Sarah Maria Sun

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Sarah Maria Sun

Sarah Maria Sun (born February 15, 1978 in Hamm ) is a German singer ( soprano ).

Life

Sarah Maria Sun grew up on a farm. She began to learn classical guitar at the age of 5 and won various competitions with the instrument as a child and adolescent. She was a young student at the Folkwang University of the Arts with Hans Gräf. From the age of 9 she also received singing lessons. After graduating from high school, she finished her career as a guitarist, studied opera and lied singing in Cologne and Stuttgart and then learned from Darinka Segota and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner.

She is internationally known as an interpreter of contemporary music . In addition to numerous songs, opera and oratorios, her repertoire includes over nine hundred compositions from the 20th and 21st centuries. In the course of time she has participated in more than three hundred world premieres. From 2007 to 2014 she was the first soprano of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart . In 2012, 2016 and 2018 the NDR dedicated its own portrait concerts as part of the NDR series . In 2017 for the role of Elsa in Lohengrin by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Salzburg Easter Festival and in 2019 as Gwen in 4.48 Psychosis in Philip Venables' opera based on the play by Sarah Kane at Semper Zwei in Dresden, she was recognized by Opernwelt magazine as a singer of the year nominated.

She sang under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle , Kent Nagano , Alan Gilbert , Thomas Hengelbrock , Susanna Mälkki , Peter Rundel and Heinz Holliger . She also worked with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the Berliner Philharmoniker , the symphony orchestras of the NDR , BR , SWR and WDR , the Dresden Philharmonic , the Antwerp and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra as well as ensembles such as musikFabrik , Ensemble Modern , ensemble mosaik, Ensemble intercontemporain , the string quartets Diotima, Arditti , Minguet and Signum .

For master classes for vocal music of the 20th and 21st centuries she taught a. a. at the universities and colleges in Oslo, Harvard, Chicago, Stockholm, Zurich, Lucerne, Rostock, Moscow, Dresden, Hanover and Berlin. She has been a lecturer at the Lucerne School of Music since 2019 . She is vegan and is committed to animal rights.

repertoire

Musical theater roles

Soprano + orchestra / ensemble (selection)

Vocal ensemble chamber music (selection)

