KADI JÜRGENS - BIOGRAPHY

Scintillating Estonian mezzo-soprano Kadi Jürgens has won a Golden Medal in the professional category at the 7th Manhattan International Music Competition in New York. Her recent performances include Bizet’s Carmen at Opéra de Baugé and Vake Poes at Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Mädchen in Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny with Dutch National Opera and Ballet and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen where she has also performed Concepción in Ravel’s L’heure espagnole. She also sang Mozart’s Requiem with Flanders Symphony Orchestra on a tour in the UK and Benelux, a gala concert with Belgian Chamber Orchestra Casco Phil in Switzerland and solo recitals at the Ghent Festival in Belgium. Her future engagements include Solveig in a dance production of Grieg’s Peer Gynt at the National Moravian-Silesian in Czech Republic and Carmen in Theater Vorpommern in Germany.

Her professional debut took place in 2017 as Andromache in Lill's Into the Fire at Theatre Vanemuine. In student productions in Estonia and Belgium she has sung Mrs Grose in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Orlando in Händel’s Orlando, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Carmen in Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen, Lotte Lenya in Weill's LoveMusik and Mrs Green in van Parys' Private View. In concert she has sung amongst others Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël and performed with many orchestras such as the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra and Belgian Chamber Orchestra Casco Phil.

Next to classical singing, Kadi Jürgens has also been trained in acting, dancing, musical singing and vocal improvisation. She studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, did an Erasmus year at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and finished a postgraduate degree in Opera Performance at the International Opera Academy in Ghent, Belgium in 2021. The same year she took part in the 12th International Klaudia Taev Competition where she received the 3rd Prize and a Special Prize for Art Song. In 2022 she was given the 3rd Prize and an Opera Prize from Theatre Vanemuine at the National Vello Jürna Vocal Competition. She has also received the PLMF Music Trust Award Young Singer of Estonia.

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