Florence Katz

Florence Katz is a contemporary French lyrical artist. A mezzo-soprano, graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, she is also a singing teacher at the Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux. Florence Katz specializes in the French repertoire. She is a recipient of the Darius Milhaud Prize.
Education.
A pupil of Régine Crespin and Gabriel Bacquier at the Conservatoire de Paris, Katz completed three years of training at the Studio of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (conducted by Rachel Yakar and René Jacobs, then Marc Minkowski), as well as master classes with Daniel Ferro, Ileana Cotrubas, Suzanne Danco, Irène Joachim, Gérard Lesne, Janine Reiss, Gérard Souzay...
Florence Katz sang under the direction of Jonathan Darlington, Emmanuelle Haïm, Marc Minkowski, Manuel Rosenthal, Christophe Rousset, Marc Soustrot... with the complicity of pianists David Abramovitz, Solange Chiapparin, Jeff Cohen, Serge Cyferstein, Billy Eidi, Marie-Catherine Girod, Christian Ivaldi, Maciej Pikulski, Alain Planès, Mercedes Proteau, Laure Rivierre, Marie-Pascale Talbot, Alexandre Tharaud, Jean-François Zygel... and with Leonie Rysanek, Lucia Valentini Terrani, Rockwell Blake, Ruggero Raimondi...
Katz performed in Paris (Auditorium du Louvre, Invalides, Musée d'Orsay, Opéra-comique, Opéra Bastille, Salle Cortot, Salle Pleyel, Sorbonne...), Versailles (Opéra du château, Trianon, Théâtre de la Reine, Théâtre Montansier...), Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Geneva, Munich, Dresde, Madrid, Kiev...