Heidi has an Artists Diploma in Opera Performance from the Vancouver Academy of Music with tenor David Meek, a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from Trinity Western University. She currently resides in Germany where she made her debut as Countess Almaviva in July 2009.
Since landing her first major role in the Vancouver Academy’s Summer Opera production of Massenet’s Cendrillon in 2005, Heidi has gone on to sing roles with Burnaby Lyric Opera, Opera Pro Cantanti, Opera Appassionata and the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar. She has sung excerpts from many beloved operas and has performed the roles of Donna Elvira, Norma, Lady Billows, and Countess.
In the past few years, Heidi has sung in master classes given by renowned Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, Stuart Hamilton, David Shefsiek from Pacific Opera Victoria, and Joan Patenaude-Yarnell from the Manhattan School of Music. In 2008, Heidi was invited to Italy to sing and continue working with Ms. Patenaude-Yarnell at Centro Studi Lirica, during the Voce nel Montefeltro Festival, where she also worked with Gordon Ostrowski (Manhattan School of Music) and Maestro Ubaldo Fabbri. In the summer of 2009, she returned to Europe to sing in the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar's production of The Marriage of Figaro.
In addition to the opera stage, Heidi has had great success on the concert and Oratorio stage. She has performed numerous solo recitals and been a guest soloist for both the Trinity Western University and Columbia Bible College choirs. In 2006, as a soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, she sang with “vocal beauty… in a reverent rendering of ‘Lord, Bow Thine Ear’ wherein the balance of volume, intensity and quality of sound was spot on”. She is currently engaged as a member of the Theater Magdeburg Chorus in Germany, where she also continues to pursue an audition tour.
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