Trained at the Académie de l'Opéra national de ParisLaurence Kilsby studied singing at the Royal College of Music in London and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris during the 2022-2023 season.Recipient of the first session of the Lies Askonas Fellowship program, winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Society Fellowship for Young Singers in 2018, in 2022 he won the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Singing Competition and the Cesti Competition of the Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck. He has already performed at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Cologne, and will shortly be making his debut at the Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck and the Glyndebourne Festival.Highlights of its 2024-2025 season include engagements at Opéra national du Rhin and Opéra Comique, as well as concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Reinhard Goebel, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and Leonardo García Alarcón, the Irish National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Peter Whelan, and the Ensemble Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon.Laurence Kilsby began her training as a chorister with Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum and won BBC-Radio 2's Young Chorister of the Year award in 2009, before making her solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall.Debut at the Opéra national de Paris