A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 2012, Reinoud Van Mechelen was awarded the Caecilia Prize for Young Musician of the Year in 2017 by the Belgian Music Press Union. In 2011, he joined the Jardin des Voix led by William Christie and Paul Agnew, becoming a regular soloist with Les Arts Florissants, an ensemble with which he has performed on major international stages.He also collaborates with prominent baroque ensembles such as Collegium Vocale, Le Concert Spirituel, Le Concert d’Astrée, Les Talens Lyriques, Pygmalion, Le Poème Harmonique, B’Rock, Ricercar Consort, Scherzi Musicali, and Hesperion XXI, as well as with conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas, and Marc Minkowski.

He has appeared at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Opéra de Bordeaux, the Opéra Comique, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Festival de Beaune, La Monnaie and Bozar in Brussels, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Opernhaus Zurich, and the Theater an der Wien.Among the operatic roles he has performed are the title roles in Dardanus, Zoroastre, and Pygmalion, as well as Hippolyte (Hippolyte et Aricie), Abaris (Les Boréades), Jason (Médée), Orphée (Orphée et Eurydice), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Gérald (Lakmé), and Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles). He recently portrayed Jason (Médée) at the Teatro Real in Madrid and Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride) at Opera Vlaanderen.

Among his upcoming engagements are the title role in Dardanus in Tourcoing, at Radio France, and the Festival de Beaune, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at Opera Vlaanderen, Castor et Pollux at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Idomeneo at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.His discography includes around fifty recordings. Reinoud Van Mechelen also directs the ensemble A nocte temporis, which he founded in 2016.

At the Paris Opera: Platée (Mercure, 2022), Médée (Jason, 2024).

Reinoud Van MechelenTenor