Christiane Iven
Christiane Iven (born March 9, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German song , concert and opera singer as well as singing teacher . She is professor for singing at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .
Career
Christiane Iven was born in Hamburg as the youngest of three siblings in a north German merchant family. Her father Peter Iven was a wallpaper manufacturer , her mother Renate Iven a housewife .
Until her Abitur in 1984 she attended the Christianeum high school . She then studied singing and vocal pedagogy at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, first with Hans Kagel and later with Judith Beckmann . She completed her training in the lied class of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at the Berlin University of the Arts .
In 1986, while she was still a student, Iven began her solo career as a concert and lied singer and also worked for several years as a permanent assistant in the radio choir of the NDR in Hamburg.
From 1992 to 1996 she was engaged as a lyric mezzo-soprano at the Theater Bremen and from 1996 to 2001 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . From 2001 to 2006 she was a member of the ensemble of the Hanover State Opera , where she switched to soprano . This was followed by a permanent engagement at the Stuttgart State Opera , with which she remained connected until 2015. There and at various European opera houses she sang roles such as the Feldmarschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Agathe ( Der Freischütz ), Marie ( Wozzeck ), Kundry ( Parsifal ), Ariadne ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), Alice Ford ( Falstaff ), Elvira ( Don Giovanni ), Emilia Marty ( The Makropulos Case ), Sieglinde ( The Valkyrie ) and Isolde ( Tristan and Isolde ).
The most important works in her concert repertoire included the oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach , songs and symphonies by Gustav Mahler , songs by Franz Schubert , Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf , songs and oratorios by Robert Schumann , the great song cycles by Olivier Messiaen , and orchestral songs by Alban Berg , Four last songs by Richard Strauss and the Wesendonck songs by Richard Wagner .
She has given concerts with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam , Ensemble intercontemporain , Munich Philharmonic , NDR-Sinfonieorchester , Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne , Oslo Philharmonic, RSO Berlin under the baton of Marc Albrecht , Vladimir Ashkenazy , Teodor Currentzis , Michael Gielen , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Heinz Holliger , Sir Neville Marriner , Matthias Pintscher . She gave recitals with Burkhard Kehring , Igor Levit , Wolfram Rieger , András Schiff and Jan Philip Schulze, among others . She was a guest at the Lucerne Festival Weeks , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Schwetzingen SWR Festival . In 2016 she said goodbye to the stage and the concert platform.
She is the mother of one son, lives and works in Munich .
Teaching
From 2001 to 2007 Iven was a professor at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . Since the winter semester 2013/14 she has been a professor for singing at the University of Music and Theater in Munich. She is also a member of the jury in international singing competitions. She gives master classes at the International Music Academy for Soloists (IMAS) at Schloss Bückeburg , at Taipeh University, at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, at the Lucerne School of Music and at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg .
As an active member of the Federal Association of German Singing Pedagogues (BDG), she organizes advanced training events on the subject of "voice" in Munich.
Awards
- Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
- Scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association
- Scholarship holder of the Steans Institute for Young Artists Ravinia Festival Chicago
- Prize winner of the Hans Pfitzner Lied Competition Hamburg 1989
- Prize winner of the German Music Competition Bonn 1990
- Winner of the Culture Prize of the Berenberg Bank Foundation Hamburg 1991
- Prize winner Medica pro Musica Düsseldorf 1991
- Prize winner of the international competition Franz Schubert and the Music of the 20th Century Graz (and additional prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music) 1992
- Lower Saxony State Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, awarded by Lower Saxony's Prime Minister in 2005
- Appointment as chamber singer , awarded by the Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg in 2011
Discography
- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Des Knaben Wunderhorn . SWR SO Baden-Baden & Freiburg, with Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Michael Gielen Hänssler, DDD, 2009/11
- Alban Berg (1885–1935): Orchestral Pieces op. 6 No. 1–3; Altenberg songs op. 4; Seven early songs. Strasbourg PO, Marc Albrecht Pentatone, DDD, 2007
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Scenes from Goethe's Faust. With Christian Gerharer, Werner Güra, Birgit Remmert u. a. Concertgebouw Orchestra Nikolaus Harnoncourt Label: RCOLive, DDD, 2008
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Mayrhofer-Lieder, Vol.2. With Burkhard Kehring, piano Schubert-Lied-Edition 12, Naxos 2003
- The singing city. A film by Vadim Jendreyko. A production by FILMTANK in coproduction with the Stuttgart State Opera and ZDF / 3sat, 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Christiane Iven in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christiane Iven at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Website of the University of Music and Theater Munich
- Website of the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding
- Homepage of Christiane Iven
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . 4th edition. tape 4 . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on March 8, 2020]).
- ↑ Christiane Iven takes over the professorship for singing
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iven, Christiane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German song, concert and opera singer as well as singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |