Amy Leverenz

Amy Leverenz (* 1951 in Riverside , California ) is an American singer ( dramatic soprano ).

Life

After studying medicine in the USA, Leverenz studied singing with Karl Tuttner at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1972 . Their repertoire focuses on contemporary music, jazz and rock. From 1973 to 1978 she was a member of the Ensemble Contraste for contemporary music, and from 1976 to 1978 guest soloist of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir . After and alongside concert tours in the early 1980s with musicians and bands such as Udo Jürgens , Band , Drahdiwaberl , Hansi Lang and Milva , Leverenz increasingly turned to his own projects.

With the pianist Olaf Joksch , she gave cabaret evenings in Frankfurt and Offenbach in the 1980s (including (K) a recital - song bites from Bach to Zappa in the Theater am Turm 1985–1986 and 500 years of film music in the Alte Oper 1986–1988). In the Theater am Kurfürstendamm she gave 120 performances from 1980–1981 They sing our song , in 1981 she appeared 50 times in the Berliner Kammerspiele in big city children and with the touring troupe of the Bad Homburg Small Opera she led the children more than 100 times in the role of Max -Opera revue Max and Moritz on.

As her own projects she realized u. a. Relay run in the wasp's nest (1987), a performance with singing and pantomime with Olaf Joksch, the operetta talk show Lieber rich but happy (1995) with the actor Peter Bauer and the pianist Elisabeth Süsser and the multimedia Concerti Piccoli for Marie Luise's 100th birthday Kaschnitz (2001) with Peter Bauer and Heike Michaelis and compositions by Alberto Mompellio , Piero Milesi and Erik Freitag .

Leverenz appeared in several programs with jazz guitarist Markus Fleischer , such as Dreamers and Jokers - Jazz standards from musicals and films (2005–2007), Brecht: Happy End? (2006) and style change - chamber rock (since 2009). For the composer René Staar she wrote the libretti for Fortunes Of War (1997, via Al Capone ) and The Gypsy Boy (1998, via Federico García Lorca ).

Leverenz has been giving singing lessons since 1986. From 1994 to 2002 she taught at the Scream Factory in Frankfurt, which she co-founded , and has been a lecturer in singing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts since 2002 . Private singing lessons with her took u. a. Xavier Naidoo , Sabrina Setlur , Sebastian Hämer , Christine Kaufmann , Bela B. , Nadja Benaissa , Kevin Russell , Stefan Weidner , Lisa Da Costa and Beukes Willemsen .

Web links

• Amy Leverenz's website
• University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt - Amy Leverenz