Michael Laurenz, born in Halle an der Saale, initially studied the trumpet at the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. He performed on the trumpet in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and was first trumpet in the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. He began to retrain as a singer in 2006. As a tenor he has appeared in a number of operas, given lieder recitals and performed in oratorios all over Europe. In the 2007/08 season, he sang Tamino at the festival in Wernigerode and took part in the Berlin event The Magic Flute in the Underground. He also made a guest appearance as Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and sang in concert with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra at the Philharmonie in Berlin. In 2008, Michael Laurenz was a finalist at the Federal Singing Competition in Berlin, and afterwards joined the International Opera Studio of Zurich Opera. Subsequent engagements took him to Munich Chamber Opera as Don Fracasso (La finta semplice) and Il Marchese (N. Piccinni's La Cecchina). Since then he has performed at Zurich Opera in Simon Boccanegra, in the roles of Nikolios in The Greek Passion, Siegfried in Die lustigen Nibelungen, Duke Bluebeard, Tamino in A Children's Magic Flute, Lindoro in Haydn's La fedeltà premiata under Adam Fischer, the Dancing Master in Ariadne auf Naxos as well as as Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo under Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In the 2010/11 season he can be seen at the Opéra de Bastille, Paris, in Ariadne auf Naxos and will join the ensemble at Zurich Opera in the coming season.