Biography

Henrike Henoch is a soprano active in both opera and concert repertoire.

She recently made her debut singing the soprano part in Elijah at Berlin Cathedral and is currently an academy member of the TONALi Stage Academy in Hamburg.

As a concert soloist, she has appeared at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig under the direction of Kristjan Järvi, as well as at Verden Cathedral, the Dresden Kreuzkirche, and the “Classic Open Air” at Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt.

 Her repertoire includes The Creation, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, and Messiah.

She was a member of the opera studio at Opéra de Lyon. Her operatic engagements have taken her to Theater Regensburg and the National Theatre Windhoek, Namibia, among others.

 She appeared as Fiordiligi at the Prinzregententheater with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Clemens Schuldt. During her time at Opéra de Lyon, she performed the roles of Minerva and La fée bleue in a production by Barbora Horáková.

Among the roles she has performed are Vitellia, Sylva Varescu, Pamina, Sophie Scholl, and Ippolita.

She is a third prize winner of the junior division of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin and a prizewinner of the Albert Lortzing Competition in Leipzig. She was also selected to appear as one of the “Jeunes ambassadeurs lyriques” in Montréal, Canada.

In addition to opera, she is deeply committed to art song, chamber music, and contemporary repertoire. She has recently performed with Ensemble Recherche in Lisbon and, together with composer Miika Hyytiäinen and Amanda Martikainen, was awarded a residency at the Hiljaisuus Festival in Lapland.

She studied at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Prof. KS Regina Werner-Dietrich and at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich with Prof. KS Christiane Iven. 

She has received further artistic guidance through masterclasses and coachings with, among others, Prof. Rudolf Piernay, Tobias Truniger, Gudrun Bär, Nadine Secunde, Prof. Valérie Guillorit, and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt. She works regularly with Susanne Eisch.

Alongside her classical work, she is also active in interdisciplinary projects as a composer and performer. Most recently, she composed and performed for the artist Sophia Süßmilch at Kunsthalle Osnabrück and for the solo exhibition of Ivana de Vivanco at Villa Merkel in Esslingen. She is currently developing a new musical project for HAU Berlin.

She is based in Berlin.