Biography

Belgian Mezzosoprano and conductor Chiara Ducomble was part of the Opera Studio of Theater Bielefeld for the season 23/24. She just completed in her Masters with Prof. Gudrun Pelker Hmtm Hannover, where she received her Bachelors with Prof. Dr. Marek Rzepka and Prof. Dr. Peter Anton Ling. 

 

Before this, she studied Conducting and singing at the Conservatory of Maastricht (NL), as well as  Cultural Management at the KMM Hamburg. Lied courses with Professor Jan Philipp Schulze and Masterclasses with, among others, Benjamin Bruns, Claudia Barainsky, Peter Kooii, Peter Berne, Sylvia Greenberg, Johanna Vargas and Ingeborg Danz complete her education.

 

Chiara sings in ensemble projects such as the professional chamber choir "Meesters en Gezellen" by Cappella Amsterdam and the Nederlandse Kamerkoor and as a guest in choirs such as Rundfunkchor Berlin and Bayerischer Rundfunk. She has worked under the direction of conductors such as Sigvards Klava, Constantin Trinks, Ivan Repušić, Gregor Rot, Anne Hinrichsen, Ludo Claesen, Sakari Oramo and Kent Nagano among others. 

 

Chiara is passionate about the Lied repertoire and new concert forms. With pianists Nasti Sokolova, Yuewen Yu, Yuri Ota  and Lidia Fitipaldi, she performs programs including Cycles by Rihm, Hindemith, De Falla, Schumann, Ravel and Berio. Last season, she sang Les nuits d’été by Hector Berlioz with the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra. In Oratorio, her repertoire varies from Baroque to contemporary repertoire. 

 

Just as in the concert genre, Chiara’s specialty in opera lies in Contemporary repertoire. She gave her debut in the German Premiere of Ana Sokolovic's chamber opera Svadba with the role of Nada. In conservatory context, she interpreted the role of Penelope in Leinen aus Smyrna by Edward Rushton, the role of the little Arab in Martinus opera Juliette and the role of Cesare in Händel's Giulio Cesare  as well as la Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi. 2022, she took on the role of fourth angel in the world premiere production of the interdisciplinary piece Wie dem Herrn Mockinpott das Leiden ausgetrieben wird by Stefan Litwin for Staatstheater Braunschweig as well as the main role of Klara in Andreas Tarkmann's opera Didos Geheimnis. Last season, she was seen in the world premiere of else (someone), as Bertha in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, as Glascha in Janacek’s Katja Kabanova, as Lutgardis/Fake Messiah/1st Desert Woman/Inkeeper

in The Convert  by W.Henderickx and as Sandmann in Der Sandmann for Theater Bielefeld. Last season, she appeared as Seyma in Subotnik at Neuköllner Oper, as Sandmann and as part of the new children's opera Von Wünschen und Sternen at Theater Bielefeld as well as as Prinz Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus for Schlossfestspiele Weikersheim. This season, she sang the world premiere of the mixed-reality-opera Wunschkind 4D, joined the Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart as regular guest and will appear as a soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass at Elbphilharmonie in a staged production of Staatsoper Hamburg under the baton of Omer Meir Wellber. 

She collaborates with renowned directors such as Nadja Loschky, Georg Zlabinger, Michael Heicks, Dominik Wilgenbus und Theresa von Halle.

 

Chiara Ducomble was a recipient of the Germany Scholarship and won first prize at the international song competition of the Vocallis Festival in the Netherlands in 2022. She has been a member of the Tonali Hamburg Stage Academy for new concert forms since autumn 2025.