Measha Brueggergosman is an international, award-winning Soprano vocalist. Born in 1977, she began her singing career in her hometown of  Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she grew up singing gospel music in her local Baptist Church, following the direction of her preacher father. As a young girl, she took singing lessons, studied piano, and attended the Boston Conservatory of music during the summers on scholarship, honing her craft.  

Brueggergosman’s first major breakout role was playing the lead in the 1998 James Rolfe Opera Beatrice Chancy, which follows the story of a slave girl in 19th-century Nova Scotia who murdered her abusive father and master. Bruegergosman’s own personal history is also connected to American Chattel Slavery, with her ancestors having fled from Connecticut to New Brunswick in the 19th century.  

Brueggergosman has performed extensively throughout Canada and internationally in venues such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn. She also acted as a soloist for the 2005 Grammy Award-winning recording of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. 

Some of Brueggergosman’s major accomplishments include winning the Grand Prize at the 2009 Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Musical Competition and winning First Prize at the International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 2002.