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Soprano Samantha Pickett is from Kitchener, Ontario and is a recent Masters of Opera and Voice graduate at McGill University (Montreal, QC) under Professor Sanford Sylvan. Miss Pickett is an alumna of Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON), where she earned a Bachelor's of Voice Performance (2012) and Opera Diploma (2013), studying with Kimberly Barber. 

Engagements with Opera McGill in 2015 included Contessa Almaviva in *Le Nozze di Figaro*, La Ciesca in *Gianni Schicchi*, as well as understudy for the title role in *Suor Angelica*. In Opera McGill’s Lisl Wirth Black Box Festival, Miss Pickett has been featured in excerpts as Magda Sorel in *The Consul* (2015), Alice Ford in *Falstaff* and Desdemona in Verdi’s *Otello* (2014). 

Miss Pickett’s other recent roles include Micaëla in *Carmen* and Donna Elvira in *Don Giovanni* (Opera NUOVA), and Elle in *La Voix humaine* (Opera McGill). Credits with Opera Laurier include Countess Almaviva and Marcellina in *The Marriage of Figaro*, Mrs. Demers in Neil Weisensel’s *City Workers in Love*, Lady Gerstein in Canadian composer Glenn James’ *One Lump or Two*, and Die Erste Dame in *Die Zauberflöte*.  

In the summer of 2015, Miss Pickett was delighted to debut at the Banff Centre in the world premiere of *Crush*, performing the role of Anna. Miss Pickett is a recipient of a Joseph Armand Bombardier Master’s CGS Grant, courtesy of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 

Through this grant, Miss Pickett launched [The Emerging Project](http://www.theemergingproject.com/), a text and video webseries chronicling the triumphs and struggles of the international operatic community. She now lives in Toronto, ON, where she studies with Wendy Nielsen.
