Representation: World

Nathalie Gaudefroy was born in Strasbourg, France, where as a child she studied piano and violin at the Strasbourg Conservatory. She later became a pupil of Elisabeth Dillenschneider, with whom she studied classical singing. She graduated in musicology at Strasbourg University with honours and won various prizes in chamber music and melody.

Since then she has received many awards, the latest in 2005:  she came first in the melody category at the 17^th Marmande International Competition, where she also got an opera award. Furthermore she won the Lyric Art award and the Duet award with Eildert Beeftink (piano) at the 5^th  Paris “Lili and Nadia Boulanger International Competition” .

She attended many masterclasses, first Udo Reinemann’s Lyric Art workshop in Metz and later his “Lied-Masterclasses” in Amsterdam, where she was also taught by Sarah Walker, Konrad Richter, Helmut Deutsch, Rudolf Jansen, Edith Wiens and Gundula Janowitz.

As a recitalist, she regularly works with the pianist Eildert Beeftink.

 She created the Arfana Duet with Anja Linder (harp). The Arfana Duet was given the first prize at the Arles Chamber Music International Competition. Ms. Gaudefroy has also been working with Marc Baumann (organ) and Jean-Christophe Mentzer (trumpet) in the “Jouets du Vent” trio.

She has performed in Fabrice Pierre’s Twentieth Century Workshop at the Boulez festival. She has sung Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire as well as 14ème Symphonie from Shostakovich (Cond. Jean Deroyer).

Her roles for the operatic stage include Denise in Honegger’s Aventures du Roi Pausoles at the Opera National du Rhin and Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, performed in the Senate Gardens in Paris, at the Sceaux Festival and in Belgium (Cond. François-Xavier Roth) and at the Metz’s Opera in Cécile Volanges , “Les Liaisons Dangeureuses” (Claude Prey).

She has gained much attention as an interpreter of oratorios, notably JS Bach’s Mass in B Minor in Lausanne’s cathedral, Dvoràk’s Stabat Mater and Haendel’s Messiah in Strasbourg’s cathedral, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor in Avignon and in Touraine, Haydn’s Stabat Mater and Die Schöpfung, Mozart’s Davide Penitente, and Gounod’s Requiem.

Ms. Gaudefroy has performed in various European concert halls: Metz’s Arsenal, Prag’s Rudolfinum; Amsterdam’s Concertgebow (where she sang Brahm’s Liebesliederwalzer), Madrid’s National Auditorium (where she sang  Haydn’s Jahreszeiten, conducted Theodor Guschlbauer), Bern’s Kultur Kasino and Pamplona’s Baluarte.

She has worked with Mulhouse Symphonic Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Albert Schweitzer Orchestra, the Czech National Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and Poitou-Charentes Orchestra.

She has been invited by various festivals in France and abroad: in Strasbourg (the Annual Music Festival as well as “Musica”), Gargilesse, Wroclaw (“Wratislava Cantans”), Prag (the Autumn International Festival), Baden-Baden (the Opern Akademie Festival), St Etienne (the Boulez Festival) and Touraine (“Les Heures Romantiques”).