The young Canadian lyric mezzo-soprano Marie-Ève Pineau is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Music Performance (Voice) at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland, where she studies under the guidance of the acclaimed soprano Sarah Wegener. In 2025, she completed her Bachelor’s degree at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna, Austria, with soprano Alexandra Reinprecht.

In 2024, she appeared at the Wiener Staatsoper as a Naiadi in Claudio Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, conducted by Maestro Stefan Gottfried, in collaboration with the Concentus Musicus Wien, alongside singers such as Georg Nigl and Kate Lindsey.

Her most recent operatic performance took place at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she sang the role of Cenerentola in the opening scene of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, under the musical direction of Olaf Storbeck and the artistic direction of Claudia Blersch from the Zurich Opera House. Her operatic engagements to date also include the role of Lady Hyberba and a cover of Queen Popotte in Jacques Offenbach’s Reise zum Mond (Le Voyage dans la Lune) at the Vienna Volksoper, under the batons of Maestro Alfred Eschwé and Maestro Roger Díaz-Cajamarca, over two consecutive seasons.

In the summer of 2024, she appeared as Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Festival Opéra Bastide in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, France. She also performed the roles of Eurydice and Venus in Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers at the Berlin Opera Festival with the Berlin Opera Academy in 2023.

In concert, Pineau has appeared as a soloist at Oper Burg Gars, Austria, in the world premiere of the revised cantata Carmina Austriaca by Gerald Wirth, conducted by Maestro David Ricardo Salazar. Over several seasons, she has also performed extensively with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Québec under the musical direction of violinist and conductor Alexandre Da Costa. Through numerous concert series, including Les Jardins symphoniques and the Série Jeunesse, she has sung for audiences numbering in the thousands, particularly in performances dedicated to young listeners.

Pineau was only 19 years old during the pandemic when, alongside pianist Giancarlo Scala, she sang for the Préludes of the Montreal-based Orchestre Métropolitain, under the musical direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Her filmed performance served as the opening segment to the orchestra’s streamed performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor, part of the orchestra’s online concert series. She was also scheduled to make her debut that same season as a soloist at the Maison symphonique de Montréal in Beethoven’s Mass in C major, a performance that was ultimately cancelled due to the pandemic.

She has achieved notable success in international competitions, receiving First Prize at the Danubia Talents International Music Competition in Budapest, Hungary, First Prize at the Prix d’Expression Musicale in Montreal, Canada, and First Prize at the Concours de Musique du Chœur de la Montagne in Montérégie, Canada. She has additionally been awarded Third Prize at the International Giovani Musicisti – City of Treviso Competition in Italy and Third Prize at the Daleki Akordi International Competition in Split, Croatia. For four consecutive years, she has been the recipient of honorary bursaries from the Laval Arts Support Foundation in recognition of her artistic development.