Vanessa Lanch is a soprano, collaborative artist, voice teacher, and the Executive Director of MusikfürMusik gUG, an artist collective based in Berlin, Germany.

Vanessa has graced the stages of prestigious venues, including the Bayreuth Festival, Flanders Opera, Opera Biel, Snape Maltings Recital Hall (Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, UK), Vienna Moderne Festival, Stratford Festival Theatre, Jeanne Lamon Hall (Canada), and Theater MuTH (Vienna). She made her debut as soprano soloist in Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass at the Konzerthaus Berlin with the Konzerthaus Orchestra in September 2024.

Her March 2024 premiere of the title role in Strauss’ Salome was hailed as “phenomenal and highly cultivated” by KULTURA-EXTRA BERLIN.

A participant of the Bayreuth Festival Masterclass and a semi-finalist at the Richard Wagner International Singing Competition at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Vanessa has received glowing reviews for her performances of Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Freia (Das Rheingold), and Gutrune (Götterdämmerung). In the 2022 season, she debuted as Chrysothemis in Strauss’s Elektra in Toronto and repeated the role in June 2023 with MusikfürMusik in Berlin. She also made her debut as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer (May 2023), Ariadne/Primadonna in Ariadne auf Naxos (December 2023), and as Salome in March 2024. Looking ahead to the 2025 season, Vanessa is scheduled to perform as Brünnhilde in Brennende Sehnsucht (Wagner’s Siegfried) with MusikfürMusik.

Born in Toronto, Canada, with German heritage, Vanessa studied music and theatre production at York University, Canada, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She went on to complete a Master’s degree in Music Performance with Distinction at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and an additional Master’s in Opera Performance at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität, Vienna, Austria. She has been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and is a laureate artist of the Flanders Opera Studio, Belgium.

Among her many accolades, Vanessa is the recipient of the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Prize from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a finalist in the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition, and a third-place winner of the prestigious Canada Council-sponsored Eckhardt-Gramattée Competition. She has performed works by several contemporary composers and has a particular passion for German repertoire. As a selected artist in the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, she worked with Roger Vignoles and Dame Ann Murray (sponsored by the Canadian Aldeburgh Foundation). Her professional debut as Agathe in C. M. von Weber’s Der Freischütz in Germany launched her exploration of the works of Strauss and Wagner.

As the founder and Executive Director of MusikfürMusik gUG, Vanessa brings together artists united by a shared passion for music. The collective's mission is to develop, prepare, and perform music that not only inspires the artists but also deeply resonates with audiences. She is committed to fostering a nurturing and collaborative environment, where top-tier artists are given the freedom to create innovative and engaging performances that attract new and younger audiences to the world of opera.