Soprano Chantal Parent is recognized  for her unique vocal beauty, savvy musicianship and dramatic skill, which she lends to a wide variety of musical styles including opera, oratorio, operetta and musical theatre in repertoire ranging from the Baroque through to the 21st Century.  As an ambassador of Canadian music, she performed  Jacques Hétu’s song  cycle Les Clartés de la Nuit  last season with the World Symphonic Orchestra (MWSO) in Montreal and at the American Church in Paris with the pianist Claudie Martinet.

Chantal Parent holds a masters degree from the University of Montreal and has also attended the Banff Center, the Lake Placid Institute in New York and the Vocal Institute at the University of California in Santa Barbara.  She is a recipient of the Marguerite McCammon Award from the Opera Guild of Fort Worth / Texas as recognition of vocal excellence and exceptional talent.

Her operatic roles include Mireille in Mireille by Gounod, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc, The Nightingale in The Nightingale by Stravinsky, Rosalinda in Die Fliedermaus by Strauss, Monica in The Medium by Menotti, Norina in Don Pasquale by Donizetti, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and the Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart.
 
In Bulgaria, she was Micaëla and Frasquita in Carmen by Bizet in Plovdiv’s National Opera House and at the Vratza Music Festival.  Ms. Parent has also performed the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart at the Bourgas National Opera.  On the operetta stage, Ms. Parent has performed Offenbach’s Hélène in La belle Hélène, Guadalena in La Périchole and more recently Pomme d’api in Pomme d’api.  She was Lady Mary in Monsieur Beaucaire by Messager and Annina in Une Nuit à Venise by J.Strauss.

Other symphonic concert performances include Lia in L’Enfant Prodigue by Debussy at Place des Arts in Montreal, the Lord Nelson Mass in Joliette’s Cathédral  and the Te Deum by Kodály in Montreal’s Basilica with Miklós Takács. Other season highlights include Faure’s Requiem, the Dixit Dominus by Vivaldi, the Dixit Dominus by Haendel, the Magnificat by Berio, the Te Deum by Dvořák and Pyrame and Thisbé by Monteclair.

Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice and for her outstanding musicianship, Chantal Parent is also in constant demand as a concert artist, both for special events like the Expo 67 anniversary at Parc Jean-Drapeau last August where she performed excerpts for the popular rock opera Starmania with the World Symphonic Orchestra (MWSO).  Ms. Parent was Julie in the folk musical Deux gars d’autrefois by Alain Duschesneau and Alain Bouliane perform in Quebec under the direction of John Gilbert.  She appeared  in a special revue of Michel Fugain’s music.

 Other performances include Handel’s Messiah and the world premiere of the opera Alexander the Great by the Greek composer Panayoti Karousos at the Basilica in Montreal.