Elena Howard-scott
Elena Howard-Scott is a versatile soprano and actress, noted as "someone to watch" (LudwigVan Toronto). The Winnipeg native is quickly becoming known as a committed performer on both opera and music theatre stages across Canada. This past season, Elena had the generous support of the Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), and performed nearly a dozen solo recitals as a part of their programming. Enjoying a busy performance schedule, Howard-Scott recently made her role debut as Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites (The Glenn Gould School) under the baton of Nicolas Ellis, and made appearances in recital with Soundstreams and the Hamilton Conservatory of the Arts.
The 2024/2025 season sees Elena as Sibella in Drayton Entertainment’s production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, performing with the Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, and returning to Koerner Hall as Rapunzel in Into the Woods as part of Koerner Hall’s Special Events series. She makes her Maison Symphonique debut with Orchestre FILMharmonique at the start of 2025. She spent the 2024 summer season studying at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, singing the role of Janine in Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale.
Recent engagements include the world premiere of Narnia (The White Witch) by the Dora Award-winning company BadHats Theatre, the role of Tina in Dove’s Flight (Glenn Gould School), and a return to Koerner Hall as a Liebeslieder Singer in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. She had the opportunity to record a program of Canadian works performed by her father, David R. Scott, and mentor John Greer, at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studios. Her recent solo concert work includes Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra under the baton of Earl Lee, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Toronto Classical Singers and Players, and a presentation of Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith’s Cut Flowers with the Glenn Gould School’s New Music Ensemble and conductor Brian Current.
Elena was the Grand Prize Winner of the Corcoran Concerto Competition at the Glenn Gould School (2022); was a finalist and the Kurt Weill Foundation Prize winner at the 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition; was a finalist for l’Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique competition; and placed first in both the North Dakota/Manitoba District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and the CFMTA National Vocal Competition.
Additional stage credits include Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Opera Nuova); Strike! the Musical, and Beauty and the Beast (Rainbow Stage); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Dry Cold Productions); Fiddler on the Loose (Drayton Entertainment); Evil Dead: The Musical, and The Rocky Horror Show (Wasteland Productions).
Elena completed her Artist Diploma in Voice at the Glenn Gould School (Royal Conservatory of Music), under the tutelage of Adrianne Pieczonka and Peter Tiefenbach, and holds a Bachelor of Music (Vocal Performance) from the University of Manitoba, where she studied with soprano Tracy Dahl.
August 2024
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““Howard-Scott is impressive, with a voice that soars and a coloratura of interest. She is also a very good actor, and she moves with grace. Howard-Scott is someone to watch.””
