Karina Gauvin is a Canadian soprano who rapidly developed an important concert and recital career in North America and Europe during the second half of the 1990s.
She was brought up in Montr+¬al, Qu+¬bec, where her father was a long-time member of the Choeur Saint-Laurent (Saint Lawrence Choir), one of the city's most prestigious choirs and a major component of the Montr+¬al Symphony Orchestra Choir. She studied at the Montr+¬al Conservatory of Music with Marie Daveluy, followed by work with Pamela Bowden of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, made possi...