Soumaya Hallak (Swiss and syrian), soprano completed her studies in Venice (Bachelor of musicology), at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth with José Van Dam (Diplom with big distinction) and in the operastudio of the Royal Theater of Copenhagen with Susanna Eken. She won the « kulturprozent » of Migros who allowed her to study with some fantastic singers-teachers such as Francoise Pollet, Hélène Lucas, Tom Krause, Felicity Palmer and Sandra Porter and Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet. (Master in 2020 at Hemu of Lausanne)

In 2012-13 she did the International Masterclass of Lied in Brussels (Conservatoire) with the pianist Tomasz Konieczny under the teaching of Udo Reinemann and his guests such as, Peter Schreier, Michel Tranchant, Josef Breinl, Mitsuko Shirai, Harmut Höll..

She is very interested to sing lieder and songs : for her, they are like small operas. Now She has a duo for Lieder with the pianist Margot Welleman with whom she did again this past year the International Masterclass of Lied in Brussels with Christianne Stotijn and her guest such as Wolfgang Holzmair, Philipp Moll, Julius Drake, Christoph Prégardien, David Selig..

In repertoire in opera is more the one of the « Junglische Dramatische Sopran » She is preparing role such as Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigénie en Tauride) or Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito). She is very keen into the french Romantic repertoire in Opera.

She formed a duo with the cellist Suzanne Vermeyen (Duo Vo’cello). They have a repertoire based mostly with original pieces for cello and voice and arrangements of big opera arias done by the great Pianist Abdel Rahman el Bacha who is a friend and an advicer of the duo.

She sang with conductors such as Paul Goodwin (Nella in Gianni Schicchi), Walter Weller (Alice Ford in Falstaff), Christopher Warren-Green (opera gala), Leo Hussein (lady Billows in Albert Herring, Guy van Waas (Haydn amore), David Miller (Dorothée in Cendrillon) and Vladimir Jurowski. In Copenhagen she sang roles like the Witch in Hansel und Gretel, Miss Jessel in Turn of the screw or Marschallin in the Rosenkavalier.

She sang in theater such as la Monnaie in Bruxelles, ZKO in Zürich, Vlaamse opera in Anvers, the Royal Opera in Copenhagen or Grand Théatre de Luxembourg.

Soumaya Hallak is engaged in the Théâtre des Martyrs for an adaptation of « l’Oeuvre au Noir » by Margherite Yourcenar directed by Christine Delmotte. She sang Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret in Theatre du Galpon in Geneva.

She recently record Eva, Ave, Salve by Jean-Paul Dessy with Belgium National Orchestra under the direction of Cornelius Meister. She sang also in « la Terre nous est étroite » worldwild creation in Belgium.

In 2018 she is nominated Women of Peace in the Belgian Parlament for her NGO 1,2,3 Hope, Love, Life for Peace. She is doing Music with children (and their families) victims of war in Syria https://www.facebook.com/soumayahallak83/

She is also singing syriac sacred songs and celebrating her syrian roots.

Last modified: july 2024