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After having finished her masters degree in International Relations, the Dutch soprano, Sonja Volten, went on to study voice with Sasja Hunnego at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. She graduated with a distinction for extraordinary musicality. In the following two years she was part of the ensemble of The New Opera Academy.
In the summer of 2007 she was selected to attend the Académie de chant of the Festival of Aix-en-Provence.

Sonja Volten has sung and performed the roles of Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro, Micaëla in La tragédie de Carmen, Cloé in Le jugement de Midas, Mrs. Slender in Falstaff (Salieri) and Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice.
In 2007 she portrayed Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites with Henrik Schaeffer.
In 2008 she sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni under the baton of Richard Egarr.

In addition to her operatic activities, Sonja Volten has kept active in the field of Lied and Oratorio, including Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem and Mozart’s c minor mass.
In 2007 she sang Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Brabant Orchestra, and Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In the fall of 2007 she performed the lied cycle of Miroir de Peine by the Dutch composer Hendrick Andriessen with Marien van Stalen.

Future engagements include three concerts at the Storioni Festival in January 2009. Also in 2009 she will sing Mozart’s Davide Penitente and Mendelssohn’s Sommernachstraum with the Dortmund Philharmonic conducted by Jac van Steen.