Astrid Huber-Aulmann

Astrid Huber-Aulmann is a German singer and singing teacher .

At the age of 16 she began to sing with her mother Gisela Aulmann, who ran a renowned singing school in Gummersbach ("Aulmann ~ de Mathée"). After studying at the Cologne University of Music , she made her debut as Hansel in the opera Hansel and Gretel . She sang oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in numerous church concerts and gave recitals with songs by Gustav Mahler , Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner .

In 1982 she began teaching privately and at the University of Cologne . Huber-Aulmann organized many concerts with her students, worked out the programs and directed the performances in Cologne , Gummersbach , Lucerne and Schwyz (Switzerland). She herself sang many mezzo and alto parts, for example Erda, Fricka, Amneris, Ulrika, Aszucena, Marfa in Modest Mussorgski's Khovanshchina . She performed in the USA , Russia , France and Switzerland .

Huber-Aulmann worked a. a. with Wolfgang Kastorp ( Cologne Opera ), Jeffrey Tate and Jörg Demus . In recent years she has been teaching young students. The teaching method is a technique based on anatomical conditions and is intended to make the students confident for the stage.

The most successful of her numerous students in Germany and Switzerland are Kammersängerin Anja Harteros , who studied with Huber-Aulmann for more than nine years (1986–1996), Anja Dorfmüller ( Zurich Opera House ) and Klaus Basten ( Bavarian State Opera Munich ).

In 2005 she headed the branch of the singing institute “Aulmann ~ de Mathée” in Munich.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Such a festival has never existed before” Kölner Stadtanzeiger from August 20, 2005
2. ↑ Biography of Anja Harteros in Klassik Heute
3. ↑ "A dream came true: Anja Dorfmüller sings at the Zurich Opera" Oberberg Aktuell from August 24, 2005
4. ↑ Astrid Huber-Aulmann, Co-Artistic Director , vocal-masterclass.com, accessed on April 1, 2018.