With the financial support of the British Council and the Belgian Foundation for Talent, soprano Sophie Karthäuser completed her studies with Noelle Barker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Sophie has been engaged by many prestigious ensembles and orchestras such as The Academy of Ancient Music, les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande, Les Folies Françoises, Die Akademie für Alte Musiek, the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Gewandhaus Leipzig… she has sung with conductors such as Louis Langrée, Sigiswald Kuijken, William Christie, René Jacobs, Marcello Viotti, Kazushi Ono, Christian Zacharias, Thomas Hengelbrock, Jérémie Rhorer and Riccardo Chailly and is scheduled for tours and concerts with Cercle de l’Harmonie, Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra,…

In 2003, Sophie won the audience Prize at The Wigmore Hall song contest, and also appeared in recital at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), at La Monnaie, at the Flanders Opera, at the Opéra de Lille, de Nantes, de Bordeaux at the Cologne Philharmonie, together which pianists such as Graham Johnson and Eugene Asti. Upcoming recitals include the Spanisches liederbuch together with baritone Stephan Loges at Opéra National du Rhin, recitals in Waidhofen and at the Beaune Festival (France) with pianist Cédric Tiberghien and a recital at Frakfurt Opera..

Sophie experienced a dream-come-true Mozart debut: she sang her first Pamina with René Jacobs at La Monnaie and her first Susanna with William Christie at Opéra de Lyon. She has appeared in several Mozart roles, such as Tamiri at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Serpetta at Berlin Konzerthaus, and Despina and Zerlina at La Monnaie. Further Mozart projects include Ilia at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in Salzburg and Bremen as well as Sandrina (Finta Giardiniera) in Viena with René Jacobs. Other opera projects include title-role of La Calisto at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (with Christophe Rousset) as well as a large Rameau project with William Christie in Aix-en-Provence.

Further concerts will take her to venues such as Musikverein (Vienna), Carnegie Hall (New York), Théâtre des Champ-Elysées, Châtelet (Paris) and Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels).

Sophie’s recordings include a solo album of Gretry arias (Ricercare), the Complete Mozart songs (Cypres), Die Schopfüng (Virgin), Il Ritorno di Tobia (Naxos), Faramondo (Virgin). She will record a CD of Haydn arias with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Mozart arias with La Monnaie and French mélodies after Beaudelaire (Cypres).