Keren, Sivan

Voice type: Soprano

Country: Israel

Date of birth: 15 April, 1991

Sivan Keren was born in Israel. She began her music studies playing the flute, graduating in 2009. She began her vocal studies in 2012 with Professor Tamar Rachum, and completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Prof. Rachum’s class in the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University (2013-2019).

Sivan Keren has sung various operatic and oratorio roles, including: Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (2021), Giunone in La Calisto (2021), Elvira in L’italiana in Algeri (2021), Ida in Die Fledermaus (2021), Mimì in La bohème (by Puccini and by Leoncavallo) (2020), Suor Zelatrice in Suor Angelica (2019), Sister Catherine in Dead Man Walking (2019), Dama disincantata in La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (2019), Clorinda in La Cenerentola (2019), Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore (2019), Elettra in Idomeneo (2019), Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief (2019), Monica in The Medium (2019), Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (2018), Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (2018), Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte (2018), Soprano solo in Fauré’s Requiem (2018), Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Egitto (2017), soprano solo in Elgar’s The Spirit of England/For the Fallen (2017), Irina in Albert/world premiere by Moshe Zorman (2017), Marzelline in Fidelio (2017), Soprano solo in Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 (2016) and many more. She also sings numerous Lieder and contemporary classical music works. Sivan Keren sang as soloist with Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (2020-2021), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (2021), the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion (2020), the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva (2018), The Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra (2018) and the BMSM Symphony Orchestra (2016).

Sivan Keren won first prize in the Aviv Competitions of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in 2018: both the main prize and the Israeli vocal composition prize. She also won third prize in Buchman-Mehta School of Music vocal competition (2017 and 2018). She won excellence scholarships every year of her studies (2013-2019). She was also a semi-finalist in Concorso Lirico Riccardo Zandonai in Italy (2018), and a semi-finalist in International Hilde Zadek Voice Competition in Vienna, Austria (2019) and a semi-finalist in International “Vox Artis“ Voice Competition in Romania (2019), and was selected to participate in Festival der jungen Stimmen with concerts in Sigriswill, Bern, Basel, Zürich and Wiesbaden (2019).

Sivan Keren is currently a member of the Meitar Opera Studio, The Israeli Opera’s young artists program.

Competition Repertoire

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Semi-final

Final