Nancy Hermiston

Professor Hermiston is a distinguished opera singer, stage director and educator whose operatic career has taken her throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. She debuted in New York in Carnegie Hall, and her European début led to a permanent engagement with the prestigious Nürnberg Opera. Professor Hermiston has held numerous appointments as voice teacher, and as stage director at the Meistersinger Konservatorium, Nürnberg, and the University of Toronto Opera and Performance Divisions. She was appointed to the UBC faculty in 1995 as Coordinator of the Voice and Opera Division, and was the recipient of the Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance and Development in the Visual and Performing Arts in 2008, and in the academic year 2009/2010 received a Killam Teaching Prize.