Soprano Nathalie Paulin has established herself in the United States, Canada, Europe, and East Asia as an interpretive artist of the very first rank. Winner of the 2005 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Opera Performance, she has collaborated with internationally renowned conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Jane Glover, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrew Litton, Michael Christie and Antony Walker on both the concert stage and in opera. Highlights of Ms. Paulin’s 2009-2010 season include her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic in L’Enfant Prodigue, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) and Orchestre Metropolitain (Montreal) and the title role in Massenet’s Manon for Calgary Opera. Ms. Paulin has appeared for L’Opéra de Montréal as Mélisande in Pélléas et Mélisande, and for Chicago Opera Theater as Galatea in Acis and Galatea, the title role in Semele and as Mary in La Resurrezione, all by Handel. More recently, Ms. Paulin made her Atlanta Symphony debut in Mozart’s Requiem and had return engagements with Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society and Washington Concert Opera, where she appeared with Stephanie Blythe. Ms. Paulin is a past winner of the Montréal Symphony Competition and holds a Master's Degree from the University of Montréal. She won the Dvorak prize and has also received awards and prizes from the George London Foundation in New York, the Young Mozart Singers' Competition in Toronto and the Canadian Music Competition. Ms. Paulin will next appear with Opera Lafayette in the roles of Phénice and Mélisse in Gluck’s Armide on February 1, 2010 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and February 3 in New York City.

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