Danielle Girard

Canadian soprano Danielle Girard is a recent graduate of the University of Ottawa (MMus ‘22, BMus ’20). While there, she received several scholarships, including the Ernest Gagnon Scholarship for a recital featuring art songs by French-Canadian composers. She was also a finalist in uOttawa’s 2022 Concerto Competition, performing Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder. Recital performances in her master’s degree included George Crumb’s Apparition for soprano and amplified piano, a chamber ensemble performance of Ravel’s Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé and full works by Debussy, Poulenc, Hétu, Schoenberg, and Villa-Lobos.

Operatic performances include Dido and Aeneas (Dido), Le nozze di Figaro (Barbarina), Così fan tutte (Despina), Cendrillon (3ème Esprit and chorus), and scenes from Cendrillon (Cendrillon), Ariadne auf Naxos (Echo), and Book of Faces (Rachel). Danielle has performed as a soloist for Rideau Hall (the Governor General of Canada), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ensemble Allure, the Ottawa Winter Music Festival, the Strings of St. John’s, the Mont-St-Joseph Convent, Le Choeur Pleinchant d’Ottawa, and is currently the regular soloist at First Church of Christ, Scientist in Ottawa.

A passionate music educator, Danielle has taught a private studio of piano and voice students for six years and has recently enjoyed being a French-speaking instructor for undergraduate Sight-Singing and Dictation classes at the University of Ottawa and an English-speaking facilitator for the 2022 uOttawa Music Enrichment Mini-Course for high school students.

In September of 2022, Danielle will begin a J.D. at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a generous scholarship. She continues her vocal studies with Allyson McHardy.