Musiksommer: Eröffnungs-Konzert Kurorchester

Opening concert with Elisabeth Wimmer

Elisabeth Wimmer: Soprano
Kurorchester Bad Schallerbach

Elisabeth Wimmer studied musical dramatic performance (opera) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Julia Bauer Huppmann and Reto Nickler, as well as song and oratorio with Charles Spencer. A study stay at the Royal College of Music London with Janis Kelly was also a formative experience in her musical education. She received further impulses in masterclasses and coaching from, among others, Kurt Widmer, Rosalind Plowright, Richard Trimborn, Brigitte Eisenfeld, and Irina Gavrilovici.

The singer Elisabeth Wimmer was awarded the Cantor Prize of the Marienkirche Husum in 2009. Furthermore, she is a prizewinner of the Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation 2009, the Heinrich Strecker Competition for Viennese Song and Operetta 2009, the Gradus ad Parnassum competition 2009, the Musica Juventutis 2010, a finalist in the International Kärntner Sparkasse Music Scholarship 2011, and a prizewinner of the Masefield Scholarship of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. 2015.

From 2010 to 2015, the soprano was engaged at the German National Theatre Weimar, where she celebrated great successes in roles such as Susanna (“Le nozze di Figaro”), Musetta (“La Boheme”), Gretel (“Hänsel und Gretel”), Morgana (“Alcina”), Hero (“Bénedict et Beatrice”), Sophie (“Der Rosenkavalier”), and Pamina (“Die Zauberflöte”).

A widely acclaimed concert activity took the Austrian artist to Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Romania, Spain, Greece, and the USA, where she collaborated with renowned concert partners such as the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the State Orchestra Weimar, the Southwest German Philharmonic, Ensemble Barucco, L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra, Bach Consort Vienna, L'Arpa Festante, Camerata Salzburg, Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg, and many others.