Céline Scheen

Céline Scheen (born 1976 in Verviers ) is a Belgian soprano.

Life and work

She grew up in Plombières Céline Scheen took at the age of five with her ​​parents on the samples of the local church choir in part, to her father directed. As a teenager she attended the Conservatory in Verviers, where she majored in flute and vocals. My childhood dream was to be a French chanteuse. In Verviers, she began singing lessons at Annie Frantz. As of 1996, she attended the Royal Conservatory of Mons, where he received first prizes in the fields of concert and opera singing in the class of Marcel Vanaud. She then continued her studies at the Brussels Conservatory.

Céline Scheen was in the years 1994 to 1996 a member of the World Youth Choir, and traveled with him Latin America, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden.

In 1998 she received the " Nany Philippart " Exchange and was able to continue on the Brussels " Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth " their studies. She then attended for two years the Guildhall School of Music in London with Vera Rosza who convinced her to devote himself to early music. She also attended master classes with Jean -Paul Fouchécourt, Monique Zanetti and Helmut German.

Notoriety she gained in 1999 when she was involved with Musica Antiqua Köln Reinhard Goebel for the German Grammophon on a highly acclaimed recording of Gérard Corbiaus film Le Roi Danse.

Since then she has participated in many opera productions, as in the roles of Lucy in The Telephone, or L' Amour à trois by Gian Carlo Menotti, Thérèse in Les mamelles de Tiresias by Francis Poulenc, as Frasquita in Carmen by Georges Bizet, in Mozart's Magic Flute when Grilletta in Lo Speziale by Joseph Haydn, as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Under the direction of René Jacobs she was heard in the Brussels Monnaie theater in Gluck's Alceste, Cavalli Eliogabalo and Mozart's The Magic Flute.

As a concert singer, she has appeared in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, the Coronation Mass by Mozart, and Bach's St. John Passion in. Among the ensemble, with whom she worked, include " Musica Antiqua Köln ", " Il Fondamento ", the " Ricercar Consort " under Philippe Pierlot, which was founded by Stéphanie de Failly "Ensemble Clematis " under Leonardo García- Alarcón, also with its " Capella Mediterranea ", the ensemble" La Fenice ", the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon Basel or the Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall below. Since 2010, she has worked with Christophe Rousset and his ensemble " Les Talens Lyriques " in concert and opera productions.