The Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert recently thrilled in Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie” under Bernhard Forck at the Nationaltheater Mannheim as “Phèdre, who in her interpretation sounds as passionate as broken, as animated and as then again rigid and ice-cold.” (Mannheimer Morgen, 2 May 2021).
The young singer has worked with renowned conductors and orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, under conductors such as David Afkham, Ivor Bolton, Semyon Bychkov, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Ádám Fischer, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Hartmut Hähnchen, Philippe Jordan, Alessandro de Marchi, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Mark Piollet or Andreas Spering.
She is the winner of the 2nd Prize and the Audience Prize of the 7th International Cesti Competition for Baroque Singing in Innsbruck 2016 and is also a prizewinner of the International Mozart Competition Salzburg.
In addition to violin and piano lessons, Sophie Rennert began her vocal training with her mother, the soprano and voice teacher Sigrid Rennert. In 2014 she completed her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Karlheinz Hanser and Prof. Charles Spencer with distinction. She attended master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Ann Murray, and Helmut Deutsch.