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Maureen Batt
@maureenbattsoprano.bsky.social
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Singer specializing in new music, award-winning recording artist, co-artistic director, producer, educator, neurodivergent human, Covid safety advocate.

Gender-affirming voice work
Grant writing consultation
Embodied voice work solo/group
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Tix and more info here:

openears.ca/event/memori...

#OE25 #TuneIn
#CanadianOpera

@dougmacnaughton.bsky.social
Poster with a big moon in the centre. In the centre of the moon is a light silhouette of two children walking hand in hand through a forest. Graphics are a combination of navy, grass green, light blue, and white. Text reads Memories Beyond the Grave Sat May 31 at 8pm Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts. A white graphic with blue and green headings. Text is a short summary of the opera.
May 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Hi Orion, Hi Jupiter, Hi Pleiades, Hi Stars!
A clear, deep night sky. Black shadowed trees around the bottom and a navy sky with teal hues towards the trees. Stars and planets are visible.
February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Thanks for being here! Pls introduce yourself👋

Are you…a:
🇨🇦Canadian/new music artist🎙️
💫Neurosparkly human🌶️
😷Covid/airborne virus safety advocate🦠

…or into:
🌱Plants, trees🌳
🔭Sky stuff🌖
🌊Oceans, rocks🪨

6/6

#CanadianOpera #RecordingArtist #GenderAffirmingVoice #Educator #Singing #ClassicalMusic
A collage photo with a white background. The main photo is of Maureen singing and with her arms stretched out. The text reads: Maureen Batt, soprano | recording artist | artistic director | educator @maureenbattsoprano. The other 8 photos lined along the bottom are square images of all the albums Maureen has released. Cover art varies per album cover. The collage includes albums called Lighthouse, Durme, Durme Four Ladino Folk Songs, Breathing in the Shadows Aunt Helen Etiquette Lady of the Lake and Mirror Mirror.
February 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Finally managed to do a year-end recap for 2024 and a few notes about 2025.

If you’re interested in what types of things I do/am up to, you can check out my newsletter.

Lots of shout-outs to my opera company @essentialopera.bsky.social and my recital series #CrossingBorders💃🏻💫🎙️✨

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A woman (Maureen) in a black gown sits at a grand piano. Her hand is on the keyboard and she is looking at her iPad score. Text reads snow 2021 melody by Anna Hostman words by E D Blodgett. A woman (Maureen) is singing while making a dramatically expressive face with her hands out in front of her. She is in a V neck black gown. Behind her we see a piano and a pianist (Tara Scott).
January 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Happy Monday, folks!
Here are some services I offer.
I add availability as I go (usually once a month or so), so check back often or reach out!

To learn more about services: maureenbatt.com/services
To book sessions: maureenbatt.as.me

#SingingTeacher #VoiceCoach #GenderAffirming #GrantWriting
Background image the Maureen took of the Northern Lights featuring bright pink and some green in the sky. Left-justified text reads: Book services, grant writing consultation, embodied voice sessions, vocal score consultation, guest workshop host/clinician, adjudicator, vocal producer, recording artist, maureenbatt.com/services and @maureenbattsoprano along the bottom of the image Background image the Maureen took of the Northern Lights featuring bright pink and some green in the sky. Text that reads: “Voice sessions” Cream-coloured box background around the following text: embodied voice, voice and movement, gender affirming voice sessions, 1:1 coaching, multi-session check-ins, voice care consultation, personalized warm-ups, maureenbatt.com/voicelessons @Maureenbattsoprano along the bottom of the image Same background graphics as first and second images with more of the sky and beach now visible. Centre text reads: Reach out any time via DM or maureenbatt.com/contact with any questions. Custom services available upon request! I look forward to working together! maureenbatt.com/services and @maureenbattsoprano along the bottom of the image
January 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Sweet floof snuggles while awaiting our family PlusLife results for Covid-safer Xmas hangs.

How are you all doing your holiday hangs? Masks? Windows? Testing? ❤️
Maureen, a light-skinned woman in a red KN95 mask holding a small dog in her arms. The dog has a red Christmas sweater on. Maureen’s auburn hair is in a bun and she’s wearing a sparkly snowflake brooch on her green shirt. Maureen, a light-skinned woman in a red KN95 mask holding a small dog like a baby in her arms. The dog has a red Christmas sweater on. Maureen’s auburn hair is in a bun and she’s wearing a sparkly snowflake brooch on her green shirt. There are Christmas dishes in the background and a man outside on a snowy deck.
December 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Oopsies went 5 years without having an eye exam. Pleased to see the doctor and assistants in well-fitted kn95 masks. But for patients it’s only “masking preferred” in the exam rooms. I wish healthcare places would require masking!

I had to indicate I wouldn’t remove/adjust my mask a couple times.
White woman with brown eyes, freckles, and auburn hair wearing a stylish brown KN95 mask as she sits in her eye exam appointment. She’s wearing her black coat and there’s a medical instrument behind her hung on the wall.
December 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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Roll call:
Where’re my maskers at? I’d love to meet you! Introduce yourself!

#StillMasking #CovidIsntOver
A white woman with brown eyes, auburn hair, and freckles is smiling behind her leopard print KN95 mask which has a decorated sip valve in it. There’s a TV in the background at an airport gate.
December 7, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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Happy flights, maskers. Thanks for thinking of others (and yourself). Thank you for masking!!!!!!

Simple gestures, heroic effect.
A pale skinned freckled woman on a plane wearing a black multi-coloured heart kn95 mask. She is also wearing headphones, a black camo zip-up sweatshirt, and a lime green shirt. She is smizing. Her mask has a sip mask valve on it.
December 5, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Advocating for COVID safety at hospitals where masks are supposedly mandated is not easy. I’m tired.
A fair skinned freckled woman with brown eyes wearing a KN95 leopard print mask making an “I’m not impressed expression with her eyes”.
November 20, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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Hey, Nova Scotia, let’s vote! You can vote anywhere in the province.

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Two people with colourful KN95 masks on smiling in front of a yellow signs that read: elections nova scotia returning office Halifax Citadel Sable Island and voting place with an X
November 15, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Any opera industry peeps here?
Especially but not limited to Canadians:

Essential Opera has a survey to help find participants to discuss systemic issues that limit equity and belonging, and ways forward, in the fields of opera/Western classical voice.  See more at tinyurl.com/essentialoperasurvey
September 14, 2023 at 3:57 PM