Claudia Herr

Claudia Herr (born July 20, 1970 in Dresden , Germany) is a German opera, concert and lieder singer with a focus on contemporary music . Her voice is a youthful, dramatic mezzo-soprano / alto .

Life

Claudia Herr graduated from the Hoyerswerda specialty music school . She completed her diplomas in solo concert singing and vocal pedagogy at the Rostock University of Music and Theater , afterwards vocal studies with Ernst Haefliger (Switzerland), and since 2003 with Gundula Hintz (Berlin).

Claudia Herr was a master student of Wolfgang Rihm . She sings the works of Aribert Reimann , Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen , Rainer Rubbert , Martin Daske , Eres Holz , Sidney Corbett , Lera Auerbach , Walter Zimmermann (composer) , Ralf Hoyer, Susanne Stelzenbach, Juliane Klein and others. She appeared with it u. a. in the Berlin Philharmonic , in the "Unheard Music" - BKA, in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt Berlin, the Matthäuskirche at the Kulturforum Berlin, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg for the 1st Opera Workshop for Contemporary Composers, Stuttgart Liederhalle as well as at various festivals and vernissages at home and abroad .

In Berlin she devotes herself to contemporary music in the field of opera, in music theater productions, church music, in recitals and concerts. She sang the role of Henriette Vogel and Marquise von O. in the Kleist opera by Rainer Rubbert (composition) and Tanja Langer (libretto), which premiered in 2008 in the Brandenburg Theater .

Underwater singing

The concept of underwater singing was designed by Claudia Herr in 2000 and has been further developed since then. A common breathing apparatus for divers is used to supply air underwater. The hydrophone is used to transmit sound to the audience . In addition to singing, various musical instruments were experimented with underwater.

As part of their "Aria" series (AirAria, FlammAria, TerrAria, CIAria, KulinAria), a series of their underwater project AquAria (first realized in 2000 in the Neukölln public baths ) in Liquidrom Berlin was created in 2008 .

In 2011 the first underwater opera AquAria_PALAOA ( Susanne Stelzenbach , composition and Monika Rinck , libretto) premiered in Berlin's Stadtbad Neukölln . Claudia Herr sang the main part of the young woman. PALAOA, the listening station of the Alfred Wegener Institute in the Antarctic, showed the scientific part for this production. Further productions and guest performances in Berlin, Brandenburg, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Magdeburg, Switzerland, Mallorca and the Canary Islands followed.

Further productions of the underwater opera were The sunken city in 2013 (with her as Fiona) and ElementAria (as the mythical creature Jungfrau) and in 2016 WalAria with Claudia Herr as a singer under water with pilot whales.

Discography

2002 Darkened concert in the Berlin Philharmonic

2004 sport! - a work out for the senses - UA Musiktheater Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt Berlin

2007 Bohuslav Martinů - The Knife's Tears - Musiktheater Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt Berlin

2008 Kleist Opera - Premiere Theater Stadt Brandenburg

2003 - 2008 premiere and concerts at the Matthäuskirche at the Kulturforum Berlin

2011 AquAria_PALAOA - WP UnterwasserOper in Stadtbad Neukölln

2012 sotto voce UA Contemporary Opera Berlin in Berlin Central Station

2013 The Sunken City - Premiere UnterwasserOper in the Baerwaldbad Berlin

2014 ElementAria - premiere of the UnterwasserOper in the Schlosspark Lübbenau

2016 WalAria - UnterWasserOper eV Cultural scientific expedition in the marine reserve off LA Gomera

2008 - 2019 Hofklang Festival in Leipzig and Berlin

2002 - 2019 Unerhörte Musik Berlin, Europe's only series for contemporary music

Prices

1997 - 2002 Scholarship from the Foundation for International Masterclasses for Music in Muraltengut (Switzerland)
2006 winner of the 1st prize of the “Globusklänge Deutschland” of the Fifa World Cup 2006 in cooperation with the Initiative Neue Musik Berlin and Hertha BSC with their project “Das Ohr am Fußball”.
2012 Kreativpilot Award from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology to one of the most innovative creative industries in Germany

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personal data
SURNAME	Lord, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mezzo-soprano
DATE OF BIRTH	20th July 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden