Florence Katz


Florence Katz is a contemporary French a mezzo-soprano, graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, she is also a singing teacher at the Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux. She specializes in the French repertoire. She is a recipient of the Darius Milhaud Prize.
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Education

A pupil of Régine Crespin and Gabriel Bacquier at the Conservatoire de Paris, Katz completed three years of training at the Studio of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, as well as master classes with Daniel Ferro, Ileana Cotrubas, Suzanne Danco, Irène Joachim, Gérard Lesne, Janine Reiss, Gérard Souzay.
Katz sang with conductors Jonathan Darlington, Emmanuelle Haïm, Marc Minkowski, Manuel Rosenthal, Christophe Rousset, Marc Soustrot, and with pianists David Abramovitz, Solange Chiapparin, Jeff Cohen, Serge Cyferstein, Billy Eidi, Marie-Catherine Girod, Christian Ivaldi, Maciej Pikulski, Alain Planès, Mercedes Proteau, Laure Rivierre, Marie-Pascale Talbot, Alexandre Tharaud, Jean-François Zygel... and with Leonie Rysanek, Lucia Valentini Terrani, Rockwell Blake, Ruggero Raimondi...
Katz performed in Paris, Versailles, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Geneva, Munich, Dresden, Madrid, Kiev.

Prizes and distinctions

  • Singing and Art lyrique prizes of the Conservatoire de Paris
  • Prix Honegger and SACEM at the international competition of French melodists
  • 1st Prize unanimously at the Darius Milhaud competition
  • Prix Roussel at the international competition of La Plaine-sur-Mer
  • Winner, unanimously, of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation
  • Winner of the "forum de la mélodie et du Lied"

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Discography