"Lavinia t [...] charmed with brilliant voice and charming stage presence: light as a feather, technically brilliant, with clean, unobtrusive vibrato and bright crystal clear timbre [...]"

The German soprano Lavinia Dames was a student of the Early Support of the Musically Highly Gifted (IFF) at the Hanover University of Music with Prof. Gerhard Faulstich until 2010 and continued her vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Gabriele Lechner and Peter Edelmann, graduating with distinction in 2014.

Lavinia is a prizewinner of the Cantilena and Ferruccio Tagliavini Singing Competitions, as well as the winner of the Kärtner Sparkassen Music Scholarship. She is a multiple scholarship holder of the Young Musicians Foundation Bayreuth and in the season 2015/16 of the Mozart Society Dortmund.