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CORINNE ORDE is half Belgian. After graduating in French from London University she studied singing with the mezzo-soprano Ana-Raquel Satre.
In the mid-1980s Corinne Orde founded the Baroque Consort of Singers, a five-voice ensemble devoted to the performance of late Renaissance and early Baroque works for voice, adding various combinations of continuo instruments when required. The group performed mainly unpublished works from manuscript and library collections and gave concerts in many of the London venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room and St John's, Smith Square. Corinne Orde was the group's artistic director until the early 1990s when it had to disband because three of its other four singers went to live abroad. She then concentrated her career on oratorio and church music, in concert and liturgical settings.
In 2000 Corinne created DepList, a website for professional singers based in and around London.
In the last few years Corinne Orde has renewed her earlier interest in the mélodie and returned to her native language in two double-albums of settings by Debussy, Fauré, Vierne and Ravel.
Watch French mélodies come to life on YouTube, illustrated and sung by Corinne.
