Viola Blache studied Early Music in her home town of Leipzig and in Amsterdam, specialising in interdisciplinary performance. She was influenced by Xenia Meijer, Dorothee Mields and Peter Kooij.

Viola Blache specialises in Early and contemporary music. She regularly performs with the soloist ensemble Vox Luminis in Bach’s oratorios and Henry Purcell’s semi-operas. She has a close creative collaboration with Ensemble Continuum and harpsichordist Elina Albach, with whom she combines music by Johann Sebastian Bach with songs by Björk and Caroline Shaw in their current duo programme.

She has also performed with the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Nederlandse Bachvereinigung and conductors such as Ton Koopman, Philippe Herreweghe, Peter Dijkstra, Hans-Christoph Rademann and Thomaskantor Andreas Reize.

As a special prizewinner of the Leipzig Bach Competition and the Magdeburg Telemann Competition, Viola Blache has repeatedly performed at Early Music festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival and the Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht.

As an interpreter of new music, she has worked with the LOD Muziektheater Gent and appeared in David Lang’s »The Little Match Girl Passion« in a production by the Ballett am Rhein at the Beethovenfest Bonn.

Viola Blache owes her passion for ensemble singing to her vocal group Sjaella. The award-winning ensemble is dedicated to expanding the repertoire for female voices and has been heard in the ballet production »Giselle« at the Leipzig Opera. Most recently, Sjaella collaborated on the international chamber opera »Primero Sueño«, which premiered at the Met Cloisters in New York in January 2025.