Beata Heuer Christians

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Beata Heuer-Christen (born February 27, 1935 in Bern ) is a Swiss-German concert singer ( soprano voice ) and singing teacher .

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Beata Heuer-Christen is the daughter of the violinist and member of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Caesar Christen, and Greti Christen-Schiffmann, also a violinist in the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Primaria of the Schiffmann Quartet.

Beata Heuer-Christen studied singing in Bern with Maria Helbling, in Freiburg with Margarethe von Winterfeldt and in Zurich with Dorothea Ammann-Goesch and won prizes at international competitions. After completing her studies, she first worked as a classical concert singer in oratorios , song recitals, and radio and television recordings in various countries. Her focus was on new music . She was an interpreter in world premieres a. a. under Arturo Tamayo , Hans Zender and Wolfgang Fortner .

Since 1962 she was a lecturer and from 1980 to 2005 professor for singing at the Musikhochschule Freiburg . In addition, she gave master classes in oratorio, opera and lied.

Her students include winners of national and international competitions as well as concert singers with engagements at opera houses in Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig, Bern, Geneva and Basel. Including Maria Bengtsson , Rachel Harnisch , Bernhard Richter , Clemens Morgenthaler , Benoît Haller and Markus Flaig . Some of her students now teach as professors at the music academies in Bern and Freiburg.

Heuer-Christen was married to the pianist and grammar school teacher Friedrich Heuer (1935–2009) and has two daughters. She lives near Freiburg im Breisgau .

literature

  • Heuer Christians, Beata. In: Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006 . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-59824-212-0 , p. 183.

Web links

Commons : Beata Heuer-Christen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Heuer-Christen, Beate . In: Who is Who. The German Who's Who. Volume 50.Schmidt-Römhild, 2011.
  2. ^ A b c Badische Zeitung: Portrait: The singing professor Beata Heuer-Christen. It is important that it is about music - culture - Badische Zeitung. February 25, 2002, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Heuer-Christians, Beata. In: Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-59824-212-0 , p. 183.
  4. ^ State academy for young people making music in Baden-Württemberg: concert. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Volker Blech: How a substitute singer becomes an opera star. March 31, 2013, accessed on February 19, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Heuer Christians, Beata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German concert singer, singing teacher and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern