recital at the Concertgebouw, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, at Wigmore Hall and the Proms in London. She also performs in intimate chamber music settings with Musica Antiqua Köln and the Purcell Quartet, and has been invited to many international festivals such as the Festival de Beaune, The Flanders Festival and Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Suzie Leblanc is artistic director of the newly founded “Montreal Baroque Academy” with colleagues Alexander Weimann, Guillaume Bernardi, Matthew White and Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière. The Academy collaborated with Les Voix Baroques in the production of Caldara’s IL CONVERSIONE DI CLODOVEO, RE DI FRANCIA and produced an event inspired by Mozart’s Italian journeys in the summer of 2006.

Ms LeBlanc also teaches baroque singing and performance practice at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal.

For more information about Suzie Leblanc's current activities see her new personal web-site : www.suzieleblanc.com.