“One of the stars of the evening was Pinchgut newcomer Lauren Lodge-Campbell, whose purity of tone was a real delight throughout”
British/Australian soprano Lauren Lodge-Campbell studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Queensland Conservatorium, Australia. Lauren was awarded 2nd prize at the 2023 Concours Corneille with Le Poème Harmonique, and 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the 2018 Handel Singing Competition. Lauren was a member of the 9th edition of Le Jardin des Voix, the young artist programme of William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants and is a Samling Artist.
In 2023-24 Lauren returns to Sydney to sing La Musique/Filli in Charpentier Les Plaisirs de Versailles/Amor vince ogni cosa with Pinchgut Opera; Lauren will make her US debut singing Filia in Carissimi Jephte with Les Arts Florissants at the Morgan Library in New York, and will sing Amor in Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea with The English Concert in Barcelona and Madrid.
Lauren’s 2022-23 season included Euridice in Charpentier La descente d’Orphee at the Vache Baroque Festival; First Witch in Purcell Dido and Aeneas with Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie, Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Britten Sinfonia under Stephen Layton; Bach Magnificat with the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Nicholas McGegan; a revival of Handel Hercules at the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe; Purcell King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort, and a return to Pinchgut Opera in Sydney to sing Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri and Eufemia in Legrenzi Giustino.
Season 2021-22 saw Lauren sing several concerts with Les Arts Florissants including Purcell Indian Queen and Filia in Carissimi Jephte; her German debut as Iole in Handel Hercules at the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen and alongside Ann Hallenberg, and Cupid in Purcell King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort at Festival International Opéra Baroque & Romantique Beaune.
Lauren’s 2020-21 season included Mozart Exsultate Jubilate (English Chamber Orchestra); a recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival with pianist Dylan Perez; Handel Messiah at the Saint Denis Festival with La Chapelle Harmonique, and Amor in Gluck Paris and Helen with Bampton Classical Opera. Engagements cancelled due to Covid-19 included a tour of Purcell Hear My Prayer (Les Arts Florissants), with a solo concert with Red Dot Baroque in Singapore; Ninfa/Proserpina Orfeo (Les Arts Florissants); Purcell Fairy Queen (Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing cond. Alexis Kossenko) and Serpetta in Mozart La finta giardiniera on tour in Asia and Australia with Les Arts Florissants.
Other operatic engagements include Serpetta La finta giardiniera with Les Arts Florissants; Minerva Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Pinchgut Opera); Venus Venus and Adonis and Amore Il ballo delle ingrate at Brighton Early Music Festival; Princess The Hogboon with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle and Gretel Hansel and Gretel with Iford Arts.
Lauren is at ease on the concert platform and has recently sung Bach Magnificat at Hereford Cathedral; Handel Messiah with the London Handel Orchestra and Southbank Sinfonia; Handel Brockes Passion with Arcangelo; and Bach St Matthew Passion at Dartington International Festival. A keen recitalist, Lauren has performed in recital at Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, London Handel Festival, Leicester International Music Festival, Foundling Museum, London Song Festival, LSO St Luke’s and the Holywell Music Room, Oxford. A member of the Guildhall Song Guild directed by Graham Johnson OBE, Lauren has participated in masterclasses with such artists as Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Elly Ameling, Richard Stokes, Dame Emma Kirkby and Dame Felicity Lott.
At the Guildhall School Lauren was the winner of the Susan Longfield Prize and the Franz Schubert Institut Lieder Competition. The latter awarded her a full scholarship to study at the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden, Austria. Lauren was the winner of the inaugural Cheltenham Bach Choir Competition, the Schubert Society Song Prize at the London Song Festival, and a Semi Finalist in the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition with duo partner, Michael Sikich.
Lauren lives in London and continues to study with Professor Janice Chapman, Yvonne Kenny and Sophie Daneman.
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The Hogboon Peter Maxwell Davies
with Peter Auty, tenor
London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir Simon Rattle
By kind permission of the London Symphony Orchestra © Mary Turner