Described by Carol Castel (New York Opera Studio – General Manager) Anastasia “is completely at home on the stage… is a rare and special talent.”
Winner of the Paul and Carol Hill Harvard Broadcasting Award in Music, a full Graduate Teaching Fellowship recipient (U of S), and a Mary Smart Scholarship recipient (Brandon, MB), Anastasia is also the winner of numerous festival awards (Toronto and Saskatoon). Anastasia has sung La Ciesca with Edmonton’s Opera NUOVA and Countess Ceprano with Saskatoon Opera. Other roles include; Fiordiligi, Malika, Mrs. Grose, Geraldine and Sandman. In excerpt, she has sung Contessa, Butterfly and Gretel. Other stage work includes singing in the chorus for the Toronto Operetta Theatre and the Saskatoon Opera Association. In recital, Anastasia has sung in Saskatoon, Toronto, Winnipeg, Brandon, and Ottawa, collaborating with such wonderful pianists as Valerie Duek, Steven Philcox and Kathleen Lohrenz Gable. In the fall of 2012, Anastasia will be singing the roles of Sally and Isis with a Little Opera On the Prairie in the production of Isis and the Seven Scorpions.
Anastasia holds an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould Professional School(opera) as well as a Masters Degree in Music.
Anastasia will be accompanied by Kerry Agnew on piano.
