Pianist, Aude Urbancic, has her Doctorate of Music in Collaborative Piano with a specialization in vocal accompaniment at the University of Montreal studying with Francis Perron, Liz Upchurch, and Robin Wheeler. She presented her doctoral thesis, Stress, anxiety, tension, and injuries induced by sight-reading in collaborative pianists at the International Symposium on Performance Sciences, hosted in Warsaw Poland. She also holds a diploma in Collaborative Piano from the University of Montreal and a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Ottawa.

Aude has a particular passion for opera and choral music. She has performed on many stages both nationally and internationally, including Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre. She has been the rehearsal pianist for major choral works at the National Arts Center including Sokolovic’s Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah. During the last few years, she was one of the rehearsal pianists for Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozart’s Magic Flute, Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica, Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette, and Menotti’s the Telephone. She has also been on faculty for two summer academies, CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians Musiciens Amateurs du Canada) and BIIMA (Breno Italy International Music Academy) and toured Italy in 2023 as the director of the Ottawa Carleton Male Choir. Aude is also the music director for the University of Ottawa fall 2024 opera production, the Orpheus Project.

Based in Ottawa, Aude keeps busy with her large teaching studio and is a sought-after clinician. She has adjudicated at the New Brunswick Competitive Festival of Music and has given many masterclasses. In 2022, she launched her debut album, Batkivshchyna, alongside baritone Laurence Ewashko. She is the music director at Church of the Ascension and the pianist for the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir and the Ottawa Children’s Choir Chamber Choir. Aude is also a vocal coach and pianist for many local voice studios and plays for both vocal and instrumental studios at the University of Ottawa. She can often be heard playing recitals, at events, and in choral concerts.