Beata Heuer-Christen (born 27 February 1935) is a Swiss-German soprano concert singer and voice teacher.
Life
editBorn in Bern, Heuer-Christen is the daughter of the violinist and member of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Caesar Christen,[1][2] and Greti Christen-Schiffmann,[1] also violinist in the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Primaria[2] of the Schiffmann Quartet.
Heuer-Christen studied singing in Bern with Maria Helbling,[1] in Freiburg with Margarethe von Winterfeldt[1] and in Zurich with Dorothea Ammann-Goesch.[3] After her studies, she first worked as a classical concert singer[1] in oratorios, Lieder recitals, radio and television recordings in various countries. Her main focus was in the field of Neue Musik. She has performed world premieres under the direction of Arturo Tamayo, Hans Zender and Wolfgang Fortner.
Since 1962, she was a lecturer and from 1980 to 2005 professor for singing at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.[2] She also gave master classes[4] in the fields of oratorio, opera and lied.
Among her students are prize winners of national and international competitions as well as concert singers or singers with engagements at opera houses in Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig, Bern, Geneva and Basel. Among them are Maria Bengtsson,[5] Rachel Harnisch, Bernhard Richter, Clemens Morgenthaler, Benoît Haller and Markus Flaig.
Further reading
edit- Heuer-Christen, Beata. In Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch 2006. K. G. Saur Verlag, München 2006, ISBN 978-3-59824-212-0, p. 183
References
edit- ^ a b c d e August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Heuer-Christen, Beate. In Wer ist Wer, The German Who's Who. Vol. 50. Schmidt-Römhild, 2011.
- ^ a b c Badische Zeitung (25 February 2002). "Portrait: The vocal professor Beata Heuer-Christen. What is important is that it is about music - culture - Badische Zeitung". Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ Heuer-Christen, Beata. In Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch 2006. K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-59824-212-0, p. 183.
- ^ Landesakademie für die musizierende Jugend in Baden-Württemberg. "Concert". Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ Volker Blech (2013-03-31). "Wie aus einer Ersatzsängerin ein Opernstar wird" (in German). Retrieved 27 August 2020.
