Lauren Michelle

Soprano from USA, 31 years old

Finalist

I have given solo recitals throughout the USA, South Africa, Italy, France and England and appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in multi-disciplinary theatre performances with Company XIV.

I was born in Los Angeles and studied at The Julliard School and UCLA.

Prizes I have won include the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition, the 2015 Francisco Viñas international competition/ Extraordinary Prize for the Accademia Musicale Chigiana de Siena and recently I took third place in the Gulf Coast Regional Final of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. I have taken part in young artist programmes at Chautauqua Music Festival, the Britten-Pears Programme and Aspen Opera Theater Center.

Recently I made my Carnegie Hall debut in Kurt Weill's The Road of Promise. Other highlights include Nella Gianni Schicch in Aspen, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Banff and my debut as Lauretta GianniSchicchi at Teatro Romano di Fiesole.

In concert, I performed Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras № 5 through Europe; Lieder and chansons with Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves; Ravel’s Shéhérazade in Los Angeles; and I have appeared with the Southeast Symphony singing Handel’s Messiah, Poulenc’s Gloria and Rutter’s Requiem.

I have given solo recitals throughout the USA, South Africa, Italy, France and England and appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in multi-disciplinary theatre performances with Company XIV.

My interests include designing and making clothes, art, gardening and belly dancing. I believe strongly in music education for social change.

Main prize	Final
Celui dont la parole efface toutes peine… Il est doux, il est bon	Hérodiade	Massenet
Glück das mir verlieb	Die tote Stadt	Korngold
Oh smania! Oh furie… D’Oreste, d’Ajace	Idomeneo	Mozart