JEREMY SCINOCCA
ABOUT
Jeremy Scinocca is an award-winning tenor based in Toronto Canada. He is a recently alumnae of Vancouver Opera's Yulanda M. Farris Young Artist Program. With Vancouver Opera he performed the role of Le Remendado in Carmen, Lorenzo in Lucrezia (Bolcom) and Tiberge in Le Portrait de Manon and covered the roles of Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Jeremy recently worked with Manitoba Opera in their Digital Emerging Artist Program, which included presenting the project he designed, The Petrarch Project. In 2023 Jeremy his role debut of Tonio in La fille du Regiment with Jeunesses Musicales Canada as a part of le Festival d’opéra de Québec. Jeremy has also performed Edoardo in Un giorno di Regno, Mr. Pinkleton in Cinderella, Mr. Buchanan in Street Scene, Hector in a new work by Canadian composer, Rosa, and Marius in Les Miserables. He has worked with teachers Stefano Algieri and Laura Brookes Rice and coaches Les Dala, Stephen Hargreaves, and Kathleen Kelly. Jeremy has performed in masterclasses with world renowned conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Canadian tenors, Michael Schade and Richard Margison. He has won awards such as Prix Jean-Martin, E. Noel Spinelli Prize, Bourse Laurette-Paradis, and Jean L. Milar Scholarship. Jeremy is an active member of the Toronto music scene, performing in recitals across the city.
In November, Jeremy made his role debut as Nemorino in Toronto City Opera's Production of L'elisir d'amore. In December he will be singing three performances of Messiah with the Okanagan Symphony in Vernon, Kelowna, and Penticton.
Review:
Jeremy Scinocca played the hapless peasant, Nemorino, who is so desperate to be acknowledged by his love that he buys the “potion,” which is really only wine. This was Scinocca’s debut as Nemorino, and I believe, as his voice matures, that it is a harbinger of more to come. Scinocca’s lyric tenor voice had a good foundation in the middle register, but also had the intensity needed for high notes. Nowhere was this more evident than in his “Una furtiva lagrima.” This aria is so familiar that it can slip into being a redundant “best of” piece. Not so with Scinocca’s interpretation which contained lovely pianissimos and fortissimos and an ebb and flow of tempo. It was a showstopper, and the rapt silence of the audience was a tribute to Scinocca’s sensitive interpretation.
Toronto City Opera
L'elisir d'amore
Photo: Dahlia Katz
The Petrarch Project
"Pace non trovo"
"Pace non trovo" is the first iteration of The Petrarch Project. A digital arts project designed by me and supported by Manitoba Opera and their Digital Emerging Arts Program. It combines contemporary dance and my performance of Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets creating a new interpretation to these beautiful songs.
Pianist: Hyejin Kwon
Dancer: Sydney Faulkner
Videographer: Stephen Bell
Supported by: Manitoba Opera
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UPCOMING
Tenor Soloist - Handel's Messiah (Okanagan Symphony)
ROLES
Nemorino - L'elisir d'amore (Toronto City Opera)
Luke - The Handmaid's Tale (Banff Centre) June 2024
Remondado - Carmen, Bizet (Vancouver Opera) 2024
Ernesto (Cover) - Don Pasquale, Donizetti (Vancouver Opera) 2024
Lorenzo - Lucrezia, Bolcom (Vancouver Opera) 2024
Tonio - La fille du regiment, Donizetti (Jeunesses Musicales Canada) July 2023
Lysander (Cover) - A Mid Summer Night's Dream, Britten (Vancouver Opera) 2023
Tiberge - Le portrait de Manon, Massenet (Vancouver Opera) 2023
Nadir (Cover) - Les pêcheurs de perles, Bizet (Vancouver Opera) 2022
Edoardo - Un girono di Regno, Donizetti (Opera McGill) 2021
Valcour (Cover) - L'amant anonyme, Bologne (Opera McGill) 2021
Lord Pinkleton - Cinderella, Rogers & Hammerstein (Opera McGill) 2021
Hector - Rosa, Rolfe (Opera McGill) 2021
Mr. Buchanan - Street Scene, Weil (Opera McGill) 2020
Lippo Fiorentino (Cover) - Street Scene, Weil (Opera McGill) 2020
Tito (cover) - La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart (Opera McGill) 2019
Marius - Les Miserables, Schönberg (Etobicoke Musical Productions) 2015
AWARDS
Opera McGill Graduate Award - Schulich School of Music, 2020
Prix Jean-Martin - CALRM, 2019
E. Noel Spinelli Prize - Schulich School of Music, 2019
Bourse Laurette-Paradis - CALRM, 2018
Jean L. Millar Scholarship, Schulich School of Music, 2017
EDUCATION/YAPS
Manitoba Opera - Digital Emerging Artist Program - 2024
Banff Centre for the Art's - Chamber Music and Opera Interplay - 2024
Yulanda M. Farris Young Artists Program (Vancouver Opera) - 2022/24
Sewanee Summer Music Festival - Operafest - 2022
ICAV - Institut Canadien D'Art Vocal, 2021
McGill University - Masters of Music - Opera and Voice, 2021
McGill University - Bachelors of Music - Voice Performance, 2019