Bio

photo by Ken Howard

Coloratura soprano Laura Hynes has earned a reputation at home and abroad as a charismatic stage presence who sails through high-flying repertoire and challenging new chamber works.

An associate professor at the University of Calgary, Hynes is currently enrolled in the Balance Arts Center‘s Alexander Technique teacher training program in New York City and looks forward to bringing this practice to her work with students.

Her Raise Your Voice project launched a successful and continually evolving body of work exploring social justice issues through staged recitals. She was also a project co-lead in a SSHRC-funded research-creation collaboration with Dr. Ari Agha on transgender voice transition called The Key of T.

Performing John Corigliano’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” at the National Music Centre with the Land’s End Ensemble

Hynes has performed at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, the Barbican in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, as well as major venues in Lisbon, Seville, Frankfurt, Madrid, and Brussels, under the baton of William Christie. Among other venues, she has sung roles and concerts at the Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Montpellier, le Corum (Montpellier), Cincinnati Opera, the Châtelet, Opéra Comique, 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 and Renée Fleming

Hynes performed for Renée Fleming’s lecture, “Music and the Mind” in partnership with the Calgary Philharmonic (CPO) and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. Also in conjunction with the CPO, she performed John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan at the National Music Centre with the Land’s End Ensemble and conductor Karl Hirzer.  She recently gave the world premiere of Gertrude Stein Shenanigans (Sept 2023), a set of 13 concert arias written for her by Canadian composer William Jordan.

Recordings include Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (2024 release) and Omar Daniel’s Zwei Lieder nach Rilke, nominated for a 2021 Western Canadian Music Award, both with the Land’s End Ensemble and Karl Hirzer conducting; songs of Paul Méfano with the Ensemble 2e2m (France); Mozart, Haydn and Schubert songs with Jory Vinikour at the pianoforte; several DVD recordings with master improviser Jean-François Zygel; live broadcasts on French radio and television; two documentary films, Baroque Académie and Key of T; and the short film Deathmasks by Emil Agopian.

Hynes’s opera credits include the roles of Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Despina (Cosí fan tutte), Baby Doe, Frasquita (Carmen), Lulu Baines (Elmer Gantry), Alcina, Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief), Jina zinka (Rusalka), Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring), and Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), among others.

 

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