BRUUN, HETNA REGITZE

Hetna Regitze Bruun was born in Denmark and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, where she obtained her diploma in solo singing and 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, plans and sings in Stand-up Opera, in the summer of 2008 touring to Berlin with great success. Collaboration with the pianist Kristoffer Hyldig began at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and they have worked together for some years, with a mutual love for Messiaen’s music.

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