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Stéphanie d'Oustrac
French mezzo-soprano (born 1974)
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (born 1974, in Rennes) is a French mezzo-soprano.
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Biography
Stéphanie d'Oustrac was born in Rennes in 1974. She is the great grand niece of Francis Poulenc[1] and Jacques La Presle.
Her family background was neither musical nor cultured, but around 11 she joined a local choir because she was asthmatic and shy; she began to get solos in the choir and developed ambitions to be an actress.[1] She was part of the Maîtrise de Bretagne children's choir.
She was a student of Oleg Afonine for nearly a year.
Her teachers included Margreet Honig and Bernard Roubeau, a vocal therapist with whom she continued to works mainly on the physiology behind singing. She undertook formal studies at the conservatoires in Rennes and Lyon.[1] At the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon she received the First Prize for Song in 1998 and was spotted by William Chri