Carole-Anne Roussel is a Quebec-born soprano, admired for the purity and flexibility of her voice as well as her natural stage presence. A finalist and laureate of the 2023 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium and recipient of the prestigious Prix d’Europe in 2021, she is a young artist on a remarkable rise. In recent years, she has been an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium under the mentorship of José Van Dam and Sophie Koch. Carole-Anne has performed alongside the Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie, the Orchestre royal de chambre de Wallonie, the National Orchestra of South Korea, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Appassionato Orchestra, and many other ensembles. She has appeared in Canada, Chile, Belgium, Italy, and Greece, and is highly active on Quebec stages.

Over the past three years, Carole-Anne Roussel has sung as a soloist with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, with the Orchestre royal de chambre de Wallonie in Britten’s Les Illuminations, with the Appassionato Orchestra in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with the Vlaams Radiokoor in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, and at the gala Les mots/maux d’amour at Opéra de Québec under the baton of Jean-Marie Zeitouni. She has also performed with the National Orchestra of South Korea, the Orchestre de la Monnaie, the Orchestre de l’Estuaire, the Orchestre symphonique de Lévis, the Orchestre symphonique de la Côte-Nord, the Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Montréal, Camerata Universidad Andres Bello, Casco Phil, the MUCH Ensemble, and the Chœur des Rhapsodes. She is also very active within several organizations in Quebec, including Tempêtes et Passions, La Relève Musicale de Québec, and Ensemble Renouveau.

Carole-Anne is a scholarship recipient of the Prix d’Europe, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Hans-Jürgen Greif Foundation, the Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation, the AIDA Fund of Jeunesses Musicales Canada, and the Borgerhoff Fund in Belgium. She is distinguished by her perseverance, precision, attention to detail, and authenticity.