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The Luxembourgian mezzo-soprano, Katrin Lena Heles, her singing training at the Konservatorium der Stadt Luxemburg in 2006, where she also received violin and piano training. In 2011, at the age of 19, she completed her vocal training with "1er Prix en Chant" with "Distinction" and was awarded the "Prix Christiane Join 2010/2011" for exceptional performance. She is an award winner of the Stiftung zur Förderung junger Künstler (Foundation for the Promotion of Young Artists) in Luxembourg and a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Verbandes Trier-Luxemburg. During her time in Luxembourg she was a member of the "Choeur de Chambre du Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg", for whose concerts she regularly took on smaller solo roles.
Since October 2011, Katrin Heles has been studying at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Elisabeth Wilke, where she completed her Bachelor of Music degree in 2015. She appeared in opera productions at the Mozarteum as Amore in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, as Mère Jeanne in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites and as Anna and Dorina in the Austrian premiere of M. Trojahn's Limonen aus Sicily. She also attended master-classes with Dinah Bryant, Edith Mathis and Edda Moser,
From 2011 to 2013, Katrin Heles was a member of the Salzburger Bachchor, where she took part in numerous projects under the direction of conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Vladimir Fedoseyev and Ivor Bolton, including at the Salzburg Festival. In the summer of 2013 she was a member of the Akademie Young Singers Project, also at the Salzburg Festival, in the course of which she worked as an apprentice in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, under the musical direction of Daniele Gatti and the stage direction of Stefan Herheim. She appeared in 2017 in the same role at La Scala in Milan. She can be heard regularly at concerts and recitals in Germany and abroad. She premiered Klemens Vereno's Trakl oratorio An versteinerter Schwelle in Austria and performed e.g. for the Mozart Society in Italy and with the Münchener Bach-Chor in France. |
