WHO?

Soprano Kathrin Lorenzen was born in Flensburg in 1994 and grew up on a farm owned by her family in fifth generation.
She began church music studies at HMT Leipzig and sang in a wide variety of choirs and ensembles, including the German National Youth Choir, the Kammerchor Stuttgart and the World Youth Choir. During her studies, the desire to make singing her main instrument and career grew steadily. After further organ and vocal studies at HfM Saar (under Prof. Ruth Ziesak), she moved to Stockholm in 2021, after winning auditions for permanent employment and member of the Swedish Radio Choir. At the same time, she continued her master studies in singing at KMH Stockholm (under Prof. Bo Rosenkull).

In the recent years, Kathrin established herself as a sought-after soloist and concert singer in Germany and Scandinavia. She has become particularly fond of art singing in all its forms and enjoys developing new concert concepts. She also has a strong passion for chamber music and a regular lied duo with the pianist Oskar Ekberg.

Kathrin is the recipient of several scholarships: sponsor award winner from the Rotary Club in Kappeln, scholarship holder from the Nikolaus Reiser Foundation and the Richard Wagner Association in Saarbrücken, and in 2023 she was the highest ranked of all singers at the national scholarships of Swedish Royal Academy of Music.

In 2023 she won 1st prize and the audience prize at the 12th International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg and was a finalist at the international competition "Havets röst" ("Voice of the Sea") on Åland.
In 2024 Kathrin won the Solistpriset ("The Soloist Prize"), the biggest prize awarded by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music for young musicians, being the first singer in 16 years to achieve that.