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Canadian performer Kendra Dyck has been described as possessing "a pleasant sweet toned soprano that she’s well capable of colouring for dramatic effect” [OperaRamblings]. She was a three-time semi-finalist of The Lotte Lenya Competition, reaching the finals in 2024, and was also a finalist in The CANIMEX Canadian Music Competition's 2019 Stepping Stone Competition. Most recently, Ms. Dyck enjoyed a double role debut in France with Festival Opéra Bastide in July 2025, alternating performances as Mercédès and Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen.

An avid lover of contemporary music, Ms. Dyck sang the world premiere of Bekah Simm’s Juno Award-winning composition Bestiary I & II for soprano, ensemble and electronics as part of the 21C Music Festival in Toronto in 2020. She made her Koerner Hall debut in 2017 with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in the world premiere of Michael Oesterle’s symphonic work Home, conducted by Tania Miller. Other notable performances include Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, Schubert’s Masses in C Major and G Major, and Schütz’ Musikalische Exequien. In addition to solo work, Ms. Dyck was a Sidgwick Scholar with The Toronto Orpheus Choir in their 2018-2019 season under the direction of Robert Cooper, and was an original member of the Nota Bene Baroque Players and Singers Ensemble, conducted by Howard Dyck, with whom she sang for five seasons. 

Praised as a “natural comedienne” [Opera Canada], Ms. Dyck enjoys balancing the performance techniques of both opera and musical theatre. An alumnus of the NUOVA Summer Festival. Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and Lyric Arts France, she has worked with some of the top conductors in the country and abroad, including, David Bowser, Nathan Brock, Robert Cooper, Leslie Dala, Leslie De'Ath, Stephen Dubberly, Howard Dyck, Tania Miller, Jurgen Petrenko, Ivars Taurins, Rosemary Thomson and Daniel Warren, and has performed roles directed by Olivia Daniels, Paul Cegys, Brian Deedrick, Anne-Marie Donovon, Jonathan Eaton, Marilyn Gronsdal, Joel Ivany, Brent Krysa, and Wendy Leard. Past roles include Mercédès & Frasquita (Carmen), Doralee Rhodes (9 to 5: The Musical), Pitti-Sing (The Mikado), Ida (Die Fledermaus), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Sandrina (La Cecchina), Kitty Hart (Dead Man Walking), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), and Mahigan in Spy Dénommé-Welch and Catherine Magowan’s Canadian Indigenous opera Giiwedin.

 

​Ms. Dyck holds a Bachelor of Music in Honours Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University and an Artist Diploma from The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music.

REPERTOIRE

theatre

opera

Racheter / The Project / Dawn

Mills / The Storyteller / Lily

Parton /9 to 5: The Musical / Doralee Rhodes

Sullivan / The Mikado / Pitti-Sing

Bizet / Carmen / Mercédès, Frasquita

Bernstein / Trouble in Tahiti / Trio Soprano

Dénommé-Welch / Giiwedin / Mahigan

Heggie / Dead Man Walking / Kitty Hart

Humperdinck / Hansel and Gretel / Gretel

Piccinni / La Cecchina / Sandrina

Puccini / Gianni Schicchi / Lauretta

Purcell / Dido & Aeneas / Second Woman

Stravinsky / The Rake's Progress / Anne Trulove

Strauss (Johann) / Die Fledermaus / Ida

oratorio

Bach / Cantatas 21, 51, Easter Oratorio, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion

Britten / Rejoice in the Lamb

Charpentier / Christmas Eve Mass, Messe de morts

Handel / Dixit Dominus, Messiah

Haydn / Die Schöpfung

Mendelssohn / Hear My Prayer

Mozart / Exsultate jubilate, Mass in c minor, Requiem, Vesperae solennes de confessore

Poulenc / Gloria

Rutter / Gloria

Saint-Saëns / Christmas Oratorio

Schubert / Mass in C Major, Mass in G Major

Schütz / Musikalische Exequien

Telemann / Machet die Tore weit

concert & chamber works

Bolcom / Let evening come (for soprano, viola & piano)

Britten / Les Illuminations

Grieg / Peer Gynt

Melani / All'armi pensieri

Mozart / Misera, dove son?
 

Oesterle / Home

Reich / Drumming

Simms / Bestiary I & II

Tiefenbach / Three poems (for soprano, trumpet & piano)

© 2025 by KENDRA DYCK

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