Megan Kahts
Megan Kahts (born January 8, 1989 in Johannesburg ) is a South African singer ( mezzo-soprano , formerly soprano ) from Pretoria.
Life
Kahts completed a bachelor's degree in music (singing) at the University of Pretoria and a diploma degree from the University of Music and Performing Arts , which she graduated in 2017. She studied singing with Claudia Visca and song and oratorio with Robert Holl .
The roles she has sung in Vienna and Pretoria include Serpina , Susanna , Norina and Adele . In the field of oratorio she sang the soprano solos in Mendelssohn's Lobgesang and in Gounod's Mass solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte-Cécile , with the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the University of Pretoria. As a song singer, she gave recitals for the UNISA Music Society in Pretoria, for the Songmaker's Guild in Cape Town and in the Salvatorsaal in Vienna. She sang the world premiere of Three Sonnets for voice and piano, set to music by Peter Klatzow, for her debut for the Songmaker's Guild.
Megan Kahts has been a member of the PEACE-Rotarian Chamber Orchestra Vienna from the very beginning and has performed at benefit concerts. After a selection process she was accepted into the mentoring program initiated by the daily newspaper Kurier and is currently the mentee of the chamber singer Ildikó Raimondi .
As a child star at the age of eleven, she sang Mozart's “Alleluia” from the Exsultate, jubilate with the Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra. Under a record deal, she recorded two CDs containing music from operas, operettas, musicals and popular South African songs. Through this and through her training as a pianist, she found her way to classical singing and opera.
Engagements
- 2013: Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck - Gretel
- 2014: The Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber - Bridesmaid - Opera Burg Gars
- 2015: The nose of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch - Ossipowna - Neue Oper Wien Production: Matthias Oldag
- 2015: Young Schubertiade Vienna
- 2016: Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Susanna - Schlosstheater Laxenburg , Theatro Barocco , artistic director Bernd R. Bienert
Discography
- My Mother's Arms (2001)
- Tonight (2004)
Web links
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kahts, Megan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg |