Angelika Luz • contemporary Lied

Biography

Soprano Angelika Luz, born in Ehingen near Ulm (Germany), was trained at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. After completing her piano studies, she began her vocal training with Prof. Sylvia Geszty in 1979, which was followed by opera training from 1981 to 1983. She was awarded prizes at the Mozart Competition in Würzburg, the competition of the Association of German Music and Art Schools in Berlin and the International Coloratura Competition in Stuttgart. In addition to her extensive activities as a concert singer, she was engaged at the Cologne Opera from 1983 to 1986 and at the Landestheater Salzburg (Austria) until 1990. With the roles of Konstanze in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio, the Queen of the Night in his Magic Flute and Rosalinde in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (The Bat) she made guest appearances at the Zurich Opera House, the Hamburg State Opera, the Karlsruhe State Theater, the Mannheim National Theater, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna Volksoper and the Smetana Theater in Prague. With Teti in Jommeli’s Fetonte or Poppea in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione, she presented herself with roles of “early music” and subsequently expanded her repertoire to include contemporary music with Irma Vep by Fredrik Zeller at the Schwetzingen Festival in 2003 and Shadowtime by Brian Ferneyhough at the Munich Biennale in 2004, followed by Les Cenci by Gerard Pape in Paris (2005), Trilogia by Adriana Hölszky in Bonn (2008), and the world premieres of Buch Asche. by Klaus Lang at the Bonn Opera (2010) and Roses of Shadow by Adriana Hölszky at the Ballet Düsseldorf (2017). Until 2006 she was regularly involved in chamber music, music theatre and experimental projects with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. To date, she has premiered over 150 compositions in intensive collaboration with the composers.

As a soloist, Angelika Luz has worked with orchestras and chamber music ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, ensemble recherche and Klangforum Wien and has performed at the Festival Arena di Verona, Ars musica Brussels, Festival d’Automne Paris, Wien modern, Festival Ultima Oslo, Musikbiennale Venice, Warsaw Autumn, Éclat Stuttgart, Berliner Festwochen, März-Musik Berlin, Ruhr-Triennale, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele and many other music festivals.

In addition to numerous radio and CD recordings, she participated in the WERGO recordings of Luigi Nono’s Canciones a Guiomar and Der rote Mantel and Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Omnia tempus habent, and Hans Zender’s ¿adonde? wohin? with the Klangforum Wien and the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra.

As a director, she staged over 50 interdisciplinary productions in museums, churches and concert halls, combining contemporary music, voice, scene, light, multimedia, dance, scents or puppetry. As a professor, she was in charge of the Master Program of Contemporary Music/Vocal Studies at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts from 2007 to 2022 and directed the “Studio for Vocal Art and New Music Theatre” there.

Masterclasses have taken her to the music academies of Dresden, Freiburg, Leipzig, Lucerne, Mozarteum Salzburg, Tilburg (Netherlands), to the Goethe Institute in Stockholm, and other institutions.

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