Karina Gauvin (born 1966) is a Canadian soprano who has made several recordings and is especially recognised for her interpretation of Baroque music.
Her personality is big enough to dominate her elaborate wigs and costumes, and her soprano voice is like a clear, refreshing and inexhaustible spring that darts and sparkles around any ornamental obstacle in its way.
[2] She moved with her family back to Montreal and shortly thereafter enrolled at McGill University where she majored in Art History.
Paiement convinced Gauvin to pursue a career as a singer, and she subsequently left McGill for the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where she became a pupil of Marie Daveluy.
[4] She later studied in Glasgow with contralto Pamela Bowden at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.