{"id":1380,"date":"2022-03-30T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2022-05-15T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:13:38","slug":"emily-dangelo-nts-claim-to-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/emily-dangelo-nts-claim-to-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily D\u2019Angelo: NT\u2019s Claim to Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Article reprinted with permission from Graffiti<\/span>, The Voice of NT.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2022 Juno Awards are fast approaching, and while I don\u2019t know much about the nominees, I do know one thing: this year, North Toronto C.I. has a personal connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily D\u2019Angelo, NT alum of 2012, is nominated for the 2022 Juno Awards in the Best Classical Album Award (Solo) category for her album enargeia<\/strong><\/em>, featuring newly-interpreted works from the 12th and 21st centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In May 2021, she signed with Deutsche Grammophon (the biggest classical music label in the world) as an exclusive recording artist for them, and the album came out in October, only five months after signing. NPR named it one of the 50 best albums of 2021, featured it on their 100 best songs of 2021, and CBC called it the best Canadian classical album of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D\u2019Angelo is a University of Toronto graduate, earning a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance before joining the Canadian Opera Company\u2019s Ensemble Studio. She is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, and the Ravinia Steans Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 28-year-old vocalist has already had endless accomplishments in her short time in the spotlight, including being a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, the first and only vocalist to win the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig Holstein Festival, Canada\u2019s \u201cTop 30 Under 30\u201d Classical Musicians, WQXR NYC Public Radio\u2019s \u201c40 Under 40,\u201d and various (endless) opera-singing competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although she studied and later pursued vocal performance in university, she played cello during her time at NT. In 2016, D\u2019Angelo made a sort of \u201cencore\u201d at her high school to perform a solo in Mozart\u2019s Requiem, flooring everyone who heard her powerful and beautiful voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She captured the attention of Ms. Monteith, recently retired NT teacher, who had nothing but kind words to say about the successful star. Ms. Monteith got to know D\u2019Angelo in grade 10 or 11 when she overheard her cello playing \u2014 \u201cfocused on getting a passage of the music they were playing, not just right, but actively working at making it sound very expressive.\u201d Clearly, this desire to perfect the emotion that goes into her music has taken her far, as did her parents \u201c[telling] her to follow what she felt was her greatest passion,\u201d and her singing teacher, who \u201cstrongly encouraged her to explore developing the potential that her voice has.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an homage to her high school-born love for cello, many of her recordings feature a cello as a duet partner. This makes sense, as her character has remained true; \u201cShe doesn’t seem to have an ego \u2014 even after she’s won so many opera competitions, she is still the same friendly and appreciative person she was in high school,\u201d says Ms. Monteith. \u201cHer career is taking off into the stratosphere, but her feet are still planted on the ground, in this nod to her high school self.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of now, D’Angelo is in various operas, performing in numerous productions and projects across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even people who don\u2019t love opera will remember D\u2019Angelo\u2019s voice forever. You can listen to her album and more works on Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music \u2014 and you should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Katie Distin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article reprinted with permission from Graffiti, The Voice of NT. The 2022 Juno Awards are fast approaching, and while I don\u2019t know much about the nominees, I do know one thing: this year, North Toronto C.I. has a personal connection. Emily D\u2019Angelo, NT alum of 2012, is nominated for the 2022 Juno Awards in the … Continue reading Emily D\u2019Angelo: NT\u2019s Claim to Fame<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-in-the-news","category-alumni-news","category-ntci-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntci.on.ca\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}