Vincent Lièvre-Picard

Vincent Lièvre-Picard studied at the Conservatories of Tours and Paris, then at the Conservatoire Supérieur. He received distinctions in opera singing (First Prize by unanimous decision) and early music (Higher Diploma with honours) at all three institutions. He was taught by Noémi Rime and Howard Crook for early music, and by Ana Maria Miranda and Anne-Marie Rodde for opera singing. He studied for several years with Udo Reinemann and attended masterclasses with Alain Buet and Margreet Honig. 

In opera, he has performed works by Charpentier, Rameau, Mozart, Haydn, Offenbach and Carl Orff – the title role in Charpentier's Actéon at the Théâtre de Bordeaux, Zoroastre in Rameau's opera in Marseille, Cecco (Il Mondo della Luna, Haydn) in Angers and the Erzähler (Der Mond, Orff) at the Opéra National de Paris Bastille. He sings Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) in Toulon, Monostatos and the Valets in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Grenoble.

He recently performed Arnalta in L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) under the direction of René Jacobs. During the 2014–15 season, he took part in the premiere of Le Petit Prince by Michaël Lévinas, conducted by Arie van Beek and directed by Lilo Baur, in which he sang the role of the Aviator in Lausanne, Lille, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and then at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In May 2015, he took part in the premiere of Wilde by Hèctor Parra at the Schwetzingen Festival, directed by Calixto Bieito. He then took part in the tour of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, directed by Denis Podalydès and conducted by Christophe Coin, in France and Asia.

In concert, his Evangelists in Bach's Passions, under the baton of Michel Corboz, have gained international renown; he also frequently performs works from the French Baroque repertoire, where he stands out for his easy high notes and his knowledge of the style in the ‘haute-contre à la française’ parts, and oratorios by Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Orff and Britten.

Vincent Lièvre-Picard performs under the direction of Benjamin Alard, Jean-Marc Andrieu, Arie van Beek, Christophe Coin, Denis Comtet, Michel Corboz, Nicole Corti, Jean-Christophe Frisch, David Greilsamer, Sébastien d'Hérin, Itay Jedlin, François Joubert-Caillet, Françoise Lasserre, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Thibault Noally, Raphaël Pichon, Michel Piquemal, Peter Rundel and Guy van Waas, in productions by Lilo Baur, Calixto Bieito, Vincent Boussard, Claude Brumachon and Charlotte Nessy, and in recital with Aline Zylberajch, Astrid Marc, Olivier Vernet, Nicolas Bucher, Sébastien Daucé, Martin Robidoux, Florent Albrecht and Emmanuel Olivier, with whom he recorded an anthology of Lou Koster's melodies.

In 2019, he took part in Warner Classic's complete Beethoven recordings published for the anniversary year, performing around fifteen Lieder, forty folk songs and twenty a cappella pieces. Several new recordings are also planned, which will add to a discography that already includes more than sixty titles, several of which have received major awards (Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Massenet Prize for the best complete French opera, disc of the month in the English magazine Goldberg, etc.).

Vincent Lièvre-Picard has been teaching singing at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles since September 2021, and at the Pôle Supérieur 93 since the start of the 2024 academic year.