Born in Lille, Pierre Lenoir is a French countertenor with a powerful and agile voice. His core repertoire lies in Baroque opera, particularly by Handel, as well as in oratorio, with performances of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor, Händel’s Messiah and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus.
He also finds ground for expression in the Classical repertoire, embodying roles such as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, as well as in the contemporary operatic.
He began his musical journey with the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-France, performing in Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame under the baton of Jean-Claude Malgoire, and appearing at the Opéra de Lille in Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze.
After an initial course of study at the Conservatoire in Paris, undertaken alongside musicology studies at the Sorbonne, he went on to refine his art with Frédéric Gindraux and Jean-Philippe Clerc at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where he won a Master’s degree in Concert Performance.
In 2024, he received the Prix de l’Espérance from the Fondation de la Vocation Bleustein- Blanchet, and in 2023 he won First Prize for Interpretation, the Young Talent Prize and the Audience Prize at the Concours International de Vivonne. He was also a semi-finalist in the Farinelli International Competition at the Händel Festspiele in Karlsruhe, as well as in the 13th Concorso Internazionale di Canto Barocco Francesco Provenzale in Naples.
Pierre is regularly invited to perform in oratorios and recitals, including most recently as the Boy Treble in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms at the Salle Métropole in Lausanne, in Bach’s Cantatas BWV 37 & 93, and in a gala concert at the Salle Paderewski in Lausanne.
In 2024, he made his debut at the Nouvel Opéra de Fribourg and at the Opéra de Lausanne in the title role of Honegger’s Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, and with Ouverture Opéra de Sion as both Sorceress and Spirit in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. In 2025, he will make his debut at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus as part of the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, singing the roles of Primo Principe Cavaliero and Il Genio in Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno.
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