A native of Montreal, soprano Susanna Eyton-Jones performs a diverse repertoire of opera, oratorio, and concert music. Ms. Eyton-Jones has performed extensively in Italy, in the Netherlands with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and with opera companies in North America. Her roles include Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Violetta in La Traviata, and Constanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio. She performs Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Symphony #9 of Beethoven, Verdi’s Requiem and other oratorio/cantata solos of Bach, Britten, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, and Mozart. She has appeared as Abigaille in Nabucco and Beatrice in Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda with Toronto Opera in Concert. Symphonic appearances include performances with the Kingston Symphony, La Société Philharmonique de Montréal and The Montreal Symphony. For the last three summers she has appeared as a Guest Artist at The Chamber Music Festival of the East. Recent concert performances include the Seven Early Songs of Berg, and Schoenberg’s String Quartet #2, Seven Romanzes by Shostakovich, and Cuatro Canciones Andinas with the composer, Gabriela Lena Frank, at the piano as part of the Composers’ Perspective series at the N.Y. Library for the Performing Arts.

Ms. Eyton-Jones also appears in lead roles on film and on soundtracks, as a singer, composer and actor: her roles include Strawberries and Wine, Lana in Love, A Bullet in the Head (Canada’s entry in the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film), Clair Obscur, and Seductio, among others. Susanna Eyton-Jones’s discography includes a recording by the Début Concert Series entitled An Afternoon at the Opera; Matter, with Centrifugal Force for Mainstream Recordings; and Different Angels, with Choeur Maha for Studio XXX.

Ms. Eyton-Jones received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from McGill University. She also studied at the Studio Lirico di Firenze, Oakland Opera Academy, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She won top honors at international competitions including the Beniamino Gigli International Voice Competition (Italy), the Toulouse International Voice Competition (France), and in Canada at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Voice Competition and the National Competitive Festival of Music. She has performed as a Featured Artist in the Début Concert Series, and has been recorded for national broadcast for the CBC.