With her extraordinary stage presence, subtle musical expression, and deep passion for chamber music and the contemporary repertoire, Sophie Klußmann has established herself as a sought-after artist on the world’s leading international stages, shaping the musical landscape through her inspiring performances, stylistic curiosity, and creative dedication.

Sophie Klußmann studied at the Detmold University of Music under Thomas Quasthoff and completed her concert exam in Cologne under Klesie Kelly-Moog. She furthered her vocal training in master classes with Margreet Honig and Dunja Véjzovic, and is currently mentored by Kammersängerin Brigitte Eisenfeld. The opera and concert singer is a prize winner of the Mozart Competition in Würzburg and the Trude Eipperle Foundation. In 2025, she opened the Chorin Music Summer with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.

Sophie Klußmann gained her first opera experience at the Komische Oper Berlin in Christian Jost’s opera *Angst* in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, as a member of the ensemble at the Halle Opera, she sang leading roles such as Pamina (*The Magic Flute*), Cherubino (*The Marriage of Figaro*), and Nannetta (*Falstaff*). As part of the Handel Festival, she made her debut as Dorinda in *Orlando*, directed by Nico Hümpel and conducted by Bernhard Forck. This was followed by roles as Franziska in Christian Jost’s *Arabische Nacht*, the Rhine Maiden in Wagner’s *Rheingold* and *Götterdämmerung*, the Young Shepherd in *Tannhäuser*, and the Forest Bird in *Siegfried*.

In 2013, Sophie Klußmann served as Anna Netrebko’s understudy for the role of Donna Anna at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. In 2021, she made her debut at the Staatstheater Cottbus in the title role of *The Merry Widow*. During the 2022–2023 season, she portrayed the role of Margret in the German premiere of Xavier Dayer’s opera Alzheim. In 2025, she sang the arias of Violetta (La Traviata) and Norma (Norma) at the Stauffer Festival.

Her intensity as a performer was further enhanced by her close collaboration with actor John Malkovich. Alongside him, she performed for years in two productions by the Viennese director Michael Sturminger, featuring Martin Haselböck and the Vienna Academy, on international stages such as the Ronacher Theater in Vienna, the Hamburg State Opera, Chateau de Versailles Spectacles, New York City Center, Ann Arbor’s Power Center of Performing Arts in the U.S., Opéra de Montréal in Canada, and the Teatro del Bicentenario in León, Mexico.

In 2016, she portrayed the role of Micaela (Carmen) in a production at the Wuhan Jintao Concert Hall in China. In 2019, she opened the Austrian festival KlangBadHall in the role of Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), to which she returned in 2021 as the Electress in *Der Vogelhändler*. In 2026, Sophie will once again sing the role of Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Stauffer Festival. Sophie Klußmann has enjoyed great success as a concert singer on the stages of international concert venues. She has performed repeatedly with the RSB under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski and Marek Janowski at the Berlin Philharmonie and at the Vienna Musikverein with Martin Haselböck and the Vienna Academy. At the Konzerthaus Berlin, she appeared as a guest performer as part of the MaerzMusik Festival, among other events; at the Tonhalle Zurich and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with Michael Gielen; at the Palace of Arts and the Liszt Hall in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Marek Janowski; and with Helmuth Rilling, with whom she performed various works by Bach and Brahms’s Requiem. At Notre Dame in Paris, she sang with Leonardo Garcia Alarcon and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, with the Nuremberg State Philharmonic and Marcus Bosch, the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic and Karl-Heinz Steffens, and at the Concert Hall of the National Grand Theatre in Beijing, China, with trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich. In the 2019–2020 season, Sophie Klußmann sang for the first time at the Musikfest Berlin and made her debut with the Copenhagen Philharmonics in 2022, performing Brahms’s Requiem under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. In 2025, Sophie sang Benjamin Britten’s “Les Illuminations” to great acclaim with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie under the direction of Douglas Bostock.

As a performer of contemporary music, she presented a Luigi Nono program with Ingo Metzmacher and the SWR at the Gashouder in Amsterdam. Her performance of György Kurtág’s “Scenes from a Novel” at the Konzerthaus Berlin in 2018 and concerts with the ensemble musikFabrik featuring works by György Ligeti and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the Philharmonie Köln were huge hits with audiences. 

Her collaboration with composer Stefano Gervasoni resulted in a comprehensive song cycle based on poems by Nelly Sachs, which premiered in 2019 and was recorded at the Cini Forum Venezia in 2020. In 2024, she performed works by Holliger and Dallapiccola with the Swiss Chamber Soloists in Zurich, Geneva, and Basel, alongside Heinz Holliger. In 2026, Sophie’s album “Flowers we are” will be released, featuring the Roman pianist Pina Napolitano and songs by Johannes Brahms, Anton Webern, and György Kurtág.

In the field of early music, she has performed Handel’s *Brockes Passion* with Marcus Creed and the Akademie für alte Musik, and the *St. Matthew Passion* with Václav Luks and the Collegium 1704, as well as with the Orchester des 18. Jahrhunderts and Daniel Reuß at the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and the Vredenburg Utrecht. Together with lutenist Hopkinson Smith, Sophie Klußmann developed a Renaissance program that led to concert invitations worldwide. In 2025, her first album, “Chansons & Frottole,” was released on the French label Naive; concerts in 2025/26 will take the duo to Graz, Lisbon, Paris, Québec, and also to the MusikPlus Festival in Tyrol, Austria.

Sophie is deeply passionate about the chamber music repertoire and has performed with the Berlin Scharoun Ensemble and pianists Oliver Triendl, Bengt Forsberg, and Alfredo Perl. She is a regular guest at the Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Kempten International Festival, the Brunegg Whitsun Festival, and the International Stift Festival in Holland. Cellist Trey Lee invited Sophie to perform Mozart’s concert arias at the Hong Kong Concert Hall under the baton of Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli. With the DSO String Quartet, she presented a program at the Kühlhaus Berlin featuring works by Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Together with clarinetist Thorsten Johanns and pianist Kirill Zvegintsov, she founded the TrioRelique in 2025.

Together with the outstanding Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Vocalconsort Berlin, Sophie Klußmann recorded Handel’s *Dixit Dominus* for Harmonia Mundi under the direction of Marcus Creed. With her pianist Oliver Triendl, she produced the first recording of works by Karl Weigl, a student of Zemlinsky, for Capriccio in Vienna. This was followed by first recordings of songs by Conrad Ansorge in a production by Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin, as well as songs by Sandro Blumenthal in a production by Bayerischer Rundfunk. In 2021, daVinci released the first recording of Ella Adaiewsky’s 24 Préludes for piano and soprano with Andrea Rucli. She recorded a program featuring four world premieres, commissioned by Swiss Chamber Concerts, at SRF Zurich alongside Jürg Dähler and Gilles Vonsattel. In 2024, Hänssler Classics released her recording of orchestral songs by Grete von Zieritz; in 2025, Renaissance Lieder on Naive; and in 2026, the album “Flowers we are” on Odradek.

Since 2023, Sophie has been a lecturer in classical singing at the Berlin University of the Arts and has been giving master classes.