Ingrid Schmithüsen

Ingrid Schmithüsen (18 February 1960 – 6 March 2026) was a German soprano, who specialised in concert music and Lied recitals. She ran a series of recitals in Cologne and made recording, programming lieder around themes. She used her "pure and well-articulated" voice for intense individual interpretations. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Gregory Foley and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Her singing was described as with a pure voice, well-articulated, and with intense individual interpretation. She studied medicine, and studied further homeopathy

Lied Schmithüsen focused on lied, in partnership with pianist Thomas Palm, achieving a repertoire of 4000 lieder over 27 years. She made recordings of lieder selected around themes for the label Canterino. She collaborated with conductors including Sigiswald Kuijken and Philippe Herreweghe in international projects. She recorded Telemann cantatas conducted by Hermann Max and his ensemble Das Kleine Konzert in 2007. In 2010 she participated singing in a school project of an opera, Die Mädchen von Theresienstadt, composed to a libretto that included texts that girls in the Theresienstadt concentration camp had written, set to music by .

Personal life Schmithüsen lived in Carignan, Quebec, Canada, with her husband Denys Bouliane who taught composition at the McGill University in Montreal. She suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for several years.