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Lyric soprano Jennifer Taverner, noted as possessing a voice of \u201crare natural beauty and freshness\u201d, is recognized for her instinctive musicality and excellent stage presence. 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Lyric soprano Jennifer Taverner, noted as possessing a voice of \u201crare natural beauty and freshness\u201d, is recognized for her instinctive musicality and excellent stage presence. Recent and upcoming engagements include Rose in Weill\u2019s Street Scene for VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert, Messiah with the Grand Philharmonic Choir, the contemporary opera Airline Icarus (Brian Current) with Soundstreams, a Gilbert & Sullivan Evening for the Niagara Symphony, Bach\u2019s Mass in B minor with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Faur\u00e9 Requiem and Messiah with the Bach Elgar Choir, and an appearance with the Off Centre Salon. Past highlights include the role of Fiordiligi in a touring production of Mozart\u2019s Cosi fan tutte with Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, as well as performances with the Ontario Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bach Elgar Choir, the Toronto Classical Singers, and the Larkin Singers. An accomplished concert soloist, Ms. Taverner won the 2010 Royal Conservatory Orchestra\u2019s Concerto Competition, singing Barber\u2019s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and performed the same work with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in Koerner Hall, under the baton of Johannes Debus of the Canadian Opera Company. In 2012 she was a semi-finalist in both the Montreal International Music Competition, and the New York Oratorio Society Lyndon Woodside Solo Competition. Past concert engagements have included Handel\u2019s Messiah with The Elmer Iseler Singers; Brahms\u2019 Ein Deutsches Requiem with The Larkin Singers and The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; and Elliot Carter\u2019s A Mirror on Which to Dwell with the Royal Conservatory New Music Ensemble. Further operatic credits include Female Chorus in Britten\u2019s The Rape of Lucretia (Opera on the Avalon), No\u00e9mie in Massenet\u2019s Cendrillon (Glenn Gould School), Angel\/Witch in the world premiere of R. Murray Schafer\u2019s The Children\u2019s Crusade (Soundstreams\/Luminato), and Laurette in Bizet\u2019s Le Docteur Miracle (Glenn Gould School). Ms. Taverner has held two consecutive vocal fellowships at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center. Performances there included Gyorgy Kurtag\u2019s Scenes from a Novel for soprano and chamber ensemble, excerpts from Gluck\u2019s Iphigenie en Tauride with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Stravinsky\u2019s Les Noces led by Maestro Charles Dutoit. Other summer studies include the Art of Song program at the Toronto Summer Music Festival, where she worked with Elly Ameling and Julius Drake, and the Highlands Opera Studio where she performed the roles of Ellen Orford, Governess, and Helena in scenes from Benjamin Britten\u2019s operas, directed by tenor Richard Margison. Ms. Taverner is a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, and has been named a laureate of Les Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques. She earned her Bachelor of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University, and completed the Artist Diploma program at the Royal Conservatory\u2019s Glenn Gould School.<\/p>\n