Hailed for her “delicate, attractive mezzo-soprano” (Christopher Hoile, Stage Door), Chelsea Pringle-Duchemin is an emerging singer and composer from Montreal, Quebec. Chelsea is particularly interested in concert repertoire, and in exploring the intersections of feminist musicology within the performance of both traditional and contemporary classical music. In 2023, she was a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts: Explore & Create (Research & Creation) Grant for Unbound: Frauenliebe und -Leben, a recital project which developed staging and original poetry for performances of Schumann’s song cycle, in order to explore themes of gender-based violence and feminine liberation.

Chelsea is also a passionate new music performer, and in 2022 premiered Paul Frehners’ chamber piece Sometimes the Devil Plays Fate with the Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble. As an early career composer, Chelsea premiered her first song set in recital with pianist Rachael Kerr in 2021; her songs were also recently featured in a Schwabacher recital at San Fransisco Opera by mezzo-soprano Simona Genga and pianist Hyemin Jeong.

The 2024-2025 season sees Chelsea singing Elgar’s Sea Pictures with I Medici di McGill, in Philippe Leroux’s Quid sit musicus? with Teri Dunn in Toronto, and as a soloist in Operatika: Arias of Seduction, a hybrid opera and pole dance recital project. When she isn’t getting paid to scream, Chelsea can usually be found working in the wine bar where she recently produced an opera pub series; composing music with her cat Junebug; and begging anyone who will listen to please please please hire her to sing Mahler.

Chelsea is a graduate of the Glenn Gould School Artist Diploma program at the Royal Conservatory of Music, an alumnus of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Opera in the 21st Century residency, and she also holds a Bachelors of Music from the University of Toronto. She currently studies with Ariane Girard.