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The British/Australian soprano, Lauren Lodge-Campbell, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (2014-2017) and at the Queensland Conservatorium, Australia. At the Guildhall School she was the winner of the Susan Longfield Prize and the Franz Schubert Institut Lieder Competition. The latter awarded her a full scholarship to study at the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden, Austria. A member of the Guildhall Song Guild directed by Graham Johnson OBE, she has participated in master-classes with such artists as Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Elly Ameling, Richard Stokes, Dame Emma Kirkby and Dame Felicity Lott. She was the winner of the inaugural Cheltenham Bach Choir Competition, the Schubert Society Song Prize at the London Song Festival, and a Semi Finalist in the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition with duo partner, Michael Sikich. She was awarded 2nd prize at the 2023 Concours Corneille with Le Poème Harmonique, 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the 2018 Handel Singing Competition, and was a prize-winner in the finals of the 2024 Cesti Competition in Innsbruck. Lauren was a member of the 9th edition of Le Jardin des Voix, the young artist programme of William Christie's Les Arts Florissants and is a Samling Artist.
Lauren Lodge-Campbell's 2020-2021 season included W.A. Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate (English Chamber Orchestra); a recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival with pianist Dylan Perez; George Frideric Handel's Messiah at the Saint Denis Festival with La Chapelle Harmonique, and Amor in Gluck's Paris and Helen with Bampton Classical Opera. Engagements cancelled due to Covid-19 included a tour of Purcell's Hear My Prayer (Les Arts Florissants), with a solo concert with Red Dot Baroque in Singapore; Ninfa/Proserpina in Orfeo (Les Arts Florissants); Purcell's Fairy Queen (Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing cond. Alexis Kossenko) and Serpetta in W.A. Mozart's La finta giardiniera on tour in Asia and Australia with Les Arts Florissants. Season 2021-2022 saw her sing several concerts with Les Arts Florissants including Purcell's Indian Queen and Filia in Carissimi's Jephte; her German debut as Iole in G.F. Handel's Hercules at the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen and alongside Ann Hallenberg, and Cupid in Purcell's King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort (Director: Paul McCreesh) at Festival International Opéra Baroque & Romantique Beaune.
Lauren Lodge-Campbell's 2022-2023 season included Euridice in Charpentier's La descente d’Orphee at the Vache Baroque Festival; First Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie, J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 with the Britten Sinfonia under Stephen Layton; J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243 with the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Nicholas McGegan; a revival of G.F. Handel's Hercules at the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe; Purcell's King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort, and a return to Pinchgut Opera in Sydney to sing Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri and Eufemia in Giovanni Legrenzi's Giustino. In 2023-24 she returned to Sydney to sing La Musique/Filli in Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles/Amor vince ogni cosa with Pinchgut Opera; made her USA debut singing Filia in Carissimi;s Jephte with Les Arts Florissants at the Morgan Library in New York; Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea (Amor) and G.F. Handel's Brockes Passion, HWV 48 with The English Concert and Harry Bicket, and a recital at Bachfest Leipzig with Apollo’s Cabinet.
Lauren Lodge-Campbell's 2024-2025 season includes a new production of G.F. Handel's Apollo e Dafne at the London Handel Festival, conducted by David Bates and directed by Thomas Guthrie; Eurydice in Georg Philipp Telemann's Orpheus at the Drottningholm Slottsteater, conducted by Francesco Corti and directed by Elena Barbarich; J.S. Bach & Purcell with The English Concert and Kristian Bezuidenhout; Rameau's Pygmalion with Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn and concerts with Apollo’s Cabinet at Thüringer Bachwochen and the London Handel Festival.
Other operatic engagements include Serpetta in W.A. Mozart's La finta giardiniera with Les Arts Florissants; Minerva in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Pinchgut Opera); Venus in Venus and Adonis and Amore in Il ballo delle ingrate at Brighton Early Music Festival; Princess in The Hogboon with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle and Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel with Iford Arts.
Lauren Lodge-Campbell is at ease on the concert platform and has recently sung J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243 at Hereford Cathedral; G.F. Handel's Messiah with the London Handel Orchestra and Southbank Sinfonia; G.F. Handel's Brockes Passion, HWV 48 with Arcangelo (Director: Jonathan Cohen); and J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 at Dartington International Festival. A keen recitalist, she has performed in recital at Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, London Handel Festival, Leicester International Music Festival, Foundling Museum, London Song Festival, LSO St Luke’s and the Holywell Music Room, Oxford.
Lauren Lodge-Campbell lives in London and continues to study with Professor Janice Chapman, Yvonne Kenny and Sophie Daneman. |
