“She is exuberant, full of personality, completely engaged and
richly expressive.”
-Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati Enquirer
With a voice described as “luminous” and a presence that “sets the stage on fire”, Laura Hynes performs chamber music, new works, staged theatre, song recitals, baroque music, and opera.
Highlights include performances at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, the Barbican in London, the Cité de la Musique and the Opéra Comique in Paris, as well as major venues in Lisbon, Seville, Frankfurt, Madrid, and Brussels, under the baton of William Christie. She has appeared in roles and concerts at the Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Montpellier, le Corum (Montpellier), Cincinnati Opera, the Châtelet, Salle Pleyel, Théâtre National de Toulouse, Théatre Mogador (Paris), Scène Nationale du Havre, Archives Nationales (Paris), Les Invalides (Paris), and the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Paris.
Hynes performed for Renée Fleming’s lecture, “Music and the Mind” (2018) in partnership with the Calgary Philharmonic and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. She is a frequent collaborator with the Land’s End Ensemble and conductor Karl Hirzer, performing with them at the National Music Centre in Calgary (2019), and for the Sound Atlas Festival (2023). They recorded John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (2024, Naxos) as well as Omar Daniel’s Zwei Lieder nach Rilke (2021, Centrediscs), nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award and featured in the short film, Deathmasks, by Emil Agopian. She recently gave the world premiere of Gertrude Stein Shenanigans (2023), a set of 13 concert arias written for her by Canadian composer William Jordan.
Hynes’s opera credits include the roles of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Despina (Cosí fan tutte), Baby Doe, Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring), Greta (The Double Hook), Alcina, Dalinda (Ariodante), Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Frasquita (Carmen), Lulu Baines (Elmer Gantry), Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief), Jina zinka (Rusalka), and Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), among others.
Dr. Hynes earned a B.M. from Miami University, M.M. from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, completed the Cycle de perfectionnement at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) while on a Fulbright scholarship, and earned her D.M.A. from the University of Minnesota as the Carolyn Bailey & Dominick Argento Fellow. She enjoyed more than ten years of academic teaching and research, first as a visiting assistant professor at Murray State University (2014-2015), then as a tenured associate professor at the University of Calgary (2015-2024).
She currently lives in Nova Scotia. In addition to performing and creating new works, she plans to continue Alexander Technique teacher training at the Balance Arts Center in NYC.
