Barbara Hannigan

Embodying music with an unparalleled dramatic sensibility, soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan is an artist at the forefront of creation. The Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician has shown a profound commitment to the music of our time and has given the world premiere performances of over 90 new creations. With a career spanning 30 years, Hannigan's artistic colleagues have included Reinbert de Leeuw, Pierre Boulez, Sasha Waltz, John Zorn, Krszysztof Warlikowski, Simon Rattle, Katie Mitchell, Henri Dutilleux, Vladimir Jurowski, Gyorgy Ligeti, Kirill Petrenko, George Benjamin, Andreas Kriegenburg, and Hans Abrahamsen. She is Principal Guest Conductor of the Göteborgs Symfoniker, Première artiste invitée of l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Associate Artist of the London Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (2024/25 onwards) and Reinbert de Leeuw Professor of Music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. With Alpha Classics, she has released six albums including her latest recording, Infinite Voyage (2023). Hannigan’s commitment to the younger generation of musicians led her to create the mentoring initiatives Equilibrium Young Artists (2017) and Momentum: our future now (2020).