Winner of the Bachwoche 2013 at the Bachakademie Stuttgart.
Born in Barcelona, Lidia Vinyes-Curtis experienced a broad musical education with a complete study of the violin at the two Barcelona Conservatoires of music, followed by a degree in Ancient Music and Baroque Violin at the Conservatoire Nationale de Région de Toulouse (France). She completed these studies with the highest grades. She began her vocal training in Barcelona with her principal teacher Maestro Jorge Sirena, continued at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and took master classes with Richard Levitt, David Mason and Rosa Domínguez.<<cut>>
Her professional singing career starts at the Festival d’Ambronay conducted by Gabriel Garrido. Since then her solo singing has continued with other renowned conductors such as Martin Gester, Kay Johannsen, Philippe Pierlotand Jordi Savallat a number of European Baroque Music Festivals.
In 2013, Lidia won the Bachakademie Stuttgart 2013 and immediately shewas invited byHelmuth Rillingto sing the St. Matthew Passion on tour in Germany and South America, receiving very favourable reviews for her singing.
In 2014, she made her debut with the Spanish National Orchestra (ONE) invited by conductor Josep Ponsto sing l’Atlantida by Manuel de Falla. The ONE demanded her again in 2015 to sing Mozart’s Requiem, conducted by Giovanni Antonini.
Among her recent performances, Lidia was in Moscow at
the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, in Germany at the Thomaskirche Leipzig and at the
City Hall in Hong Kong singing J.S.Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio
and the Mass in b-minor conducted by Helmuth
Rilling. At the
Philharmonie in Munich she sang Mozart’s
Requiem conducted by K.F.
Beringer. At the
Festival Via Stellae she performed Goffredoin G.F.
Händel’s “Rinaldo” conducted by the harp player Manuel
Vilas.
Forthcoming performances include appearances in Barcelona at the Liceu Opera Housesinging the role of Ascanioin “Benvenuto Cellini” by H. Berlioz, with Jean-Claude Malgoireat the Paris Théâtre des Champs Elyséesas Zulmain G.Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri”, with Helmuth Rilling singing J.S.Bach Cantatas in Germany, and with Sigiswald Kuijken singing J.S.Bach’s St. Matthew Passion on tour in Tokio, Singapur and at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.