Sydney soprano Susannah Lawergren has developed a reputation for her versatility, “stunning vocal expression”, “beautifully clear soprano” and "compelling stagecraft". She holds an Advanced Diploma of Opera from the Sydney Conservatorium and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics-with Distinction) from the University of NSW, studied at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute and studied languages and singing in Rome, Stockholm, New York and London.

Susannah is a principal artist with The Song Company and Bach Akademie Australia and has also sung with some of the foremost ensembles in Australia including Ensemble Offspring, Opera Australia, Australia Ensemble, Cantillation, Sydney Chamber Opera, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Salut! Baroque, Willoughby Orchestra and Hourglass Ensemble and international ensembles like Voces8, the Wallfisch Ensemble and Forma Antiqva. She has worked with many emerging and established composers, including new compositions, recordings and performances with both Ross Edwards and Elena Kats-Chernin. She has recorded for Hyperion Records and has appeared many times on ABC Classic FM and Fine Music FM, including Tamara Anna-Cislowska's Duet on ABC-Classic FM.

During her career, Susannah has performed at many major Australian festivals, including three times at the Sydney Festival, twice at the Adelaide Festival and a remarkable ten times at the Canberra International Music Festival. Known also for her compelling stagecraft, she has sung with physical theatre troupes such as Legs on the Wall, choreographer Paulina Quinteros, and with Australian Dance Artists in renowned artist Ken Unsworth’s studio theatre. She enjoys musical collaborations with harpist Georgia Lowe and acclaimed pianist Bernadette Harvey, with whom Ross Edwards wrote a new commission for the 150th Anniversary of the Art Gallery of NSW.

Susannah has a busy performing life as a soloist around Sydney and Australia, performing oratorio, art song, opera and contemporary music. Susannah’s repertoire varies widely, recently singing Kats-Chernin’s Wild Swans while flying harnessed through the air above Willoughby Orchestra with astonishing aerialists Legs on the Wall and performing with Kats-Chernin at the piano, art songs with harpist Emily Granger at the inaugural Oberon Festival,  a series of solo Bach cantatas for Baroquefest Canowindra with Bach Akademie Australia. She is a regular soloist in Canberra’s annual Flowers of Peace orchestral requiems and Artsong Canberra. A memorable highlight was being the soprano soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Hans Zimmer’s Blue Planet II for an audience of 8000 film music fans.

This year she will sing with Opera Australia in the 8-member semi-chorus of Brett Dean’s Hamlet and be the soprano soloist in the premiere of Ross Edwards’s Vespers for Mother Earth for Song Company’s 40th Anniversary Gala as well as singing in the concert series of the Song Company and Bach Akademie Australia.

Educational Background

Susannah holds an Advanced Diploma of Opera from the Sydney Conservatorium and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics-with Distinction) from UNSW. She has worked with vocal coaches and studied languages in Rome, Stockholm, New York and London where she has close family. After graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium, she performed with Opera Australia’s NSW Schools Company and soon after, joined the Song Company as first soprano where she sang an incredibly diverse range of music.

In 2014, she studied early music at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer School in Toronto, developing a passion for early music, especially an affinity for the music of J.S. Bach.  She has won many awards and scholarships, including the Intermediate National Operatic Award and second place in the National Opera Award at the Australian National Eisteddfod, won art song and oratorio prizes at the Sydney Eisteddfod and was a finalist in the Opera Foundation’s Cologne German Award.