Biography

Dutch soprano Irene Hoogveld completed her Master degree with Distinction at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as a Master in Performance and was awarded a Concert Recital Diploma for excellence in her contemporary classical music work. She received her Bachelor’s degree Cum Laude at ArtEZ University of the Arts.

Recently ms. Hoogveld sang Tosca (Puccini) and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) at the festival Opera Aan Zee in the Netherlands. She performed Santuzza with Opera op ‘t Hogeland and with De Kleine Opera, the Fremde Fürstin in Rusalka (Dvořák), and in Ritratto (Jeths) with the Dutch National Opera. She also sang Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček): Jay with London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle, and in the world premiere of Thijl – van Gilse she performed as Gilline. In oratorio repertoire she has sung music by Verdi (Requiem), Brahms (Ein Deutsches Requiem), Poulenc (Gloria), Mendelssohn (Elias, Paulus), Dvořák (Te Deum, Stabat Mater) and Rossini (Petite messe solennelle, Stabat mater).

As a songstress ms. Hoogveld made her Barbican Hall debut with Russian repertoire in 2018, and sang two contemporary recitals in Wigmore Hall in 2019. Ms. Hoogveld has performed and recorded premieres of notable Dutch composers as Bernard van Beurden and Tera de Marez Oyens. In 2024 she performed song recitals in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, De Vereeniging Nijmegen and Theater aan de Parade ‘s Hertogenbosch.

In 2021 Ms. Hoogveld created three monodramas for unaccompanied voice called EER(S)T DE DAME. She wrote the original Dutch libretto’s, and composed one. These performances continue to be performed throughout the Netherlands. She joined the Dutch Song Society in 2022 with pianist Maxime Snaterse and has since toured extensively with their programs STRESSless and Aurore: Shades of Night and Dawn.

Ms. Hoogveld received the IVC Friends Prize during the International Vocal Competition Den Bosch 2022 was subsequently selected to receive a Stipend for the Bayreuther Festspiele 2023 by the Dutch Wagner Society. In 2025 she will join the Sonderchor of the Bayreuther Festspiele for Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg and Lohengrin.

Ms. Hoogveld is proud to be supported by the VandenEnde Foundation, VSB Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Fundatie van Renswoude, Fonds Podiumkunsten.