Biography

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The young Belgian soprano Laure-Catherine Beyers is currently pursuing a masters in contemporary music at the Kunstuniversität in Graz, where she works with Holger Falk and Anna Sushon. She holds a bachelor degree of the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin and a Master Soliste of the HEMU Lausanne, for which she was awarded with two prizes because of her outstanding recitals.

Laure-Catherine has been invited to numerous international competitions. She was a finalist in the Helmut Deutsch International Art Song Competition, the Opera at Florham competition in New Jersey, and was awarded with the Gérard Souzay prize for French Mélodie at the Joy In Singing International Art Song competition in New York City.

Besides her love for opera, Laure-Catherine is also very passionate about the (contemporary) art song and chamber music repertoire. She has a long standing liedduo partnership with the Portuguese pianist Pedro Costa and frequently works together with the Vienna based ‘Between Feathers’ ensemble.  Laure-Catherine has participated in numerous masterclasses with some of the most prominent artists in the business, such as Christa Ludwig, John Fiore, Anne Sophie von Otter, Julius Drake, and Christoph Pregardien.

In past summers, Laure-Catherine was a vocal fellow at Songfest at Colburn in Los Angeles (2019) at the online edition of Music Academy of the West (2020), she was an Artist in Residence at the Indemini Festival in Indemini, Switzerland (2021, 2022), and this past summer she was at IMPULS festival Graz, where she sang A. Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, together with musicians of PPCM Instrumental, under the baton of Ernst Kovacic.

Last season Laure-Catherine made her Wiener Musikverein debut, singing A. Ginastera’s Cantata para América mágica with the ensemble Kontrapunkte, led by Gottfried Rabl. She also made her debut at the Opéra de Lausanne, as Le Grillon in Gloria Bruni‘s Pinocchio and as Théodorine in Jacques Offenbach‘s L‘île de Tulipatan. This past summer she sang in concert with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne led by Joseph Bastian, performing the Sieben frühe Lieder by Alban Berg. Most recently Laure-Catherine sang the role of the first worker in the world premiere of Nina Senk’s chamber opera Canvas in a production of the Kunstuniversität Graz, directed by Ingo Kerkhof and conducted by Gerrit Prießnitz.