Kimerica Parr

Kimerica Parr is a versatile artist and a sought after performer in many operas, oratorios, musicals and concerts in Canada, the USA, Europe and most recently Asia.  She has been seen performing on the Cable Network feature Time Out for Opera and on the YTV series Deke Wilson’s Mini-Mysteries.  As a young artist apprentice at the Michigan Opera Theatre, she performed in Faust, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, and The Gala Opening Concert of the Detroit Opera House featuring Luciano Pavarotti.  Kimerica has also performed with the Michigan Opera Theater Community Outreach Program, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Windsor Community Orchestra, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, and the AIMS Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Edoardo Müller.  

Kimerica completed her Bachelor of Musical Arts (Voice Performance) and Bachelor of Education at the University of Windsor, and her Master of Music at the University of Alberta.

Kimerica was the Artistic Director of Rose City Rising Stars Theatre Guild Inc., for fourteen years.  She has also worked as stage director, assistant stage director, stage manager, orchestra conductor and choreographer on many productions for companies such as Michigan Opera Theatre, Comic Opera Guild, Windsor Light Opera, Bloomfield Players, Theatre Intrigue and many high schools and colleges.  She has directed over fifty different productions; some favourites include The Secret Garden, Jekyll and Hyde, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Fantasticks, H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance.

A member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Alberta Registered Music Teacher’s Association, Music Teacher’s National Association and The Alberta Teacher’s Association, Kim is also endorsed by the Royal Conservatory of Music as a certified teacher, and she was awarded the Teacher of Distinction Award in 2021.  Her students have placed and won the Provincial Competitions in Ontario and Alberta, as well as received the National Gold Medal awards from RCM.  She currently maintains an active studio at Keyano College, in Fort McMurray, Alberta.