Fanny Kempe

Fanny Kempe is a Swedish mezzo-soprano, educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Music, and The Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen, where she finished her studies in 2018.

Fanny has been engaged as a soloist with some of the most prominent orchestras and ensembles in Denmark, such as Århus Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Chamber Orchestra, Copenhagen Phil, Concerto Copenhagen, Camerata Øresund and the Danish National Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2017 Fanny made her debut at The Royal Danish Opera/ The Royal Danish Theatre as Modestina in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims.

Fanny is regularly hired as a soloist in various oratorios and requiems. She has a special interest for early music, and a love for French baroque. In the spring of 2025 she will sing the Leçons de Ténèbres by Couperin in both Denmark and Sweden.

Beside her work as a soloist Fanny often sings with various vocal ensembles. She is a regular member of the Copenhagen based CIV’s Vocal Ensemble, and she assists in for example The Danish Radio Concert Choir, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and Ars Nova. In June 2024 Fanny received a scholarship from the Drottningholmsteaterns Vänner, at a ceremony at the Drottningholms Slottsteater in presence of H.M The Queen Silva of Sweden.

In the summer of 2023 Fanny was a part of the ensemble of The Fairy Queen at Drottningholms Slottsteater in Stockholm, as cover for one of the leading roles, as well as alto in the choir, conducted by Francesco Corti (musical director) and directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo. Fanny was also a part of the theatre’s production in the summer of 2024, as a soprano/ dessus de choeur in the choir in Armide by J-B. Lully, as well as cover for the roles La Sagesse, Sidonie, Une Bergere héroïque and Lucinde, directed by Florent Siaud.

In 2025 Fanny returns to the Drottningholms Slottsteater in the opera Orpheus by Telemann, with the Italian director Elena Barbalich.