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Vancouver-based soprano Emma Jang holds her Master of Music in Opera Performance from UBC. She last appeared with UBC Opera as Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel this past December. Past credits with UBC Opera include Second Wood Sprite (Rusalka), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Gianetta (The Gondoliers), Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims), and First Spirit and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), in addition to performing in productions such as Shadow Catch, Pasażerka and Les contes d’Hoffmann. She was recently featured as the soprano soloist with the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra for their production of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Emma has also performed in collaboration with local companies such as Opera West, Bard on the Beach, Opera Unbound, and Players & Singers. She understudied the role of Dukdukdiya for Vancouver Opera’s touring production of The Flight of the Hummingbird and was a recipient of this year’s Tony and Hildegard Cavelti Foundation Award, which was distributed as part of the Vancouver Opera Foundation Bursary Program. In addition to being an accomplished performer, Emma works as part of the ticketing and marketing staff for UBC Opera and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. She also has a deep appreciation for choral music, having worked as a section leader in the past and working in close connection with Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral Choir.