Beethoven's Missa Solemnis - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Biography
Michaela Wehrum-Gandenberger
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The German mezzo-soprano, Michaela Wehrum,
studied singing at the Musikhochschule Köln with
Professor Liselotte Hammes. During her studies she
worked at various productions at the opera school.
Particularly noteworthy are the roles of Hänsel in the
fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert
Humperdinck, Nancy in Albert Herring by Benjamin
Britten, as well as Frau Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von
Windsor by O. Nicolai. She graduated with honours
and successfully completed her subsequent studies.
She has participated in several master-classes with
Professor Kerstin Meyer in Salzburg and
Professor Tom Krause in Cologne, Germany. She
studied successfully in the Lied class of Professor
Jürgen Glauß, and worked on roles with
Professor Hedwig Fassbender.
She was the winner and finalist of different
competitions including the Mozart Competition in
Würzburg and the Nuremberg Master Singer
Competition.
Michaela Wehrum’s opera career led her to the
Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she was heard as
Mercedes in Carmen, as Page in Salome and as
Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. Other stations were at the
Bremer Theater (Flora in La traviata), the
Landestheater in Detmold (Charlotte in Werther) and
the Stadttheater Gießen (Madeleine in Madame
Pompadour and the second woman in Dido and
Aeneas). In free opera productions she recently sang
the Sorceress in Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas and
Hänsel in E. Humperdinck‘s opera Hänsel und Gretel.
As Mercedes, she also appeared at the theatres of
Bremen, Darmstadt and Münster.
Michaela Wehrum now has an extensive concert
repertoire and has developed as a soloist in major
concert choirs, singing in concerts in Italy and
Switzerland. Her concert activities led to the Kölner
and Berliner Philharmonie, to Brazil with
the Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) by J.S. Bach, to
the Bad Hersfelder Festspielen with
Mozart’s Requiem and to Verona with Elias by Felix
Mendelssohn. Next year she will give her debut with
Verdi’s Requiem in Bern, Switzerland.
Since 2005 she has taught singing at the musical
faculty of the University of Giessen.
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