Barbara Locher

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Barbara Locher (* in Bern ) is a Swiss soprano and professor of solo singing at the Academy of Music in Lucerne .

life and career

Barbara Locher grew up in Bern, where she received her vocal training at the conservatory from Jakob Stämpfli , and later in Basel from Elsa Cavelti . Her repertoire often includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach . From 1979 to 1982 she took part in the “International Summer Academy Johann Sebastian Bach” in Stuttgart and has been an international concert and opera singer since the 1980s , including in 1985 as the soprano of the coffee cantata at the Bavarian Chamber Opera . In 1988 she sang the soprano in a performance of the St. John Passion by the Basel Bach Choir , and in 1999 she performed the B minor Mass with the Berlin Philharmonic Choir .

With the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences she recorded several CDs with works by Frank Martin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 15th-21st April 1985: 1st International Chamber Music Week. Bavarian Chamber Opera
  2. ↑ Concert list of the Basel Bach Choir ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Pale supplication . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 27, 1999
  4. ↑ Sound carrier publications of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Locher, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss soprano and university professor, professor of solo singing
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern