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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)