Hanna-Elisabeth Müller

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller during autograph session, November 23, 2014

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (born 1985 at Mannheim) is a German Soprano and opera, concert and recital singer.

Biography

Musical education in childhood and youth

As a child, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller took violin lessons and lateron joined a choir. Since the age of 11, she took vocal lessons to sing solo parts. In 1998, she performed the boy soprano in Leonard Bernstein's mass during the Kultursommer Ludwigshafen.[1] She continued singing as a hobby during her high school education und earned several prizes in the junior musician's competition Jugend musiziert.

Studies, awards and debuts

Following her high school degree, she studied vocal arts in the soloist class of former opera singer Rudolf Piernay at the University of Music and Performing Arts at Mannheim. To complete her studies, she attended master classes of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,[2] Julia Varady, Edith Wiens, Elly Ameling, Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger.

In the song duo competition 2009 at Enschede, Netherlands, she gained, together with her accompanist Mihaela Tomi, the highest award, the audience award and the award for the best interpretation of a contemporary opus.[3] 2010 she gained the 1st prize in the competition „Ton und Erklärung – Werkvermittlung in Musik und Wort“ of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft.[4] This award was given by a jury of nine experts chaired by Francisco Araiza[5] and attests, that she is not only able to perform music on the highest level but also to explain it convincingly.[6] In 2011, she obtained all disposable awards in the Ada Sari International Vocal Art Competition at Nowy Sącz.[7]

Her first stage debuts in important roles were Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice (April 2010) at Kammeroper Rheinsberg[8] and Pamina in Zauberflöte (Nov. 2011) at Theater & Philharmonie Thüringen, Gera.[9] She also represented this role at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in March 2012.[10] On December 22, 2013 she was featured by Rolando Villazón in the series "Stars de Demain" by Arte.[11]

In the company of Bavarian State Opera

At Bavarian State Opera Munich, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller was member of the opera studio in the season 2010/11 and is member of the company since the season 2012/2013.[12] This resulted in a number of successful role debuts, e.g. as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (March 2013), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (May 2013), Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (Sep. 2013), Sophie in Werther[13] (Okt. 2015) und Marzelline in Fidelio[14] (Feb. 2016). In 2013 she obtained the "Festspielpreis der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Münchner Opernfestspiele".[15]

Engagements at important opera houses

On April 12, 2014 she debuted as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss during the Salzburg Easter Festival. She was on stage together with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson and convinced the audience as well as the critics.[16][17] This success was crucial for the election as Nachwuchskünstlerin des Jahres (upcoming artist of the year) by the critics of the journal Opernwelt.[18] As Zdenka she also debuted at the Semperoper Dresden in November 2014[19] and lateron took this part in Andreas Dresen's new production of Arabella during Munich Opera Festival in July 2015.[20] On September 5, 2015 she debuted as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam.[21]

Career as an oratorio and recital singer

Beside her engagements at opera houses, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller frequently acts as a recital and oratorio singer. Sponsoring by Südwestrundfunk in the SWR2 New Talent Program from 2013 to 2015 [22] gave her the opportunity to reach a broad audience with the audio transmissions of two song recitals. One of them was her debut at Schwetzinger Festspiele, together with the pianist Juliane Ruf, on May 26, 2013.[23]

In October 2014 she sang the soprano solo in Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms in a performance transmitted by 3sat together with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. In China she was featured by Staatskapelle Dresden during their concert tour in November 2015, singing the soprano part of the Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler.[24] In March 2016 she debuted with Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss in concerts of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias at Bilbao (Spain)[25] and with the WDR Symphony Orchestra at Viersen[26] and Duisburg.[27]

Repertoire

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller performed the following roles in well-renowned opera houses:

Her concert repertoire includes the soprano parts of numerous oratorios and masses als well as orchestral songs and concert arias from Baroque to Late Romanticism, for example The Creation and the Missa in angustiis (Nelsonmesse) by Joseph Haydn,[28] the Missa Solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven,[29] the fifth movement "Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit" of A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms, the fourth movement of the 4th Symphony by Gustav Mahler and Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss.

In recitals, which were broadcast by Südwestrundfunk, she performed songs by Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, William Walton und Hugo Wolf.

Diskography

Audio recordings

DVD recordings

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hanna-Elisabeth Müller.

References

  1. ↑ Interview with Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, as of 15. Juli 2014 in Münchner Merkur
  2. ↑ Video document of participation in the master class of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mai 2009
  3. ↑ Webseite der Musikhochschule Mannheim: Biografie von Mihaela Tomi
  4. ↑ Preisträgerportrait im Portal des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft
  5. ↑ Hanna-Elisabeth Müller erhält Musikpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft,Bericht neue Musikzeitung, online gestellt am 20. September 2010
  6. ↑ Video report of the competition "Ton und Erklärung" 2010 in Kaiserslautern
  7. ↑ University of Music Mannheim, Preise und Auszeichnungen Frühjahrsemster 2011
  8. ↑ Premierenkritik "Orpheus und Eurydike" in Rheinsberg Tagesspiegel vom 8. April 2010
  9. ↑ Premierenankündigung Zauberflöte in Gera, Nov. 2011
  10. ↑ Audio and photo document of debut of Hanna-Elisabeth Müller at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
  11. ↑ Video excerpt of Stars de Demain with Rolando Villazon, December 22, 2013
  12. ↑ Biografie von Hanna-Elisabeth Müller auf der Seite der Bayerischen Staatsoper
  13. ↑ Rezension im "Online Merker": Bayerische Staatsoper 28.10.15 – WERTHER
  14. ↑ Review of Fidelio performance on Feb. 10, 2016 at Munich (in Spanish)
  15. ↑ Gesellschaft Freunde der Künste: article of August 1, 2013
  16. ↑ Bericht im Salzburger ORF-Portal vom 13. April 2014
  17. ↑ Portrait von Hanna-Elisabeth Müller in den Salzburger Nachrichten vom 17. April 2014
  18. ↑ Kritikerumfrage 2014 der Zeitschrift Opernwelt
  19. ↑ Kritik über die Dresdner Arabella, Nov. 2014 in "Der Neue Merker", Wien
  20. ↑ Review of Arabella at Bavarian State Opera, Munich, as of Juli 17, 2015, NY Times
  21. ↑ Announcement of Rosenkavalier for Sep. 2015 by De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam
  22. ↑ Vorstellung von Hanna-Elisabeth Müller im Portal des SWR
  23. ↑ Rezension in www.lokalmatador.de
  24. ↑ Review of concert by Staatskapelle Dresden at Shanghai, Nov. 9, 2015; CRI online in German language
  25. ↑ Gran éxito del trompista Monte de Fez y la OSPA en el festival Musika-Música (Announcement of concert) (in Spanish)
  26. ↑ Müllers makelloser Schöngesang (Review of the concert by WDR Symphony Orchestra at Duisburg on March 11, 2016), in RP online
  27. ↑ Review of the concert by WDR Symphony Orchestra at Duisburg on March 12, 2016, in RP online
  28. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine, Review as of Mach 30, 2015
  29. ↑ Review of a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the RIAS-Kammerchor, "Der Tagesspiegel" as of Jan. 3, 2012
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