Sophie Catherin

French mezzo-soprano Sophie Catherin studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg while at the same time reading German studies at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. Her most important teachers include Towako Sato-Schöllhorn, Renate Behle and Janet Williams. In 2019 she was a finalist in the Benvenuto Franci International Singing Competition in Pienza, Italy.

Her first professional choral experience came at Berlin’s three opera houses and with the French chamber ensemble Exosphères. As a soloist she focuses primarily on contemporary music theatre, working with composers such as Helmut Oehring, Hans Wüthrich, Irene Galindo Quero and Andys Skordis, in projects with the Oper Freiburg, Schlossplatztheater Köpenick and Neuköllner Oper.

Since 2017 she has been a member of Opera Lab Berlin, appearing in staged productions of works by Bernhard Lang, Carola Bauckholt and Karlheinz Stockhausen at venues including the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and the Musiktheatertage Wien. In 2019 she founded Opéra sur Tréteaux, an ensemble for contemporary music theatre, together with singer and composer Daniel Arnaldos.

Sophie Catherin has been a permanent member of the Rundfunkchor Berlin since August 2024.