Mezzo-soprano Isabelle Métrope was born into a French musical family. After graduating from music school having studied violin and orchestral playing, she switched to singing and studied vocal pedagogy, choir conducting and musicology at the Folkwang University of the Arts.

While her interest in different musical genres and epochs is insatiable, her collaboration with Helmuth Rilling at the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart, the influence of Kathy Romey (Minneapolis) and Hans Christoph Rademann, and conductor training with Prof. Jörg Breiding (Hanover) all laid the foundations for a solid education in the practice of early music.

Where there are roots, branches can flourish too

Where there are roots, branches can flourish too: as such, the mezzo-soprano’s heart beats just as fiercely for the passion and humanity shown in the music of Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms and Samuel Barber, as it does for the music of her compatriots Henri Duparc and Gabriel Fauré. She is particularly interested in the music of the Mediterranean (especially Spain, Greece, Turkey), and in the richness of traditional vocal music in Europe more generally.