Praised for her luminous voice, musical sensitivity and versatility, Belgian soprano Ilse Eerens enjoys an international operatic and concert career, featuring repertoire that spans from Bach to contemporary works. Recent highlights include returns to La Monnaie as Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) and Salzburger Festspiele as First Lady (Die Zauberflöte) as well as Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium on tour with Nederlands Kamerkoor; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Gulbenkian Orchestra; Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé with NDR Vokalensemble; and various programmes with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Ton Koopman.

Eerens has worked with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Riccardo Muti, Hartmut Haenchen, Lorenzo Viotti, Kazushi Ono, HK Gruber, Philippe Herreweghe, Peter Dijkstra, Richard Egarr, Laurence Equilbey, Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Antonello Manacorda, and various ensembles including the Orchestre National de France, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, MDR-Sinfonie-orchester, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Cappella Mediterranea and Beethoven Orchester Bonn, among others.

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