Tanya Aspelmeier

While studying opera, art song and oratorio, as well as vocal pedagogy with Prof. Kremling at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, soprano Tanya Aspelmeier was already working as a freelance singer. She also received important inspiration from KS Tom Krause, Carol Richardson and Klesie Kelly, and has been working regularly with Margreet Honig, Amsterdam, for over 20 years.

During her artistic career, the soprano has won prizes at renowned singing competitions and performed numerous opera roles. Her repertoire ranges from baroque opera (e.g. Rameau ‘Castor and Pollux’, Lully ‘Achille et Polyxène’, Handel ‘Almira’, Monteverdi ‘Orfeo’ and Telemann ‘Orpheus’) to Mozart (e.g. ‘Entführung aus dem Serail’ ‘Cosi fan tutte’), Wagner (‘Parsifal’) and operetta (e.g. Offenbach' ’ Orpheus in the Underworld") to contemporary music theatre (e.g. Henze “We come to the river”, “Pollicino”, J.Arnecke “Wir spielen Frieden”) and includes a wide range of oratorio pieces as well as a series of song programmes ( with pianists such as Norman Shetler, Sebastian Knauer, Johannes Debus, Matthias Veit, Alan Hicks, Mathias Weber, Bendix Dethleffsen).

Guest engagements have taken her to the Hamburg State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Oldenburg State Theatre, Bremen Theatre, Wilhelmshaven City Theatre, Teatro Bilbao, Bonn Opera, among others, as well as to festivals in Baden-Baden, Bayreuth, Feldkirch, Guadalajara (Mexico), La-Chaise-Dieu, Ribeauvillé, Saintes, (France) Salzburg, Vienna (Austria), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan) etc. Tanya Aspelmeier works primarily as an oratorio and concert singer. Although her repertoire ranges from early Baroque vocal music to the great romantic oratorio parts and numerous world premieres, the focus of her repertoire is on composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Her work with conductors such as Frieder Bernius, Ivor Bolton, Thomas Hengelbrock, Konrad Junghänel, Francoise Lasserre, Hans Jörg Albrecht and Ingo Metzmacher has taken her to concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Vienna and Berlin, Fest Spielhaus Baden-Baden, Tonhalle Zurich, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, National Concert Hall Taipei and at festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, Resonanzen Vienna, Bayreuth Baroque, La Chaise-Dieu, Göttingen Handel Festival, Festival de Saintes, Leipzig Bach Festival, Schleswig -Holstein Festival, among others. Her discography has received a number of awards (e.g. the CD ‘Bach, Lotti, Zelenka’ under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock, in which she appeared as a soloist, received the Gramophone Award in 2010).

In the Wagner year 2013, the soprano made her debut in Wagner's ‘Parsifal’ in Dortmund, Essen and Teatro Madrid under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock. In 2015, Tanya Aspelmeier could be heard in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, among other places, performing Richard Strauss's ‘Four Last Songs’. At the beginning of 2017, she was a guest in the extraordinary opera production of the Hamburg State Opera ‘Gesualdo!’ (staged by Calixto Bieito) and she sang in Moses und Aron under Ingo Metzmacher as part of the opening concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

Alongside her artistic work, the soprano taught as an artistic specialist in the field of early music at the University of the Arts Bremen from 2008-2017 and was a lecturer at the Hamburg Conservatory and at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. In 2018, she was appointed to a professorship in singing at the Antonio Salieri Institute (for singing and voice research in music education) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Tanya Aspelmeier is a trained breath therapist (The Experiential Breath according to Ilse Middendorf) and gives international masterclasses and advanced training courses for singers and singing teachers, (partly together with the well-known Dutch singing teacher Margreet Honig), in which breath-body-voice work plays a central role.

She also continues to educate herself in body-oriented methods of stress management such as Somatic Experiencing, Feldenkrais, Franklin, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, etc., which she successfully implements in her teaching.

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