soprano
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Sophie Junker regularly performs with top-flight conductors including Harry Bicket, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Masaaki Suzuki, and Stefano Montanari. Described by Opera magazine as ‘irresistibly charming’, Sophie already has an established relationship with the Opera Royal de Liège Wallonie, and Angers-Nantes Opéra. She made her American operatic début in 2016, singing Cleis in Martini’s Sapho and Hélène in Chabrier’s Une Éducation Manquée. Further operatic roles include Caio in Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa at the Copenhagen Opera Festival, and Proserpine/Euridice in Charpentier’s La Déscente d’Orphée aux enfers (Wigmore Hall, The Hague).
In concert, Sophie Junker appears regularly as soloist with Concerto Copenhagen conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, David Bates’ La Nuovo Musica, the Belgium-based ensemble Vox Luminis, Le Concert de la Loge conducted by Julien Chauvin, Le Poème Harmonique conducted by Vincent Dumestre and Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo. She performed Bach’s St John Passion with Ensemble 1704, Lully’s Grands Motets and toured Vespro a san Marco alongside the Chœur de Chambre de Namur conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón. Further performances included Mozart’s Grande Messe in C minor with B’Rock, and Handel’s Apollo e Dafne with {oh!} Orkiestra conducted by Martyna Pastuszka.
The soprano’s discography includes Sacrifices with La Nuova Musica (Harmonia Mundi), Handel’s Esther with Laurence Cummings (Accent), Grétry’s L’Épreuve Villageoise (Naxos), Bach’s Secular Cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan under Masaaki Suzuki (BIS), Stravaganza d’amore with Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon (Harmonia Mundi) and Cunegunda in Leonardo Vinci’s Gismondo (Parnassus Arts Productions). In 2020, Sophie Junker’s first solo album, La Francesina, was released under the label Aparté. This publication won an International Classical Music Award as well as the Trophée Forum-Opéra.