‘Edwige Herchenroder illuminates the harmonic shifts in the program’s three Schubert lieder with clarity and grace — as good an indicator of quality as any’
Opera News, Disc Nocturnes
‘With the subtlest of rubato from the piano, this was better than I had ever heard these Fauré songs before.’
Oxford Magazine, Oxford Lieder Festival
Edwige Herchenroder’s late recital appearances include Paris Philharmonie, Festival d’Aix, Paris Petit Palais, Opéra de Lille, Toulouse’s Les Grands Interprètes, Oxford Lieder Festival, St John’s Smith square, Fondation Royaumont, London French Cultural Institute, Victoria and Albert Museum, Reykjavik radio, and Istanbul University with Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Marina Viotti, Eléonore Pancrazi, Marina Viotti, Jodie Devos, Martina Russomanno, Alina Wunderlin, Judith Chemla, Kevin Amiel, Rupert Charlesworth, Andri Bjorn Robertson, Kitty Whately, Andrea Hill, Sonia Grané, Victor Sicard, Catherine Trottmann, Emanuelle de Negri and Edwin Crossley-Mercer.
Recent opera repetiteur work includes Der Rosenkavalier, La Périchole, Die Fledermaus, Die sieben Totsünden at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ; Les Sentinelles (2024) at the Opéra Comique, La Bohème with Orchestre National de Lille, Werther with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, La fille du Régiment and L’ange de Nisida at the Donizetti Festival, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Don Giovanni at Soirées lyriques de Sanxay, Point d’Orgue (2020) by Thierry Escaich at Opéra de Bordeaux and at Opéra de St Etienne, Manon, Manon Lescaut (Auber) and La Juive at Teatro Regio de Turin, Tosca and Fidelio at Opéra de Dijon, Pelléas et Mélisande at Garsington Opera and at Opéra Rouen Normandie, Les Noces, Variations from Le Nozze di Figaro at Opéra de Lille; Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci at Opéra de St Étienne. She plays the continuo for Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opéra de Lyon and the two piano version of Les Mamelles de Tirésias de Francis Poulenc/Britten with Roger Vignoles at the Dutch National Opera. She regularly works for the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Orchestre National d’Ile De France and for the French vocal ensemble Les Éléments.
Edwige is HSBC Pianist Laureate of the Festival d’Aix where she performed in Aix a series of recitals : Duparc’s complete melodies, Viola and voice recital with Tabea Zimmerman, Nocturnes recital with Rupert Charlesworth, Shakespeare recital with mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and actress Dominique Blanc, recital D’Amour et de Mort with basse-baritone Andri Björn Robertsson and the show Viardot, la Liberté. She made her CD début with tenor Rupert Charlesworth and their recital Nocturnes (Ziz Zag Territoires / Outhere music).
Edwige graduated from Ecole Normale de musique de Paris and Conservatoire de région de Paris (CRR) studying with Eric Vidonne before completing her postgraduate program with Malcolm Martineau and Audrey Hyland at the London Royal Academy of Music. She was also mentored by Graham Johnson, Christopher Glynn, Julius Drake, Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Papp, David Selig and Helmut Deutsch. She has participated in masterclasses with Natalie Dessay, Ann Murray, Joan Rodgers, Patricia Macmahon, Barbara Bonney, Angelika Kirschlager, Sarah Walker, Pamela Bullock, Leontina Vaduva, Dawn Upshaw, Robin Bowman, Thomas Allen, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Laurent Naouri, Anthony Legge. She participated at the Women conductor course at the Royal Opera Ballet (JPYAP).
She is a laureate of Fondation Royaumont, Georg Solti Accademia di bel canto, Young Songmaker’s Almanach, Samling Artist and Britten-Pears Young Artist. She has been awarded many accompaniment prizes including 1st prize Oxford Lieder 2011 Young Artist platform with Sonia Grané and has accompanied singers for Tauber Prize Final, Wigmore Song Competition and Kathleen Ferrier awards at Wigmore Hall and performed as a member of the Royal Academy Song Circle. Edwige was awarded the 2011/2012 Hodgson Fellowship at Royal Academy of Music and devised on this occasion a concert series of French Songs together with London French Institute. This ‘Season of French mélodies’ included concerts introduced by Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson.
Edwige was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). She has worked for the Jette Parker Young Artist Program at the Royal Opera ballet. She is a professeur at the Paris Ecole Normale de musique Alfred Cortot where she teaches French Diction for singers and Opera study roles.
Upcoming projects include Robinson Crusoé with the Les Musiciens du Louvre – dir. Marc Minkowski at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Roméo et Juliette at Opéra de Tenerife and a recital with Benjamin Bernheim at the Tonhalle in Zurich.
[09.2025]
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Edwige Herchenroder 