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The German mezzo-soprano, Mareike Braun, began her musical training in the Mädchenchor Hannover. She also studied at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Christiane Iven, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Rudolf Piernay and is currently working with Snezana Stamenkovic. She is a prize-winner of the Internationalen Johannes Brahms Wettbewerbs and holds scholarships from the Bischöflichen Studienförderung Cusanuswerk, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation and Richard Wagner Verbands.
Her opera repertoire is broad and includes Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Ottone in George Frideric Handel's Agrippina, Third Lady and Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Sommer Oper Bamberg. 2011) Flower Girl in Parsifal (Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, 2012), Second Norn in Götterdämmerung and Orpheus.
Mareike Braun made her concert debut in 2008 with NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover alongside Helen Donath in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2. Under the direction of Christopher Hogwood, she sang the second soprano in Felix Mendelssohn's Lobgesang-Symphonie at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Her concert repertoire ranges from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat mater to numerous works by J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel and G. Mahler's Orchesterliedern. She works with conductors such as Cornelius Meister, Moshe Atzmon, Andrew Parrott and James Gaffigan and has performed at the Musikfest Stuttgart, at the Großen Sendesaal des NDR in Hannover and in London's Barbican Hall, among others.
At the Händel-Festspielen in Göttingen in 2012, Mareike Braun sang the title role in Amadigi di Gaula. In the same year, she performed with the Lautten Compagney Berlin and sang the lead role in G.F. Handel's Rinaldo. She has been a member of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks since 2013. |
