Soprano Jeanine De Bique won the Paul A. Fish Memorial First Prize in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and gives her debut recitals in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York and Washington.  This season, she is Artist-in-Residence with the Basel Opera in Switzerland, where she performs as Kate Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly and Barberina in Le nozze di Figaro.  Current highlights of Ms. De Bique’s season are her debut with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic in performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Avery Fisher Hall and performing as Iza in La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein and Sophie in Werther.

Ms. De Bique’s leading roles in opera productions at the Manhattan School of Music, include Adele in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, the title role in Handel’s Semele, Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Sister Constance in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmelites, and Girl in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti.  Her other operatic appearances include the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea and La Princesse in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges at the Chautauqua Music Program, Yum Yum in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado with St. Louis Opera Theatre, Clara in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess on tour in Eastern Europe and Russia, the Woman of the River in Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness with American Opera Projects, and  the premiere of Paul Brantley’s On the Pulse of Morning with the MSM Symphony.

Born in Trinidad, Ms. De Bique earned her Bachelor’s Degree in 2006 from the Manhattan School.  She also earned her Master’s degree in 2008 and her Professional Studies Certificate in 2009 with Marlena Malas.  She is a Winner of the 2009 Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition in New York, a Regional Finalist and Study Grant Winner in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Finalist and Winner of the Lys Symonette Award in the Kurt Weill Foundation’s 2007 Lotte Lenya Competition, and a First Prize Winner in the 2006 National Association for Negro Singers Competition.  She received a Study Grant from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation in 2006, and has participated in master classes with Renee Fleming, Marilyn Horne, Catherine Malfitano, Thomas Hampson, and Mirella Freni.

YCA Artists are continually adding to their repertoire.  Please contact the artist management staff at Young Concert Artists if you are interested in a work which does not appear on this list.

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