Welcome to Suzie LeBlanc's website!
Suzie LeBlanc is a Canadian soprano and early music specialist, who has enjoyed an active international career performing in concerts throughout Europe, North America and Japan, in repertory ranging from lute songs to chamber music to oratorio and early opera.To receive info on future concerts and special events, or to send a personal message to Suzie LeBlanc, please e-mail her at: info@suzieleblanc.com
Sep 30 2008
NEW! IN STORES FROM SEPT. 30th - OLIVIER MESSIAEN
"LeBlanc dove in with her whole being, fully inhabiting the songs in mood, spirit and musicality. Her clear, bell-like soprano positively rang in the wood-and-plaster temple's lively acoustics. Her impeccable phrasing rose and swelled with the arched ceiling. The elocution was as bright as the dappled sunlight that lights the interior."
Toronto Star
Suzie LeBlanc and Robert Kortgaard's latest cd "Chants de Terre et de Ciel" (ATMA Clasique) will be available on September 30th 2008. They are joined by violinist Laura Andriani and tenor Lawrence Wiliford. You can hear LeBlanc & Kortgaard perform music from the disc in concert. Please check the schedule page for more details.
Sep 13 2008
BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM AWARD FOR LOST SONG! - TIFF
The City of Toronto-Citytv Award for Best Canadian Feature Film goes to Rodrigue Jean’s Lost Song. Elisabeth (Suzie LeBlanc), Pierre (Patrick Goyette) and their new-born baby move to a summer cottage in a remote area north of Montreal. Isolation and the difficulty of coping with her new situation and surroundings send Elisabeth into a spiral of depression.
The jury described the film as “constantly surprising,” and “profound, masterful and devastatingly sad.”
(photo: copyright Lost Song)
May 15 2008
HONORARY DOCTORATE
SOPRANO SUZIE LEBLANC RECEIVED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE from the University of King's College in Halifax May 15 2008. The University cites her exceptional career in the arts and her pioneering efforts to promote Acadian music through her 2004 disc, La Mer Jolie:chants d'Acadie (ATMA 22330), which celebrated the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the French settlers. The music led her on a "musicological pilgrimage, much of it on foot, through historic Acadia to personally retrieve musical remnants of her ancestors in the living present." Her tour inspired a second album last year, Chants d'Acadie: Tout passe (ATMA 22522) and a television documentary, "A Musical Quest" directed by Donald Winkler. Suzie LeBlanc's other areas of expertise are vocal music of the 17th and 18th centuries and French art song.