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Julie Nesrallah is a Canadian mezzo-soprano and radio host.
Biography
Julie Nesrallah has a rich and expressive voice. She is regularly engaged by opera companies, symphonies, festivals and chamber music ensembles across North America and abroad.
In February, 2013, Nesrallah was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for her cultural contribution to Canada as the host of CBC Radio 2's national classical music program, Tempo. She is also the host of CBC TV Ottawa's Solo series.
On July 1, 2011, Nesrallah sang "God Save the Queen" for Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, during Canada Day festivities in Ottawa on Parliament Hill.Nesrallah has also performed An Evening for Peace in Montreal for Queen Noor of Jordan. She also sang for Princess Haya in Amman, Jordan, to launch an endowment fund for underprivileged girls to study music in Canada.
Nesrallah participated in the Ottawa Jazz Festival in June 2012, and later sang with the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, performing the title role in Georges Bizet's opera, Carmen. She debuted a song cycle by James Wright written for her and the Gryphon Trio called Letters to the Immortal Beloved, based on Beethoven's love letters, at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival and at a music festival in Goiânia, Brazil.
Nesrallah is the executive producer and star of Carmen on Tap, a "rogue opera company" she created that performs Carmen as dinner theatre. Carmen on Tap debuted at the Lula Lounge in Toronto in August 2014 with the American tenor Richard Troxell.
Awards
Nesrallah has been the recipient of many distinguished prizes, including the Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Award & Mid-Career Grant. She is a grand prize winner of the Brian Law Opera Award, grand prize winner of the Arab Ambassador Awards, grand prize winner of the Cercle des Cents Associes Award, and winner of the Lebanese Canadian Chamber of Commerce Award.
Discography
- Schafer: String Quartet No.8, Theseus, Beauty and the Beast (2003), ATMA Classique ATMA 22201
- España (2004), with Daniel Bolshoy, guitar
- Panache (2007), with Caroline Léonardelli, harp