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The German soprano, Sophia Körber, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in vocal studies in Hannover and Florence. She took the Master’s course in opera singing in 2016 under Professor Marina Sandel in Hannover. She also attended the Lied class led by Professor Jan Philip Schulze. She is currently continuing her studies in the vocal soloists’ class taught by Professo Marina Sandel. Particularly valuable input was gained from master-classes given by Kammersängerin Professor Brigitte Fassbaender, Kammersänger Professor Roman Trekel, Professor Ulrike Sonntag, Aribert Reimann, Peter Berne, Maria Husmann-Hein and Sarah Maria Sun.
Sophia Körber is a prize-winner at the national vocal competition Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin 2014 and the winner of the Treviso Giovani Musicisti international competition in the Contemporary Music category. She is supported by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Hannover. In 2015 she was awarded a singing scholarship by the Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation. In her youth she was a national prize-winner in Jugend musiziert and a double prize-winner during the Lotte Lehmann Week in the city of Perleberg.
Sophia Körber gave her opera debut back in 2009 as Papagena in W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in Klein Leppin. In 2014 she took the part of First Slave in the summer production of Die Zauberflöte at the Opera Academy Bad Orb. In 2016, she could be heard as the Nightingale in L’enfant et les sortilèges in Hannover and the First Fairy in Rusalka at Burg Warberg. She has given multiple guest performances at the Theater Osnabrück. In 2017 she sang the role of the Unknown Woman in the premiere of Snezana Nešic’s The Rain Passed Over at the Ballhof in Hannover and the part of Adela in Aribert Reimann’s The House of Bernarda Alba in Berlin. At the start of this year she sang the part of Iris in George Frideric Handel's Semele under the baton of Howard Arman in Hannover.
Sophia Körber is also very active as a concert and oratorio singer and in the field of New Music: she has appeared under the baton of conductors such as Peter Van Heyghen, Philipp Ahmann, Jörg Straube, Antonius Adamske, Martin Dietterle and Axel Kober and performed works of J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, W.A. Mozart, György Ligeti, John Cage, Iris Szeghy and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. In 2018 she took the stage with the Belgian Baroque ensemble Les Muffatti Brüssel (Director: Peter Van Heyghen) as a soloist in the Magdeburg Telemann Festival, in Brussels and in Luxembourg.
Recordings and radio broadcasts for BR, NDR Kultur and Deutschlandfunk document her concert work. |
