The German soprano, Katharina Kutsch, studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, first with Professor Paula Page, since 1999 in the class of Professor Hedwig Fassbender. She received singing lessons with Professor Rainer Hoffmann, Professor Eugen Wangler and Professor Charles Spencer. Upon graduating in the summer of 2002, she expanded her education with studies of historical interpretation practices with Professor Michael Schneider, and studies since 2004 at the Hochschule für Musik in Zürich in the master-class of Hartmut Höll. In addition, she attended master-classes with Ernst Haefliger, Edith Wiens, Trevor Pinnock and Christoph Prégardien. She won a scholarship of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation to promote young artists.
Katharina Kutsch has participated in numerous operas productions, singing roles as Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Zauberflöte, Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Venus in John Blow's Venus and Adonis. In 2004, she sang Konstanze in W.A. Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail. She appeared as a guest at the Oper Frankfurt, where she was heard in Monteverdi's Orfeo and Strauss' Elektra.
Katharina Kutsch performs mainly as a Lieder and oratorio singer at home and abroad. She sang at the Stuttgart's Liederhalle, the Residenz in Munich and the Festa da Musica in Lisbon.
Immediately after obtaining her diploma, Katharina Kutsch receiuved a teaching post for singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, since 2003 she also has taught music education and musicology at the Faculty of the Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen. Since 2006 she has worked as a lecturer in the Chorleiterschule Marburg. |