Mechthild Bach

Mechthild Bach
Mechthild Bach
Born	30. November 1949; Limburg an der Lahn
Died	24. January 2011; Bad Salzdetfurth
Nationality	German
Occupation	Soprano; Academic;
Awards	Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik

Mechthild Bach is a German soprano and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen.

Biography and career

Bach was born in Limburg an der Lahn, where she was a member of the Limburg Cathedral's girl choir from a very young age. After her abitur, she began her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, under Elsa Cavelti's tutelage. During her time there she also made her operatic debut at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.[1]

Since then, Bach has performed in such opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Nationaltheater München, and the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg, with conductors Reinhard Goebel, Peter Neumann, Ton Koopman, and Helmuth Rilling, among others.[2] Additionally, she has performed the soprano parts in Mahler's symphonies, as Antigona in Handel's Admeto, and as Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff.[3] She has also performed with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic. Bach is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. She is married to the German pianist and conductor Eckart Manke.

1986: A grant from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes[2]
1993: Innsbrucker Radiopreis für Alte Musik, for her album Thomaskantoren vor Bach with Cantus Cölln[4]
2002: Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, for her recording of Zelenka's Missa Dei Patris, with Frieder Bernius[5]

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Gerald Permantier. "Mechthild Bach (Soprano)". Bach Cantatas. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
"Mechthild Bach, Soprano". Israeli Opera. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
"CD: Thomaskantoren vor Bach". Cantus Cölln (in German). Retrieved 6 November 2017.
"Mechthild Bach - Gesang". Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Trossingen (in German). Retrieved 6 November 2017.

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