With world premiere
Inaugural concert by Prof. Dr. Lena Haselmann-Kränzle, Professor of Singing and Voice Training
Prof. Dr. Lena Haselmann-Kränzle bundles the enormous diversity of her artistic work in her inaugural concert. The audience can look forward to very different musical styles and performances by the Weimar professor of singing and voice training and many other participating musicians on Sunday, November 12 at 5 p.m. in the Saal Am Palais. The German-Norwegian mezzo-soprano has been teaching at the Department of Music Education and Church Music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar since October 2022.
Tickets for the concert in the "Virtuoso Weimar - Teachers in Concert" series are available for 12 euros, concessions 8 euros, from the Weimar Tourist Information Office and at the box office.
Lena Haselmann-Kränzle will begin by singing songs by Norwegian composers Edvard Grieg and Agathe Backer Grøndahl, accompanied by Katrin Dasch on the grand piano. She is deeply familiar with this art of song, having completed her doctorate on Norwegian female pianists and composers of the 19th century.
This is followed by a detour into German Romanticism with duets by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms together with baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle.
The inaugural concert will then focus on a world premiere: the concertante short version of the chamber opera "Jago" by American composer Sidney Corbett (*1960), who will also be present in person in Weimar, will be performed for the first time. The performers are Lena Haselmann-Kränzle (mezzo-soprano) and the "Ensemble Quillo" with Ursula Weiler (flute), Dominic Oelze (percussion), Daniel Göritz (electric guitar) and Max Renne (conductor). The libretto with references to William Shakespeare's play "Othello" was written by Christoph Klimke.
To conclude the varied inaugural concert, music from the USA will be played once again, but this time by Richard Rodgers from the legendary Broadway songwriting duo "Rodgers and Hart". The songs "My funny Valentine" and "The Lady is a Tramp" from the musical "Babes" and "My favorite things" from the musical "The Sound of Music" will be performed.
Prof. Lena Haselmann-Kränzle and Prof. Clemens Tiburtius will be singing, accompanied by a band with Robin Stengel (piano), Thomas Ccahuana Tito (bass) and Alejandro Coello Calvo (drums).
Lena Haselmann-Kränzle was born in Heidelberg. Engagements have taken the German-Norwegian mezzo-soprano to the Staatsoper Berlin, La Scala Milan, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Gothenburg Opera, the Teatro Comunale Bologna, the National Opera Denmark, the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Theater Heidelberg, the Ravinia Festival Chicago (USA), the Kunstfest Weimar, the New Opera Days Ostrava (Czech Republic) and the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, among others.
Lena Haselmann-Kränzle has worked with conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Christoph Eschenbach, Konrad Junghänel and Maxime Pascal as well as with directors such as Jürgen Flimm, Uwe Eric Laufenberg and Thaddeus Strassberger.
From 2019 to 2022, Lena Haselmann-Kränzle was Professor of Classical Singing at the Institute of Music at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. There she initiated the series "Vocal Pedagogical Masterclasses Osnabrück", with guest lecturers such as Annette Dasch, Klaus-Florian Vogt, Silvia Krüger and Laura Aikin.
She was previously a lecturer for singing and vocal didactics at the Saar University of Music from 2016 to 2019. She also taught at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, was a lecturer for the Akademie für Hochbegabte Humboldt auf Scharfenberg and a vocal coach for the Pro7 channel's "Popstars" format.
Further information:www.LenaHaselmann.de
[3 November 2023]