Biography

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Laure-Catherine Beyers is a Belgian soprano, known for her passion for storytelling as well as for her expressive and powerful voice.

Laure-Catherine has a deep passion for the music of the Second Viennese School and has performed Arnold Schönberg’s Erwartung multiple times in Vienna, Graz, and Lyon. She also sang Alban Berg’s Drei Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck, Op. 7 with the AIMS Festival Orchestra under Marius Stieghorst, as well as Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne under Joseph Bastian.

She was a finalist in the Helmut Deutsch International Lied Competition and the Opera at Florham Competition in New Jersey. She was also awarded the Gérard Souzay Prize for French mélodie at the Joy In Singing International Lied Competition in New York. In recent years, she has continued to develop her artistry through masterclasses with legendary musicians such as Christa Ludwig, Anne Sofie von Otter, Julius Drake, and Linda Watson.

Beyond her love for opera, Laure-Catherine has a deep passion for art song and contemporary chamber music repertoire. Together with Serbian pianist Ana Ostojić, she forms Duo Ardea. The two musicians met during a project with German composer Helmut Lachenmann, where they performed his monumental work for soprano and piano, Got Lost, in Graz. Duo Ardea prize is a prize winner of the International Chamber Music Competition ‘Franz Schubert and Modern Music 2025’ in Graz.

In recent summers, Laure-Catherine was a vocal fellow at Songfest at Colburn in Los Angeles (2019), participated in the online edition of the Music Academy of the West (2020), and was an artist-in-residence at the Indemini Festival in Switzerland (2021, 2022) as well as at the IMPULS Festival in Graz (2023). Most recently, she was a scholarship recipient at the AIMS Festival in Graz (2024), where she won second prize in the Meistersinger Competition.

In past seasons, Laure-Catherine made her debut in various concert halls and opera houses, including the Vienna Musikverein, Neue Oper Wien, Opéra de Lausanne, and the Salle Métropole in Lausanne. She also performed at international festivals such as La Semaine du Neuf in Montreal, the Vienna Kultursommer Festival, and the Mostra Sonora Festival in Spain.

As a passionate advocate for contemporary repertoire and new forms of artistic expression, Laure-Catherine Beyers is dedicated to creating connections between the soundscapes of today and the cherished musical traditions of the past.

In the upcoming season, she will make her debut as Eurydice in Manfred Trojahn’s Eurydice, die Liebenden, blind in a production by Neue Oper Wien and will appear in the one-act a cappella opera The Medium by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies at the BCV Concert Hall in Lausanne.

Currently, Laure-Catherine is pursuing a Master’s degree in Contemporary Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, under the guidance of Holger Falk and Anna Sushon. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and a Master Soliste (Concert Exam) degree from HEMU Lausanne, where her outstanding recital performances earned her two major prizes.