The Canadian Opera Company has announced that Elisabeta Cojocaru and Kimly Mengyin Wang have joined the company’s Ensemble Studio as pianist coaches for the 2025-26 season.

In a statement, Dorian Cox, Director of the Ensemble Studio said, “We are delighted to have Elisabeta and Kimly joining our program. Our pianist coaches serve a vital role, not only in day-to-day sessions with our Ensemble Studio training staff, but also throughout preparations for mainstage and concert performances at the COC. With such a breadth of experience behind them, our graduate pianists have gone on to hold music staff and repetiteur positions across North America and in Europe. I look forward to working with Elisabeta and Kimly and seeing their continued development!”

As part of the program, Ensemble Studio pianists will receive the same blend of intensive coaching and practical experience provided to vocalists in the program and take a leading role alongside the company’s music staff in coaching artists in the rehearsal room for performances on the COC mainstage.

Cojocaru is currently a pianist with McGill-Université de Montréal Vocal Arts Residency who has performed in North America and Europe while Wang has performed in recitals, chamber music, and opera performances across North America, Europe, and China. She recently served as a vocal coach at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and as a répétiteur for opera productions at the Boston University Opera Institute.

They will both join five recently announced singers who also begin their tenure in the season ahead—Ariana Maubach, Angelo Moretti, Nicholas Murphy, Emma Pennell, and Ben Wallace—alongside two returning Ensemble Studio artists, Emily Rocha and Duncan Stenhouse.

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