  • Carola Bauckholt : no, alone, instinct, straw (WP)
  • Giovanni Bertelli: AGMD ( WP )
  • Luciano Berio : A-Ronne
  • Sandeep Bhagwati : Atish-e-Zaban (UA), Na Puchh Jab (UA), Limits and renewals (UA), New Year Canons (2014, 2015, 2016 etc.)
  • Oskar Bianchi: Matra ( WP ), Ante Litteram I ( WP ), Ante Litteram II ( WP )
  • Sylvano Bussotti : Cinque Frammenti All'Italia
  • John Cage : Litany for the Whale
  • Elliott Carter : Mad Regales ( WP , 2017)
  • Friedrich Cerha : 2 scenes (WP, 2010)
  • Milica Djordjevic: ZID (WP, 2009)
  • Andreas Dohmen : Infra (WP)
  • Pascal Dusapin : Semino
  • Ivan Fedele : Animus Anima II
  • Francesco Filidei: Serantini ( WP , 2008), Dormo molto amore ( WP , 2012)
  • Luca Francesconi : Centerpiece (WP)
  • Beat Furrer : Fama (WP)
  • Clemens Gadenstätter : Oh-Weh (WP), Hey
  • Bernhard Gander : horribile dictu (WP), Death tongue
  • Georg Friedrich Haas : Silence I Fukushima (WP)
  • Lars Petter Hagen: Notebook: Comfort Zone / Manuelita la Tortuga (WP)
  • Manuel Hidalgo : Cuatro Citas de Juan Goytisolo , Beethoven's Scherzo from the 9th Symphony ( WP ), two songs
  • Arthur Honegger : Le roi David
  • Michael Jarrell : Formes Fragements IIb ( WP ), Car Le Pensé ( WP )
  • Mischa Käser: Preludes
  • Gordon Kampe : Wrong Songs (WP)
  • Georg Katzer : Singing Pieces (WP, 2011)
  • Bernhard Lang : Hermetica V (WP)
  • Bruno Mantovani : Cantata n.1 (WP)
  • Sarah Nemtsov : TOV (UA), Hoqueti
  • Luigi Nono : ¿Donde estás hermano?
  • Samir Odeh-Tamimi : Garden of Knowledge (UA, 2011), O people, save me from God (UA, 2012), The color of water (UA, 2011), Jarich , Léxis
  • Christoph Ogiermann: Inner Empire ( WP , 2011)
  • Hilda Paredes: Fragmentos de Altazor (WP)
  • Rolf Riehm : Two women
  • Lucia Ronchetti : Coins and crosses (UA), Anatra al Sal , Le voyage d'Urien (UA, 2008), Studio detto dei venti , Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (UA, 2011), Hombre de mucha gravedad , Le nuove music die Giulio Ceccini detto Romano (WP, 2008)
  • José María Sánchez Verdú : Seis Madrigali Gramma (WP), Aura (WP), Scriptura Antiqua (WP, 2012), Atlas - Islands of Utopia (WP), Castillo Interior (WP, 2012)
  • Giacinto Scelsi : Sauh II and III , Tre Canti Popolari ( WP ), Hô
  • Dieter Schnebel : Missa est (WP), Utopien (WP)
  • Salvatore Sciarrino : 12 Madrigali ( WP ), 3 Canti senza pietri
  • Elliott Sharp : Nakba Day (UA), Turing Test (UA, 2012), Then Gone (UA, 2012)
  • Gerhard Stäbler : … into the open… (WP), Belfast Breakfast Songs
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen : From the seven days , mood , star sound , people, hears (WP)
  • Oscar Strasnoy : Story , Piensa en mi ( WP )
  • Iris ter Schiphorst : Studies on Figures / Series A (WP)
  • Claude Vivier : Love Songs
  • Jennifer Walshe: he wants his cowboys to sound like how he thinks cowboys should sound , Paddy Reilly runs with the Devil (UA, 2008), Watched over lovingly by silent machines (UA), The Soft Menagerie (UA, 2011), A Folk Song Collection (WP, 2011)
  • Casper Johannes Walter: Infinito
  • Walter Zimmermann : The Dialogue between the Two Roses (WP)
  • John Zorn : Frammenti Del Sappho (UA), Holy visions (UA)

Songs (selection)

Oratorios (selection)

Awards and nominations (selection)

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inquiry: Sarah Maria Sun. In: NDR , May 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Hannah Schmidt: An agile, nervous soul In: Die Zeit , April 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Katrin Heise: The all-rounder of singing. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , November 12, 2019 (audio).
  4. ↑ Classic à la carte. In: NDR , July 26, 2019.
  5. ^ NDR the new work - Sarah Maria Sun & Quatuor Diotima. In: NDR , May 26, 2018 ( PDF , 1.6 MB).
  6. ↑ a b Anna Kemper : "It's always about abuse of power" In: Die Zeit , March 18, 2020 (interview).
  7. ↑ Markus Thiel: With “Lohengrin” the barriers fall. In: Münchner Merkur , April 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b Egbert Tholl: She doesn't play. She is. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ Sabine Weber: Philip Venables' chamber opera “4.48 Psychose” is having its German-language premiere at Semper Zwei. In: klassikfavori.de , April 29, 2019.
  10. ↑ Apocalyptic monologue. In: the daily newspaper , March 28, 2019.
  11. ↑ Speaking of ... extremes. In: The theater publisher .
  12. ^ Whispers and screams In: Der Theaterverlag .
  13. ↑ Ines Pasz: Sarah Maria Sun with a new CD "Killer Instincts" In: SWR2 , February 27, 2020 (audio).
  14. ↑ Seth Colter Walls: 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend. In: The New York Times , May 28, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Sun, Sarah Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm