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Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Contralto)

Born: Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

The German contralto, tWiebke Lehmkuhl, attended during her school years attended master-classes, concerts and won numerous awards as a flutist (modern flute and Baroque flute). She received her first singing lessons in 2002 with Ulla Groenewold in Hamburg. Two years later she started her singing studies at the Musikhochschule with Hanna Schwarz. Besides these two major teachers, she complemented her training by attending master-classes with Klesie Kelly and Ingeborg Danz. In the W.A. Mozart Year 2006, she was awarded the Mozart Prize of the City of Hamburg.

Wiebke Lehmkuhl quickly became an internationally sought after concert and oratorio singer, with performances at the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Rheingau Musikfestival, Bachwoche Stuttgart, NDR Hannover, Festival "La Folle Journée" in Nantes and in Tokyo. In Shanghai, she sang, among other things, the Chinese premiere of Felix Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht. She has worked with conductors like Philippe Jordan, Riccardo Chailly, Alessandro de Marchi, Reinhard Goebel and Andreas Spering. After guest engagements at the Opernhaus Kiel, at the Hamburgischen Staatsoper and the Staatstheater, most of them already during her studies, Wiebke Lehmkuhl entered the 2008-2009 season her first permanent engagement at the Opernhaus Zürich. Here she has taken part in the revival of Wilson's Ring conducted by Philippe Jordan (Erda, Erste Norn, Schwertleite), as the Third Lady in W.A. Mozart'S Zauberflöte, George Frideric Handel's Agrippina and performed J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) conducted by Marc Minkowski and Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) conducted by Riccardo Chailly.

Sources:
Opernhaus Zürich Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (October 2009)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (October 2009)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Riccardo Chailly

Alto

BWV 248

Marcus Creed

Alto

[V-5] (2018, Video): BWV 248/1-3

Alexander Grychtolic

Alto

C-1 (2012): BWV 36a, BWV 66a

Philippe Jordan

Alto

[V-1] (2015, Video): BWV 244

Ton Koopman

Alto

[V-20] (2017, Audio): BWV 232 [4th recording]
[V-17] (2018, Audio): BWV 244 [4th recording]

Hermann Max

Alto

BWV 248

Marc Minkowski

Alto

V-3 (2013): BWV 232 [2nd recording]
DVD:
BWV 243

Peter Neumann

Alto

Video (2009): BWV 45, BWV 23

Hans-Christoph Rademann

Alto

[C-7] (2021): BWV 147
BWV 232 [1st, 2011]
[V-9] (2012): BWV 248/1-6 [2nd recording]
[V-10] (2016-2017: BWV 248/1-6 [3rd recording]

Links to other Sites

Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Opernhaus Zürich) [German]
Klassik am See: Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Alt [German]


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