April 3, 2025 | Midori Marsh, soprano; Frances Armstrong, piano

Soprano Midori Marsh is the Winner of the WMCT’s 2024 Career Development Award. A native of Cleveland, Midori studied music at Wilfred Laurier University, and earned her Masters in Opera at the University of Toronto. She won first prize and audience choice award at the Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage competition in 2019.
She’s joined by pianist Frances Armstrong. Frances began her piano studies at age ten in Vancouver, BC, and began working with singers just a few years later. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in solo piano performance from the University of Victoria, and went on to receive a Master’s in collaborative piano performance at the University of Toronto. In 2018 Frances was was the WMCT Fellow in the Toronto Summer Music Academy.