Instrument: Pianist
Hawaiian pianist Maika’i Nash is quickly establishing himself in the opera world. Currently studying at McGill University and the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, he works with a number of young singers throughout Montreal and the US Northeast, and went to Vienna, Austria in the summer of 2010 to take part in an intensive Lied program at the Franz Schubert Institut.
Since arriving in Montreal in 2005, Maika’i has performed with a number of amateur and professional groups. He was recently a vocal coach for the comic opera La Serva Padrona with La Fête Coloniale, and for the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Trial by Jury with the McGill Savoy Society, among other shows.
Maika’i has studied with a number of piano teachers including Michael McMahon, Kyoko Hashimoto, Olivier Godin, Ernest Chang, and Paul Lyddon. He has studied diction and voice with Richard Turp, Michael McMahon, and Elizabeth Koch, and has worked with students from the studios of Sanford Sylvan, Dan Taylor, and Joanne Kolomyjec, among others. He continues to pursue further studies in diction, language, and voice physiology. He is a grant recipient from The Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.