Christa Bonhoff

Christa Bonhoff is a German singer with alto and mezzo-soprano voices , who works primarily as an oratorio singer .

Life

Christa Bonhoff was born in Westphalia . She studied singing at the Hamburg University of Music with Annie Schoonus. During her studies she became a member of the NDR choir and received guest contracts at the Hamburg State Opera . The main focus of her work is concert singing.

She performed as a soloist in recordings of Bach's Christmas Oratorio (2002) and Johannes Passion (2006) with the conductor Michaela Prentl .

In 2002, together with Monika Frimmer , Dantes Diwiak and Peter Kooij, she founded a quartet called Tanto Canto , which performs rare songs both a cappella and with piano or ensemble. In 2005 the quartet recorded excerpts from the ear-pleasing and mind-delighting Tafel-Confect (also called Augsburger Tafel-Confect ) by the composers Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert , conducted by Jürgen Sonnentheil .

In 2004 she recorded sacred music by Charles Gounod with the chamber choir I Vocalisti , directed by Hans-Joachim Lustig . In 2005 she sang in St. Petri, Cuxhaven , in Honegger's oratorio King David . In 2007 she sang in Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle , conducted by Matthias Zangerle. In collaboration with the Nordschleswigschen Musikvereinigung, she sang Francesco Durante's Magnificat , Vivaldi's Confitebor and Rossini's early Messa di Rimini (1809) in 2008, Haydn's Missa in angustiis and Bach's cantata Schallet, her songs, sounded, her strings! . In 2009 she sang Haydn's Timpani Mass in a festive service on the 200th anniversary of the composer's death in St. Petri in Hamburg. In 2010 she was a soloist in a concert at the University of Hamburg in the oratorio Die Glocke by Max Bruch . In 2010 she sang the mezzo-soprano solo in Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein .

Christa Bonhoff is married to the tenor Dantes Diwiak.

Web links

• Works by Christa Bonhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christa Bonhoff at bach-cantatas.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Song of the Bell . University of Hamburg . 2010. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 27, 2010. 
2. ↑ Rathgeber: Tafel-confect . arkivmusic.com. 2005. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
3. ^ Charles Gounod Musica sacra . rondomagazin.de. 2004. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
4. ↑ Schedule 2007 . Matthias Zangerle. 2010. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 2, 2010. 
5. ↑ From the newspaper . North Schleswig Music Association. 2010. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 2, 2010. 
6. ^ Event archive ( German ) Hamburger Bachchor. 2010. Archived from the original on September 11, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 2, 2010. 
7. ^ Richard Hörnicke: Demanding task Verdi-Requiem as a lived ecumenism in St. Martin Idstein . Wiesbadener Tagblatt. November 16, 2010. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved on November 16, 2010.