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Laureates of the 2025 Concours Musical international de Montréal

Competitions

Mezzo Soprano Fleuranne Brockway wins Grand Prize, First Prize, and Opera de Montréal Aria Prize

The 23rd edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) — Voice 2025 — took place in Montréal from May 25 to June 6, 2025, showcasing 24 emerging classical singers from around the world. In the final on June 6, five finalists performed with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under conductor Patrick Summers, before an international jury chaired by Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka.

Frankfurt-based mezzo-soprano Fleuranne Brockway emerged as Grand Laureate (1st prize), earning approximately CAD 70 000 in prize money and grants plus an Opéra de Montréal engagement. Tenor Junho Hwang from the Berlin Unter den Linden opera studio, who had just won Third Prize at last year´s Mirjam Helin Competition in Helsinki, earned 2nd prize (CAD 25 000), and baritone Theodore Platt from the Copenhagen Opera House secured 3rd prize (CAD 20 000).  Additionally, the Art Song Prize was awarded to South American baritone Laureano Quant.

With more than CAD 160 000 in total awards and grants, Voice 2025 reaffirmed CMIM’s role as a prestigious springboard for the next generation of operatic talent.

Mezzo Soprano Fleuranne Brockway

Now based in Frankfurt, Fleuranne Brockway is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and London’s Royal College of Music. In 2018, she was awarded the German Australia Opera Grant and relocated to Germany where she joined the ensemble of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden and has performed roles including Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Wellgunde and Rossweisse (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Maddalena (Rigoletto) and the titular Carmen. She has also performed with Opera Frankfurt, Staatstheare Saarbrücken and at the Bregenz Festival.
Fleuranne Brockway counts among her teachers Janis Kelly, Sherman Lowe, Neil Semer, Glenn Winslade, Simone Easthope, Gregory Yurisich and Megan Sutton. She has been a Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2023.

Winners
First Prize: Fleuranne Brockway, Mezzo Soprano (30)
Second Prize: Junho Hwang (26), tenor
Third Prize: Theodore Platt (30), Baritone

Jury:
Adrianne Pieczonka (Chair). Harolyn Blackwell. Iain Burnside, Etienne Dupuis, Anthony Freud, Roberto Mauro, Christina Scheppelmann, Delores Ziegler

Artists :
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM)/ Patrick Summers, Conductor
 

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