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The admired German soprano, Barbara Schlick, studied at the College of Music in Würzburg with Henriette Klink-Schneider and with Hilde Wesselmann in Essen, later with Gisela Rohmert and Rudolf Piernay.
In 1966 Barbara Schlick joined Adolf Scherbaum’s Baroque ensemble as a soloist, and began to sing widely in Europe. In 1972 she toured North America as soloist with Paul Kuentz and his chamber orchestra. In subsequent years she established a strong international reputation as an interpreter of baroque and classic music, performing in nearly all of the important musical centres of Europe, Israel, Japan, Canada, America and Russia. At noted festivals of early music (Ansbach, Berlin, Bruges, Göttingen, Lisbon, London, Paris) she has worked together with directors such as Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Michel Corboz, Reinhard Goebel, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken and Karl-Friedrich Beringer.
Barbara Schlick's interpretations are comprehensively documented through radio, television, and CD-recordings, among others Georg Philipp Telemann’s cantata Ino with Musica Antiqua Köln (Archiv Produktion), J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245), St Matthew Passion (BWV 244), B minor Mass (BWV 232) and Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) under Philippe Herreweghe, as well as George Frideric Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare under René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi France). Together with the counter-tenor Kai Wessel she has recorded songs and duets of Max Reger (Cavalli-Records).
Most recently, Barbara Schlick has devoted much of her energy to lied interpretation and gives frequent recitals with pianist Elzbieta Kalvelage.
Barbara Schlick taught at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg for 11 years. She was Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Köln since 1997, and worked as guest lecturer at the Maastricht Academy of Music until 2002. She is an acclaimed voice teacher. Among her pupils and/or singers who have attended her master-classes: Julia Barthe (Soprano), Catalina Bertucci (Soprano), Robin Bier (Contralto), Gela Birckenstaedt (Soprano), Anja Bittner (Soprano), Stephanie Buyken (Soprano), Hayat Chaoui (Soprano), Claudia Couwenbergh (Soprano), Sybille Diethelm (Soprano), Hanna Eittinger (Soprano), Kim Sahra Gadewoltz (Soprano), Reiner Geißdörfer (Tenor), Nils Giebelhausen (Tenor), Nele Gramß (Soprano), Jenny Haecker (Soprano), Heike Hallaschka (Soprano), Irene Hammann (Soprano), Maria Regina Heyne (Soprano), Tobias Hiller (Conductor/Singer), Guro Hjemli (Soprano), Andrea Hornung-Boesen (Soprano), Sibylle Kamphues (Mezzo-soprano), Claudia Kemmerer (Mezzo-soprano), Inge Van de Kerkhove (Soprano), Annette Kleine (Contralto), Joanna Klisowska (Soprano), Henning-Arfst Klocke (Tenor), Matthias Koch (Counter-tenor), Jolanta Kowalska (Soprano), Simone Krampe (Soprano), Kaspar Kröner (Counter-tenor), Almut Krumbach (Soprano), Birte Kulawik (Soprano), Katharina Kunz (Soprano), Julia Küsswetter (Soprano), Daniel Lager (Counter-tenor), Susanne Langner (Mezzo-soprano/Contralto), Iwona Lubowicz (Soprano), Hans Jörg Mammel (Tenor), Michael Marz (Baritone), Philipp Mathmann (Counter-tenor/Male Soprano), Konstanze Maxsein (Soprano), Gabriele May (Mezzo-soprano), Hieke Meppelink (Soprano), Marlene Mild (Soprano), Hannah Morrison (Soprano), Charlotte Nachtsheim (Soprano), Johanna Neß (Soprano), Marcus Niedermeyr (Baritone), Nina Nussbaum (Mezzo-soprano), Chantal Nysingh (Mezzo-soprano), Elisa Rabanus (Soprano), Jeannette Rack (Soprano), Julian Redlin (Bass), Felix Rienth (Tenor), Margreet Rietveld (Soprano), Julia Rohrig (Soprano), Dorothea Röschmann (Soprano), Tineke Roseboom (Soprano), Christiane Rost (Soprano), Stefan PD Runge (Bass-Baritone), Josie Ryan (Soprano), Frederik Schauhoff (Baritone), Katharina Scheliga (Soprano), Susen Schneider (Soprano), Mirjam Schreur (Mezzo-soprano), Marie Friederike Schöder (Soprano), Karin Selva (Soprano), Bethany Seymour (Soprano), Ina Siedlaczek (Soprano), Erik Sohn (Baritone), Katja Stuber (Soprano), Kristina Vahrenkamp (Soprano), Iris Wagner (Soprano), Katharine Hannah Weber (Soprano), Trine Wilsberg Lund (Soprano), Veronika Winter (Soprano), Klaudia Zeiner (Contralto), Anja Zügner (Soprano). |
