Biography
Canadian mezzo-soprano and voice teacher Jennifer Enns Modolo spent her formulative years singing in school choirs, church choirs and the Inter Mennonite Children’s Choir. She graduated from Rockway Mennonite Collegiate and obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance with Honours from Wilfrid Laurier (1997-2001).
Jennifer Enns has delighted audiences with her clear, unaffected voice and meaningful singing. In 2005, she made her debut in England at the Snape Proms as part of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and toured Spain and France with Consort Caritatis. She has sung regularly with numerous choirs and orchestras large and small throughout Ontario and across Canada, including the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Elmer Iseler Singers, Grand Philharmonic Choir, Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Elora Festival Singers, Toronto Classical Singers, Talisker Players, Richard Eaton Singers, Nota Bene Period Orchestra, Vancouver Bach Choir and at the Grand River Baroque Festival. As an accomplished concert soloist, her repertoire ranges from Renaissance to modern music, including J.S. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Respighi. In addition, she has premiered and performed works of several Canadian composers including Bramwell Tovey, Imant Raminsch and Michael Purves-Smith. On the opera stage she has sung the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with the Orford Arts Centre, and a country maiden in Mozart‘s Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Ontario. Other roles include the Third Lady in Mozart‘s Die Zauberflöte and Jennie Hildebrand in Weill’s Street Scene. She is a member of the Hamilton based ensemble Capella Intima, which specializes in performing exciting concerts of lesser-known 17th century vocal and operatic music, as well as the Spiritus Ensemble (Director: Kenneth Hull).