Sonja Leutwyler

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Sonja Leutwyler (born April 1, 1981 in Küsnacht ) is a Swiss opera and concert singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Sonja Leutwyler completed her Master of Arts degree in viola and singing at the Zurich University of the Arts with distinction and made her concert and soloist diploma at the University of Music and Theater in Munich with Maria de Francesca-Cavazza , Christian Gerhaher and Helmut Deutsch . During her studies she sang roles like Sesto ( Giulio Cesare ), Larina ( Eugen Onegin ) and Dorabella ( Così fan tutte ) at the Prinzregententheater in Munich .

From 2008 to 2011 she was engaged as a soloist at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich . She had other engagements at the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and at the Zurich Opera House . In October 2017 she sang a main role in the opera Kein Licht by Philippe Manoury in a production by Opéra-Comique Paris and made guest appearances with this opera production at the National Theater in Zagreb (2017) and at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg (2018).

As a concert soloist, Leutwyler appears with orchestras such as the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , the Munich Radio Orchestra , the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra , the Zurich Chamber Orchestra , the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the SWR Symphony Orchestra . She appears at festivals such as the Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival , the Beethovenfest Bonn , the Musikfest Stuttgart and the St Martin-in-the-Fields concert series in London , as well as regularly in the Tonhalle Zurich and in the Wiener Konzerthaus .

Leutwyler also interpreted contemporary works. At the Prinzregententheater in Munich she performed a main role in Elliot Carter's opera What Next with the Munich Radio Orchestra in 2007 . With the RSO Vienna she sang as a soloist at the opening concert of the Wien Modern series , with works by Luigi Nono she was on a concert tour in Italy. She sang Berio's folk songs in several concert halls in Switzerland.

She performed in Felix Mendelssohn's Walpurgis Night at the Rheingau Music Festival . She gave concerts and made a CD recording with the RSO Vienna in the Wiener Konzerthaus . She gave a solo recital with arias by Haydn and Vivaldi entitled Vom Winde Bewegungs with the Camerata Zurich in the Tonhalle Zurich, sang in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Magnificat with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and gave a recital in the Tonhalle Maag in Zurich .

In July 2018 the album Hymne à la Beauté was released by Solo Musica ( Sony Music ) in cooperation with Radio SRF 2 Kultur .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Leutwyler - Mezzo Soprano . Appearances at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz at The Opera Stage. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ update AG, www.update.ch: Music stories “From leaving and arriving”. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ update AG, www.update.ch: Telling stories The Chinese nightingale. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ No light. Retrieved November 21, 2018 (Croatian).
  5. ↑ # 3 NO LIGHT. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ oe1.orf.at: Wien Modern 2013 | FR | 25 10 2013 | 19:30 . In: oe1.orf.at . ( orf.at [accessed November 20, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Moved by the wind ... Retrieved on November 20, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  8. ↑ Moved by the wind ... Retrieved on November 19, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  9. ↑ Radio Swiss Classic - Event . ( radioswissclassic.ch [accessed on November 19, 2018]).
  10. ↑ ZKO Opus II 2016/17 . In: Issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed November 19, 2018]).
  11. ↑ March 26, 2018 - Lied recital. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Sonja Leutwyler / Astrid Leutwyler / Benjamin Engeli - Hymne á la realité - Solo Musica . In: Solo Musica . July 13, 2018 ( solo-musica.de [accessed November 19, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Leutwyler, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss opera and concert singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Küsnacht