Lesley Dolman is a Canadian Mezzo-Soprano currently based in the Edmonton area in Alberta. In 2019 she performed as the Alto soloist in both Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Bryn Ogwr Choir and Orchestra, and Mozart’s Requiem, at All Saints Church in Penarth with the Ensemble Vocale of the Conservatoire de Rouen.  She was also a featured performer of a solo recital as a part of the St. Albert Chamber Music Society’s 9th season 

 

She is a recent graduate of the MA Opera Performance program at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she worked under the tutelage of Lorna Anderson and performed in Weill's Street Scene (Emma Jones), Handel's Semele (Juno), Verdi's Falstaff (Meg Page) and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino). Her other credits during this time include Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti (Dinah), with REPco Opera Productions. She also previously performed in Arthur Sullivan's The Rose of Persia (Heart's Desire), as well as a double bill of Arthur Sullivan's The Zoo (Eliza Smith) and Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortileges (La Libellule) with Utopia Opera in New York City.

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She previously studied at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, and while there she performed in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Third Lady) and Rachel Peters’ newly composed opera, Companionship (Dough). Previous credits include Verdi’s La Traviata (Annina) with Opera on the Avalon in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Britten’s Albert Herring (Florence Pike) with Opera NUOVA in Edmonton, Alberta.

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During her Undergraduate training at the University of British Columbia, where she studied with Heather Thompson-Price, she performed in Dvořak’s Rusalka (Third Woodsprite), Robert Ward’s The Crucible (Susanna Walcott), Massenet’s Cendrillon (Fifth Spirit and Dorothée), Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Third Spirit) and Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Second Cercatrice).

 

Lesley was granted the Gordon and Euna Lumb Award in Voice and Opera from the University of British Columbia in 2011 and was the recipient of the Winspear Fund Scholarship for Advanced Classical Music from the Edmonton Community Foundation in 2008 and again in 2012. She was the 2014 winner of the vocal division of the Northern Alberta Concerto Competition, and performed Ravel's Schéhérazade with the Edmonton Youth Orchestra in May of 2014. In March 2015 she was the recipient of the St. Albert Mayor's Celebration of the Arts Emerging Artist award, and returned home to perform for at the awards presentation gala. In 2017 Lesley also performed as the second soprano soloist with the Amici Choir and Orchestra in their performance of Mozart's Mass in C Minor, under guest conductor Gareth Dayus-Jones.  

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