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Erica Northcott
Erica Northcott
ERICA NORTHCOTT - Soprano
Born in Rome, Canadian soprano Erica Northcott has earned a uniquely active performing career in choral, early music, oratorio, operetta, contemporary and contemporary theatre music. She has been the recipient of many awards in national and international competitions. On the concert stage Miss Northcott has performed in North and South America, Europe and Japan. In addition to being a favourite soloist with orchestras and choral societies, she is a seasoned recitalist and occasional commercial jingle singer and voice over artist.
Miss Northcott¿s silvery timbre and interpretive powers have earned high praise from audiences and critics on many continents as well as the high seas with World Explorer Cruises and as instructor and singer with the Societa Dante Alighieri in Italy. She has premiered many Canadian works by such composers as Imant Raminsh, Rodney Sharman, Mark Armanini and Elliot Weisgarber on whose CD Divine Immanences she is the featured soloist.
As a teacher of singing, Miss Northcott is head of the Voice Division at Douglas College New Westminster and in 2010 was certified in the three levels of Somatic Voicework ¿ The LoVetri Method at the Contemporary Commerical Music (CCM) Pedagogy Institute at Shendandoah University. She will be attending SVW¿ post-certification courses in 2012. She integrates CCM styles in her teaching using the Somatic Voicework ¿ through her classical technique.
A graduate of UBC, Miss Northcott studied primarily with Luigi Wood and Nicolai Kolesnikov and is an advocate for healthy, functional vocal use. She is in demand as an adjudicator having adjudicated for the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions and music festivals throughout western Canada. A member of NATS and ACTRA, she also teaches privately and leads workshops in body movement, acting for singers and interpretation.
