Anouschka Lara
Anouschka Lara (soprano) studied languages (French, German, English, Italian, and Spanish), and literature, dancing, and acting (Guildford School of Acting and Dancing) before taking a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London to study singing with Laura Sarti and Annette Thompson. She graduated with firstclass honours in July 2000. She then completed with distinction the Advanced Opera Course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow (with Patricia MacMahon) in 2002. While studying at the RSAMD, she won the Lieder Prize and the Ye Cronies Opera Award. She was supported by the Barcapel Foundation and the Migros-Genossenschaftsbund.
She has taken part in masterclasses with: Rudolf Piernay (Festival Heidelberg Frühling), Sarah Walker, Elly Ameling, Benjamin Luxon, Michael Chance (Britten-Pears School), Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras & Gloria Banditelli (Curs de Musica Antigua a Catalunya), Dominick Argento, Emma Kirkby, Malcolm Martineau, Paul Farrington & Thomas Allen (The Samling Foundation), and Graham Johnson (Young Songmakers Almanac).
She has performed as a soloist in various festivals including Segovia Internacional Festival, Cuenca Festival for Young Interpreters, International Musik Festival Davos, Porta Ferrada International Festival, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Lauenen Chamber Music Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Sablé Festival, Music at the Chabotterie, Music and Nature Festival “en Bauges”, Music Festival “en Auxois”, Festival d’Ambronay, Festival Baroque de Versailles, and with artists such as Maria-Joao Pires, Jeremy Menuhin, Dimitri Ashkenazy, David Stern (Opera Fuoco), René Jacobs (Concerto Vocale), Hugo Reyne (Simphonie du Marais), Gabriel Garrido (Elyma), Philippe Huttenlocher, Pascal Bertin, Stephan MacLeod, Thomas Demenga, Jordi Savall, Pedro Memelsdorff, and Mala Punica.
In opera she has sung the roles of Calisto (Cavalli), Poussette (Manon), Pamina (Mozart), Lauretta (Pergolesi), La Blanche Aline (Honegger), Gasparina (Haydn), El Trujaman (De Falla), Asteria (Handel), Ninfa, Musica, Proserpina (Monteverdi) and La Félicité, Thetis, and Diane (Le Ballet des Arts, Lully).