Brooke Dufton
Soprano
Soprano
Dedicated to the promotion of Canadian music, Ms. Dufton has been honoured to perform roles in many of R. Murray Schafer’s works, including The Princess of the Stars, The Enchanted Forest, And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon, Asterion, and The Children’s Crusade. She has premiered pieces by numerous composers, and pieces have been written or arranged for her by composers such as Emily Doolittle, Gayle Young, and Monica Clorey. She has sung for Soundstreams, The Scotia Festival of Music, Stratford Summer Music, Jeunesses Musicales, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, among others.
Ms. Dufton has been recorded by the CBC and the CMC, she recorded Brahms’ Requiem with L’Orchestre Symphonique de l’Ile, and she sings on the Wild Dogs Motion Picture Soundtrack (imX Communications). She has received the Richard Bradshaw Fellowship for Opera, the Stratford Festival Young Artist Award, and both the Award for Advanced Voice and the National ACNMP award in recognition of her work in Canadian classical music.
In recent years, Ms. Dufton has pursued an interest in Early music, developing programs of English Lute song and 15thC French lute song, researching the 16thC ensemble works of Luzzaschi and Strozzi, and studying baroque staging and early dance forms with Opera Atelier. Her baroque repertoire includes numerous cantatas and oratorio by Tellemann, Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel; Couperin’s Lecons des Tenebres; and the roles of Morgana in Handel’s Alcina and Eurinda in Cavalli’s Doriclea. Ms. Dufton has studied and performed with Tafelmusik and The Toronto Continuo Collective; toured for Musique Royale with Novus singing a program of music by William Byrd and his contemporaries; and recently performed a series of renaissance music and dance concerts for Cupids 400.
Email:b.dufton@theatrecottonrobes.com
Brooke Dufton's CV
Ms. Dufton has been recorded by the CBC and the CMC, she recorded Brahms’ Requiem with L’Orchestre Symphonique de l’Ile, and she sings on the Wild Dogs Motion Picture Soundtrack (imX Communications). She has received the Richard Bradshaw Fellowship for Opera, the Stratford Festival Young Artist Award, and both the Award for Advanced Voice and the National ACNMP award in recognition of her work in Canadian classical music.
In recent years, Ms. Dufton has pursued an interest in Early music, developing programs of English Lute song and 15thC French lute song, researching the 16thC ensemble works of Luzzaschi and Strozzi, and studying baroque staging and early dance forms with Opera Atelier. Her baroque repertoire includes numerous cantatas and oratorio by Tellemann, Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel; Couperin’s Lecons des Tenebres; and the roles of Morgana in Handel’s Alcina and Eurinda in Cavalli’s Doriclea. Ms. Dufton has studied and performed with Tafelmusik and The Toronto Continuo Collective; toured for Musique Royale with Novus singing a program of music by William Byrd and his contemporaries; and recently performed a series of renaissance music and dance concerts for Cupids 400.
Email:b.dufton@theatrecottonrobes.com
Brooke Dufton's CV
