Nicole Percifield

Nicole brings over a decade of teaching experience to her private lessons. A recent graduate of Yale School of Music, Nicole is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. While at Yale, Nicole taught voice lessons for Yale College and Yale Glee Club. Nicole’s students have won numerous auditions, resulting in placements in post-secondary programs, performing arts high schools, and professional productions. Her students regularly receive top honours from Royal Conservatory of Music examinations and the Ontario Music Festivals Association. Lessons are tailored to student’s needs and interests, and Nicole works with students of all ages and experience levels, encompassing a wide variety of musical genres. Most importantly, she emphasizes discovery and play, nurturing an ongoing love and passion for music in all of her students. Nicole brings all of her performance energy to each lesson - come make music together! Nicole has sung a variety of operatic and concert work, performing in Canada, the United States, Belgium, Poland and Germany. Highlights include the Wielkanocny Festiwal Ludwiga Van Beethovena in Poland; Handel’s Messiah with the New Haven Symphony, Siébel in Faust with Minnesota Opera; Jo March in the European premiere of Marc Adamo’s Little Women in Bruges, Belgium; and Debussy’s Chansons Baudelaire at Carnegie Hall with Yale in New York. Nicole received her Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music, and her Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory, both in Vocal Performance.