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Mezzo-soprano<\/p>\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Ligne” _builder_version=”3.25″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”justified” use_border_color=”off”]Mezzo-soprano<\/p>\n
Gudrun Pelker began her artistic training at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Cologne, where she studied with Prof. Josef Metternich, as well as taking voice Master Classes with Birgit Nilsson, Hilde Zadek and Judith Beckmann, and Lied with Charles Spencer and Norman Shetler.
\nShe made her debut on stage in 1988 as Carmen at the Internationale Sommerfestspiele auf Schloss Weikersheim which was followed by contracts in Gelsenkirchen and Frankfurt, where she sang more than 40 roles including Carmen, Cherubino, H\u00e4nsel, Mrs. Quickly, Gr\u00e4fin Geschwitz.
\nMezzosoprano Gudrun Pelker has had an unusually varied career. She is at home on both the opera and concert stages, sings oratorio and Lied, and is a secure in historical repertoire as she is in contemporary works.<\/p>\n
Conductors such as Markus Stenz, Bernhard Kontarsky, Johannes Kalitzke, Paolo Carignani and stage directors such as Christoph Nel, Alfred Kirchner, Peter Konwitschny, Giancarlo del Monaco and Werner Schr\u00f6ter praise both her musical presentation and her intensive acting.<\/p>\n
She has been invited as a guest at theatres including Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Oldenburg, Hannover, Cologne, Krefeld, Hagen, Essen, Dortmund, Basel, at festivals such as the Schwetzinger Festspiele, M\u00fcnchner Biennale and the Wiener Festwochen.
\nIn addition to her career in opera, Gudrun Pelker concertized with an extensive repertoire including old masters and contemporary composers, among them Handel – Messiah, Beethoven – Missa solemnis, Mendelssohn – Elias, Verdi \u2013 Requiem, Frank Martin – In terra pax, Arthur Honegger – K\u00f6nig David. Furthermore, she worked with specialized contemporary ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik NRW und ensemble modern, Frankfurt.<\/p>\n
Gudrun Pelker began teaching at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and was called to a professorship at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik, Theater , Theater und Medien in Hannover in 2007. Mezzo-soprano Gudrun Pelker began her artistic training at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Cologne, where she studied with Prof. Josef Metternich, as well as taking voice Master Classes with Birgit Nilsson, Hilde Zadek and Judith Beckmann, and Lied with Charles Spencer and Norman Shetler. She made her debut on stage in 1988 as Carmen at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[570],"project_tag":[409,590,651],"class_list":["post-34964","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-ete-2019-ang","project_tag-chant-en","project_tag-singer","project_tag-gudrun-pelker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/34964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/34964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222989,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/34964\/revisions\/222989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=34964"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=34964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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