Lorna Breen is a Soprano from Co. Wicklow. In 2017, she graduated with Distinction from the Masters in Music Performance course at the Royal Irish Academy of Music/Trinity College Dublin under the tutelage of Dr Veronica Dunne and Dr Dearbhla Collins. In 2015, Lorna graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Music Performance from the RIAM. 
 
Lorna is a multiple prize winner in the ESB Feis Ceoil having won 16 Senior Solo Vocal Competitions including the Mrs P.J Geoghegan Memorial Cup (2021), Lieder Prize, Dermot Troy Trophy & Young Cup (2018), The German Government, Plunket Greene, Percy Whitehead & Thomas Moore Cups (2017), Soprano Solo, Margaret Burke-Sheridan and Nancy Calthorpe Cups (2016), The Vincent O’Brien Memorial Cup (2015), The Denis O'Sullivan Medal, Trófaí Mháirtín Uí Dhiomsaígh, Corn Cuimneacháin Mhic Cathmhaoil and Mná Competitions. Other 1st prizes include the Wicklow Male Voice Choir Bursary Competition (2018), Navan Young Opera Voice Competition (2017), The Stevenson Bursary, Ballymena, The Hazelwood House Bursary, Sligo Feis Ceoil & The Wadden Bursary, Arklow Music Festival & The Leo Gibney Chamber Music Award, RIAM. She was also a finalist in the National Concert Hall’s Bernadette Greevy Bursary. 
 
Notable performances include Soloist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for their ‘Christmas Special’ in December 2018, Guest Soloist & Soloist with the Wicklow Male Voice Choir for their Christmas Concert (December 2018 & 2019), Soprano Soloist in Charpentier's ‘Messe de Minuit de Noel’ with the Goethe Institut Choir & Orchestra in the National Concert Hall (December 2017), Soprano Soloist in Mozart’s ‘Great Mass in C minor’, ‘Missa Solemnis in C major’, and ‘Missa Solemnis in C minor’ with Dún Laoghaire Choral Society and Fishamble Sinfonia for their Mozart Mass Concert Series which was featured on RTÉ’s ‘Nationwide’ & Soprano Soloist in Britten's 'A Ceremony of Carols' with Cambiata Vocal Ensemble. During her Masters, Lorna performed in London as part of the ‘Conservatoires Ireland Showcase’ presented by Irish Heritage. That same year she also performed in ‘The Very Best Young Irish Performers’ concert presented by The National Opera House in association with Conservatories Ireland. 
 
Lorna has performed in many prestigious concert series to date including the 'Music in Calary' Concert Series, The 'Vine International Concert Series', The Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition's 'Kilruddery Festival of Opera' & the 'Music for Wexford' Concert Series. She has performed at venues such as the National Concert Hall, RDS Concert Hall, The National Opera House (Wexford), The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, The Freemasons Hall, Cork Opera House, Killruddery House, The Hugh Lane Gallery, The Aula Maxima (Galway) & the Mansion House in the presence of the Lord Mayor.
 
Lorna has participated in many Young Artist Programmes including the Camerata Academy (2020-2021& 2021-2022), Sestina Mentoring Programme (2020-2021), the Mozart Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2018), Boyne Music Festival Young Artist Programme (2017) & the Galway Music Residency Programme Apprentice Ensemble Programme. She has also participated in Masterclasses with Ailish Tynan, Dame Emma Kirkby, Ann Murray DBE, Patricia Bardon, Iain Burnside, Alison Browner, Brenda Hurley, Layla Claire, John Chest, Roy Laughlin and Finghin Collins. 
 
Operatic Roles include the lead female role of ‘Pamina’ in Mozart’s ‘Die Zauberflöte’ with Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, Erste Dame in Mozart’s ‘Die Zauberflöte’, Amore in Cavalli’s ‘Ormindo’, Frantík in Janáček’s ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’, Soprano 1 of Ensemble in Carissimi’s ‘Jepthe’, and Erste Knabe in ‘Die Zauberflöte’ with RIAM. Lorna is a member of Irish National Opera’s Chorus and was involved in their productions of Bizet's 'Carmen' (2022), Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’ (2021), Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ (2020), Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ (2019) & Verdi’s ‘Aida’ (2018) in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Lorna was a member of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Chorus from 2015-2016 during which time they gave concert performances of ‘Madama Butterfly' and ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’.

Lorna has enjoyed being a member of the group 'Anùna' since 2020 and has enjoyed performing with them in many venues around the country. She is most excited to be touring with them to Pavullo Nel Frignano, Italy & Gothenburg, Sweden this Summer.