Wiebke Hoogklimmer
Wiebke Hoogklimmer (born May 13, 1960 in Hanover ) is a German contralto .
After her first concert and stage experience in the Hannover Girls Choir , she studied music theater directing with Götz Friedrich at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . While studying directing, she worked as an assistant director and evening director at the Lower Saxony State Opera in Hanover , Hamburg State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin . After completing her studies in directing, she began studying singing with Elisabeth Umierski, Annie Schoonus and Christiane Bach-Röhr.
After three years of work in the old group of the RIAS Chamber Choir and stage appearances in various opera productions, she specialized in the production of her own song programs from baroque to contemporary music. In 2003 she recorded the CD "Clairières dans le ciel" on the Thorofon label, based on the song cycle of the same name by Lili Boulanger . In 2006 the live recording of a song evening from Franz Schubert's Winterreise was released on CD under his own label.
In 2012 she released the CD “Kinderlieder - Album 1” Volkslieder: Childhood - Memory - Feeling - Age - Identity with the associated website. The CD and website are part of their project “Folk songs as therapy for dementia (Alzheimer's)”. In addition, in autumn 2012 Behr's Verlag published a large print songbook with this CD as a supplement.
Wiebke Hoogklimmer lives in Berlin.
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| SURNAME | Hoogklimmer, Wiebke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German contralto |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |