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

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

Vanessa has performanced at the Bayreuth Festival, Opera Leipzig, Flanders Opera, Opera Biel, the Snape Maltings Recital Hall (Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, UK), Vienna Moderne Festival, Stratford Festival Theatre (Canada), Jeanne Lamon Hall (Canada), and Theater MuTH (Vienna, Austria). She also 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 with MusikfürMusik was hailed as “phenomenal and highly cultivated” (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.

In 2025, Vanessa performs Brünnhilde in Brennende Sehnsucht (Wagner’s Siegfried) with MusikfürMusik and is co-developer of a new “opera mash up” show called Our Berlin Stories which will premier in fall, 2025.

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 received 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.

Vanessa has been 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 started her career performing works by several contemporary composers and then developed 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.