Navigating The Change: Student to Professional with Lyndsay Promane

Inevitably, every artist must face the transition from student to professional. Students of classical voice often hear that their career will be a long journey, perhaps not taking off until closer to their thirties. Singers will place suffocating expectations on themselves to hit specific landmarks in order to “stay on track” for their dream career, adopting ideas that to deviate in any way from the financially independent singer, would be a mark of failure. What does a singers’ life look like in reality, in these years post post-secondary education, and realistically, how do we forge a life for ourselves that is true to our dreams and gives us validation even when that life may not look exactly as we planned.

Praised for "a genuine and deeply satisfying sound" (The WholeNote), Canadian mezzo-soprano Lyndsay Promane