New with us: Soprano Anna-Lena Elbert

We are delighted to welcome soprano Anna-Lena Elbert to our artist roster. She is an enthusiastic interpreter of a wide-spread repertoire reaching from renaissance to contemporary music. She worked with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Baroque Soloists, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música Porto and the Budapest Festival Orchestra i.a.. Anna-Lena made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper singing the role of Lena in the world premiere Spring doch! by Gordon Kampe in 2020 and at the Salzburger Festspiele in Kampe’s world premiere WUT. In summer 2023, she performed at the BBC Proms for the first time, under the baton of Iván Fischer.  

In June 2024, she will make her debut as Zerbinetta with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer in Spoleto with further performances in Budapest and Vicenza in fall:

28/30 June 2024 Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Spoleto, Spoleto Festival Dei Due Mondi
Anna Lena Elbert (Zerbinetta), Emily Magee (Ariadne) Andrew Staples (Bacchus) i. a.

In November 2024, Anna-Lena will sing the world premiere of Gordon Kampe‘s new composition with the WDR-Sinfonieorchester at the Kölner Philharmonie and the Philharmonie Essen. Gordon Kampe is writing explicitly for her voice.

(published on 3 May 2024)

Sarah Maria Sun at the Festival ACHT BRÜCKEN

On 12 May 2024, Sarah Maria Sun performs Enno Poppe‘s song cycle Augen in the context of the concert series Musik der Zeit (Music of our time) and the festival ACHT BRÜCKEN at the Kölner Philharmonie. The conductor Elena Schwarz will lead the WDR Sinfonieorchester. The soprano already has premiered this piece at the festival Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2022 and performed it at the Lucerne Festival (François-Xavier Roth, Les Siecles) and at the Casa da Música Porto (Sylvain Cambreling, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música). Additional works on the programme are Arnulf Herrmann’s manische Episode - a Beethoven-comment for orchestra, Miroslav Srnka’s Is This Us? for two French horns and orchestra (world premiere) and Clara Iannotta’s the purple fuchsia bled upon the ground (world premiere). Further soloists are Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Saar Berger and Premiysl Vojta (french horn), and Martin Zingsheim will moderate the concert.

(published on 2 May 2024)

Tora Augestad at the Bodenseefestival

On 11 May 2024, the Norwegian mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad is invited to the Bodenseefestival. Together with the Lautten Compagney Berlin and musical director Wolfgang Katschner she will present a very entertaining programme of songs and arias by John Dowland and Georg Friedrich Handel as well as swing, jazz, and pop repertoire at the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum in Weingarten. Parts of the programme have already been performed at the Handel Festival in Halle and at the Mercatorhalle Duisburg.

(published on 15 April 2024)

Salome Kammer in Luxembourg, Linz & Vienna

The vocal artist Salome Kammer will perform in a trio concert on 19 April 2024 in the series of Lucilin in the City at the Fellner Contemporary Luxembourg. Her musical partner will be Sophie Deshayes (flute) and Ingrid Schoenlaub (cello) of the Ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin. The programme will present Beat Furrer‘s Auf tönernen füßen, Iris ter Schiphorst‘s Changeant, Noriko Baba’s Bestarium Musicale IV (WP) and Helmut Lachenmann’s TemA.

Shortly after, Salome Kammer will interpret Arnold Schönberg‘s Pierrot Lunaire on the occasion of the composer’s 150thanniversary. Concert dates are 4 May 2024 at the Brucknerhaus Linz as well as 16 May 2024 at the Wiener Konzerthaus. Musical partner on stage will be the musicians of the ensemble XXI. century in Vienna under the musical direction of Peter Burwik. Salome Kammer has performed this groundbreaking cycle many times already and has also recorded it on CD.

(published on 14 April 2024)