Janet Fischer (Soprano)
Canadian soprano Janet Fischer first began her musical training on the violin at the age of three.  She started studying voice at the age of 15 and is currently undertaking her MPhil at the RNCM where she studies with Barbara Robotham.
Janet's previous engagements include the Witch in Dvorak's Rusalka, and the trilogy of Mozart's Da Ponte operas; playing Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro for the George-Hahle Academy of Music Janet made her debut at the Wigmore Hall in 2004 as a soloist in H.K. Gruber's Frankenstein! with the RNCM New Ensemble.  She enjoys working on chamber music, and recently performed  in Shostakovich's Seven Verses of Alexander Blok with the Harris Trio, and ; Yanov-Yanovsky's Lacrymosa with the Martindale Quartet;  for the RNCM Shostakovich and his Comrades festival. 
More recently, Janet has sung Magnificat (Bach) with the Otley and Ilkley choral societies and the St. John Passion (Bach) with the St. Peter's Singers..  A regular participant in masterclasses, she has worked with Jane Eaglen, Lynne Dawson, Theodore Baerg, Richard Crawley, Nelly Miricioui, Julius Drake, Janos Furst, Claudio Desderi and others.  She has sung in the finals of both the Frederic Cox Prize and the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss.  She was also a semi-finalist at the Third China (Ningbo) International Vocal Competition in October 2005 and the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition in June 2006.