The German-French pianist Camille Lemonnier is a passionate interpreter of song, opera and chamber music. She has performed at the Barbican Hall in London, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Beethoven Haus in Bonn and at festivals such as the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Leeds Lieder Festival and the International Lied Festival Zeist in the Netherlands. Among many other awards, Camille Lemonnier is a Samling Young Artist and winner of the Académie Orsay-Royaumont in France. With the Académie she recorded her first CD album with Schubert settings of Heine poems from his last published song cycle Schwanengesang. She also expanded her discography with the album “Adoration” with works for violin and piano by exclusively female composers together with violinist Fanny Fheodoroff.

Camille Lemonnier received her Bachelor of Music at the University of Music in Nuremberg. She then continued her studies at the Hoschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Professor Burkhard Kehring, where she received her first Master of Music in art song with distinction. In 2017 she moved to London to complete her training at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

She took part in master classes with Graham Johnson, Helmut Deutsch, Wolfram Rieger, Malcom Martineau and many other renowned artists. She received further important support and inspiration from her mentors Susan Manoff and Waltraud Österreicher.

In the 2020 to 2023 seasons, Camille Lemonnier was employed at the Staatsoper Hamburg as a répétiteur and French language coach. In 2024 she returned to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London) as a professor, where she curated a “Song Project” on the subject of “German Ballads and French Impressionism”. In Hamburg, she often plays with the NDR vocal ensemble and is otherwise active in a variety of ways. Most recently she was the “Studienleitung” in Shenzhen (China) for a Carmen production, she played at the 1st IMA master class in Neumarkt (Oberpfalz), in Kosovo she played for a TV recording with the soprano Elbenita Kajtazi, and she recently performed with the renowned baritone Benjamin Appl in the TV show “ZDF aspekte”.