Sydney soprano Susannah Lawergren has developed a reputation for her versatility, “stunning vocal expression”, “beautifully clear soprano” and "compelling stagecraft". She has worked with some of the foremost ensembles in Australia including Ensemble Offspring, Opera Australia, Australia Ensemble, Taikoz, Cantillation, Sydney Chamber Opera, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Salut! Baroque, Willoughby Orchestra and Hourglass Ensemble and international ensembles like Voces8, the Wallfisch Ensemble and Forma Antiqva.

Susannah is a principal artist with The Song Company, Bach Akademie Australia, and harp-soprano duo Lawergren&Lowe. Her repertoire varies widely, recently singing Elena Kats-Chernin’s Wild Swans while flying harnessed through the air above Willoughby Orchestra with astonishing aerialists Legs on the Wall, opera arias for Resonate at the Art Gallery of NSW, new orchestral commissions for the POW, Vietnam and Peacekeeper Requiems for Flowers of War with artists such as Riley Lee, William Barton and Andrew Goodwin, Schubert’s Winterreise in the Utzon Room and a new commission by Ross Edwards written for Susannah and acclaimed pianist Bernadette Harvey for the 150th Anniversary of the Art Gallery of NSW. She has worked with many emerging and established composers, including new compositions, recordings and performances with both Ross Edwards and Elena Kats-Chernin.

Susannah has a busy freelance life around Sydney and Australia, performing art song, opera, oratorio and contemporary music. She has also performed at many of the major festivals in Australia, including twice at both the Sydney and Adelaide Festivals. Earlier this month she sang Dvorak’s Moravian Duets with Anna Fraser and Roland Peelman at her 10th Canberra International Music Festival. She has recorded for Hyperion Records and has appeared many times on ABC Classic FM and Fine Music FM, including Tamara Anna-Cislowska's hour-long Duet on ABC-Classic FM in April. 

Later this year she will perform a new art song programme with dynamic pianist Bernadette Harvey, appear as featured soloist for the Peacekeeper Requiem with Australia's foremost shakuhachi player Riley Lee, perform new music by Elizabeth Jigalin for the Voices of Women project and perform in The Song Company and Bach Akademie Australia's 2023 Seasons. In May, she will sing Carmina Burana with Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Handel's Alexander's Feast with UNSW’s Collegium Musicum.

Educational Background

Susannah holds an Advanced Diploma of Opera from the Sydney Conservatorium and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics-with Distinction) from UNSW. She has worked with vocal coaches and studied languages in Rome, Stockholm, New York and London where she has close family. After graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium, she performed with Opera Australia’s NSW Schools Company and soon after, joined the Song Company as first soprano where she sang an incredibly diverse range of music.

In 2014, she studied early music at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer School in Toronto, developing a passion for early music, especially an affinity for the music of J.S. Bach.  She has won many awards and scholarships, including the Intermediate National Operatic Award and second place in the National Opera Award at the Australian National Eisteddfod, won art song and oratorio prizes at the Sydney Eisteddfod and was a finalist in the Opera Foundation’s Cologne German Award.