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The German soprano, Julia Duscher, began her vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Peter Edelmann. She currently studies with Kammersängerin Professor Christiane Iven and with Professor Lars Woldt at the Hochschule München. She has participated in master-classes with leading pedagogues such as Cheryl Studer and Claudia Visca, and, in her Lied duo, with Pauliina Tukiainen, and Donald Sulzen.
Julia Duscher appears regularly both on the opera stage and as a concert soloist. The Oratorios and Passions of J.S. Bach, as well as W.A. Mozartt’s C minor Mass, Haydn’s Creation, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony, which she sang with the Münchner Symphoniker, make up her core concert repertoire. She has worked with conductors such as Howard Arman and Erwin Ortner, and her interest in contemporary music led her to collaborate with such ensembles as the Octopus Ensemble, under the baton of Konstantia Gourzi.
Julia Duscher has a special affinity for Baroque music, which has resulted in regular collaborations with early music ensembles, such as the Concerto München, Les cornets noirs, and with artists including Frithjof Smith and Kristin von der Goltz. She has also received important insights from the harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim. Her ongoing collaboration with keyboardist Robert Selinger focuses on vocal music from the Renaissance and the Early Baroque.
As a Lied singer, Julia Duscher has appeared in recitals alongside Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber, Tareq Nazmi, and others. She and her long-standing Lied duo partner, pianist Rebeka Stojkoska, have worked with Ian Bostridge. Additionally, she has given song recitals at the Mozarthaus and the Haus Hofmannsthal in Vienna, and at the Melos Logos festival in Weimar.
In summer 2021 Julia Duscher is giving her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in a new production of the famous Jedermann. In 2019-2020 she appeared at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, and now, parallel to her studies, maintains a busy operatic performing schedule, in roles such as Sandrina in W.A. Mozart's La finta giardiniera, Eurydice in a collage of various Orpheus operas, Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Sand- and Taumännchen in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and, at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna, Papagena in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. |
