VISI Faculty: Ingrid Suderman
Ingrid
Suderman, soprano, received her undergraduate degree BRE from the Canadian
Mennonite University in Winnipeg and her ARCT with the Royal Conservatory
of Music of Toronto. Her graduate studies have been at the Nordwestdeutschemusikadamie
in Detmold, Germany and the Banff Centre, Canada. She has received numerous
awards and scholarships for vocal excellence throughout her years of
study. Winning the Northwest Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions in
Seattle led to singing as a semi-finalist at Lincoln Centre in New York.
Performance highlights include solo work with the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Vancouver Society for Early Music, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, the Amity Singers of Victoria, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Festival Chorus of Calgary, the Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Calgary Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Richard Eaton Singers, the B.C. Choral Federation, the Ontario Choral Federation, the Saskatoon Symphony and the Trinity Western Chamber Choir.
Her radio performances with the CBC on many occasions include recital work, oratorio, opera, operetta, chamber music and sacred works including the live national broadcast of Handel’s Messiah in 1973. Television performances were chorus/solo work on CBC’s Heritage Show and Hymn Sing. She was principal soloist on an Offenbach Special, Can-Can to Barcarolle that was bought by NET Network and shown across the USA. As soprano soloist on the KVOS Messiah Highlights she was heard and seen in the US and Canada for many seasons.
Singing tours have taken her across western Canada and to Ontario with Overture Concerts and Jeunesse Musicale. As soloist with the TWU Chamber Choir she has traveled to Poland, Germany and South Korea.
Ingrid Suderman has released three recordings – Sacred Arias, Songs and Spirituals in 1986, Knockin’ At Your Door in 1989 and Hear My Pray’r in 1996. All have been aired on CBC Radio.
Teaching, adjudicating and giving vocal workshops are important aspects of her singing career. On faculty at TWU since 1989, she has further developed her teaching skills by attending Voice Conferences in Toronto, Philadelphia, Helsinki, Oslo and New Orleans. She has been an adjudicator for numerous festivals throughout the province and a judge for the Vancouver Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera Auditions – both district in Vancouver and regional in Seattle, for the Roberto and Mary Wood Competition in Victoria and for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Association Auditions on the district level in Victoria and Vancouver.
Ingrid Suderman was the chair of the International Congress
of Voice Teachers 6th Conference held in Vancouver August 2005. She is the Senior
Voice Instructor at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C.