CBC’s This is My Music with Tom Allen
CBC Radio, November 15, 2025
Soprano Deantha Edmunds presents her favourite recordings.
NTV News feature: historical investiture ceremony on Canada Day 2025, Ryan Reynolds helps Inuk soprano’s video go viral
Governor General to invest 5 exceptional Canadians at a special ceremony during Canada Day Festivities
The Globe and Mail
Published: June 27, 2025
The Current: Live from St. John’s, a city where the people make the place: Deantha Edmunds explains how the natural world inspires her music and the shock that came along with her recent Juno win.
CBC Radio: The Current with Matt Galloway
June 11, 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/16151840-live-st.-johns-city-people-place
Deantha Edmunds joins Acadia University’s Class of 2025 as a Doctor of Music.
https://convocation.acadiau.ca/previous-classes/class-of-2025/deantha-edmunds-doctor-music.html
May 15, 2025
Deantha Edmunds is the winner of Indigenous artist of the year at the East Coast Music Awards.
by Maddie Ryan, CBC News May 9, 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ecmas-2025-st-johns-1.7530735
2025 JUNO AWARDS: Deantha Edmunds wins Classical Composition of the Year
March 30, 2025
Singing the stories of Labrador: An Inuit choir shares language and culture
Inuk Deantha Edmunds teaches hymns that were sung for more than 200 years in Nunatsiavut
by Amanda Gear, CBC News
December 22, 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/songs-stories-labrador-1.7411674
“Right from the beginning, the audience was captivated by the beautiful harmony of Edmunds and her daughter, Annabelle Edmunds-Ramsay, as they introduced us to the story through song. Even without knowing they were mother and daughter, it was impossible not to feel their profound connection.”
Deantha Edmunds: The first Inuk professional opera singer, the Order of Canada, and the classical music of Labrador Inuit
CBC Q with Tom Power
Aired: January 9, 2024
Deantha Edmunds on Music, Writing, Teaching and Uplifting Others
Inuit Art Quarterly
Published: February 27, 2023
“As a writer, as a singer and as an educator, I try to use my voice to uplift others.”
How Deantha Edmunds is decolonizing opera
by Sue Carter, Inuit Art Quarterly
Published: June 20, 2022
“I really want people of all walks of life and listeners of all different styles of music to check out the music that I’m doing, because it is something different.”
The Canadian Press
Published: July 30, 2022
“The pontiff smiled and clapped after a performance by Inuk soprano Deantha Edmunds.”
In rocky, salt-sprayed Petty Harbour, Newfoundland & Labrador, Deantha Edmunds gifts this truly transcontinental Messiah with a magical, windblown How beautiful are the feet sung in Inuttitut
Ian Ritchie
Published: December 19, 2020
operatogo.com
“Our work reimagines this standard oratorio by illuminating the diversity of artists across what we now call Canada,” says Deantha Edmunds, a Messiah/Complex featured soloist from Newfoundland and Labrador
myscena.org
Published: November 10, 2020
https://myscena.org/newswire/against-the-grain-theatre-presents-messiah-complex/
REVIEW: Singing for water with Xara Choral Theatre
By Michael Lake – thecoast.ca
Published: August 24, 2019
Rings Through Water is part ode to water protectors, part call to action.
In part one of Rings Through Water, Deantha Edmunds takes the stage, backed by the impeccable Xara choir, in a polemic about the ill treatment of our waters. Edmunds is an Inuk classical soloist and storyteller, whose magnetic presence and powerful voice guides the audience through a story of wonder, pain, and ultimately the search for ancestral wisdom through a relationship to water.
A Review: PILLORIKPUT INUIT: Inuktitut Arias for All Seasons
By Susan Felsberg – Inuit Art Foundation
Published: Winter, 2018
This collection of anthems is a tribute to the devotional faith and choral tradition of northern Labrador for over two centuries.
They range from the modified classics of Handel and Haydn, to the Moravian traditional compositions of Gregor, Grimm and the LaTrobe family, all with their 18th century roots. This disc is the splendid result of recent rescue, thanks to a decade of diligent research and activism. Gathered and edited by Dr. Tom Gordon of Memorial University, the songs are performed by two Inuit soloists who complement each other sensitively and respectfully: Deantha Edmunds, a professional soprano with a rich glorious voice, and Karrie Obed, the powerful lead tenor in a region of talented choristers. This is a delicate and rewarding partnership…
The Melody of Inuktitut
mun.ca
Published: September 26, 2016
Normally when you think of grand arias sung in operas, you think Italian, French, German, or other European languages. Inuktitut rarely comes to mind. But singing classical arias in Inuktitut is exactly what Nunatsiavut’s Karrie Obed and Deantha Edmunds do. The pair are carrying on the tradition first brought to Labrador by Moravian missionaries hundreds of years ago.