Anna Maria Pammer

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Anna Maria Pammer (2019)

Anna Maria Pammer (born June 27, 1966 in Linz ) is an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Anna Maria Pammer studied singing, violoncello, lied and oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House . Later she also studied history at the University of Vienna and passed her master's degree in 2013 with a thesis on the history of music in the "Third Reich".

Her first major artistic success was the title role of the princess in Udo Zimmermann's Der Schuhu and the Flying Princess under the direction of the composer as part of the Salzburg Festival in 1995 and at the Leipzig Opera House . Since then she has appeared in numerous productions a. a. in Paris, Vienna, Cologne, Ulm, Darmstadt, Klagenfurt and St. Gallen.

Anna Maria Pammer has been the artistic director of the Austrian Ensemble for New Music since July 1, 2019 .

20th and 21st century music

Anna Maria Pammer is known not least as an interpreter of modern and contemporary music. She has participated in numerous world premieres, for example by Peter Androsch , Niccolò Castiglioni , Reinhard Fuchs , Clemens Gadenstätter , Max E. Keller , Georg Kreisler , Gerd Kühr , Bernhard Lang , Max Nagl , Alexander Stankovski , Balduin Sulzer , Manos Tsangaris and Christian Utz .

In recent years she has performed frequently with Patricia Kopatchinskaja or András Keller with the Kafka fragments by György Kurtág .

From 2007 to 2010 Anna Maria Pammer was “Artist in Residence” at the Brucknerhaus in Linz . In October 2007 she sang the world premiere of Balduin Sulzer's setting of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein for soprano solo. She also realized programs on so-called "degenerate" music (together with Erwin Steinhauer ), Hildegard von Bingen , Cathy Berberian and Barbara Strozzi .

Anna Maria Pammer was co-founder and artistic director of the Austro-Armenian Music Festival in Yerevan and, from 2014 to 2016, director of the "AK Classics" series of the Chamber of Labor in Upper Austria.

Anna Maria Pammer's discography comprises around 30 CDs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Diploma thesis on music history in the "Third Reich" - using the example of the musicologist Erich Schenk. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .