BRUUN, HETNA REGITZE

Hetna Regitze Bruun was born in Denmark and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where she obtained her diploma in solo singing. She also studied in the soloist class at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. She has enhanced her singing skills at a number of master-classes with Margaret Price, Anne-Sofie von Otter, Philip Langridge, Andreas Schmidt and the pianists Rudolf Jansen, Helmut Deutsch and Malcolm Martineau. She has performed as a soloist in numerous Lieder concerts and oratorios in Denmark, England, Germany and Belgium in Northern Europe. She has also appeared at the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen and smaller opera houses in Denmark. In the British art film Feature, directed by Shezad Dawood, she had a lead rôle as Valkyrie. She has initiated, planned and sings in the young company Stand-up Opera, with its base in Copenhagen. Collaboration with the pianist Kristoffer Hyldig began at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and they have worked together, with a mutual love for Messiaen’s music, for some years.

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