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Sophie
Harmsen -mezzo-soprano- Representation: Benelux,
France
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in Canada and raised in South Africa, Sophie Harmsen studied in Cape
Town graduating cum laude. During her time there she was member
of the Cape Town Opera Studio, and sang roles as Orlowsky in Die
Fledermaus, Mercedes in Carmen, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro
and Second Lady in a Coproduction with La Monnaie, Brussels
(Director: William Kentridge) amongst many others. In 2007 she
moved to Germany, studied with Prof. Dr. Edith Wiens, graduating from
the Meisterklasse in 2009. Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender invited her to the Landestheater Innsbruck in 2008 and 2009 for the role of Stephano in Romeo et Julliette. The Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival called on her for the scenic production of St. John´s Passion in 2009 (Conductor: Rolf Beck; Director: Robert Wilson) and in 2010 she sang the role of Dorabella at the Grand Theatre de Luxembourg. In 2012 she will repeat the role of Dorabella in a new production at the Opera de Dijon under the baton of Christophe Rousset with Les Talens Lyriques ( Director: Marcial de Fonzo Bo). In 2008 Sophie was a laureate of the International Robert Schumann Competition. As a concert singer she debued with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Helmuth Rilling (Handel; Messiah) and was subsequently invited to sing numerous concerts with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. In 2009 she was heard at the Brühler Schlossfestspiele with Mozart arias and was unanimously hailed as a great dicovery by the press. She has also performed with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the SWR (Rihm; Deus Passus), the Helsinki Philharmonic (Handel; Messiah), the Musikpodium Stuttgart (Zumsteeg; Die Geisterinsel a.o.), Das Neue Orchester (Bach Cantatas) at the Bachfest Leipzig and Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with Capella Augustina at the Haydn Festival in Brühl (Haydn; Stabat Mater) and the Nürnberger Symphoniker (Bach). Coming engagements include concerts with the Musikpodium Stuttgart and Frieder Bernius (Mozart; Requiem and c minor Mass), at the Crane School of Music, New York with Helmuth Rilling (b minor Mass), the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Andreas Spering (Schumann; Das Paradies und die Peri), the Gewandhaus Orchestra with the Thomanerchor and Chrisoph Biller (Bach; Weihnachtsoratorium). |
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