Navigating The Change: Student to Professional with Lyndsay Promane

Inevitably, every artist must face the transition from student to professional. Students of classical voice often hear that their career will be a long journey, perhaps not taking off until closer to their thirties. Singers will place suffocating expectations on themselves to hit specific landmarks in order to “stay on track” for their dream career, adopting ideas that to deviate in any way from the financially independent singer, would be a mark of failure. What does a singers’ life look like in reality, in these years post post-secondary education, and realistically, how do we forge a life for ourselves that is true to our dreams and gives us validation even when that life may not look exactly as we planned.

Praised for "a genuine and deeply satisfying sound" (The WholeNote), Canadian mezzo-soprano Lyndsay Promane (she/her) has been described as a “top-notch performer” (Opera Canada) with "an arresting presence on the opera stage, and a thoughtful concert artist" (Schmopera). In 2020, Lyndsay earned a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble (Turandot, Canadian Opera Company Chorus).

Recent highlights include the world premiere of Tap:Ex Augmented Opera (Tapestry Opera); solo roles in Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (Orford Musique), Handel’s Messiah (Toronto Beach Chorale) and Te Deum (Hart House Chorus); Sokolovic’s Love Songs for solo voice (Resonant Frequencies, Los Angeles).