Ingrid Suderman
Ingrid Suderman, soprano, received her undergraduate degree BRE from the Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and her ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. Her graduate studies have been at the Nordwestdeutschemusikadamie in Detmold, Germany and the Banff Centre, Canada. She received numerous awards and scholarships for vocal excellence throughout her years of study. Winning the Northwest Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions in Seattle led to singing as a semi-finalist at Lincoln Centre in New York.
Performance highlights include solo work with the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Vancouver Society for Early Music, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, the Amity Singers of Victoria, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Festival Chorus of Calgary, the Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Calgary Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Richard Eaton Singers, the B.C. Choral Federation, the Ontario Choral Federation, the Saskatoon Symphony and the Trinity Western Chamber Choir.
Her radio performances with the CBC on many occasions include recital work, oratorio, opera, operetta, chamber music and sacred works including the live national broadcast of Handel’s Messiah in 1973. Television performances include chorus/solo work on CBC’s Heritage Show and Hymn Sing, principal soloist on an Offenbach Special, Can-Can to Barcarolle bought by NET Network and shown across the USA and as soprano soloist on the KVOS Messiah Highlights shown in the US and Canada for many seasons.
Singing tours have taken her across western Canada and to Ontario with Overture Concerts and Jeunesse Musicale. As soloist with the TWU Chamber Choir she has performed in Poland, Germany and South Korea.
Teaching, adjudicating and presenting vocal workshops are important aspects of her singing career. On faculty at TWU from 1989 - 2011, she further developed her teaching skills by attending Voice Conferences in Toronto, Philadelphia, Helsinki, Oslo, New Orleans and Paris. She has been an adjudicator for numerous festivals throughout British Columbia and a judge for the Vancouver Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera Auditions – both district in Vancouver and regional in Seattle, for the Roberto and Mary Wood Competition in Victoria and for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards on the district level in Victoria and Vancouver.
Ingrid Suderman was the chair of the International Congress of Voice Teachers 6th Conference held in Vancouver August 2005. She is the co-founder of the Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) acting as its Executive Director, 2007 & 2008 and Board Chair 2010 & 2011. She is presently Past Chair and on the voice faculty.
Her philosophy in singing/voice teaching is “to bring freedom and joy in doing something that should be natural and expressive”.
Discography: Sacred Arias, Songs and Spirituals in 1986, Knockin’ At Your Door in 1989 and Hear My Pray’r in 1996. All have been aired on CBC Radio.
